Page 42 of The Midnight Order
“But whatever it is, you’ve found it in me. For yourself, I mean.”
The implication that she’s the key tomyportion of the curse sends shockwaves through my body because I hadn’t realized it myself.
“I have, yes.”
“Well, at least there’s that, I guess.” She snuggles closer to me, unmuting the television and leaving me with more questions than I’ve had in a very long time.
The one that’s nagging me is: does she want to be what we’re looking for?
Chapter 12
Asher
Dragging her through the hall,her screams carry through the entire house. None of them are going to bother me.
It’s my time.
Even Corvin, with all his jealousy and brooding, will leave me to my devices with the alluring woman I now know as Silver.
What a fucking name.
“Let me go!” she seethes, trying to kick out of my hold.
I have both her ankles held firmly, so she achieves none of her feats.
Jasper steps into the hall as I pass, shaking his head at me before stepping back into his room.
I note the odd moment between the two, though.
They lock eyes, and some strange moment befalls them.
Corvin said his tests are in, and he’s ready to present them to us later, but I’ve been chomping at the bit to get my fangs near Silver, so I snatched her only a few hours after I heard him tell her.
Only a handful of times has a girl passed Corvin’s tests and made it to me.
Usually, he finds them incompatible, and then I don’t get to play with them.
It’s absurd, the situation that led us all here, cursed and in limbo, but such is life.
“Where are you taking me?” she asks, her voice finally devoid of its ire and filled with fear.
Dark and delectable fear.
The thing I feed on.
“You’ll find out.”
Her blue eyes turn rage-filled as I drop her ankles and yoke her up off the ground, tossing her over my shoulder as I head for the dungeon.
Where we can be alone.
Her anger spills over again, drowning her common sense as she trashes on my back with her tiny hands. “Put me down! Jasper!” she screams, her voice carrying nowhere. Not now that I’ve slammed the soundproof basement door behind me.
We descend the stairs and move through the gym.
I drop her in the middle of my play space, and she lands on her ass, her hands sprawling out to grasp the black floor.
She looks around before gazing up at me with her bewitching eyes. “What is this? Yo—you’re going to… rape me?”
