Page 103 of The Hunted
“And negative,” Jordyn added, “but let’s just see what we get.” She held out her hand. “Come on. Once you take it, I’ll dispose of the test so no one in this house finds it.”
Leave it to my youngest sister to think of everything.
“And if I say no?” I asked.
Jordyn stuck her hands on her hips. “Layla Aberdeen, get your ass up now.”
“What’s the big deal?” Rianne asked me. “We know you’re not. But if you are, then we have a problem.” Worry washed over her.
I rolled my eyes. “I’m not. So stop with the ifs and take the scared look off your face.”
Jordyn didn’t seem to care if I was or wasn’t. If I knew her, she would think me getting knocked up by a vampire would be the coolest thing.
I had to side with Rianne. If I was pregnant with a vampire baby, I had a colossal problem that would bring down the Aberdeen family in one second flat. But I wasn’t worried. I didn’t have the right blood type.
Heaving a sigh, I crawled out of bed and into the bathroom. After peeing on the stick, I set it on the counter and swayed as blackness crept in from my peripheral vision. Just as Jordyn rushed toward me, the world went dark.
To be continued…
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The Predator - Sample
The hunted now becomes the predator.
I bit a vampire. I sunk my teeth right into his flesh and drew blood, and I liked it. Now, I’m craving blood as if I’m a creature of the night. I’m far from it. My family has been hunting and killing the bloodsuckers for centuries.
So it comes as a horrifying shock when my aunt catches me licking blood off a knife like its cake batter. Panicking, she calls someone who she thinks can help me. Little does she know that dangling me like a carrot to Sam Mason has consequences no one is prepared for, especially me.
I’m not ready to deal with the cocky Vampire Navy SEAL who rocked my world so hard, my brain is still recovering, and my body is still tingling.
But when I find the powerful Sam Mason and my aunt chatting like besties, my heart almost stops beating. If my uncle finds Sam on his property, he’ll burn him alive.
Little do I know it’s not my uncle I have to worry about. One of my sisters decides that I’m better off not falling for a bloodsucker. I assure her I’m not. But she knows me better than I know myself.
Now instead of killing vampires, I’m rushing to save one. I pray I can’t get there in time. Otherwise, my family will suffer a fate worse than death.
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Chapter 1
SAM
The scent of wet dog burned my nostrils as I stalked into the infirmary with one purpose in mind—tear out Dane Gray’s canines with my bare hands. My eyes flashed from green to silver and my fangs lowered slow and deadly.
Dane was responsible for what happened to Ben. I couldn’t exactly prove it, but Ben’s wound was definitely from a large animal. Bears were a possibility, but they were rare in and around the city.
For the last eleven days since the ambulance brought Ben in, he’d been in and out of consciousness, and as the days passed, his condition wasn’t improving.
It felt like a dagger kept stabbing my heart over and over again anytime I looked at my best friend. He’d been through hell and back since I’d become a vampire. He’d been the product of an experiment gone wrong, and as a result, he was half human and half vampire. The vampire in him should be healing him, which led us to believe he’d been bitten by a shifter. According to Doc, their venom could be poisonous to vampires. Not so much for humans. With Ben’s half-human side, I was curious if part of him would become a shifter.
Tripp had said no unless it was from an alpha. Despite that, I was thankful a clerk at a gas station not far outside the state forest had found Ben behind his establishment and reacted quickly. Luckily, one of the paramedics on the scene knew Ben was a Navy SEAL stationed on the naval base. He’d gotten ahold of us, and we’d rerouted them here.
Tripp marched toward me, his bronze eyes pinpricks as he shook his head. “Back away. We don’t know that Dane’s pack is responsible for Ben.”
