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  Sebastian’s Surrender

  By

  Dana Littlejohn

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Sebastian’s Surrender by Dana Littlejohn

  Red Rose Publishing

  Copyright© 2007 Dana Littlejohn

  ISBN: 978-1-60435-140-8

  ISBN: 1-60435-140-1

  Cover Artist: Kato Rain

  Editor: Terri Morris

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  Sebastian’s Surrender

  By

  Dana Littlejohn

  Prologue

  The Dioni Vampire Clan is the only vampire clan left of the ancient vampire race. During the war with the werewolves, Nikolas Dioni took a flag of truce to the leader of the werewolf clan, Isaac Miles. While they spoke they realized that the war between their people had gone on for so long that no one alive knew what the war was about.

  Both species had suffered great losses and were dangerously close to extinction from the loss of all of the females in both tribes. They had to turn to mankind to rebuild their races now. Nikolas and Isaac decided that a truce between their people must take place. They needed a fresh start, without fear of one another and time rebuild their races. They entered into a blood oath to be brothers from that day forward, making it a part of their pack rules of existence. After that meeting, they went their separate ways in search of the rest their people who had been scattered across the globe during the war.

  The Dioni Clan now meet in the Mojave Desert every turn of the seasons to reconnect with newly found members of their clan, exchange information among themselves and to celebrate.

  Suddenly the music stopped. “Sebastian Santos! Come forth!”

  The crowd silenced instantly and parted like the Red Sea to give Sebastian a clear path to answer the call. He walked slowly and dropped to his knee when he reached the dais.

  “Yes, Lord Nikolas.”

  “Sebastian it has come to my attention that you have no wife to present to your clan. Is this true?”

  “It is true, my lord.”

  “Explain yourself.”

  “My lord, I rarely spend time among the humans except to feed. I do not like them. I am not a social being. I like my solitude and I have no need for a companion or companionship therefore, I must confess, that I have put no effort into my search for a wife.”

  Lord Nikolas sighed. “Sebastian, you are among a select few left with the extraordinary gifts that used to flow freely within our clan. Those gifts are what made the Dioni Clan’s most powerful of all the others. It’s life’s blood and why we are the last of our kind. Eventually everyone will have his own wife so we can build our numbers again, but we must secure that the gifted ones have offspring first to keep our blood strong. We are in a vital rebuilding stage, our numbers are still low. We must make sure the gifts we have continue to flow among our people. Your gift as a psychic vampire is vital to your clan and must be passed on. You must take a wife. It is your duty.”

  He sighed and nodded. “Yes, my lord. Forgive me for disobeying.”

  Nikolas smiled. “You are forgiven. I promise having a wife will not be as bad as you think. Wife! Come forth!”

  A pale red haired woman standing at the end of the dais came forth and bowed low. “I am here, my lord.”

  “Rise, my wife and speak to me. Has Sebastian had adequate training with the elders?”

  “Yes, my lord, he has. Sebastian’s training went very well. Because he can connect with one’s mind gives it gives him a unique ability to give his partner exactly what she needs to be pleasured completely. With his psychic ability, the female he’s trying to please will find exhilaration in his arms every time,” she added with a playful grin.

  Nikolas smiled, too. “Excellent, thank you, wife. Sebastian, although you were asked last year to find a wife and present her to your clan at this very meeting, that request will be repeated. Honor your duty and return next year to present your wife to your clan,” he said with finality.

  Sebastian nodded again. “Yes, my lord.”

  Chapter One

  It was almost summer time again and Sebastian was no closer to finding a mate than he was ten months ago. Summer wasn’t his favorite time of the year. The nights weren’t long enough to suit him, but he did enjoy the sultry star lit Indiana nights. He also liked the solitude the country provided him. His home was in the middle of a field in a small rural town with nothing else around for miles.

  He often spent his nights enjoying the beauty of the brilliant starry sky while laying on his porch swing after feeding. This night he lay on the swing wondering how he was to find a mate he didn’t really want to bring back to his clan. Returning empty handed wasn’t an option. He knew his lord had cut him a break, but that was a one shot deal. He sighed and rose to go into the house. It was time for a trip into the city, it was time to feed.

  After grabbing a small bottle of blood wine from his cabinet, he moved with the celerity of his kind into downtown Indianapolis. As a vampire walking among humans he didn’t want to be bothered, so he made sure he didn’t stand out by trying to stay as close to modern as he could in his dress. He kept his hair long and pulled back into a ponytail; he noticed it usually came back into fashion sooner or later.

  He moved among them, tapping into the closest minds to him without their knowledge as he gathered information about what was going on in the area. He used a simple mind link to pick up on their resent thoughts. It was like running into a radio station for him. He didn’t use anything deeper for information gathering; he only used that when he fed to make them drink the blood wine so they would bend to his will and forget they’ve been fed on.

  He hopped from mind to mind and found from different people that there was a festival going on in Military Park. It would be filled with people, the perfect place to take someone unnoticed. He followed the people, and smiled when he came upon the sign, wine tasting festival today. He paid his way inside and went on the hunt for some to feed from.

  When he arrived the festival was winding down, the last band was playing and most of the people were drunk and had been for a while. As they jumped, danced and sang, Sebastian walked through the crowd of people tapping into their minds looking for that special person. Suddenly he stopped and turned. He followed the link through the crowd.

  She was alone...she was drunk...she was perfect. Blocking out everyone else’s mind around him, he concentrated on her. She’s young...blonde...pretty... He pushed through the crowd moving faster as more information came in. She normally worked nights, but she was off tonight... He smiled. Her car wasn’t far... He would return her to it when he was through with her. A blonde was dancing, laughing, jumping up and down, it was her, and he could almost see her clearly.

  He smiled and nodded. This one he would consider making love to. Thinking about tasting the wine mixed with her lust in her blood and looking into her pretty face was making his pants fit more uncomfortable as he moved closer to her. It had been a long time since he made love to a human; he was due. He reached out to make physical contact with her and make the connection complete when someone else grabbed her arm and pulled her away. Stunned, he broke the connection. />
  “Elsie?” a woman screamed over the music.

  The pretty blonde smiled and hugged the woman. “Hey, Amber! I didn’t know you were going to be here tonight. Why didn’t you say something? We could have ridden together. I’m having a blast, are you?”

  Amber chuckled. “Yes, Elsie, I’m having a good time too. Are you ok? Do you need a ride home? Nancy and I are getting ready to leave.”

  Elsie laughed. “Yeah, I guess I shouldn’t be driving, huh? Sure, I can get my car tomorrow. Can I just hear this song? I love this band.”

  Amber smiled. “Sure, Elsie. I’ll let Nancy know you’re coming with us.”

  Sebastian listened to them and watched their exchange, cursing his luck and the woman for intercepting him. His first opportunity of the night had gotten away from him. He turned his attention to the other woman. He could no longer see her clearly as she walked away from him through the crowd, so he sent out a link while she was still in range.

  When his mind touched hers, it was like a current of electricity went through him. He almost stumbled backwards from the reaction to it, but he could not bring himself to sever it. When his mind was connected to the woman, after the initial zap, an overwhelming sense of peace, acceptance and love wash over him. He smiled and closed his eyes, enjoying the feel good feeling that was infusing his body. It was a feeling he was not unaccustomed to. What more could this woman do for him if a simple mind link to her did this? As he contemplated the possibilities, the link was broken and he felt like someone had pushed him into the deep end of the pool.

  His eyes popped open and looked around frantically pushing through the crowd, but she was gone. He searched around for the pretty blonde and realized she too was gone. He blew out a frustrated breath.

  “Damn.”

  He couldn’t take the time to look for them, it would have to wait. He had wasted enough time and he had another more urgent call to attend to. He needed to feed; he would hunt them later.

  Chapter Two

  The next evening Sebastian woke with a new mission in mind: to find that woman. His mind was captured by her and he didn’t even remember what she looked like. It was how she made him feel when their minds were connected.

  Something had changed in him the moment his mind touched hers. He never thought to take a wife before Lord Nikolas told him to, or even travel with a companion like some of his clan brothers did. He had always roamed alone.

  No one had ever affected him the she did, even though they were connected only for a brief moment. Being linked to her had seared him from the inside out and cast her in a beautiful aura that would always be there. He could be happy with this woman, he just knew it and since he had to have a wife it was going to be her. He had to find her.

  He went outside to lay on his swing. Staring at the stars he concentrated, trying to reestablish the link with her. He closed his eyes and suddenly he gasped.

  His body tingled all over and he felt a warm feeling covering his body. He took a deep breath and welcomed it. As the air escaped his lungs his erection grew and in his mind’s eye he could see an aura that he knew was connected to her. His pants grew tighter and tighter as he concentrated on what she left behind in his mind...and then it was gone. His eyes popped open and he sat straight up, shaken and breathing hard.

  Frustrated he jumped to his feet and paced the porch. He paced for some time and then he stopped in mid step. A small smile touched his lips and he sat back down on the swing and closed his eyes again to concentrate.

  “She was blonde,” he began muttered. “Yes and pretty...she worked nights...at a hospital.” He took a deep breath and concentrated a little more then sat up with a big grin on his face. “Tonight I will know.”

  He walked into the hospital looking around. At first he walked around floor to floor, checking the nurses’ stations until finally he sent out a link, hoping she was close enough to reach. After a few tries, he found her and started toward her floor. He found her alone at her station and went to meet her.

  “Excuse me,” he said leaning on the counter.

  “Yes, sir, how can –”

  He stopped her from speaking and tapped her mind.

  Her name was Elsie...she was a nice girl...a friend of the woman he sought. Amber. He smiled and continued walking through her mind. Amber worked here...during the day. He frowned and thought for a moment, then smiled again.

  “Elsie, you are to bring Amber here tomorrow night to meet me. Do you understand?

  She nodded blankly.

  He released her mind and left her.

  Stalking the streets as he did each night he searched for someone new to feed from, but he couldn’t concentrate on the task at hand. He was angry.

  He liked his life and didn’t want to change. Lord Nikolas did this to him. He was making him take a mate. Now he had all these crazy feelings he didn’t know what to do with. The more he walked, the harder he breathed, and his fists clenched constantly. Hours passed and the night was slipping away from him. Now he was angry with himself.

  How could he let some unknown woman affect him so? She has taken over his whole thought pattern. He couldn’t remember what she looked like, but he could never forget how she made him feel. He stopped walking and looked at the people in the streets. He wanted to scream, but he didn’t; instead he blew out a heavy breath and tapped into the mind of the first person he saw alone.

  Sebastian moved quickly to a woman as she tried to get into her car and carried her back to his house. Once home he gave the woman the blood wine and paced the floors watching her drink it in her dazed state. He was pleased with her appearance. There was a time when he used to mate with the ones that pleased him, but it had been a long time since he had done so. He watched her and continued pacing with his face twisted.

  She moved like a zombie drinking the wine steadily only because he had had told her to. She was unresponsive, unaware of anything other than what he told her to do. He sighed and stopped moving, dragging his hand across his face. With a wife she would be aware of him. She’d know he was there...know he was making love to her...aware of his touch. He remembered over hearing his clan brothers talking about how wonderful it was to mate with a woman of your own blood. It had been a long time since love making felt good, it was more of a release at this point.

  “What if all the stories were true?” he muttered. He looked at the woman and chuckled shaking his head.

  He sat next to her and took the glass. Pulling her head into his lap he unbuttoned her blouse to get a better view of the vein on her neck that throb invitingly at him. He paused only for a moment before he sank his teeth into it and drank until he was full. It was just before dawn when he returned home from taking the woman back to her car, he closed up his house and laid down to rest.

  Chapter Three

  Amber arrived at work bright and early the next morning.

  “Hi, Elsie. How was your night?”

  “You have to come back here tonight and meet my friend, Amber.”

  “Well, good morning to you, too,” she said with a chuckle. “Well, I’m in no mood to be hooked up, so your friend is going to have to wait. I’m off today, remember? I’m going back to my little house in the country and have a picnic. I just came to drop off some notes on my patients for Sandy,” she said cheerfully. She handed her the note pad and walked away. “See you tomorrow,” added over her shoulder.

  Once in her car she thought of her friend and shook her head laughing before she pulled off into the street. She pulled onto the highway and drove the familiar path leisurely until the scenery began to change showing fewer buildings and more trees and grass.

  Going into the second hour, she veered off the highway and drove down the gravel and dirt roads of the scenic countryside of southern Indiana. A smile touched her face as she inhaled deeply. The fields on her left were full of wild flowers, and corn stood higher than she did on her right; there were no sounds around except her radio.

  She loved the wide open
spaces and fresh air of the country. She’d live out here if it didn’t take so long to drive back to the city for her to get to work. She grew up on a farm and loved every minute of it. Her foster parents weren’t rich people, but they did show her love. Coming to the country made her feel closer to them now that they were gone.

  She drove for another half hour before a small log cabin came into view. When she spied it she smiled and pushed on the gas, leaving a rising dirt trail in her wake. She parked in front of it and started unpacking her things. Laying everything on the porch, she set everything within arm’s reach of the swing she would be lying in. Once she was done, she pushed play on her portable radio and lay in the swing with her book.

  Sebastian woke with a smile on his face, but when he realized he was smiling he laughed. What was happening to him? He just wanted to know who the woman was that had touched his mind and left such an impression on him, that’s all. Once he knew who she was and what she was about everything would go back to normal. He would have his happy content life back. He sat up. Content? Is that what he was? Happy? Was he even happy? He frowned, and then shook his head hard. Tonight he would go to Elsie; she was bringing Amber to meet him and all of this craziness in his head would be over.

  He left his room to go lay on the swing in the warm night air. Opening the door he stopped short. Slowly he shut the door behind him and walked to the figure lying in his swing. She was exquisite. Her golden brown skin was without flaw and her full lips called to him.

  “Well, this evening is starting off very nicely. At least I don’t have to worry about looking for someone to feed from this evening. I can feed early, return this woman to where she belonged and then go to see Amber,” he muttered and moved the long strands of hair away from her eyes smiling. “I may even make love to this one.”