Chapter One
Jane blew her bangs out of her eyes and paced across the pavement, her heels
echoing through the silence. What if her groom didn’t show up? Maybe he’d gotten
cold feet and had decided to chicken out of the ceremony? Of all the places for them to
talk this over, it had to be here—in the church parking lot, right before her wedding.
Should she have thought this through a bit more?
Should he?
She glanced down at the note, now damp from her sweat-coated palms. One of her
bridesmaids had brought it to her an hour earlier as she’d been putting last-minute
touches on her makeup while her mother helped her pin the headpiece to her hair. She
read the words again even though she already had them memorized.
Jane,
We have to talk before the ceremony. It’s important. Meet me outside, behind the church, at
eleven.
Ethan
So here she stood, at ten past eleven, waiting for her soon-to-be husband in the
dimly lit back parking lot of the church. Not the smartest thing she’d ever done but
apparently getting involved again with the man who’d left her four years ago ranked
right up there too.
Besides she could take care of herself. She spent her nights hunting down the
biggest, baddest vampires in the area. Anything else that came her way, she was all
over it. She curled her hands into fists, wishing she had a weapon or two on her, but
where would she hide it? The tight-fitting bodice of her wedding gown didn’t leave
room for a shoulder holster and a gun and the fragile tulle underskirts would tear if she
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Elisa Adams
tucked a stake into the garter. Plus she’d promised Ethan she would leave the weapons
at home. No working on their wedding night. No working on the honeymoon.
Jane smiled to herself. The concession had been an easy one to make. Tonight, for
once, she just wanted to be a woman. A bride, radiant on her wedding day. And after
the wedding was over? Over the next week, they’d be too busy with…other things for
her to even think about going on a hunt.
That is if Ethan hadn’t asked her here to tell her he was calling off the ceremony.
She smoothed her palms down her white-tulle-covered thighs, shivering from the
sudden chill in the air. The dress was beautiful, exactly what she’d wanted, but it
wasn’t very warm. Why had she ever agreed to a midnight wedding anyway? He’d
promised her it would be so romantic to have the church bathed in the soft, golden
glow of candlelight as she walked down the aisle. She should have known he’d get cold
feet but then again, if he wanted to call it off, he probably wouldn’t have asked to meet
her. When he’d left her before, four years earlier, he’d done so without a word.
Where was he?
Five more minutes and she was heading back inside. Of course she’d been saying
that since she’d first stepped outside at quarter to. And why would she even want to go
back inside? She’d have to tell all her waiting guests the wedding was off. Her face
flamed just thinking about it. Her family would be sympathetic, on the surface, but she
knew what they’d be thinking. Poor Jane, getting dumped by the same man twice. The
first time, they’d been just out of college. Ethan had told her when they’d met up again
that he’d been too young then. Not ready to settle down. Unsure of what he wanted, so
he’d left. She should have told him to slink back to whatever hole he’d crawled out of
and leave her alone. She hadn’t, though she couldn’t quite figure out why.
Actually that was a lie. She knew exactly when she’d started thinking about taking
him back. It all came back to one impulsive kiss. A stupid, irresponsible mistake of a
kiss that had been nothing short of spectacular.
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So I Married a Vampire
One minute, she’d been enjoying a party at a friend’s house. The next, she’d found
herself in a dark corner with Ethan Neelan, sucking face like there was no tomorrow.
Her pussy dampened just thinking about the party. About having his tongue in her
mouth and his hands all over her. Lord, that man could kiss. That much hadn’t changed
in the past few years.
The kiss wouldn’t have been such a problem if it had stopped there. Instead it had
led to other things that had been equally spectacular. Even now she shivered. He’d
known just the right way to touch her to bring her whole body to life. And his lips… He
had a very talented mouth, no matter where on her body he put it.
It wasn’t just his mouth that had drawn her back to him. Even now she couldn’t
figure out completely why she’d forgiven the man. Something about him, an
indefinable quality had sucked her in that night they met up again and it had yet to let