Free A Vampire's Touch (The Red Velvet Trilogy) by Mina J. Moore

club?
    “Where am I?”
    He squeezed my hands.  “We’re still at the club.” He made a circular motion with his index finger.  “Sound proof , ” h e answered, sitting next to me on the couch.
    I nodded in understanding and wiped at the smudge of blood at his temple.  He looked down at my hands, held securely in his. 
    “Sienna…”
    “Whatever it is, just tell me.  I think I saw enough to know.”   A bunch of fiends tearing each other apart, bodies shifting into animals and some humans sporting fangs.   Jax struggled to begin.  I had to give him credit for plunging in with the hard facts.
    “We are a species known to you as Vampires, Vampri to us , born with special abilities, not made.  At the age of fifteen we develop our true power which is given to us by one of our parents.  There are three powers; Shifter, Clairvoyant and Elemental, each have a specific power.  Take the shifter, for example, they are denoted by an amber eye color and have the ability to shift into wolf or raptor.”
    My expression stopped him.  I remembered the beautiful black wolf with the amber eyes back at his place. Holy shit….
    “I saw you in your wolf form. That was you.” I touched his eyes, the same brilliant shade the wolf had gazed at me with.
    “Yes.” He confirmed.  “We crave the Run .  That’s why I live close to the woods verses the city.  You’ll find most Clairvoyants prefer it here.”
    I crinkled my eyes in confusion.  “Clairvoyant?”
    “They have the ability to see glimpses of the future and have very strong premonition. Their eye color is a very light blue.”
    I paled even further.  “Oh my God, the man at my apartment building.”  Jax got right in my face, his features harsh. 
    “What man?  Did someone follow you?”
    I nodded. “The other night, there was a man, his eyes were just as you described, almost eerie.  They caught my attention.  I pretended to look for something in my purse so he’d pass me, which he did.  He continued down the hall and disappeared.  I never saw him again.” 
    “Damn it.”
    I discerned this wasn’t even the half of it. I was sitting here wit h a real live vampire who I had slept with.  A thought popped into my head and it was all so clear now.
    “That night we met and you brought me to your place, we kissed and you pulled away from me.  Was it because...”
    He looked ashamed, his gaze falling to the tiled floor.  I reached out and grasped him by the chin.  “Hey, don’t.  You had the strength to pull away.  Keeping me safe was more important than your basic instincts.” I heard myself speak and couldn’t believe I was actually having this conversation.  I was thanking a vampire for not sucking me dry.  Wonderful. 
    His touched my hair, pulling me back from my thoughts.  This was Jax.  The man who had seduced me with his eyes and made feel more alive than ever before.    Okay maybe he had some extra gifts at his disposal but I felt this before the sex.  Remembering his voice at my ear that first night made me shiver.  Was this reaction real? Had I been compelled to feel this way? 
    He nodded rigorously.  “No, Sienna.  What is between us is real.  I promise you.”
    “Are you in my head?”
    “ No .   Shifters have an uncanny ability to scent your emotions. ” His hand fisted in my hair, bringing me closer.
    “I would never hurt you.  You have to know that.”
    And I believed him.  It was crazy how much I trusted this man…vampire.  It didn’t matter that he was another species or…
    “How old are you?” I had the urge to know everything about him, where he was born, did he have any other siblings?
    “Are you sure you really want to know?” He smiled.
    I persisted. “Yes and then some.”
    “Five hundred and twenty-four.”
    I gaped at him.  He closed my mouth with a forefinger to the chin.
    “You’re like a walking talking history book!”
    He laughed.  “Should I be flattered?”
    “I think I