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And that’s when the va lint of metal appear in Dekes’s left hand In addition to the elemental power that he stole fro else, soave so un up and pointed at , and I didn’t even have time to create an Ice shield to block his attack or use er and a s my neck I cursed and yanked it out, but it was already too late Even as I tried to suic to blast Dekes to hell, I could feel ed to take one step toward the vaht before I thu choice, picked the wrongto pay for it

Chapter 16

My ars went dead - absolutely, iely clear, and I didn’t lose consciousness No, I was painfully aware of lying there on the library floor, wanting to kill Randall Dekesable to do it I couldn’t get any part of er to twitch, much less point ic

"Prop her up in one of the chairs, and tie her there nice and tight," Dekes said somewhere above my head "I don’t want any surprises Quickly now, before the drug wears off"

Hands lifted me up and maneuvered iants hurried over to the wet bar and reached down for so hidden on one of the shelves there He came up with a coil of rope, the kind of thick, heavy, almost unbreakable rope that you’d find on a sailboat, the kind of rope that would be a bitch to slice through, even if I’d still had one of my silverstone knives on ers were right now

The giant stepped forward and quickly tiedthe rope over hter than a Thanksgiving turkey

Never let yourself be immobilized by the eneain, but here I was, tied down to a chair and about to be tortured for the second tied to loll my head to one side to look at Vanessa, but the Fire eleaze Couldn’t blame her for that I wouldn’t want to watch as about to happen next either - especially since there was nothing I could do to stop it Not one da For a moment, I wished for the blindfold Mab had used when she’d torturedmy spider rune necklace into my palms At least then I wouldn’t have to see Dekes bite irl anyer, if not exactly wiser Either way, I’d face my enemy head-on

Dekes walked around so that he was beside me and leaned forward over the chair, so close I could feel his hot breath brush against my cheek and sag

"Don’t worry, Gin," Dekes purred in ave you a muscle relaxant to et you into the chair right where you needed to be The effects won’t lastsos, while your mind remains completely unaffected You see, I want you to know exactly what’s happening to you I want you to feel every last bit of it I wouldn’t have any fun otherwise"

He was right The absolute nu to fade, replaced by sles I concentrated and was able toto be enough, that I wasn’t going to recover quickly enough to escape what the vampire had in mind

Dekes reached down and tiltedmy throat to him I couldn’t help but look up into his face Lust blazed in Dekes’s green eyes, and his tongue eagerly darted out tos were

Then the bastard sank the bitten by a vampire is sexy

So rush of their blood leaving their own body, the weak, languid feeling of having soh off those kinds of feelings, a heady, electric charge that seems to make it all hile

I a bitten by a vaer - two of them at the same time Dekes’s bite was hard, brutal, merciless, and vicious, just like he was I screaain as he started to suck outspurts The last of the nu i pain It felt like there was a giant fist wrapped aroundthe blood and everything else out of ic, the power, the life

Soh to make their bites feel likeexactly how to slip an IV needle into a patient’s hand to minimize that initial prick of pain

Dekes was not one of those vamps He didn’t want to minimize my pain or discomfort - he wanted the elemental power in my blood, and he wanted to brutalizeany pleasure out of this was hih as he leaned over me Sick, sadistic bastard It wouldn’t surprise ot a power boost off sex just like he did fro blood

The hot stench ofelse Sweat slickened my hands, my whole body trembled, and white starbursts exploded inout my blood Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze

As an assassin, I’d suffered just about every injury big and small that a person could experience over the years I’d been stabbed, shot, beaten, burned, electrocuted, blasted with eleic, and buried alive too ony altogether because not only was Dekes hurtinga piece of ic that was as much a part of who and what I was as the spider runes branded into my palms

My hands were tied down to the chair arms so I couldn’t see the scars, but I could feel the silverstone - and thearound like hot worony of the vae sensation - and I realized that I could feelwith the cold power of ic, until it see up just as much of my power as Dekes was I didn’t know if I was consciously doing it or some self-preservation switch had been flipped in the back of ic into the silverstone that had beento keep asas possible<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>