She gasped as he bit her neck, and pushed him away from her. But he didn’t budge despite her efforts, and stayed nestled in her neck as he breathed her in.

“Ask it of me,” he told her softly, and she looked down at him, confused.

“What do you mean?” she asked.

He whispered again, “Ask me to protect you, and I will.”

***

Gisella is a poor girl who dances for a troupe of travelling performers, wandering from kingdom to kingdom. They have come to Farrador just to perform for the king, and then leave.

But everything changes when Gisella meets Ryre.

The attraction between them is instant and powerful. But Ryre is no ordinary prince—he is sanguine, a creature of the night, and a dangerous and powerful man with enemies all around him.

Soon Gisella’s whole troop is caught in the court’s web of conspiracies and secrets. Can the love she shares with Ryre make it into the day’s light? 

Vampire Prince's Dancer is created by Bella Gold, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Vampire Prince's Dancer

Another note was laid out on her belongings the next day and Gisella opened it with a broad smile on her face. It was obvious enough after the events of the previous day that she and Ryre had resolved her previous misunderstanding.


Her assumptions were proven correct when the contents of the note told her to meet him at their similar spot in the garden later that evening, and when evening came she was faced with a familiar back of a tall man waiting for her.


Only… it wasn’t the familiar back she was expecting.


Once he turned around at the sound of her footsteps coming closer Gisella was met with the beaming face of Galeran, rather than his brother Ryre, and her face fell as he embraced her in a hug.


“This is for you.” A rose, red as rubies and blood, was in his outstretched hand.


She accepted it thankfully but couldn’t help the frown that settled on her face.


Chapter 16: Vile and Hideous