LUCILLE'S DREAM III

Dream continuation:

The man stood up and stretched, a lazy ripple of muscles that made her want to claw out his eyes.

"It is not your mother. You are mine, Lucille, and it is my duty to protect you in any way I see fit. These vampire friends of Legardo are after something, and I think they are not alone. I believe they have drawn in more of them. I will call out to my twin who is also here in the county, and he is a good hunter, but I think these renegades are following you." He said.

He dressed with fluid efficiency and casual grace. "I am not in the habit of explaining myself. I have made a concession to you in doing so. Choose now how you will proceed." He added.

"I refuse your claim on me," Lucille answered in the only way he allowed her to communicate. "I will take my refusal to our people and plead with them for the mercy you evidently don't have in you. I will not be tied to you! She shrieked.

He bent over her, a dark, imposing figure exuding power. His silver eyes glitt