Page 4 of The Sins That Bleed
Sunny’s voice pops my filthy thoughts with a question I’ve often asked myself. I consider it for a moment, but I’m too addicted to the flavour and scent now.
“No, I don’t think so. It’s so delicious, not to mention the fruit is my favourite colour, it’s so decadent to me. It reminds me of another time.”
My words are slow in my relaxed state, and she laughs, deep from her belly. I love how hard she laughs at the slightest thing she finds funny. It sets me off and it takes us a moment to stop.
“I don’t even know why I asked, your love of the colour red should be studied. I’ve never met someone with such a deep connection to a colour. I’m a bit envious of how well you know yourself sometimes. I know I shouldn’t be, but fuck do I think you’re cool.”
When you’ve been around for centuries, watching empires rise and fall, you learn exactly who you are.
She rolls onto her side to face me. I copy her so we’re face-to-face, close enough that I can see every single detail in her blood-red eyes and the thin swirls of blue that try to fight to stay prominent. She’s still young in terms of an eternal life and hasn’t yet shed all the pieces of her humanity.
I squint at her. “Ask me then.”
“Ask you what? I—I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she whispers.
It’s so soft that no other vampire in the vicinity would hear her unless they were as close as I am. I raise a brow in question but sigh when she stares blankly at me, pretending she doesn’t know exactly what I’m talking about.
“AboutNicolai, the agent’s partner. You have a thing for him so you might as well come out with it.” I waggle my eyebrows at her suggestively, earning another cackle before she slaps her hand over my mouth and hers.
“Shh! Keep your voice down, will you. Besides, I don’t have a thing for him. I’m curious is all, it’s irrelevant that he’s super fucking hot. Stupidly hot.”
I give her an incredulous look whilst she forces an innocent one onto hers, it lasts all of thirty seconds before we’re both rolling around laughing, tears falling from our eyes as we clutch our stomachs.
“I fucking love you, Sunny.”
“I love you too, V.”
We grin at each other until my cheeks hurt. She’ll crack soon, and I wait patiently to be proven right. It only takes a minute or so for the truth to spill out of her in a rush.
“Fine! I do have a thing for him, there, I said it! How can someone pull off a blond wavy mohawk like that and still look like he’s a model? I can’t stop thinking about him since we did our initial stakeout, so next time, I’m coming with you.” She whisper-shouts her confession.
“See? It’s so much better when we’re honest with each other, and as for you coming with me, it’s a no, it’s too risky.”
“But—”
“Not yet, Sunny. Let me see how they respond to the information I dropped and, if they act on it like I think they will, then you can come with me.”
She mulls my response over before nodding her head at me. “Deal.”
I hear the footsteps long before the knock on the door comes and I sigh as this little reprieve I have is over. Time to get back to running my empire, no rest for the wicked as the humans like to say.
Little do they know how much of a true statement that is.
I rise from the comfortable cushions and turn to Sunny; she’ll need more time to let the blood rush dissipate. Being a younger vampire, it takes her longer to come down from the high and I can tell by the dreamy glaze of her eyes she’s still thinking about the six-foot-one, mohawk-donning agent.
“I’ll give you and your imagination of lover boy some alone time, I’ve got to get back to work. Have fun, Sunny.”
I give her a wave and head over to where I kicked my shoes off, my feet sinking into the plump garnet cushions and carpet of the lounge as I go. I slip the killer red heels on while smoothing down my grey pantsuit, slipping my blazer back on as I make my way toward the arched doors.
My subordinates know better than to knock more than once, especially when I am in this room. The last time one of them decided to ignore that rule, the cocky and cruel man, who had hid that side of him well, was hung upside down as I used a magnifying glass to burn holes into him until he was nothing but a pile of dust that I had one of the cleaners vacuum up.
I smile to myself at the memory—it was fun bending the light to my will and inflicting pain. Whilst sunlight doesn’t make us vampires instantly perish like they show in the movies, it does sting. Concentrate that light in its purest form, and you have a deadly weapon to our kind.
I open the ornate obsidian door enough for me to slip through. The lounge is strictly off limits to everyone except for Sunny and me. The room is warded with a biometric scanner, thank you technology, to stop any unwanted visitors.
My heels click on the black marble as I make my way toward the elevator that will take me down, the vampire who’d knocked matching my stride in step beside me. He’s a stocky guy, with locs that hang to his waist decorated with golden rings throughout, complimenting his dark complexion.
He’s someone I met a long time ago that deserved a second chance at life, even if he is now technically dead. He was a risk I will never regret. I don’t usually turn many humans, but his purpose for wanting immortality spoke to my gnarled soul and now he’s my most trusted next to Sunny.
