Page 28 of A Vampire Bewitched
Staring straight ahead, Nik ground his teeth together, refusing to rise to the bait.
“Ah…I see how it is then.”
Nik didn’t ask what “it” was, but Aiden took it upon himself to state the obvious. “You fancy her for yourself.” He laughed aloud. “You do! You fancy her!”
“Shut up, man.” Nik pretended to ignore him as he cackled joyously from the driver’s seat.
But Aiden would have none of it. “Come on, mate! Fess up! You fancy her!”
Nik absolutely refused to respond.
Giving up the game, Aiden assented, “Ah mate, why didn’t you just say so? I would never come between you and a little shagging. Bros before hoes and all that.” He smiled broadly at his friend. “I’m just happy you’re finally showing some interest in a girl again. I was beginning to wonder about you, you know.”
Nik speared him with a dangerous glare. “For the last time. I said…Shut. The. Fuck. Up.”
Grinning widely, Aiden put up his hands. “All right, all right. Just having a little fun, mate. No need to get your knickers in a twist.” Whistling a tune, he glanced at the GPS and turned right.
As they sped down the highway, Nik spent the next hour or so brooding out the window, while Aiden sang along to bad 80’s hair bands he found on the radio.
If the pain in the ass only knew how right he was, Nik would never hear the end of it. He did “fancy” her. He fancied her right out of her life and into his. But since he wasn’t going to do anything about it, was it really fair of him to be so possessive of her? No, it wasn’t. What was he going to do? Follow her around for the rest of her life scaring off any male who dared to so much as look at her?
Actually, that didn’t sound like such a bad idea.
Problem was, he didn’t know if he’d be able to help it. Even now, he could sense her near proximity, and his instincts were screaming at him to go back there and make her his. Completely.
Andthat, he would not—could not—ever do.
Sighing, he checked the clock. They were making good time. Pending any issues, they should arrive at the airport about an hour before sunrise.
A sound coming from the back of the vehicle startled him from his thoughts.
“What was that?” Nik asked. Turning the radio down, he listened.
Aiden stopped singing. “What? I don’t hear anything.”
But Nik was already out of his seat and walking toward the back. “Just keep driving. I’ll be right back.” As he neared the bedroom where Emma was sleeping, his skin prickled and the hair rose on his arms.
Wtf?
When he reached her door, he stopped and stood perfectly still, listening. All was quiet for a moment, but then…
There it was again.
Flinging open the door, he charged into the bedroom and quickly searched the room. His eyesight was perfect even in the dim light.
Emma was writhing on the bed, whimpering. The smell of her fear came off of her in waves, and his fangs punched down hard as he prepared to protect what was his.
Chapter 16
Caught up in the nightmare, Emma felt the monsters holding her down, smelled the putrid smell of them, and panicked. She could feel her flesh tearing where they were biting her, and tried to fight her way free.
The big one finally pushed the others aside and dropped down hard on top of her. Bloody saliva dripping from its mouth, it grabbed her wrists and slammed them into the ground on each side of her head, holding her down as it violently bit her, sinking its fangs into the flesh right below her collar bone. Sucking and slurping at her blood, it humped her obscenely, trying to work its way under her skirt without letting go of her wrists.
Emma tried to scream, but the weight of the thing on top of her prevented her from getting enough air. She felt its grossly swollen member pushing at her entrance through her underwear, bruising her, and tears rolled down her face.
The loss of blood was making her weak. They’d bitten her all over, shoved their members at her, humped her and each other as they fed, and threw her around like a rag doll. Refusing to give up, she gulped in a breath. Gathering the last of her strength, she tried to twist away from it.
She felt her wrist bones crack as it squeezed them in response to her struggles, and she let out a raspy scream as it renewed its effort with even more enthusiasm than before. Her strength was fading rapidly, and she screeched in agony as another snuck in from the side, twisting her leg roughly out to its mouth, popping her knee and ripping into her calf…
