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water, before she
pulled them out of the water and dried them briskly on a towel.  She
rummaged through a small bag and pulled out some bandages to cover Wesley’s
wounds.
    “They’re
sisters and they’re very eager to meet you.”  Faren winked at him. 
“The two oldest are a bit…tired but the youngest is ready to go.  I told
her how handsome you were, and she was quite intrigued.”
    Val didn’t
reply as Abby finished bandaging Wesley’s wounds and, without looking at Val,
stood and walked to the carriage.  She disappeared inside of it as Faren
stretched out on the ground beside the fire. 
    Val stood
and walked to the carriage. 
    “Stay away
from her, leech!”  Wesley stood, wincing a little, and glared at
him. 
    Val ignored
him and stepped into the carriage, closing the door behind him.  Wesley
cursed loudly and started to follow him.  Evan grabbed his arm.
    “Don’t,
Wesley.  She can take care of herself and besides, she’s already slept
with him once.  She can deny it, but you and I both know she’s letting him
feed from her.  The leech hasn’t gone hunting at all and there’s no way he
would go this long without blood.  You don’t have a chance with her now,
and you know that.”
    Wesley
glanced at Faren, who smiled broadly at him.  “Val does like to eat on a
regular basis.”
    “She isn’t
letting him feed from her.”  Wesley tried to sound confident but there was
doubt in his voice.
    Evan shook
his head and pulled out some dried meat from a leather bag.  “You know
that isn’t true.”
    * * *
     
    “What are
you doing, little dove?”  Val asked.
    Abby was
kneeling on the floor of the carriage.  There were built-in cabinets under
each seat of the carriage and she was sorting through one of them.
    She pulled
out a short blue skirt and frowned at the thin, blue piece of material lying
underneath it.  It was a bikini top, the material so thin it was nearly
translucent, and she stared at it in the dim light of the lantern.  “What
the hell is this?”
    “If I had
to guess, I would say it’s what Joven gives his pets to wear.”  Val
replied.
    Her eyes
widened and she shook her head.  “Ridiculous.”
    She tossed
the top on to the skirt and dipped her hand into the drawer again.  This
time she pulled out a leather collar, the leather stained blue to match the
skirt and top, and she stared at it disbelievingly.
    “A
collar?  Are you kidding me?”  She muttered.
    Val stared
at the collar.  The sickness that had wiped out so many of them had also
destroyed many of their more common practices, such as keeping humans as
pets.  However, in the last fifty years the balance had shifted again, and
more and more vampires were seducing humans into being their personal meal
tickets. 
    In five
centuries of being a vampire, he had never taken a human as a pet.  He had
seduced them, fed from them, but had always moved on after one night.  He
found the human’s neediness for him after feeding to be more of a pain than
anything else.  Until, that was, he had fed from Abigail.  From the
moment he had tasted her blood, he had been determined to make her his.
    He stared
at the collar and pictured buckling it around Abigail’s neck and claiming her
as his own.  He was ashamed to realize he had a raging erection.  He
shook off the feelings of shame.  Abby belonged to him and if he wanted
her to wear a collar, she would do so.
    You
don’t really believe that.  Face it Val, you may be a vampire but you’re
not like Faren and the others.  You never will be.  Not after what
they did to Karena.
    He moved
until he was standing next to Abigail.  “Many vampires use collars to show
other vampires that the human belongs to them.”
    He bent and
searched through the open cabinet and pulled out a leather wrist cuff.  It
was stained in the same shade of blue as the collar Abigail was holding.
    “There, you
see?  Joven wears this and his pet wears the collar.  It