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“Do you like the strength and power our kind can grant?” Ludis asked, stroking the hip as he held my arm.

“It is definitely an exciting and intoxicating experience,” I replied, smiling up at him. I lowered my head just enough that I had to look up at him through my eyelashes and tried to be as coy as possible. Again I thought of Leo and all the moments he had been touching me, trying to imagine how good it had felt.

The desire I had for him began to heat my body, but I knew it wouldn't last if Ludis grew too much more forward.

“You seemed to enjoy pleasing Drew, wrapping that pretty little mouth of ours around his cock. I watched as he enjoyed that. In a couple of days you might want to be on your knees in front of me and get a taste of what a truly powerful vampire is like.”

I lifted my eyebrow, but he moved his hand from my arm to my chin, holding my head steady as if he was going to kiss me. I swallowed, unable to help it.

“Please, I believe I am meant to stay true to Drew,” I said. “He said I belonged to him and him alone.”

Ludis chuckled and pulled my whole body in closer until I could feel his erection pressed against me and my breasts were up against his chest. “Is that so? He didn't tell you that the vampire in charge of a clan can do as he pleases with all the enthralled?”

I tried to shake my head as if I had forgotten he was holding my chin and he laughed again.

“Just two sweet little days and you're going to want to be my toy. My enthralled to fuck when I please. If you're a hunter or not, you'll get down on your knees soon enough and take my cock. You're going to take all our cocks if it pleases me. And it might. Butch lives up to his name. I might like to see your neck bulge as he makes you take that all the way while I'm buried deep in you from the other end.”

I bit my lip as if I wanted it and fought the way my skin crawled. This was the hardest part of the act so far and I truly hoped that Drew figured this out before they could do what they were threatening.

“What happens in two days?” I asked, but Ludis shook his head and just let go of my chin to grope my breast. I leaned into his hand, letting him get a grip on my nipple through the fabric.

“That would be telling, little girl.”

Chapter 19

Leandro

I tried not to show my frustration as I left my room again, unable to find Anais. She was supposed to stay safe inside and not leave. I might have understood why she did, but I wasn't happy about it.

She'd left a note and that helped me to not panic that she had been taken or Ludis had decided to dispose of her anyway just in case, but she was endangering herself by wandering.

As I came around a corner in the hallway, I spotted the back of Ludis and paused. He had one hand on Anais and was holding her arm up and away from her body. She was looking all coy, but she wasn't trying to pull away.

After tucking myself out of the way, I focused on listening, unable to bring myself to interrupt whatever the pair were doing.

I listened as she seemed to be trying to get information out of him. Something about his power growing in two days, but I also heard him telling her what she'll be doing for him.

Clenching my fists, I tried to will my body to interrupt them. I wanted to hit him. Beat him to a pulp for touching her, but my mission held me back. She wasn't truly mine. We were just working together.

Although I wasn't sure I wanted to look, I peeked around the corner again, now Ludis had Anais pressed up against him, one hand holding her chin as he stared at her mouth.

She was looking up at him as if she'd gladly do everything he asked, as if she was horny and as hungry for him as she had been for me earlier. Again, I could barely bring myself to stay there and simply listen. She was also getting information out of him, even if it was taking time and she was having to be careful.

I knew that she was probably acting again. That she was a hunter and this was the way she could get the job done. Right now he had her in his grip and she had to play along to not only keep herself alive, but have a chance to do her mission. This was normal for her and I couldn't expect anything different.

Despite that, there was an unfamiliar pain in my chest. I had hoped she wanted something with me. I'd wanted her to want me and for this act to only be partly an act. I'd wanted her to enjoy being my enthralled enough that when all this was over she would consider staying that way.

I'd imagined her giving up being a hunter, even made the offer that she could walk away from it all, but it was clear the hunter in her was too strong and this was all about the job.

I closed my eyes, tucked myself back around the corner and breathing in and out, not because I needed to, but because it helped me calm down to focus on the motion in and out and the movement of my chest. It also helped me make sure I appeared human as much as possible.

This wasn't all on Anais, either. After seeing me with her earlier today, Ludis should have known that she was out of bounds and he shouldn't have been touching her yet. I'd not invited anyone to join me and I'd made it clear that she was my new enthralled.

As I calmed and began to see the bigger picture, I listened again. The corridor had been quiet for a few seconds and I feared that they were kissing, but I could also hear footsteps.

“There you are, Butch,” Ludis said. “I've been waiting for you. Look at the little butterfly I caught in my net.”

“Isn't that the one from Vegas?” Butch replied.

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