After Dark: A Paranormal-Vampire Short Story (Dark Realm)

By Delilah Devlin

After stepping through a mage's portal with her lover into a distant past, newly Born vampire Natalie Lambert is ready to give Rene Broussard the ultimate bite and make him hers forever. Only Rene's dragging his feet. Remembering the passion that transformed her, Natalie unleashes the wanton creature lurking inside her. It's time for this vampire to get her man.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Delilah Devlin
• Release date: Nov 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223890775

Delilah Devlin

Always a risk taker, Delilah Devlin lived in the Saudi Peninsula during the Gulf War, thwarted an attempted abduction by white slave traders, and survived her children’s juvenile delinquency. In addition to Saudi Arabia, she has lived in Germany and Ireland, but calls Arkansas home for now.

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After Dark

After Dark

A Paranormal-Vampire Short Story

Delilah Devlin

About the Story

After stepping through a mage’s portal with her lover into a distant past, newly Born vampire Natalie Lambert is ready to give Rene Broussard the ultimate bite and make him hers forever. Only Rene’s dragging his feet. Remembering the passion that transformed her, Natalie unleashes the wanton creature lurking inside her. It’s time for this a vampire to get her man.

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Note: This 4,500-word short story was originally published by Avon Red. It is a SHORT STORY and exists in the Dark Realm world.

Contents

After Dark

More Short Stories

Dark Seduction

Chapter 1

Also by Delilah Devlin

After Dark

1310 AD

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Natalie touched down lightly onto the moonlit clearing deep in the forest, using only a few running steps this time to stop her forward motion. As well, she didn’t have to concentrate hard to fold her wings, absorbing them into the pouches that magically melted away between her shoulder blades.

Just as Simon had said, her wings had become an integral part of her body—and flying, as instinctual as walking.

Regrettably, taking to the sky didn’t mean she escaped her worries. Her joy at discovering her newly emerging abilities had waned. The more she came into her Born self, the more withdrawn Rene, her lover, had become. Her bitterness over his abandonment wasn’t something she could deny anymore.

Perhaps if she tired herself enough, she could smooth the nasty edge that had crept into her voice whenever she spoke to the others living in the monastery. They didn’t deserve her anger. Another quick glance around, and she popped her wings again, fanning them wide, intending to take one more flight around the secluded valley.

You do seem to have a flair for the dramatic, Simon murmured from the edge of the woods.

Natalie’s hands went automatically to her breasts even though the mage had been training her for weeks and had often seen her semi-nude. Her wings had shredded several shirts and gowns before she’d resigned herself to the fact modesty couldn’t be a vampire’s trait.

She let her hands drop to her sides, narrowing her gaze as he stepped into the moonlight. She didn’t understand her particular annoyance with him. He was only trying to prepare her, only trying to ease her way into the dark realm since she didn’t have a vampire mentor.

She still remembered her shock at seeing him at the monastery upon her arrival. Simon had been the mage who’d cast Natalie and Rene into the past to protect them from her grandmother’s wrath, and he’d