Page 33 of The Midnight Order
The one to break their curse.
I want to ask about it, but I have also been told that once they rule me out, I’ll be set free.
Will they still let me go if I prod for too much information?
Don’t vampires have some mind control they can do to make me forget this ever happened?
God, I should’ve read more vampire fiction.
“Sorry, but I hope just the opposite,” I finally say when I notice him staring at me.
“Why?! You’d be the happiest woman in the entire universe,” he says, his vocal tone dropping an octave into a deep gravel that nudges along my senses a bit rigidly, making my nipples harden.
He leans closer, whispering, “We would treat you like a queen.”
The way my eyes close and my lips part is just a bodily reaction, I tell myself as I straighten and clear my throat.
“Lowell! What were you told?” a deep voice shouts, causing me to jump.
The vampire I now know as Lowell rolls his eyes before turning around. “To steer clear of the woman.”
“And where are you right now?”
He turns back to me with a smile, and I stare at two sharp fangs gleaming in the sunlight streaming in through the floor-to-ceiling windows. “I don’t know, little lamb. Where am I?”
How he curled his tongue around the nickname sent shivers racing across my skin, and I fought the bodily shudder in reaction.
“You’re disobeying a direct order, it seems like,” I answer.
The vampire in the suit grins, shoving his hands in his pockets. “Seems the lady agrees with me. You’ll have your time with her. For now, she’s Corvin’s.”
Lowell pats my hand. “Did you hear that? We’ll have our time.”
Standing, he passes the vampire in the suit, never bothering to look his way before leaving the room.
I swallow as I realize they’ll pass me around for their test, and I don’t want to know what Lowell has in store for me.
Chapter 10
Silver
“Sorry about him.He can be a little…”
“Off-center?” I finish for him.
He smirks, his thin lips turning into a tight grimace within his tightly maintained beard.
“That’s putting it lightly, but yes.”
“What did you mean he’dhave his day with me?”
“I mean, that we test your blood first, and then if your blood proves you to be a possible key, we will spend time with you and see if we feel any connection.”
Connection?
I have many questions, but don’t want to press my luck. I want to get out of this insane situation alive.
“Oh.”
