My Vampire Queen
Chapter Seventeen

I had gone on a tangent and spewed my guts and all my thoughts on this subject that was worrying me. At least that part of the subject. I looked up at them from the menu of food, from one man to the other. I much rather be eating them than the food options I had, maybe at some point I would be able to find a dark corner and get myself a snack. One could hope at the very least.

A big hand lands on my thigh and Bjorn leans forward towards me his voice low and husky, like he was trying to break me. “You’re looking at us like we are snacks.”

I could feel my face start to redden as Nathan laughs next to me. “I’ll be our Queen’s snack any day, any time, anywhere.”

“Not in public,” Vinny grumbles out making Nathan send him a cheeky grin.

“You need food first, then maybe we find somewhere more private,” Bjorn said and lifts the menu between us, the options were very limited but there were some things I would like to try.

Pointing to one thing I say. “I’d like to try that miso ramen, fried rice on the side. A soda with it.”

“Anything,” Vinny said. Nathan gets up with Vinny wagging his wallet at him before Vinny can get up and take off. They end up going together, Nathan chatting enough for the both of them.

“Whatever you need from us Luna,” Bjorn said, watching me closely. “If you need someone to bounce ideas off of or need someone to enforce your rules, I’m there. No matter what.”

“I’m sure we’ll get to rules at some point.” I half-joke but shake my head at that. “I have ideas, many. I’m just trying to figure things out.”

“So ask.” He said and motioned around us. “It’s just us for now, I won’t speak of anything until you’re ready to share with the others.”

“The biggest thing I’m struggling with right now is regular people. Queens, I’m sure are scary in their own right, there are just fewer of them, and with a nest and more Blood we can maybe handle a Queen or two.” I look at him and he nods to me, okay so I’m not too overconfident with that assumption. “I think what would be a good start is charity, start giving to small charities that actually do the work they say they are doing. The next is to slowly get my name out into the world, along with all of you.”

“The social media thing Nathan wants to do,” Bjorn said and I give him a nod that copy’s the one he gave me. He squeezes my thigh. “That could help in that aspect, let regular people get to know us not as what we are but as who we are.”

“Yeah if we get anywhere with it.” In theory, it sounds like we would get a lot of attention, a woman with multiple partners? One who has money and buys luxury items? Some people like those things sure, but would they want to see us? The guys I could understand, myself I’m not so sure. “There are also other things I would like to do, mostly to help people. If we can get a decent reputation it may make it harder for everyone to hate us.”

Bjorn grabs my hands in his pulling them into his lap so I’m forced closer to him, and he kisses me on my forehead. “You come first, our nest and court come first, we can figure out everything soon. You aren’t alone in this, I’m your second in command, your head of security, we will figure this out.”

That made me give out a big breath and I felt a little better about what was going on. Because he was right, I had someone else to lean on to help me, plus I had the other Blood and Tabitha to help. Bjorn gives me a soft slow kiss before pulling away, he grabs my phone and puts it in my hand. “Here, shop more.”

I let out a laugh and shake my head. “I think we have enough shopping planned.”

He leans back and smirks at me. “You still need stuff like makeup, hair products, and other things we can’t really get here. Also, you can pick out more alliterative style clothing online than what we will find here.”

He was technically right, I’m sure Nathan had planned on going to a bunch of places today, but around here it was mostly luxury shops that have clothes, bags, shoes, and stuff like that. I could at least order makeup that I’ve always wanted to try and wasn’t able to grab yesterday. So Sephora was what I went to and I started scrolling through things.

It was basically a game, see how much I could add to my cart before Nathan and Vinny got back. It took me less than five minutes to rack up a thousand-dollar bill on just eyeshadow palettes, and I debated on if I needed all of those. When a bowl of ramen was placed in front of me, I forgot about the large amount of makeup I had just picked out and focused on the food. Not my Blood, but second best.

My phone is slid away from me as the food was placed around the table, so much someone else had to help the guys carry it here. Burgers, a lobster roll, a big plate of fried rice to share, what looks like a loaded salad, and a plate of very nice-looking tacos.Bjorn keeps looking around, not directly at anything, and Vinny’s shoulders hold a tightness. Both of them clue me in that something is up without telling me, I’m guessing someone following us or someone who might be suspicious to them is around. Or they would have said something. Well, they would have said something anyway normally if they thought whoever it is is a threat. I start doing my part, distracting our Queen while they keep an eye on whatever or whoever it is. I feed her some bites from other plates of food, stealing some of her soup. I chat about anything and everything that’s a light subject to keep her smiling and chatting with me.

Today is her day, for her to have a nice day outing while we can without threat. I’m not going to let this moment pass, Bjorn knows that and will let us know if whatever he sees is an actual threat. Otherwise, we were going to let our Queen have her day. We eat, and after cleaning up I lead her back to Bloomingdale’s to pick up where we left off, with one of the managers this time.

The manager has a tablet out, taking notes as she follows us around, helping Luna with any little thing. Starting with underwear, from practical simple panties and bras to sexy lingerie and teddies. Panty hose, tights, garters, dress slips, if they had it we were looking at it and picking it out for her to try on. The manager has to bring out another worker for when we have her try things on, the manager and I would keep the things she’s keeping and the other worker would be taking the things she doesn’t want. Which didn’t end up being much, just some ill-fitting things.

Clothing next and I could tell Luna was overwhelmed, so I split it into sections. We started looking at just pants, shorts, and skirts, next we would move to shirts, then dresses and jumpsuits before ending on coats. There had to be a method to the madness after all. Especially when we were trying to get as much shopping in as we could, there are other stores to go to still.

“This is a shit ton of stuff.” Luna is wringing her hands as we approach the check-out counter. They had already rung up a large amount of the purchases, bagged, and had them sitting aside.

“Fitting for a Queen,” I said planting a big kiss on her cheek, she gives me a scowl while trying to bite back a smile. “Trust in us Luna, this is just the start. We need to build up your closets.”

She gives me a sigh like she doesn’t quite believe what I’m saying and I can see the war on her face. Between excitement over all of her new stuff, and fear. Fear of what I’m not sure, maybe just fear of how overwhelming this whole process is. As they bag things up Luna looks at me with her big eyes and I want to melt. This is my Queen, someone I had been looking forward to serving my whole life without knowing who it would be. I had been resigned that Bjorn Vinny and I might not be called to the same Queen, I had thought I would be called to a minor Queen while they would be called to her Queen sibling.

But here we are, all three of us with the last Tyet Queen.

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