The Wolfs Maine - By Jinni James Page 0,23

help take my attention off of her beautiful figure. She grabbed her purse, put her hand in mine and we walked outside. I didn't realize how nasty it was outside until we walked out in it. The sky was filled with dark gray clouds. It looked like it could pour down rain at any minute.

"No wonder he is on his way home." I looked at Ava wondering what brought on that statement.

"What do you mean?" Ava looked up at the sky.

“Whenever the weather is like this, Nicholas comes home early. If it's pretty outside and the sun is shining he stays at work until at least sunset but when it's nasty out and raining or dreary like this he comes home early. He never would tell me why." That didn't make any sense to me at all. You would think it would be the other way around.

"Hum. Weird." I had no idea what else to say but I figured it would be safer to not let on that I am growing more and more suspicious of the man. Once we made it to her BMW she released my hand then put her arms around my neck.

"I wish I could just stay here forever."

"One day my love. One day you will be mine." I placed my lips against hers and kissed her softly until my need started to take over. Softly became passionately very quickly. Her lips parted slightly and I took full advantage, slipping my tongue in. She clearly didn't mind because she did the same. My hands traveled down her back until I realized I had to stop. I pulled away not without great difficulty. She looked down right depressed. I kissed her forehead then her lips one more time and opened her door for her. She got in, blew me a kiss, and was driving away.

My heart was already aching. There was no way Nicholas could be a vampire could he? That's all I could think as she was driving away. If Nicholas is a vampire that would prove very dangerous for her and he would be very good at hiding it. It would also explain those vamps Ava and her friends ran into but the only question then would be why would Nicholas have vamps attack Ava and her friends? I decided to make a quick call to Michael. I found my phone and quickly pressed his name.

"Hey John. What's up? I was just about to call you."

"I think you were right to start with Nicholas. I'm starting to get more and more suspicious of him. He is such an ass to her and he stays out all day working unless it's raining or cloudy then he comes home early. Could a vamp really hide it that well?"

"That's why I started with Nicholas. Something just doesn't feel right. A vamp could hide it but it would take a lot of work. I'm not sure why he would even bother and she has no idea vampires or anything really exists so why would she question it you know? I'll keep an eye out."

"Thanks Michael. I owe you one."

"Yes my friend. You do."

Avalon

As I was driving home all I could think of was John and how much I wanted to turn the car around. I so do not want to go home to Nicholas. He is the last person I want to see let alone be stuck in a house with. What am I going to do? There is no way I can tell him I want to leave. He would go ballistic on me and he would never bring it up himself. I don't even know why he is staying with me.

I mean what is it for him? I'm just a glorified maid. We haven't even made love-if that's what I can call it-in months. Although there is no way anyone can call what Nicholas and I did "making love" because it was far from that. He basically just did it to appease me when I was restless and it always lasted a matter of minutes. There was never any kissing involved and it was always from behind. I always wondered why he couldn't look at me while we were intimate and it just seemed weird. I mean why be with someone you don't want to look at?

All I know is it is nothing like what John and I have. What we have is truly making love. It feels right and complete like he was made for me.