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“Don’t. Stop.” “I won’t, little dhampir. I won’t ever stop.” He kisses me again and resumes moving, driving me higher and higher.
“I didn’t mean for it to happen like this.” “There he is.” Wolf laughs. “So eager for that guilt. She said yes. That’s consent.” “I promised I wouldn’t.”
wouldn’t have come to your room if I didn’t want to end up in some variation of what happened.”
“She gets one cock inside her and we’re all a big happy family.”
“What our darling Malachi won’t say is that he wants you to stay.” “He’s more than capable of speaking for himself.” I slant a glance in his direction. “Or ripping out throats when words don’t work.”
“When you’ve lived as long as I have, you learn to recognize the important things.”
“Like freedom.”
“Like you, Mina. I’ve never met anyone qu...
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“I’ve also ordered you some iron supplements. Even with the blood exchange, you’re paler than you were when arriving here.”
“You’re very, very pretty.” “I know.” His grin widens. “I’m going to kiss you now.”
“I’m not immortal.” “Not yet,” Malachi kisses me before I can ask him what the hell he’s talking about.
“Leave while the grown-ups talk, little girl.”
“I should kill you now and solve all our problems. Can’t breed if you’re dead.”
“Watch your words or, friend or not, you’ll lose your head.”
“You know if you did end up pregnant, I’d simply whisk you away to somewhere you father can never find you.”
“Malachi seems to think you’re something special.” His tone conveys his doubt of that pretty damn clearly. Rylan steps into the room with exaggerated slowness. “You sent Wolf away. I’m surprised he listens to you.”
“How long have you been harboring a sad, unrequited love for Malachi? Centuries? It’s got to sting he’s shacking up with a dhampir now.”
Rylan’s hand whips out and closes around my throat. “I don’t care about your sad little life. I care about Malachi, and I care about Wolf.”
“Quite the exhaustive list.” Gods, why can’t I stop talking back? It’s like rage has hijacked what little verbal brakes I had. “Should I be impressed?”
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“Not particu...
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“Why are you bait...
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“I don’t lik...
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“Either rip out my throat or get the ...
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“Malachi says you taste different.” He’s not talking to me. He almost sounds like he’s thinking aloud, musing to himself. “But he’s young. There’s so much he doesn’t...
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“No. Don’t yo...
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“What are you?”
“Listen to me, you idiot. She might be half vampire, but her other half isn’t entirely human.”
I dig out the pills and raise my eyebrows at the vanilla protein drink he also purchased. Not to mention the dozens of boxes of condoms in every variety and…flavor. “Huh.”
“It would explain your lack of magic. The other blood is more powerful than the vampire half of you.”
“But I’m speaking for me. I want you to stay with me. If that’s not what you want, we’ll figure out a way for you to land safely. I give you my word.”
“I feel it, too.” He brushes his thumbs over my cheekbones. “When you’ve lived as long as I have, you learn not to question these things. Some feelings transcend logic.”
Malachi pulls back a bare inch. “You need to eat.” “Later.” I’m already reaching between us to push at the waistband of his lounge pants. “I need you more.” He curses, the sounds sweet against my lips. “You’re hell on my self-control.”
“Three cocks are better than one, love. Trust us; you’ll have a good time.”
They’ve turned off the lights and added a scattering of candles around the perimeter of the room. I don’t know if it’s meant to be romantic, but it feels like I’m about to play sacrifice in some kind of arcane ritual.
“There’s magic even in our semen,” Rylan says from his spot next to the window. “It can’t hurt to add it in, along with the blood.”
“That sounds like one hell of a line.”
“If at any point you want to stop, we stop.” Behind him, Wolf laughs. “She won’t want to stop once we get going.”
Wolf snorts. “Things were just getting interesting.” “You can have your turn later.”
Malachi drags his tongue over my pussy and the fire behind him flares higher. Wolf tenses. “Keep it locked down.” “Mmm.” He ignores the other man and keeps licking me. It’s not like before in the hallway. He’s taking his time. It feels so fucking good, but the feeling he’s savoring every little taste? It only makes this hotter.
“Seraph,” he says the word like a curse.
“A seraph?” Wolf throws himself onto his back and laughs so hard he has to clutch his stomach. “Our little dhampir is a fucking angel.”
“Can’t you feel it?” Rylan rubs his chest. “Focus.” Malachi goes still for a long moment, but it’s Wolf who speaks first. “Fuck.”
“A long time before I was born, the seraphim were hunted to extinction by the other supernatural creatures.” Malachi’s arms tense around me. “Or so everyone thought.”
“Among their abilities is one that links them with their partners.” Once again, it’s Rylan who answers. “It might have started out as some kind of mating bond, but they used it to create courts of supernaturals around them. A seraph could do whatever they wanted to a bonded supernatural and that supernatural couldn’t fight back, couldn’t harm them in return, couldn’t break free. Vampires, in particular, are susceptible.”
“The longer she lives, the stronger the bond will grow.” Rylan scrubs at his chest as if he can dig through flesh and yank the bond out by its roots. “The best bet we have is to scatter and get as far away as fast as we can before she calls us back.”
The only thing I’ve ever wanted is freedom, and if what they’re saying is correct, then freedom is the very thing I’ve stolen from them. “I’m sorry,” I whisper.
Rylan shakes his head as Malachi leaves the room and looks at Wolf. “Run. This is going to be your only chance.” Wolf sits up and eyes me. “Nah, I’m good. This is the most excitement I’ve had in centuries.”
“You’re all doom and gloom. Look at her.” He waves a hand at me. “Think, Rylan. I heard the stories of seraphim, too. The bond is annoying, but only in the hands of a tyrant. Think about what else she’ll be capable of if she lives long enough.”
“Not so tyrannical, is she?”
