The soft tinkling of bells sounded as Cyrus pushed open the door, the vampire barely glancing up at the ornate sign proclaiming the shop as a book store named The Book Nook. Cyrus did more reading then anyone gave him credit for, but he got all of his books from his master's library in his penthouse on the top floor of the Fairmount. But he had to get off the street. Some chick he'd fed off a few weeks ago was coming down the street and he didn't want to hear about the fact that he hadn't called her the next night. And the fact that he had disappeared when he said he had to take a piss. Not that vamps could piss, which only proved how little the pretty little airhead had known about bloodsuckers before she had invited one into her home. And if he were a different kind of vamp he would now be able to come into her home whenever he wanted. But she hadn't been that good or that interesting of a lay and he hadn't gone home with her because of her conversational skills. So now he had to duck into a bookstore to avoid having to hear her voice again.
The first thing he noticed was the sound of violins playing. The second was a beautiful woman reading aloud to herself, a poem by Ovid. He arched a brow as he approached the counter, his eyes following up her long legs, displayed perfectly by the slit up the side of her skirt. She sighed as she stopped reading and he couldn't help but to answer her.
"With love enflam'd, and eager on his bliss, smother'd her words, and stop'd her with a kiss; his kisses with unwonted ardour glow'd, nor cou'd Diana's shape conceal the God." As he spoke his voice low and melodious, haunting and tempting, he walked towards her, a soft smile on his face as he continued with his poem.
"The virgin did whate'er a virgin cou'd ,(sure Juno must have pardon'd, had she view'd); with all her might against his force she strove; but how can mortal maids contend with Jove?" At the last word, his voice lingered, seductive yet charming. His dark eyes lingering on her legs still displayed so prettily.
"Ovid has always had such a way with words, don't you agree?"