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A woman can’t even get murdered in this town without having her reputation slaughtered alongside her.
Her voice is like aged bourbon—smooth, rich, with a burning finish that lingers long after the note ends. She doesn’t perform so much as confess, each lyric delivered like a secret shared only with you, despite the room full of listeners.
“This city eats dreams for breakfast. Elizabeth wouldn’t be the first girl who got devoured.”
“So then what? I just let you hold onto key evidence in the hopes that you’ll suck my dick one day?”
“Oh, I’ll do so much more than that.”
I know with unsettling certainty that I’ll be seeing Lena Reid again. Soon. And not just for the sake of the investigation.
That man wants me, that’s no surprise, but what got me was how much I found myself wanting him.
“I like a protective man,”
“Not sure I need one, though.”
“I have feeling you don’t know what you n...
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The line between professional interest and personal obsession has blurred dangerously.
“Take that cock, you dirty little slut,”
“You want it, don’t you, kitten? You fucking love it.”
There’s nothing professional about what’s happening between us. Nothing appropriate about the raw hunger that rises when I think of her. And nothing rational about the certainty that she feels it too.
I know I probably should be calling up my friend Abe, he might be able to help me figure this out better than a human can.
“And who do you think I really am, Callahan?”
“Someone who’s survived by keeping secrets. Someone who’s used to being watched, admired, desired—but never really seen.”
“And do you see me?”
“Do you think any girl in this city should feel safe?” “Maybe the ones who know the right people.” “And are you the right people?” “I can be. For you.”
What would she think if I told her how I’ve jacked off to her, imagining what it would be like to grip the creamy white skin around her neck, to thrust my cock down her throat, watch her suck me dry?
“Lena Reid,” Abe says, “may I present my good friend Valtu Aminoff.” “Dracula,”
Valtu gives me a languid smile. “With a body like that, you can call me whatever you’d like, love.”
“And she’s a little too young for me,”
“Too young?” Abe scoffs. “Twenty-five is practically ancient for you, Val.”
“Twenty-five for humans,” he corrects. “Twenty-five for a vampire is practically a child. No offense, Len...
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“Leave him, now,”
“Leave him for me.”
“And so I belong with you?” “Yeah. You belong with me. All of you.”
Then he grabs my hand, presses it against the rock-hard bulge in his pants, and growls, “Is he bigger than this?”
“I’m going to fuck him out of you, dollface,” he rasps, and as I stare up at his eyes, I swear his pupils flash red for a moment, a solar flare against piercing blue. “You’ll never be the same again.”
“I’m going to ruin you,” he says through gritted teeth. “Ruin you for anyone else.”
“You’re mine, you know that,” he rasps. “Mine, not his.”
“What are you, an animal?”
“Yeah. I think I might be.”
“You got a problem with tha...
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“So?” he says, a slight curving smile in his serious façade. “Was I bigger and better?”
“Touch her again and they’ll never find your body.”
“But some bloodlines—particularly the older Russian families—maintained connections to pre-Christian magical practices. Many of them are part vampire, part witch. I knew one such vampire who was also a witch and a priest.”
“He was even a pirate.”
Dick was huge, but not in a monstrous way.
Human or vampire, killer or protector, he’s become entangled in my fate. And I in his. Whether either of us wants it or not.
“Need you,” he growls against my breast, the words barely human. “Need this.” His tongue laps up with a wide stroke. “Gonna take it.”
“Mine,” he says roughly, positioning himself above me. “Always mine.”
“Who else touched you while I’ve been gone?”
“No one,”
“Only...
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“Only me. It will only ev...
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I am a predator walking among prey, a creature of night and blood and hunger. A vampire.
And when she stepped into my life with her secrets and wanton smile, it’s as if finally belonged somewhere. With her.
“I don’t know what’s happening to me,” I confess. “I don’t know if I’ll ever be whole again. But, somehow, you fill the gaps inside me, Lena. You put me back together. This—you—it’s the only thing that makes sense.”
