Parking up I reduce the volume and get out, hoping to find someone who could give me directions. Spotting some girl walking along the road I had parke... on, I caught up with her and asked her if there was any possible way she could point me in the direction of the nearest hotel. Staring at me with her glistening smile she said it was a little after closing time for most hotels around here. Walking back to the car I politely thank her for her time but just as I was pulling away I asked her if she. "If you're the big bad wolf, Micky?" she giggled and bent forward to put her lips close to my ear, "does that mean you're going to eat me?"CLANG, That was just my jaw hitting the floor.He came downstairs, as dapper as ever, and rang for a taxi,"Has Samantha showed you your room, Micky?" But the twinkle in his eyes told me he knew I wouldn't be using it. "We've just had a new carpet put down in the upstairs hallway," he laughed. "Don't wear it out, eh?"Sammy blushed and giggled, but kissed him. Whatever you tell us will remain in this room until our deaths, on that I give you my word."Riall nodded as well sensing an opening that his people had wanted for centuries; an opening into the mind of the Vampire Princess and what drove her. "I give you my word as well." He spoke.NORTH DAKOTATEN MILES SOUTH OF CANADIAN BORDERThe senior vampire soldier, a Captain with decades of experience fighting the elves, felt the slight breeze against his skin as he was relieving himself against the tree. They weren’t friends. They weren’t co-workers. They had almost nothing in common. At worst, the pair had been nemeses unable to stand the sight of each other, at best united only by their inability to successfully resolve a relationship with a woman they'd both wanted. Truth told, for all Jahn cared, Greg could have dropped off the face of the earth. From the expression on Fiona’s face, it was clear she’d already made the connection whenever the scrappy tool had been introduced to her; and the.