The Voyage of Galilea

I walked back to my room. I had a triumphant smile on my face. My arms went about myself, feeling still his heat…his passion…No man had ever kissed me like that. I was afraid I wanted so much more…

When I arrived in my room, I threw myself in the bed, crying of happiness.

I stood up and paced around my chambers, combing my hair. I felt so beautiful. His kiss had made me so beautiful.

-“You are beautiful, my love….”

Aleera.

Again, like always, she startled me. I should be used to it by now, I thought to myself.

-“Long live our new queen…”

Aleera said ironically. I walked up to the window and I ignored her.

She walked towards me and put her hands on my shoulders.

-“I should curse you…hate you…damn it, I cannot do it…”

-“Feel free, Aleera…I think I am cursed anyway…He just cursed me…”

She laughed openly. She got closer to me and whispered in my ear

-“Did you enjoy that kiss, huh? Is he better than me…?”

She had her hands down my waist. I patted them lightly. Aleera circled my earlobe with the tip of her tongue. I liked that. I let her do…

-“He is in pain, Aleera….”

I said moaning softly as she continued pleasuring me….

She stopped and turned my face with her hands. I had a tear running down my face. She wiped it softly with her thumb.

-“Don’t fall in love with him, Galilea…He will never understand such love…”

-“That’s easy for you to say…I happen to have a heart, Aleera…and it’s got his name written all over it…”

Instinctively I put my head on Aleera’s shoulder, in a fraternal way. She held my head close and gently stroke my hair.

-“You have defied my master, child…That has kindled his desires…He thinks you smart, which you are…But don’t expect him to give you his heart…He has nothing to give you in return…”

-“It wouldn’t matter, Aleera…I will love him till the end of the world….”

Aleera touched my cheek and I looked at her. She looked so angelical, so chaste. It was as if I had cached a glimpse of who she was before death. She kissed my forehead and the tip of my nose. She subtly robbed her lips with mine. I closed my eyes and another tear fell down my face, which she picked up in her own mouth. She brushed my lips gently, very gently. She found her master’s kiss still vivid in my mouth. She kissed me softly. She kissed me and she gently stroked my hair. Her tongue parted my lips very slowly. She made me lay on my back and leaned over me. Her beautiful hair made a shadow above me. I touched it….

-“I never had time to love him, Galilea…When I could have loved him, I didn’t. He gave me to death before I could give him my heart…Perhaps I will learn to be like you…”

That was so touching. Her words were spoken softly. For a moment I forgot she was an immortal. I forgot she could have me killed if she got hungry. I forgot she was insanely jealous of any woman that would show an interest in Dracula.

Then I thought how perfect the universe was! If that moment was my destiny, then the cosmos entirely would conspire to turn everything upside down, if needed, so I could fulfill my life’s ultimate purpose.

Aleera still smiled. Her face was buried on my chest. She needed me.

She sat, then, next to me. Looking at me, she slid her fingernails underneath my robe. She felt the skin of my ankle and moved up, slightly stroking my knee, and moved up to my thighs. She softly touched my thighs, moving her fingers around and up and down my skin…She leaned closer to me. Her torso was very close to my face….

Her hands went inside my thigh, my skin started to crawl. The tip of her fingernails continued going up the trail of my pores, which opened up sucking pleasure of her touch.

As I lay down, my hand went to her chest. My fingers touched the skin of her throat and her beautiful cleavage. She closed her eyes. Aleera was beautiful. Her skin was perfect. Her pores were closed. I understood why the Count had chosen her…She was a child and she was whore…She was a vixen and she had the smile of an angel.

My fingers buried themselves in between her breasts as she continued to tease my thighs and beyond. I moaned freely and let her find what she so wanted to find. I, on the other hand, let my hand coop her breast and stroke it gently over her thin layer of cloth. With her free hand, Aleera put my hand inside her dress, where I could feel her skin, soft and welcoming. Her nipples soft to my touch. My hands got lost in her voluptuousness. Aleera pleasured me to the point of no return and I came as I buried my face in her embrace. I screamed with pleasure. I felt her touch inside of me and I also felt the Count’s touch all over my body. I climaxed to the memory of his kiss.

Aleera rested her body next to mine. She breathed calmly…I was breathing hard. I could barely move. She was ready for more…

A question crossed my mind at that very moment. I spoke softly…

-“Did you ever make love to the other brides?”

-“Yes…quite often…The Queen makes love to each bride the night of their arrival. She grooms you before you can meet with the Count…Verona was an extremely skilled lover…”

-“Aleera…tell me more about the Queen…”

-“The Queen is the eldest bride, with the most ancient lineage…The master has had many brides, but always one Queen….”

-“What happened to the other brides?”

-“They got killed…or they, simply were abandoned. If you could not give the master children, you were banished instantly…or destroyed…”

-“Was Verona kind to you?”

-“Yes. She was always kind, but she knew her duties. She treated all her sisters the same way. She was very disciplined and she was very strict. The Queen would teach you how to feed. She would control when you’d see or be seen by the master. If our children would have survived, the Queen’s progeny had privileges over ours.

She chuckled and added.

-“The Queen has first bite. Always. You see, the day Marishka was killed, was the day Van Helsing arrived in this town. Princess Anna was there at the gates of the city to greet him. We immediately flew to the market square. I was determined to please my master. Back then, if you wanted to please Dracula you had to kill all of the Valeriouses. All of them. I wanted to kill Anna. I cared not about Prince Velkan or King Voris…I wanted Anna. I knew damn well, the master was taken by her dark, exotic looks…She was strong and she was built like an Amazon. I hated her….

Anna was running from us. I finally met her inside a tavern. I drank the blood of the tavern’s owner. I had to get my strength. There she was, the last of the Valerious. She was mine. Unfortunately, Verona reappeared. She too was looking forward to killing the princess. We were stronger than Anna. We both could feel fresh blood running through her veins. I was anticipating the kill. I asked Verona to let me have the first bite. She growled at me. The Queen went slowly for the kill. I wouldn’t have waited so long. At that moment, we felt a horrible, painful spike inside of us…We knew then Van Helsing had killed my sister.

I miss Marishka. She was friendly to me. She let me in a secret. She was in love with Prince Velkan. She was plotting to steal the cure and give it to the werewolf and run away with him. If Verona had ever found out, Marishka would have been destroyed.

Marishka was a favorite in the master’s harem. The Queen liked it so. Marishka got pregnant the first night she made love to Dracula. The first night…. Her children survived the pregnancy. Marishka would often invite me to spend time with her and the master. He loved that…

I miss her…

When the Queen was killed, the master was already entranced by Anna’s beauty and he was considering taking her for a bride. I begged the Devil that something happened so that Anna never was made a bride. He heard me….”

I took Aleera’s face on my hands and I kissed her softly on her lips.

“Don’t think about that anymore, Aleera. Anna is dead and so are the Valeriouses. I don’t know if that is good or bad. I know that you are still here. Count Dracula still lives. Think of what’s ahead of you. Don’t look back…It’s just a long, long way if you look back…”

Aleera smiled at me and sighed.

-“I can so tell, Galilea, that you are ready for him….I will tell you something he hasn’t told you yet…We will take you with us to a far away land…A gorgeous place the master and I visit from time to time to re-kindle our desires…We will leave at the stroke of midnight, Galilea….”

I was speechless. I had no idea what place could it be but I loved it already.

Aleera showered me with kisses, slowly driving me wild and wiping the fear out of my heart.