Free The Recruiters by Dara Nelson Page A

must have happened, “Carlos?”
    “ Carlos,” I nodded.
    “ Yes, they’ll be there and they’ll bring others. They’re curious and intrigued.”
    “ Okay,” I said as I tried to keep the pain off my face.
    He saw it though and wrapped me in his arms, “Nobody is going to be forced into this, Sarah. They can walk away if they want to. It’ll be their choice, honey. And it won’t be your fault if they get hurt, please try to remember that.”
    I nodded and clung to him, unable to feel the same way but unwilling to tell him that. We joined the others in the living room and planned our journey, laughed and then watched TV, until Stacy stood up and said, “I didn’t get nearly enough sleep last night, I’m going to bed.”
    As she turned and headed down the hall, Carlos grumbled, “Guess I’m sleeping on the couch.”
    Suddenly Stacy called over her shoulder, “You coming Carlos?”
    I smiled and chuckled as Carlos leapt over the back of the couch and raced down the hall. “She has no idea what she’s getting into,” I said to Matt. “She thinks she’s totally in control here, like she always is, but this isn’t human-human sex, this is human-vampire sex.” I shook my head.
    “ That good, huh?” Matt said.
    I nodded emphatically. “Oh, hell yeah, that good.”
    “ And how about vampire-vampire sex?” he said.
    “ I was afraid you’d ask that. There aren’t human words big enough to adequately describe how completely, totally, perfectly amazing it is, every time, all the time,” I said.
    “ Speaking of which…” he said as he scooped me off the couch. I opened my mouth to protest, they’d hear us for sure, but he said, “Your hair smells like pine needles from this morning,” he smiled. “I think you need a shower Mrs. Pearl.”
    I smiled and laid my head on his shoulder. Hopefully the bathroom walls and water would be enough to keep our sounds to ourselves.

 
     
    Chapter Ten
     
     
     
     
    We emerged from the bathroom, naked, much later, smiling and joking. “They might have heard us sweetheart. You were pretty noisy this time,” I said as towel dried my hair and admired my newly healing bite marks in the bedroom mirror. “I was noisy…” Matt chuckled as he came and stood behind me. He pressed his perfect body into mine and his arms wrapped around my waist. I leaned my head back onto his chest and sighed. We were out of hot water, so returning to the shower wasn’t an option. My mind was working on an alternative when, suddenly, our door flew open. Stacy stood there, her hair wild, gasping for breath, sweat glistening off her amazingly beautiful and completely naked body. We both froze, too stunned to cover ourselves up.
    “ Is it better than that?” she gasped. “After I change, it’s really better than THAT? How could it possibly be better than that?”
    We could hear Carlos laughing hysterically from his bedroom down the hall.
    I smiled at her. I knew exactly what she was feeling. “Yes, hun. You probably don’t believe me right now, but it IS better than that,” I smiled up at Matt. “Much better. Better than you could possibly imagine.”
    “ Holy shit!” she said as she turned to go back to her room, calling over her shoulder. “By the way, nice ass Matthew.”
    I turned and wrapped him in my arms. “Yeah, holy shit and nice ass Matthew,” I smiled then I kissed him as I pushed him back to the bathroom. Looks like we’ll be heating up in a cold shower the rest of the night.
    We grudgingly crawled into bed at three a.m., too exhausted to continue, but not wanting to stop. We peacefully slept until seven then went out to the living room to pack our laptops and the rest of our things. We waited until Carlos wandered down the hall a little after seven with a stunned, stupid grin permanently attached to his face then divided up the remaining supply of blood. No sense leaving it here to go bad. And more meant stronger. I lay the thirty heated bags on the table, ten