Lingerie Shop 9 - Baiting the Trap (The Lingerie Shop)

Peter and Katya, pursued by the Vampire Guardians, decide to lure them into a trap.
Book 9 of The Lingerie Shop series of short stories
A dark, romantic fantasy
copyright © 2013 Trisha Miller.

Baiting the Trap
Peter overslept and when he woke, a huge blood red moon was setting behind the distant blue hills of Dartmoor. He wrapped his hunky body in a hotel bathrobe and sat in the little bay window-seat that overlooked the town square. The drunks had all gone home now and the square was empty: just sea-gulls pecking at the plastic food containers and a discarded lager can, rattling across the stone slabs in the wind. He could hear Katya in the shower.
She swept into the room; a towel wrapped round her, in a gust of warm, scented air, as the first rays of the morning sun came slanting through the diamond-paned, leaded window, filling their hotel room with light. She dropped the towel and stood, arms outstretched, bathing in its golden light. She leant back; basking in the first pale warmth of the winter sun. Her eyes were half-closed, her lips pouting and blissful.
“You seem to be enjoying yourself,” said Peter.
“You wouldn’t believe how long I have waited to be able to do this.”
“Don’t you miss anything?”
“What? About being a vampire?”
“Yes.”
“I suppose I miss the camaraderie: I had some good friends. But I won’t miss the killing: it sickened me. I couldn’t help myself, well not until I found you.”
“I broke the spell?”
“No. I made a new one.”