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I’m pretty sure I’m about to jump right off the edge. I guess we’ll find out if I can survive.
CHAPTER 12
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Ihave only a few moments to pull myself together as I jog down the road. My heart is beating way too fast for the small exertion.
I’d spoken to her.
She’d spoken to me.
I’d had my hands on her and my body had sparked with the contact. Since my little fantasy last weekend my brain was no longer on a self-preservation plan. It was firmly on lusting after this female, the most dangerous female on the planet that could catch my interest.
I was so stupid for stopping her from biting the boy. For many reasons. The main being if Adicious ever found out, it would cost me my life. But in the moment all I could think about was stopping her from turning, stopping her from becoming one of us. Stopping her from becoming his. As soon as she bit someone I was under orders to kidnap her, and bring her to the ranch.
I really hoped she kept her mouth shut.
Should I have told her why? Perhaps, but I selfishly want to keep her in the dark a little longer. I didn’t exactly lie, I didn’t have time tonight to fully explain. I wasn’t expecting tonight tobe the moment. She hadn’t shown any signs of blood lust until now, none that I’d noticed anyway.Fuck, had there been things I had missed? I wasn’t ready for her to know the truth. The full fucked-up sadistic truth.
Of course it would happen tonight, right as I needed to leave. Adicious had ordered both myself and Ronan to do the hospital run tonight to steal blood. Ronan, however, had been desperate for a live drink and knew I was coming to this party to do my daily check-in on Red. The bastard had followed me here. We’d argued about him using the party to find his prey.
Thankfully I have some rank over him, being older, and got him to disappear for a couple hours. He backtracked to a local pub whilst I went to the party.
I’d been in the shadows of the garden, about to head out to meet back up with him when it all went to shit.
Actually, her spotting me from the upstairs window earlier was where I should’ve picked up that tonight wasn’t going to end well.
Gods alive and dead she looked jaw droppingly gorgeous tonight, her dress was pure sin. It made her look lethal. And it was like the costume had unlocked something in her, tonight she commanded the room instead of shying from it.
Her hair too. However she’d achieved the vibrant red colour, it brought out a fiery side to her. I want to curl it round my fingers,see it splayed across my chest.
Holy mother those thoughts need to take a hike.
Getting myself under control I can’t help but chuckle at how even more apt my little nickname seems. It was her hair which caught my attention as I was leaving, I hadn’t noticed she’d followed me outside until those fiery strands had caught in the porch light.
And then the boy she’d shared a dance with earlier joined her. I’d immediately paused to watch whatever was about to playout, ready to protect her if he tried anything she didn’t want. He seemed decent enough but I couldn’t risk it.
When they started dancing on the porch I was practically vibrating with jealousy. Stupid I know, but I can own my emotions enough to recognise it for what it was. I wanted her to look at me like that, feel her move against my body.Yeah, not happening.
I’d been plotting the boy’s untimely demise when her face changed. I’ve been around enough newbies to see it, the lust. Not sexual lust, the lust for blood. I wasn’t expecting it but there it was. I wasn’t ready. A voice in my head whispered that with a house full of people it risked exposure too much. It gave me the excuse I needed to intervene.
Did I shove the guy harder than her, maybe a little.Oops. At least I didn’t use my full strength, my palm would’ve broken straight through his human skin, obliterating his heart with his own rib cage.
When her eyes had locked to mine I saw the opportunity and ran with it. I could get that conversation we didn’t have in the alley, so I lured her into the shadows. The frigging traitors seemed to welcome her too, I saw them caressing her in thickened bands as I called on them to hide us. It was odd, they always hid my companions when I needed them to but they seemed willing to ensnare her in their embrace, it took very little effort from me.
Every syllable she uttered and every shift of her body during our conversation only endeared me to her more. I could still feel the pulse under her delicate skin on my fingertips. Honestly, I’m surprised I managed any conversation at all with my blood rushing to my cock.
I come to a stop on the street corner where I’d left Ronan. He wasn’t waiting but I could scent him nearby.
“First, you won’t allow me to suck on some hot college students and then you’re late.” His voice floats from the darkened doorway opposite as he steps out onto the street.Nice try fucker but you’re not going to surprise me.
“So sorry to keep you waiting,” I quip sarcastically, and add a grin for good measure.
“Something happened,” he surmises, looking me up and down. It takes tremendous effort on my part to keep my body from tensing.
“Nope, same old waste of time.” I think I manage to keep my voice level. At least I can lie to him, I have no idea what I’m going to say to Adicious.
“So, why are you late?” He crosses his arms over his chest.
