Page 57 of King of Night

She sucks in air and pushes her shoulders back, inadvertently drawing my eyes back to her tits.They’re ample and round, pushed together by a padded bra I want nothing more than to take off.

“Vampires feeding on unwilling humans,” she spits out, gritting her teeth.She sways on her heels but holds her ground.Anyone smart would be calculating their escape.Fear would be creeping down the back of their necks, and the body’s chemical response would be letting off a certain smell.

But not this witch.

She flicks her wrist, sending the dagger from Adam’s chest flying through the air and right at me.Eliza lets out a quiet whimper, watching the dagger come hurdling toward me.

I bring my hand up and catch it, fingers wrapping around the hilt.I can feel the magic vibrating through it.In all my years walking this earth, I’ve never felt anything like this.

“Interesting.”I look at the dagger.Magic can’t be seen, only felt, and there’s a good chance a human would pick this up and not feel a damn thing.Vampires are made from magic.Dark, ancient magic.We’re able to sense things humans can’t.

“She’s…she’s a…a…witch,” Adam grunts and falls forward on the basement floor.If I cared, I’d be embarrassed for vampire kind by his pathetic behavior.

“You’re just now figuring that out?And a powerful one at that.You’re lucky, Adam.She could have killed you.”I look from the dagger to the witch, who’s still standing, rooted to the same spot, fighting to hold her ground.

“Kill her!”Adam sneers and clambers to his feet.He makes a move to run at the witch.I’m older, stronger and faster.I could easily stop him, but I’m so damn curious about this woman.

She’s unlike any witch I’ve come across.

Witches are human.They have human blood and overall smell human, mixed with the faint sweet smell of magic.But this witch…she has an overwhelming scent about her, as if someone bottled up the ocean and the sun and all the stars in the sky.

She whips around, holding out her hand.A brilliant blue light erupts from her fingers, flowing through the air so fast it’s just a flash.It hits Adam square in the chest, and it’s as if he was tased.His body goes rigid before shaking as the magic ripples through him.

Then he collapses on the ground.

Fuck, that was impressive.

The witch rounds on us, holding out her hand and conjuring another string of magic, but this one takes the form of a ball, hovering in the air a mere inch from her hand.It doesn’t burn her skin, but will melt mine right off the bone.

Eliza moves behind me, knowing how easily she could be hit.I’d kill the witch before she got a chance to lay a finger on my daughter.

“I suggest you let the human go and get medical attention.”The witch raises her hand, illuminating her face with the light of her own magic.

Adam struggles to get to his feet again.“You…you’ve got to get her…Lucas.”

Dagger in hand, I move at vampire speed down the stairs and over to Adam.I grab his shirt collar.“Is what she’s saying true?”I raise Adam off the ground.“Did you feed off a human without consent?”

“I…I…she wouldn’t have said anything.I had her spell bound.”

I shove Adam against the wall and bring my hand up, shoving the dagger into his heart.I let go and step back, expecting the magic to ripple through his body again until it causes him to explode.But it doesn’t.

How fucking disappointing.

“This didn’t kill him.”

“No shit, Sherlock,” the witch says.“It won’t.But it will do this.”She doesn’t even move, yet magic ebbs through the air, and it’s as if someone is holding the taser to Adam’s chest again.He yells from the pain and his body twitches.

“I like it.”I watch the magic sear through Adam for another second before whirling around.The witch is only a few feet from me.I could have her in my grasp in less than a second.If she commands the energy with her hands, I’ll hold her wrists behind her back.

I let my eyes wander her body.She’s fit, but I don’t think she works out just to look good in a bikini photos for Instagram.No, she works out so she can handle situations like this.

But why?Why go after vampires and save ungrateful humans?

I drag my eyes up from her long legs.Legs I want to wrap around my shoulders as I put my mouth over her tight cunt, tongue lashing her clit and feeling her come against my lips before I turn and sink my teeth into her thigh.My cock tingles thinking about it, and I look up, meeting her eyes.

The lust that’s been stirring inside me intensifies, but then I feel something else.Something that—for a brief moment—dulls the pain of the emptiness inside of me.

What the fuck?

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