Page 15 of I Dated a Golden Vampire

Cabree got up and made her way to Pria’s side.Pria asked, “You are well?”

“Yes.I just started seeing the world.I don’t want it to stop yet.”

Pria nodded.She looked to Lord Denog.“Come here for a moment.”

He scowled but stalked toward her.

She rose up on a pillar of water and whispered directions to him.“Take it or leave it, but it is a better way.”

He nodded.“I understand.”

He walked to Cabree, leaned in, and kissed her cheek.“I am sorry I made you uncomfortable.I will consider my actions.”

“Can you call off your guards so they let us out?”

He nodded and picked up a handset.He gave the order, and Pria and Cabree walked arm in arm out the door and into the hall, past a lot of damp and angry guards.

Cabree said, “I can’t believe Waterdance was on the cruise.”

“I haven’t been Waterdance for years.Not since the tsunami.”

“I saw the videos.I am shocked you survived.”

“I didn’t.I had to be restarted a few times.”

“I didn’t know that.”

“No one in the public did.My neck was broken.It wasn’t until a superfan let his girlfriend know that I was paralyzed, and she provided me with healing.”

“Who?”

“Salat and Khytten.Salat had drawn a comic with me in it five years ago.”

“Oh, wow.When did you recover?”

They walked outside, and Pria wrapped her arm around Cabree, lifting her through the air and back onto the cruise ship.“I was repaired six months ago.I just learned to walk again, and if any of those guys had landed a punch, I would have been down for the count.”

“Oh, shit.But you have water control.”

“Yes.I do.I still can’t breathe underwater, but I can dance on it.”Pria smiled.“Did you want an escort to your quarters?”

“Yes, please.He was so nice, but then I started getting a weird feeling.”

“That was when he was deciding to keep you.”

“Oh, that would do it.That was when I started thinking of him as threatening.”

“He’s nearly seven feet tall and three hundred fifty pounds of muscle and fangs.He’s an excellent example of an active.”

“He is very pretty.What did you say to him?”

“Oh, if he wanted to court you, he could follow our itinerary, book you for dates on the islands we visit, and get you to consider life with him.”

“How did you know?”

“Zera gave me your stats.I know trust and pleasure when I read it.”

“Oh.This is my room.”