Read Online The Vampire and the Virgin by Kerrelyn Sparks - Free Book Online

of smuggler?”
    “No. He jogs at night. I saw him the first night I was here. And he saw me. From a distance. We didn’t talk.
    Then the next night, he left this rose.”
    “Hmm.” Eleni frowned as she stuffed another grape leaf. “And you talked to him last night?”
    “Yes. In the courtyard.”
    “He didn’t try any nonsense, did he?”
    “No. He seemed…really nice.” Olivia returned the rose to the vase. “He told me I was brave and beautiful, just
    like Grandpa told you.”
    “That’s good.” Eleni tilted her head. “Now I’m sensing worry and fear. What’s wrong?”
    Olivia took her teacup to the sink and rinsed it out. She knew her emotions were waffling back and forth. One
    minute she was basking in the warm glow of her attraction to Robby, and another, she was backing off in cold
    fear. “I told him about my abilities.”
    “How did he take it?”
    “He…seemed all right with it.”
    “ Seemed? Couldn’t you tell how he was feeling?”
    “No, I couldn’t.” Olivia strode to the table. “Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever met anyone you
    couldn’t read?”
    Eleni shook her head slowly. “No. Never.”
    A chill tickled the back of Olivia’s neck. “Doesn’t that strike you as really strange?”
    “I suppose. This is…making you fear him?”
    With a groan, Olivia sat and rested her elbows on the table. “A little, yes. I thought if I told him I could detect
    lies, he would make a run for it. But he didn’t.”
    “You tried on purpose to scare him away?”
    “Yes.”
    Eleni regarded her with narrowed eyes. “Child, you’re not making any sense. Didn’t you tell me you have
    trouble dating because you always know when a man is lying?”
    “Yes.”
    “So you don’t want to date men you can read, and now you don’t want to date the man you can’t read. You
    have two choices, and you’re rejecting them both.”
    Olivia winced. She hated to admit it, but Yia Yia was making a good point. “I didn’t realize I would ever have a
    choice. Robby caught me completely off guard. I simply reacted emotionally.”
    “With fear.”
    “Yes, with fear. It was scary as hell!”
    “Watch your language, young lady.”
    Olivia groaned and rubbed her forehead. “I need to analyze the situation and figure out the pros and cons, so I
    can arrive at a logical course of—”
    “Child,” Eleni interrupted her. “Sometimes, you don’t need to think.”
    “I always think things through. I’ve spent years honing my ability to analyze any given—”
    “Do you like him?” Eleni asked.
    “Yes, but—”
    “You find him attractive?”
    “Yes, but—”
    “Then, it’s settled.” Eleni waved a hand in dismissal. “There are no buts.”
    “There are, too! I don’t know if I can trust him. I don’t know what he’s feeling.”
    Eleni shrugged and started rolling another grape leaf. “He came to see you because he wanted to meet you.
    That means he was attracted to you. Did he ask to see you again?”
    “Yes. Tonight.”
    “Then he is still attracted to you. It’s not brain surgery, you know.”
    Olivia slumped in her chair. Was she overanalyzing again? “I won’t know if he lies to me.”
    Eleni arranged her finished grape leaves in the bottom of a pot. “I loved your grandfather dearly, and he loved
    me. But there were days, bad days when I could feel more anger or resentment from him than love, and it would
    hurt something terrible.”
    “I’m so sorry. I didn’t know.”
    Eleni sighed. “I never speak of it because over the years he always stayed faithful. He always found a way to
    keep on loving me. But it was hard. There were times when I wished I couldn’t tell what he was feeling. So what
    keep on loving me. But it was hard. There were times when I wished I couldn’t tell what he was feeling. So what
    I’m saying is this could be a blessing for you.”
    Olivia swallowed hard. “I don’t know. I still think it’s scary.”
    “Of course it is.” Eleni