Bedding My Vampire Mate

Amos lowered his gaze and looked at the lady whose face was buried on his slightly bared chest.

With her warm breath teasing his bare chest Amos regretted having left the first three buttons of his shirt undone.

"Is she really sleeping or is she doing this to get back at me for not heeding her words?" He muttered his gaze still centred on the lady whose right hand was rubbing his chest.

He could recall she made known the fact she didn't like it when he leaves his shirt unbuttoned. Because of this, she got angry at him twice on different occasions.

He couldn't help but think that maybe she was doing this to get back at him for that.

"Fuck!" Amos cursed as he tried to pull away. The worst of it all was that she didn't let him move an inch.

She was fast asleep but her grip was like one who was still awake.

"With how the night is starting, I doubt whether I will be able to sleep a wink," He mumbled and finally resigned to fate.

At first, he thought he would be unable to sleep a wink that night but by the time he drifted to sleep, even he didn't realize it.

Joanna, who has been having trouble sleeping ever since her quarrel with Audrey, was finally able to have a peaceful sleep tonight.

His warm embrace coupled with his addicting lavender fragrance served as the most potent sleeping pills in the world to her.

In the morning the sweet chirping of the birds and sun rays penetrating through the glass window woke the two sleeping figures up.

Joanna, the first out of the two to wake up, tried to stretch her body. When that didn't work she tried to bend her back like she sometimes does when she wakes up.

Her eyes fluttered open, realising that she couldn't move any part of her body.

The first thing she set eyes on the instant her eyes fluttered open was the handsome face of the guy laid beside her.

[What the hell happened here? I can still recall we were enjoying the moonlight yesterday so how come we are lying on the same bed?]

Joanna's eyes widened. Hurriedly she lowered her gaze and checked her body.

She let out a sigh of relief noticing that her clothes were intact.

[I better get out of bed before he wakes up and sees our ambiguous position]

Joanna sneakily tried to remove her left hand his head was resting on.

Joanna was still struggling to free her hand when the chirping of a group of birds which flew past their window caught her attention.

She gazed at the window as she listened to the bird chirps which sounded like music to her ear.

Joanna was so captivated by the music of the bird and didn't see Amos' eyes soon flutter open.

"Listening to the birds' chirps that I have gotten so used to makes me feel like I have just returned home after being away for a long time," Joanna, whose eyes were closed, muttered.

"If you like it so much here then we can build our palace here," He replied, suddenly catching her off guard. The startled Joanna glanced behind her to see Amos trying to sit up on the bed.

"You are awake," Joanna stated, acting as if she didn't hear his earlier words.

"How was your night?" She asked. She quickly removed her hand on which his head was lying and adjusted well on the bed.

"A lot better than I thought I guess," He replied, his gaze not moving away from her glowing face.

"Why are you talking as though something happened?" Joanna asked her suspicious glare focused on him. She became a bit uncomfortable when he didn't respond.

"I have never snored in my life so you can't say I disturbed you with my snoring…,"

"I never said you snored so relax ok?" He said and moved to the foot of the bed. He felt the urge to tease her when he saw how eager she wanted to know what happened after she fell asleep last night.

"If that's not the case then what happened?" Joanna quizzed.

"Last night a certain lady didn't only refuse to let go of me but went as far as taking advantage of me even in her sleep…,"

"Hey, that's a lie," Joanna blurted as she jumped to her feet. Her confidence faltered when he turned and glanced at her.

"I-I wouldn't do such a thing to you. I trust myself," Joanna said. Her faltering expression didn't rhyme with her words.

"Or did I?" She asked. She stared into his eyes searchingly.

"Hmmm…," He trailed as he strolled to the wardrobe kept close to the bedside.

"What did I do? Say something," she ordered fiercely. She stood up and walked to the wardrobe too.

He acted as if he didn't hear what she said and continued with his search for clothes to wear.

Realising that he was ignoring her, she turned and pinned him against the wardrobe.

"Stop trying to dodge the question and tell me what I did?" Joanna asked, her stern expression settled on his face. "How exactly did I take advantage of you?" She demanded.

"Hmmm… that is left for you to find out," Amos grinned as he tried to turn and continue with what he was doing. But Joanna, who wasn't satisfied with his response, refused to release him.

"You…," His sudden movement made Joanna choke on her words.

Amos held her hand and spun her so that she took over his former position.

"Do you really want to know what you did?" He asked. Seeing her flustered look, he resisted the urge to burst out laughing.

He let go of her hand and moved a step backwards.

Joanna followed every movement he made wondering what he was up to.

Her body stiffened and her heart pounded when he brought his hand close to her chest.

"Hey, what do you think you are doing?" She demanded, her grip around his hands which had undone two buttons of her shirt became firmer.

"What else if not that I am trying to show you what exactly you did and how you took advantage of me?" He asked his gaze concentrated on her eyeballs.