Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust - Jessica Dalton (i have read the book .txt) 📗

then, we don‘t eat human food so we only ever use the fridge for our emergency supplies of bagged blood.”

I suppressed a shudder and focused on the other vamps in the room. Dimitri had sat at the head of the table and motioned me to come and sit next to him.

I heaved myself off the work top and then limped over to him, my muscles now protesting against any movement. I collapsed into the seat next to Dimitri and instantly rested my head on his shoulder and focused on keeping my eyes open.

“you look wrecked.” Rowan told me.

“thank you Rowan. You really know how to make a girl feel good about themselves don‘t you?” my voice sleepily leaking sarcasm.

The vibration of Dimitri’s chuckle slightly shook my body and I had to reposition my head against his shoulder to get comfortable.

“you‘d better make Ashes dinner something quick and easy, or she will be asleep before you‘re finished serving it up.”

Quinn looked over his shoulder at me and Dimitri. “okay, I‘ll just make you an omelette then, there is plenty of protein in that to keep up your energy.”

“so explain Dimitri, about the shower, I‘m still confused.”

“well as you all know Phoenix is your Enforcer and I am your King and to make Phoenix your Enforcer we had to exchange blood. So now we are connected, we know almost everything about each other. And we are constantly in each other‘s heads, we can communicate with out talking. So when me and Phoenix showered separately tonight we weren’t really separate because we were in each others heads and so in an attempt to give me some privacy, Phoenix started to sing ’I love rock and roll’ the Joan Jett and the Blackhearts version and so I joined in to give her some privacy as well and it was actually really good fun.”

“yeah we could hear you both laughing.” Quinn said as he placed a plate with a huge omelette on it in front of me. “we haven’t heard Dimitri laugh like that in many years, and I mean many many many many yr…. ”

“alright alright Quinn, Phoenix gets the picture.” Dimitri said.

I lent forward and picked up the knife and fork that Quinn had given me.

“thanks Quinn this looks really good.” I smiled at him and then I practically enhaled the whole thing.

“”jeeze girl, you really were hungry, do you want another one? Quinn laughed.

“no thanks that was enough. I might fall asleep in the next one.” I told him as I rested my head back against Dimitri’s shoulder. “I would like some water though.”

“no problem coming right up.”

“so you two are totally connected right now?” Ryder asked.

“yep.” me and Dimitri answered at the same time as Quinn handed me a bottle of water and I guzzled it down.

“hmmm, no wonder you two seem so close and comfortable around one another. I mean I have never understood the bound the king has with the Enforcer but now I know, I can understand why you act as though you have known each other your whole lives.”

I looked up at Ryder and smiled. “well in a way we have known each other our whole lives, Dimitri has every single one of my memories and even though Dimitri has been alive a lot longer than me I have quite a lot of his memories as well.” I told him with a yawn and looked up at the kitchen cock to see the time. It was already 4 o’clock in the morning and I was ready for my bed.

I’m tried. I whined to Dimitri in our heads. And I can’t move, my muscles have given up on me. I told him as I looked up at his face. My eyes lids heavy as I fight to keep them open.

Dimitri’s mouth transforms into a huge smile as he looks down at me.

And what do you want me to do about it? He asks in a teasing voice.

Take me to bed please. I slightly beg while jutting out my lower lip and pouting.

Okay okay, you twisted my arm. I’ll take you to bed. Dimitri says while chuckling both out loud and in our heads.

“wow that is just weird watching that and knowing what you two are doing.” I hear one of the two guys who I haven’t met say. “sorry we haven’t been introduced properly yet, my name is Hunter and this is Blake.” he tells me as he indicates the other vamp.

I look at him and then at the vamp sitting next to him, they both are very handsome looking just like all the other vamps in the room. But none of them are as good looking as Dimitri, I sleepily think, maybe its all that royal blood he has that makes him so gorgeous.

Reading my thoughts Dimitri laughs out loud and then says. “it has nothing to do with my royal blood.” he chuckles and we both ignore all the weird stares we are getting. “come on sleeping beauty lets get you to bed.”

No sooner has he finished speaking but I am up in his arms and he is walking across the kitchen. With my arms wrapped around his neck and my head wresting on his shoulder still, I peer at the other vamps. “goodnight.” I tell them around a yawn and then snuggle even further into Dimitri’s arms.

I was asleep before Dimitri even got halfway across the foyer.


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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

Chapter 5


Fear spreads through me chasing out any happy thoughts I may have ever had. I’m running, but not nearly fast enough. Trees turn into a blur of murky brown as I dodge tree trunks and jump over fallen branches.

Faster, Faster. I chant to myself, willing my legs to move like they have done before. I chance a look over my shoulder only to wish I hadn’t. They’re still behind me, getting closer.

There is not nearly enough vampire blood running through my veins to compete with the well fed male rogues chasing me.

Gasping for air I narrowly miss a tree and trip over the roots that are covered by fallen leaves. I flip onto my back and try to pull myself upright but before I can get my hair out of my eyes I am dragged to my feet, by rough callous hands that grip my arms.

I’m assaulted with the smell of dried blood, earth and another scent I can’t name. The rasping breath of my three captors flows over my face, making me gag. I struggle and kick and squirm to no avail. Its hopeless, my beating heart betrays me as it pumps my blood in overdrive, luring the three vamps in.

More grubby hands pull at me ripping my top, exposing more skin. Sweat pours off me as I try with all my strength to get free. Sobs erupt from my lips as I shake and quiver.

“please, let me go. Please!” I beg in a small voice.

The three vamps look at me and sneer and grunt in disgust before one of them hits me across the face with such force that it feels as though a truck has hit me. I feel my eyes roll back as I start to fall into a dark abyss of nothingness, only to be pulled out by the excruciating pain coming from my arms and chest. I force myself to look down only to find three knives being dragged through me, then the rogues pull them out to replace the knives with their mouths as I scream in pain and shock.

“Ashes!” someone is shaking me, calling my name. “Ashes! Wake up damn it! Wake up!”

Someone is screaming. Someone is in danger, I snap my eyes open to find my room crowded with men. They are looking at me with worry etched into their beautiful faces.

“Ashes!” Dimitri yells, why is he yelling at me. He shakes me again as he leans over where I lie. “its okay, it was only a dream. Snap out of it.” he tells me as his hand comes forward and slaps me across the face.

The screaming finally stops and I realise with horror that it was me who was screaming and that I’m still shaking as sweat pours off me and drenches my bedclothes and the white shirt that I appear to be wearing, part of my brain wonders why I am wearing one of Dimitri’s Yves Saint Laurent shirts to bed.

The hand that has just slapped me now caress my face as Dimitri holds my gaze.

“it was only a dream Ashes, your safe. Nothing can hurt you here.” his reassuring voice makes me angry with myself. I am supposed to be the Enforcer, strong and brave enough to kill the very things that were killing me in my dream. Instead, the King has to comfort me! While his loyal friends look on with increasing worry and no wonder they are worried, they have just witnessed there new Enforcer acting terrified from a dream.

Shame and embarrassment cause me to look away from the attention I am getting, staring at the wall opposite my bed, I clear my throat.

“I‘m fine, you can…” but all that came out is a hoarse murmur and I start to cough as my throat close’s up. How long had I been screaming for exactly?

Tell them to leave. I told Dimitri in our heads.

Dimitri dismisses his men with a flick of his wrist. Once we are alone Dimitri settles himself more comfortably on the bed beside me.

He pulls me to his side and I bury my head in his chest as he strokes my hair.

It was only a dream, it was only a dream, it was only a dream, it was only a dream, it was only……..

I continue to chant this over and over in my head like a mantra, until my breathing slows and the shaking is more like small shivers.

“Ashes….” Dimitri starts to say.

You picked the wrong girl for the job Dimitri. I tell him.

There is a whoosh and my head falls onto the mattress where Dimitri had been lying only a second before.

What…
I blink and all of a sudden I’m lying on my back with Dimitri straddling me. His face inches from mine. There is nothing romantic about this moment at all. Dimitri is livid with me.

I try to push my self even further into the soft mattress, making myself as small as possible. His rage is unbelievable.

“I am the King of Vampyre! I rule all Vampires and have done so for more than two thousand years. I do not make mistakes and I have never been wrong about an Enforcer yet. You are different than the others but then you are the first female Enforcer there has ever been. Do not ever doubt me again.” and