Bonus Material - A Tour of Vampirerotique Theatre - Episode 4
You join me again in Snow’s grim black apartment in Vampirerotique, London’s premier vampire erotic theatre. Snow is the oldest vampire at the theatre, and he’s one of the owners and also an aristocrat. That’s a fancy way of saying he’s a pureblood, with no turned humans in his family tree. He’s probably one of a few aristocrats who wish he did have some mud in his blood. The purity of it has left him with a nasty affliction called bloodlust, and that affliction has made him do terrible things in his two thousand years of life, so much so that he was seeking his death until recently.
Aurora, Snow’s raven-haired beauty, leans back from kissing him and settles herself on the bed beside his knees. Snow has chained himself to his huge four-poster bed that looks like something out of a torture chamber with its thick steel posts bolted to the floor and ceiling, and ankles, wrist and neck restraints. One of Snow’s wickedly sexy large hands is cuffed but his right one is free. We tried to convince him to undo both, but he wants the security that comes with being at least semi-restrained. It touches me as I know how much he hates to be locked up, and I know he’s doing it because he wants to make sure I’m safe.
I look between the unlikely couple. Aurora is all purity and light in her long flowing white dress, her dazzling green-to-blue eyes bright with affection. Snow is doing his best to blend into his bedclothes with his black t-shirt and jeans. His hair is as pure as the element he was named for, a contrast against his dark pillows.
I’ve already talked to Snow and Aurora to discover a little about them and now I want to move onto talking to them about their romance.
“So, how did you meet?” I’ve already told them not to give too much away, and Snow wants everyone to enjoy his romance spoiler-free, so I know he’ll hold his tongue when it comes to important details.
“She kept breaking into my apartment.” He grins at Aurora when she scowls at him, and I’ve never seen him looking so rakish and sexy. Who knew the guy had a drop-dead-gorgeous grin? I’m so used to his default setting of brooding and sexy.
“I do not remember it that way.” Aurora turns back to me. “Snow was deep in his bloodlust, and I felt him suffering and came to see him. I couldn’t leave him lost to his affliction, so I sought to soothe him and bring him back to his family.”
I can’t help smiling at that. Aurora can be very selfless at times, and it makes me feel she’s perfect for Snow and the two were meant for each other.
“But you knew you would get into trouble for doing such a thing?” I point out and she nods.
“I knew, just as I knew I would get into trouble for other things that I did... but I did them without feeling an ounce of remorse.”
I love her already. She will fit right in at Vampirerotique, where most of the heroines of the Vampire Erotic Theatre series are already taking charge of the place and their mates. I’m sure Aurora will join their ranks soon, becoming the boss of Snow.
“I am still sorry I hurt you,” Snow mumbles and Aurora strokes his thigh and then takes his free hand, clutching it tightly.
“I hurt you too,” she says and a moment passes between them, a flicker of emotion that tells me they both regret some of the things they have done, but that they’re stronger now because of them.
“You had a very complicated romance, because of a number of factors. Snow’s bloodlust and his history being two of them.” I look down at my phone and my questions when Snow pins me with a glare. I know it’s dangerous to mention the things he has done, even in a coded manner, but he’s been so much better recently because of Aurora’s help. “But also because of what you both are. A very unlikely couple... but when I was writing down your story as you told it to me... I really felt you two were made for each other.”
The intense prickle of awareness of Snow’s gaze on me fades and I risk looking at him. He’s smiling at Aurora again, and I have to admit it’s nice seeing him in love.
“It was complicated, and I think it was a difficult romance,” Aurora says and then adds, “not that I have much experience of such things.”
“Good job too... I would hate to have to track down and maim any others you may have fallen in love with.” Snow is smiling but there’s a dangerous edge to his pale blue eyes, a faint touch of red ringing them, that says he’s deadly serious about that and if Aurora was a normal woman with a string of exes, they would all have been drained dry by now.
Aurora squeezes his hand. “And your bloodlust would be out of control again. No need to avenge me or take out the competition... there is no competition for my affection, Snow. It all belongs to you.”
His smile gains warmth and he strokes her cheek. “As mine does to you.”
I make a gagging noise. Both of them scowl at me. I shrug it off. “I always had you figured as a romantic, but feel free to dial it back a few notches.”
He sighs. “My room, my rules.”
Aurora grins. “He means it too. Antoine has walked out on us several times, muttering black things about us. I think we drive him crazy. He tells us he has enough of this with Javier and Lilah.”
“Another crazy-for-you couple then. I shouldn’t have expected anything less since Snow hasn’t let you out of his reach since he met you.”
“True,” Aurora says with a sheepish look at Snow. “He is rather possessive. I think it’s part of his charm.”
“I think that possessive streak of his has definitely won you over, even if it did end up in that bite mark on your shoulder there.” I point to the one on her right shoulder and she turns deep crimson and her gaze shoots to her knees.
Snow laughs, a full throttle one that makes me smile to hear it. “Don’t be fooled by her innocent look. She is a wicked minx. Ask her about the lake.”
“The lake?” I say and her blush deepens and she buries her face in her hands.
“Snow.” There’s a note in Aurora’s voice that makes her sound like a schoolmistress scolding a boy.
Snow’s grin holds. “Go on... ask her.”
Aurora’s straightens and pins Snow with a scowl, her lips a thin mulish line. “I have plenty of stories that will embarrass you too... so stop it.”
I can’t believe it when his grin actually manages to widen and a twinkle of mischief colours his beautiful pale blue eyes. “Launch your missiles, my beauty... I am not ashamed of anything we have done...”
He places his free hand over his chest, directly above his heart, and digs his fingers into his pectorals. His look turns deadly serious again, his gaze intense as it focuses on Aurora.
“I cherish every second I have with you... whether those seconds are spent making mischief, straightening out my twisted bloodlust, fighting or fu—” Snow flinches when Aurora’s hand slams over his mouth and her scowl intensifies.
“Snow!”
He mumbles the rest of the word into her palm, the twinkle back in his eyes. I can see these two were definitely made for each other. They’re both deeply in love with making mischief and being hellions. There has never been a more unlikely but more suited couple in the history of this world.
They might have been through the wars to get this far, but everything they endured has only made their love stronger, and it’s beautiful to see Snow smiling again, and to know he at last has a female who can love him.
I open my mouth to tell the big man as much and my words come out as a shriek as Payne appears right next to me, a cocky grin on his face. “It’s definitely my time now.”
Before I can even say ‘catch you later’ to Snow and Aurora, Payne has grabbed me and I’m in a different room. It seems someone is a little impatient for his interview to begin, but I don’t mind. I can’t wait to get into Payne’s head and hear what Elissa has to say about him.
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The Vampirerotique Tour episodes are a series of first person story-style interview pieces written about the theatre and characters featured in the Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series.
