Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust by Jessica Dalton (book series for 10 year olds txt) 📕

of Hugo Boss Jeans and a black Armani long sleeved tight fitting top. The whole ensemble was gorgeous against Dimitri’s pale skin and short dark head of hair.

Thank you, Dimitri told me as he listened to my thoughts. You don’t look too bad yourself. Dimitri chuckled

Hey!!

I’m joking as soon as I realised you were undressing I mentally looked the other way and I still am so calm down. Besides you haven’t got anything I haven’t seen before

I am a human remember - and you have never been with a human before. You have only seen naked female vampires…

I felt Dimitri moving very fast. Only to stop minutes later. He was no longer in his room. I looked through his eyes and realised he was in my bedroom, sitting comfortably on my bed.

Okay, okay I get the point. I won’t be looking at you while you dress, undress or shower. he promised in a sincere mental voice.

I turned off the shower and wrapped a towel around my body as I stepped onto the cold tiles of the bathroom floor. I picked up my clothes and put them in the clothes hamper before opening the door and walking across the hallway into my bedroom.

“thank you.” I said aloud, as I made my way over to my chest of drawers and pulled out a matching bra and panties. I turned around and faced Dimitri who was now lying across my bed looking up at the ceiling.

“what! I‘m not looking!” he exclaimed innocently.

“I don‘t care go and sit in the living room and wait for me there.”

Dimitri sighed over dramatically and I couldn’t help but laugh as he shot me a smile before blurring out of my room.

It took only seconds for me to get ready. Minutes later I was in the kitchen making coffee. It seemed as though night time was going to be my new daytime now that I lived in the world of Night.

“coffee?” I asked Dimitri with a raised eyebrow.

“please.” he said as he came over and got two mugs out my cupboard for us.

I must have looked at him strangely because he laughed when he turned to look at me.

“what?” he chuckled. “I can eat and drink human food if I want - I don‘t need to but I like the taste of coffee, red wine and some specific foods.” he told me with a shrug.

“cool. So how are we going to move all of my stuff to your place?” I asked him.

“well you‘ll only need your personal effects. - photos, toiletries and only some clothes that you think you may need. We will have to go shopping and buy you a new wardrobe though.” he told me.

“why?!” I exclaimed as I looked down at my clothes I was wearing. Dark jeans and a navy long sleeved top. “what’s wrong with my clothes?”

Dimitri chuckled, but swallowed his laughter when I shot him a glare. “you can‘t enforce my law dressed like that!”

“why not, I‘m not going to be killing rogues with my fashion sense so what does it matter what I wear?”

“for one thing, jeans are far too stiff to wear while fighting, try and kick me right now.” he told me.

I didn’t need telling twice, he had pissed me off. I swung my leg out and he caught it easily, I could feel my jeans pinch my thigh and I started to hop around in his grip while he just stared at me.

“okay, okay. I get the point, I need a new wardrobe yada yada yada.” I said while rolling my eyes. “can you let go of my leg now?” I asked as the coffee machine finished.

Once both of my feet were safely on the ground I poured our coffee and headed for the living room.

“so what will this new wardrobe consist of?” I asked him as we sat on the sofa.

“soft black leather pants and jackets, dark tank tops.” I shot him an oh-no-you-don’t glare, which he rolled his golden eyes at - “you won‘t feel the cold anymore Ashes, the vampire blood will keep you warm. Anyway as I was saying, dark tank tops and black shit kickers. Then for accessorises we will go to my armoury, I think you‘ll enjoy that.” he smiled.

I could just imagine the treasure of weapons he had hauled up somewhere and I could feel my excitement build. For some strange reason I had always been extremely interested in weapons, guns were my favourite though, but fencing and fighting with knives were a close second. I had taken extra curricular courses the whole way through school, which all consisted of me training with weapons I had even taken a three month course in Archery and had gotten really good at it, before the course had finished.

I was very lucky to have a rich father who would pay for all of my lessons.

“what memories of mine did you see?” I asked Dimitri without looking at him.

“A vampires brain works much faster than a humans, so in the short time that we were exchanging blood I saw almost all of your memories. The most important and memorable memories anyway.”

I exhaled a shaky breath. so you know why I left Ireland?

Yes I do. Most of your memories included Jaz and your brother Kevin. From your memories I could tell that she was a female of worth.

I hadn’t talked about Jaz since I left Ireland, so I had expected to cry at the first mention of her. Instead I found myself turning to face Dimitri with a huge smile on my face.

Yes, she really was a female of worth. I told him with sparkling eyes and a lighter heart than I had had in a very long time.

We sat there and smiled at each other until there was a knock at my apartment door, I broke away from his gaze and stared at the door with a frown.

Who…..? I started to ask but before I could finish my question Dimitri was opening my door and ushering in two men who wore all black - I could tell by the bulges under their clothes that they were packing heavily.

I stood up and walked to the door of my living room and peered at the men who were walking down my hallway, toward me. The two strange men stopped in front of me and nodded their heads at me in greeting. I stepped back into the living room and motioned for them to come in. The room seemed to shrink as the three huge men stepped in.

“Phoenix,” Dimitri said aloud for the benefit of my overly handsome house guests. “this is Quinn,” Dimitri pointed to the tall, broad man with black hair and piercing blue eyes, “and this is Ari.” Ari had sandy brown hair and dark brown eyes, it was a weird contrast, especially against eerily pale looks. His name really suited the way he looked.

“Ari, Quinn, this is Phoenix.” Dimitri laughed as he read my thoughts, and I couldn’t help but laugh with him.

Quinn and Ari gave us both strange looks. Especially towards Dimitri. I got the impression that they rarely got to hear him laugh, which was strange because he seemed to have done nothing but laugh since I had met him.

I felt the need to explain why we were laughing though.

“Sorry guys,” I smiled and looked at Ari. “its just that I was thinking that your name really suited you. I know from taking religion in school that Ari means ‘lion’ in Hebrew. Its really cute actually.”

Ari looked at me in shock with only a mild bit of distaste at my ’cute’ remark. He was about to say something but was interrupted by Quinn’s bellowing laugh.

“Ah jesus! I love this girl already! Where did you find her Dimitri?” Quinn asked in a mild Irish lilt.

“from the same place they got you I‘d expect from that accent of yours.” I said with a cheeky smile.

“damn, why‘d you have to be human, I could take you home with me right now, your so feisty!”

I laughed but stopped abruptly and raised an eyebrow at Dimitri when I heard his voice in my head.

You could have a relationship with a vampire now that you have drank my blood you know, there would be no danger in one of us hurting or breaking you.

“really?” I asked out loud. I thought about it for a minute before reverting to talking in our heads. Quinn was only joking, so it doesn’t really matter but that is good to know.

He wasn’t joking Ashes. I can feel his arousal right now, its actually making me quite uncomfortable. You are exactly Quinn’s type, beautiful, sassy and feisty.

Whoa, hold up there vampire. Beautiful, sassy and feisty? I am defiantly none of those things. And most definitely not beautiful. You have my memories - even you know how many times Eoghan turned me down.

Ah but that was before you had drank my blood, vampire blood enhances everything abut you, triply so when you drink the blood of the Vampire King.

While we stood there silently looking at each other I tried to think over the last couple of hours since I had woken up to see if I had looked in a mirror today yet.

“you haven‘t looked in a mirror yet today. Have you?” Dimitri asked out loud.

“nope.” I replied while biting my lower lip.

Dimitri rolled his eyes, took my hand and pulled me into my bedroom. As we passed Ari and Quinn I noticed they were looking at me and Dimitri weirdly again. I stifled a giggle as I realised what me and Dimitri must have looked like to the two vampires, just standing there looking at each other, occasionally continuing the conversation out loud.

In front of me I saw Dimitri’s shoulders shake and a whisper of his laughter dance through my head as he read my mind.

Quinn and Ari followed us into my bedroom and sat down on the end of my bed to watch what we were up to.

Dimitri positioned me in front of my full length mirrior and then stepped back so that I could get a better look at myelf.

“see?” Dimitri asked as I gasped in shock at the women who looked back at me. She was absolutely stunning looking.

The long dark hair that normally hung lank and stringy around my face was glowing and bouncy - it framed my face perfectly now. My normally drab chocolate eyes, had more life in them - which was ironic, seeing as it was due to an undead mans blood - my eyes were now a more shiny chocolate liquid colour. My normally pasty cheeks had tinges of pink in them now and I was instantly reminded of strawberries and cream and my lips were now a blood red colour and were defiantly more pouty. I would never need to wear lipstick again.

I did a slow twirl to take a look at the rest of my body