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you. She slowly moved her hand over Nikki s forehead. Truth & you shall see the
truth of it &
All at once Nikki felt as though she had stepped into another dimension another
time, another world and she knew she was reliving Moon s memories. She could see a
farmer with his horse pulling a plow & and an ancient castle in the distance. And then
she saw Moon, whose hair then was more blonde than white and who had the look of
youth & of an innocent beauty that the centuries had swept away in spite of the fact that
her immortality had maintained her youthful façade.
Moon was gathering vegetables, and the day was drawing to a close. She looked up,
and there stood a tall, muscular man whose handsome features had been ravaged by the
brutality of his dark side. He approached her and said, Come with me & I think I will
have you for my own.
No & I am engaged to be married. Moon proudly put up her chin.
Then he is a dead man, and you will be free.
Moon bit at her cherry-ripe lips and said, Please, Count & do not harm him. I will do
as you ask.
Suddenly he was on her, kissing her mouth with a savageness that made Nikki flinch
as she experienced the unfolding scene.
Dracula pulled away from her and said, You are different & gentle natured & So
saying he dug the fangs he had developed from the depths of his black magic and the soul
now lost in darkness into her white throat and drank her blood. He pulled away suddenly
and groaned at her, Your beauty should live on & He cut his palm and pushed the
blood onto her tongue and then got up and moved away from her. Standing over her he
said sadly, You will rise a vampire, and you will immediately have the blood lust, and
that man you want to marry will be your first victim. You won t have the discipline to
stop feeding on him, and he will die at your hands. Your family will be your next victims,
and then you will be mine. So saying he turned on his heel and left her lying there in the
grass.
Moon tried to spit the blood out of her mouth and suddenly realized she was not alone.
She looked up and saw a godlike man whose long, dark-blonde hair loosely framed an
incredibly handsome face. He wore only a gold torque around his neck and low-cut
leather pants. His silver, iridescent eyes were glistening with anger.
Forgive me, child & I didn t get here in time. I had not realized that he d noticed
you. I promised your mother to keep a watchful eye out for you, and I have failed her, but
I shall fix this &
Who & who are you? Moon asked.
Breslyn, Prince of Dagda of the Tuatha Dé, and I am about to break all my beloved
queen s rules!
He picked her up cradle-like, and Nikki saw that he shifted (as she had witnessed
Chad MacFare do) to what she assumed was the fabled land of the Fae the Isle of Tir.
There he took her to what he told Moon was his home. He left her on the bed and
vanished, returning a moment later with a small vial the size of the bottle of vodka you
might get on an airplane, only this wasn t holding vodka.
Drink this.
I am hallucinating & you tell me you are a Fae & Fae don t really exist.
And yet, you feel me & see me & and now you will obey me, child, and drink this. I
will no doubt be banished from Tir for a century for my perfidy against my queen. But I
have no choice. I was a friend to your mother and her mother before her and have looked
in on your family from time to time. I did not know the villain Dracula had his sights on
you & but, I shall repair my oversight. Drink.
What is it?
The Elixir of immortality & you will need it, because I am going to heal your
vampire blood and it will take a great deal out of both of us. Lucky for me you did not
die, otherwise it would have sapped my magic for at least one hundred years.
Moon drank and laid her head back, and the Prince put both hands over her heart &
and then the picture faded and Nikki returned to the present.
No & wait & you can t stop there!
Moon smiled. Breslyn did more than steal the elixir from his queen s private
chambers. He healed most of the vampirism in me. I have never had a desire for blood,
and he has often had the argument with me that I am not in fact a vampire.
Huh & and Breslyn?
He is very special. He suffered a loss of many of his powers for a time because of
what it took out of him to heal me. Also, Fae time is very different than earth time. It took
him weeks to recover enough to return me to my home & weeks meant years on earth.
My father had died, and the man I had been engaged to marry had moved on and married
another. I returned to Tir with Breslyn, and for a time we were & very close.
You were lovers?
Moon nodded. I was grateful, and he is & extremely desirable, but neither one of us
was in love.
This is crazy & a Prince of Fae & I thought Fae were an Irish myth?
This from a vampire slayer? Moon smiled softly.
Nikki almost snorted. Yeah & right but go on & more & there is more.
There is a treaty between Man and Fae that forbids them interference with our kind
and our problems. Breslyn could have been in deep trouble for stealing the elixir from his
queen and saving my life. They believe also in destiny, and she would have punished him
severely for interfering with destiny.
It could have been destiny for him to interfere.
Indeed, you and Breslyn would get along. That was his exact argument when the
queen discovered me and thought to relieve Breslyn of his many Fae abilities. However,
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