Black Knight stared at Shari.
"I have a gift for you."
She nodded OK while in a different world only thinking about being a vampire and how crazy it was.
"I didn't even know they existed." She mumbled.
"What? Gifts?" Black Knight questioned her confused and she yawned and shook her head.
" No . Vampires. I didn't know Vampires existed."
He nodded.
"Well that is understandable."
She sighed.
"Yeah. It is considering I was abducted from my home and suddenly your home is supposed to be my home. I am turned into a vampire which I didn't know existed and told my new forced husband is a demon and ruler of this little place called the dark world that by reading a few of your more personal documents I have come to the conclusion that the Dark World or Night World whatever you call it is a global thing and multiplying in numbers day by day." She said with tension visible in her voice.
He stared at her.
"You looked at my documents?"
She stared into his dark eyes.
"Yes, I did. I am not ashamed or I would not be telling you so Black Knight. As your wife you shouldn't be hiding things from me now should you?"
Damn , she had gotten him there he thought.
"Yes, I did didn't I?" She said and smiled while boasting in her own way.
He shook his head.
"If you had asked me I would have told you anything you had asked you know."
She looked up at him and fingered a piece of her long hair.
"Oh, well still I was bored." She said.
They had reached the top of the stairs and he pulled open an unfamiliar stained glass door. She walked in ahead of him confused because the room was completely empty.
"So wheres my gift?" She asked him and turned around to see him intently watching her.
"Right here." He said and wrapped an arm around her neck pulling her close and applying a subtle pressure to her chin forcing her to look at him.
He leaned down and kissed her softly at first but slowly deepening the kiss against her soft lips. Her fingertips softly carressed his chest before she finally pulled back out of breath.
She looked up at him like a trapped deer.
"I... I have to go."
"Go where?" He asked her, his voice a mix of longing and demand.
"I don't know." She said and raced out the door and downstairs.
Black Knight turned and slowly started walking to where Michel would be.
Shari ran into Teleena's room where a bunch of people were gathered again. She couldn't mention the kiss, not to these people.
She stared at them all as they talked. No one noticed her silence. They were all so perfect, she thought. How could she have not known about vampires? She shook her head to shake herself free of those thoughts and stared at her hands.
She sighed in frustration trying to listen to the conversation but it just went in one ear and out the other. She just couldn't think of anything besides Black Knight.
She needed to see Damien because he was going to give her a map of the whole house and she wondered how he could actually believe she was interested in the house. Than again he would never accuse her of lying to him without getting himself in trouble.
Michel smiled at the tall girl who walked into his room.
"May I help you?" He asked her and she just stared past him as though he were of no particular interest to her.
"I'm looking for Michel." She said in a silky smooth voice.
"That's me." He said while looking over her gorgeous body.
"Lord Desjardin? Correct?" He nodded.
"That's me, Miss. Now, what can I do to help you."
"No, I came here to help you. Your Master and my Master as well I guess. Black Knight as you know him is planning your assassin. You see I am from Holland and in The Dark World over there I am really powerful and he wanted me to help him but I know so much about you that I did not want to put you in danger because I know that you are extremely needed in the world of vampires if we are going to bring ourselves out and rule the world they way we should because I know that Black Knight isn't very worried about the vampires or anything besides his wife at the moment and.."
Michel placed a finger on her mouth.
"Just be quiet. You want to help correct?" He asked her.
She nodded. "Than go along with the assassination." He said quietly and left the room leaving Tam in utter darkness and silence.
