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September 13 - September 15, 2025
This kiss is pure hunger.
The dark, twisted part of me is ready to be vulnerable for her.
“Bloodsucker or no, that man should be cleaning out your cobwebs with his womb broom.”
He’s trying to be vulnerable. For me.
That grumpy, aloof, sweet bastard is coming to my rescue again. This is a bad idea.
“Talk, lest I find other ways to tempt open those lips.”
“A little vengeance is good for the soul.”
“But before I tell you this truth, I want to taste you again. I want to remember what I lost.”
“I regret many things in my long life, but being with you will never be one of them.”
Not when my heart belongs to the remarkable human woman standing beside me, her mouth open in shock.
What is happening right now? Why are we talking about contraception in front of his mother?
can protest, she grabs my arm in her cold hand, shoves it through hers, and starts dragging me around the perimeter of the room like we’re extras in Bridgerton.
He is like a wild god, otherworldly and chaotic and dangerous.
My boss. My client. The guy I’ve been falling for all these weeks … is a vampire.
“It’s times like this I wish Emily Henry wrote epic fantasy.”
Gideon: So, did my birds-and-bloods talk help you do the horizontal greasy weasel tango with the
lovely Winifred? Word at the Sanctus Club is that the Lady of Agony has arrived early. She’s already summoned me to the castle to oversee my plans for the ball. Let me know if you need moral support or a new sword …
Winnie’s gone. She’s not coming back.
For who fears death more than those who can live forever?
The warrior inside me stirs to life. The battle for Winnie’s heart has been lost, but the war is not yet over.
She should fear me. I am, after all, her son. Her blood.
“Do you want me to leave?” “I want you to stay. Forever.”
She will learn soon enough that I don’t deserve those tears.
“I plan on biting you first, vampire. To establish dominance.” I cough a laugh, before grinning, showing her my fangs. “I’d like that.”
The kiss hurts. It hurts because all wonderful, perfect things in this world are born from suffering.
She knows what I am and wants me anyway. No one has ever seen me the way Winnie Preston sees me, and when I’m with her I believe that I might be something more than a monster.
“There’s only one woman I want,”
“You deserve to be worshipped, Winnie, and I’m not stopping until you come all over my tongue.”
“Worship me,” I manage to breathe. “Good girl,” he growls
“That’s it, Winnie. Take me, take all of me,”
Loving her will destroy me utterly. But I am more than ready to be ruined.
I know how to make spoiled, rich bitches do things they don’t want to do.
“To be that in love is a precious thing,”
The hunger is a beast tearing at my stomach, eating me from the inside.
A faint moan escapes her lips. The same moan she made the first time I kissed her. And I am gone.
She makes me wish for things I cannot have with a hunger that is more than I can bear.
I have waited, I have wanted, but in all my darkest imaginings, I couldn’t have dreamed of such perfection.
That I am hopelessly in love with Winnie Preston, and the monster in me wishes for an eternity that can never be.
Why does every word from this man’s mouth sound like poetry?
Alaric may not have seen the sun for centuries, but his smile is pure sunlight.
I wish I had done the same for Alaric. I made him so afraid of being himself that he created a secret room to hide his heart from me.
Eternity is a long time for regrets. In time, everything crumbles … … even walls as high as mountains.
It’s a voice that absolutely shouldn’t be here. It’s Alaric.
Each time I fell short, I hid away the evidence in that room so you wouldn’t see that I failed you.”
“I wish that you didn’t want it, because you already have a home. With me.”
Avoiding pain is a kind of hurt you inflict on yourself.
“You make me happier than a big mess, a loud playlist, and a mug of Reginald’s hot chocolate.”
