Page 8 of Sleepless Beauties
Superiors.
He can call himself whatever he likes, but he’ll always be the kind of monster humans whisper about.
I hold his crisp blue gaze without blinking. “So your kind can attack us, but not the other way around?”
His hand still lingers on the etched lines of his lean stomach and the smile he gives me is on the cutting edge of hostility.
“Vampires are consensual beings.”
“Bullshit.”
Prey stalks toward me like the predator he really is. His long fingers brace against the back of the couch as he cages me in to hold my gaze.
He smells like a surprising mixture of honey and spice. I stop myself from leaning in closer to the addicting scent.
He isn't hot coffee. There’s no lustful humming or orgasmic eye flutters when I smell him.
Shit, did I just hum?
“To be fed from is the most erotic sense of pleasure you could ever know, Pretty Pet,” he whispers. “There are more than enough of volunteers. We do not need to attack.”
My foot extends fast and hard, slamming into his stomach once more. A groan rumbles from his throat as the air heaves from his lungs in one big huff.
But he manages to catch my ankle. And he holds me there.
“You don’t need to attack. But you still fucking do!” I accuse through clenched teeth.
With a flash of fangs, his own sharp teeth shine back at me. “Do not.Ever. Attack me.” His nails bite into the skin just above my foot.
I refuse to wince from the pain.
Blood slides down my flesh from around his fingertips.
He’s controlled. He won’t bite my leg off simply from catching the smell of blood. But the ruby color shadowing his pale blue eyes is a telling sign.
“Let go,” I grind out.
His glare burns into mine. Beneath the soft throw blanket my fingers dig into my palm and every calculated way I can think of to hurt him circles my mind.
How to make it look like an accident?
A slip of the pencil to the eye: death by guy liner. A thousand flat-iron burns: an e-boy’s tragic demise. Introducing him to Andy Biersack: A fanboy’s heart failure.
I don’t have time for any of those scenarios, unfortunately.
Instead, I leap off the couch and tackle his ass to the floor with a heavy thump. Prey releases a grunt of pain, but that pain is given right back to me as we flip suddenly. He shoves me down before the air hits my lungs again. And then his hands are around my upper arms, holding my hands above my head as he stares down on me with more spite than I’ve ever seen from the conniving vampire before.
He hates me...
Our breaths clash between us and there’s no gentleness as we glare at one another.
There is nothing but animalistic violence in the air.
Until…
“You were told to protect her, not fuck her,” someone says with laughter kissing their warm, deep words.
From my low-lying spot on the floor, I look over the small coffee table to find two—very large—men standing there.
