- Show me! the blue-eyed brunette resolutely demanded and reached out to unbutton his buttons in order to inspect the wound that had come from nowhere.

Here's an ambush! Under the cloak, I have a naked body. But there was no longer any strength to resist, every movement caused unbearable pain. Easily dismissing my sluggish attempts to stop his hands, the stranger quickly opened my clothes, and then froze in a slight stupor.

You should have seen the shock in those bottomless blue eyes. His hand reached out to my chest, but halfway to the goal, the man seemed to come to his senses, and a wide warm palm ended up on my stomach next to the wound.

Concentrated for a couple of seconds, he closed his eyes, and then suddenly grabbed the hand bitten by the elf and rolled up his sleeve.

I don’t know what he saw there, but a muffled groan-growl escaped from his chest, after which he hit the tree in a rage, and berries fell on me.

Super. Now I'll die covered in strawberries. There will be something to remember in the next world. Or will this handsome man still be able to help me? And Kai...

At the edge of my blurring consciousness, I caught that the elf was lying on the ground not far from me. Like me, he was breathing heavily and bleeding.

And in the center of the forest clearing, flooded with bright moonlight, a huge black panther sat imperturbably and busily licked its shiny fur. Cats - they are cats in another world ...

What happened next again did not fit into my notions of normality, but the limit, surprisingly, had already been exhausted.

With absolute apathy, I watched the brunet's eyes darken sharply, and two sharp fangs suddenly popped out of his half-open mouth. Biting into a vein in his own wrist, he quickly pressed the bleeding wound to the site of the elven bite, and his fangs immediately disappeared.

Having done this strange, wild ritual, the vampire carefully laid me down on the forest grass, announced his name in a penetrating whisper: "Lisantiel" - and covered my mouth with a kiss. Deep, tender and so delightful…

All the pain instantly disappeared, instead of it, euphoria spread through the body with liquid fire, and a deep wound on the stomach was stabbed with small needles and began to heal. They have a chic here, however, medicine ...

With that kiss, he seemed to pour life into me. And then - and passion ... At first, slowly and viscous, his tongue increasingly demanding invaded my mouth, studying, caressing and subordinating. Sweet, how sweet... I could feel his breathing quickening, and only one thought flashed through my head in feverish flashes: “More!” 

If only he didn't stop... I wanted to dissolve in him, to become one.

His hand penetrated under the cloak and, stroking in a businesslike way, imperiously walked over the chest and stomach. The skin became unusually sensitive, happy goosebumps swept through the body, and a sweetly pulling tangle of desire began to twist in the lower abdomen.

But a quiet groan, heard not far from us, interrupted this natural madness. It was as if a tub of cold water had been poured over me and, in addition, they had pressed me with pangs of conscience. Next to me, a person is dying, and I'm kissing a vampire like crazy and dreaming about sex. Has come…

Lysantiel slowly pulled away from me, his handsome face twisted in anger. I didn’t even have time to blink when he jumped up, pulled out a knife that glittered brightly in the moonlight from his belt and resolutely walked towards the elf.

- Lee, no! I shouted in horror, expecting that my protector was about to have his throat cut.

But the vampire only cut his palm, then bent over the defeated warrior, unceremoniously opened his mouth and poured a few drops of his blood into it. And all the while, her high, aristocratic cheekbones were full of chink, and her blue eyes, narrowed menacingly, exuded pure fury.

My attempts to rise to my feet finally succeeded, but there was such weakness in my whole body that I had to lean against the strawberry tree again. Unable to control my trembling fingers and stubborn buttons, I gave in and simply tucked the hem of my cloak tight. I won't be surprised if the third type is about to show up and I'll be undressed again. Who didn't we have here? Dragons? Nagas? Arachnids? How I want to go home to the cat ...

As if having heard my thoughts, a huge black kitty looked at me thoughtfully, tore her ass off the ground and majestically, imposingly, approached me.

Who would have thought that the next to try to open my clothes would be a panther ...

A large fluffy creature almost as tall as me came close and began to calmly lick like a kitten. A warm, wet and pleasantly rough tongue went over my face, neck, palms, then knees and tried to reach my belly, which was stained with bloody stains. And it was simply impossible to push this woolen wardrobe away. This energy would be for peaceful purposes ...

Gently dropping me on the soft moss, the panther opened the already rather shabby cloak and began to wash my body of blood with concentration.

It was so ticklish that I couldn't help laughing.

- Roxy, wow! the vampire barked to rein in the battle cat.

The feline champion of cleanliness gave him a disapproving look, but still stopped trying to make me into a human form.

With universal disappointment in his purple eyes, the panther exhaled noisily and simply lay down next to me, while resting his head on my knees. Well, just like Murzik... My heart trembled, and my hand reflexively reached out to comb the black cat's head and the fur behind the ears.

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The wide muzzle of the panther shone with happiness, and in a second a contented rumbling was heard from its powerful chest, comparable in sounds to a rattling tractor in the midst of harvesting.

In the heat of the struggle against my stripping and forced bathing, I did not even notice how the elf moved, and was surprised to find that he had already risen to his feet and froze in front of Lysantiel.

“General,” the vampire said dryly through clenched teeth.

- Your Majesty! The elf obediently bowed his head before him and knelt down.

Well, my jaw just dropped.

- Get up! growled Lysantiel, and the elf meekly obeyed. “How dare you make her a magical bind?” - he nodded in my direction and hit Kai in the face with his fist so hard that he cut the elf's lip. “Do you realize that you almost killed her because of you?”

He amazes me breathed through the times. What such binding???

Rolling up my sleeve, I was stunned: the bitten wrist was already completely intact and unharmed, only slightly stained with dried blood. Moreover: like a wide elegant bracelet with oriental inscriptions, it was framed by a bright red ligature of a tattoo.

“What the…?” I whispered in total shock. Having touched it with a finger, I realized that it would be impossible to wash it off: the paint had eaten into the skin. That, then, is why Lee left a dent in the tree ...

“I found a diamond in the forest and took measures so that it would not be taken away,” there was not a drop of remorse in the even voice of the elf.

“Such a strong binding must be done voluntarily!” – the voice of the vampire, full of rage, carried on all clearing. Did you ask her consent?

“It was pointless: she came from another world and would not understand my speech,” Kai explained calmly. “I had to act quickly. I took care of her: I anesthetized her during the ritual. And I want to note: if I had not made a binding, the girl would have ended up in the hands of Shade and his pack. You know what they'd do to her...

- Can you imagine what kind of magical rollback you get for such amateur performance? There was sympathy in Lee's voice.

– Yes, I am ready to suffer any punishment, – the elf responded with angelic humility and added: – But you can see for yourself: she is worth it!

“All right,” the emperor of this world breathed out noisily and waved his hand. What's done is done, nothing can be changed. Get married tomorrow morning. I will provide the bride with a dress. And I'm giving you thirty days off for your honeymoon. I hope you don't kill each other.

- What??? - the eyes of the elf and I simultaneously widened and the same exclamation escaped from the chest. What does "get married" mean?

"I won't let her children be bastards!" the vampire barked at Kai again. “What, you wanted to leave her as a concubine, like a slave?”

“No, I… just haven’t even thought about it yet… Everything happened so quickly,” the elf did not expect such a turn.

And I was torn apart by conflicting feelings. On the one hand, it's nice that they take care of me like that, but on the other hand, Lee gives me away to someone else with such composure! But what about our kiss - does it really mean nothing to him at all? Somehow it was embarrassing. And this eared muzzle is also good! He was going to make me a sex slave! Here is the goat! We need to figure out how to remove this damn tattoo and get home as soon as possible!

Tears welled up in my eyes, and the panther, catching my mood, immediately licked my palm reassuringly and snorted sympathetically.

Nothing, Roxy. I can handle! I assured the big cat in a barely audible voice.

In my home world, I had two antidepressants: a cute fluffy cat and food, but in this world, only a large substitute for Murzik rumbled at hand. If I could get some more sweets somewhere, and with a feeling of deep immersion in nirvana, I would be able to calmly send everyone through the forest. Let them go far and for a long time with their marriage, some kind of muddy bindings and two-minute sex. And false kisses at the same time.

I remembered that there was a chocolate bar in the bag, but it was not clear where this treasure was now lying. Probably trampled in the heat of the struggle for my mortal body. In addition, getting out of the cozy fluffy ring in which the panther imprisoned me seemed unrealistic.

Sighing heavily, I looked around the clearing and noticed strawberries lying right under my arm. Ah well, however, Lee shook the tree. Cheered up. She reached for a large fragrant berry, but immediately shuddered from a friendly sharp shout: “Fu!” 

What are they, me? How's the puppy? They're bullying, right?

One sharp stroke of the black tail, and the berry was knocked out of the palm, and a vampire jumped up to me, like a scalded, gray whirlwind.

The skin on my fingertips was stabbed and blistered.

- Figasse ... - that's all I could squeeze out of myself. My hand pierced with burning pain as if I had lowered it into boiling water.

“Be careful, Lexi, nothing in this world is what it seems,” the vampire said worriedly, sitting down across from me.

Wow, he knows my name.

“These berries become poisonous five minutes after picking,” Lee explained.

Carefully taking the injured limb in his broad palms, he brought it to his lips and suddenly licked it! So erotically, the infection ... Looking straight into the eyes. And he let go. With a mental kick, I returned my heart that had fallen somewhere down to its place and stared in shock at the healed hand.

“Magical vampire saliva,” I grunted, trying to hide my confusion behind irony and erase the memory of the flurry of sensations from the touch of his tongue to my skin. - Yes, you can do business on this ...

“I will file a patent for you,” he smiled, wrapping me in the tenderness of a bottomless blue look. And sadness ... - True, saliva has nothing to do with it. It's all about the blood. I bit my tongue to help you.

- You decided to save me an elf? – I asked him a question on the forehead. I like to immediately dot all the "i".

The vampire took a deep breath and looked away.

“Roxy,” he said only the name, but that was enough for the panther to understand his order.

Snorting with displeasure, the fluffy beast slowly got up and moved aside, and a transparent dome suddenly sparkled above the vampire and me.

"It's a canopy of silence," Lee explained. Now no one will hear us. Everything said will remain between us.

Sitting closer, he gently hugged me.

- Why are you doing this? – my voice trembled. Why all these caresses and flirtations?

“I wanted to remember how sweet kisses can be…” he admitted quietly. Was it just me, or was there pain and loneliness in the depths of his eyes?

- What, remember? Now you can shove the elf? I looked at him bitterly. “I will never marry this maniac!” I categorically put him before the fact. “If I understood correctly, then you are the king of the entire universe here. Excuse me for addressing you as "you", your majesty, but I urgently ask you to return me home!

“Unfortunately, this is no longer possible, little one,” the vampire shook his head.

And why am I not surprised by this answer?

“I somehow got here, so there must be a way back!” I didn't give up.

“No more,” he said so confidently that my heart sank with fear. He's clearly not lying! Oh, mothers, I don't want to be stuck here forever... - Before I heard your call, I destroyed the magical source of the interdimensional portals.

- But why? And maybe there is another one somewhere? I desperately continued to cling to straws.

“No, Lexi.” His velvety voice radiated sympathy. - There is no turning back. Now this world is yours.