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Although I had been ht here, it hadn’t been the position I’d applied for when I arrived fro been scouted by Antonio’s tracker, Sebastian, I had participated in the try-outs for a place in the legion The ht it coh I’d passed each stage and was rare in being a Feeder – a vay – I was denied a place It was then that Antonio made me Jared’s co-commander Jared’s issue hadn’t just been that I was female No, it was also that I was a Sventé vah Keja vaoris, they were still powerful in that they were hypnotically beautiful All three breeds had a preternatural allure, but Keja beauty was enchanting enough to bewitch people, ensnaring their prey Also, like Pagoris, their vaifts were often very substantial Kejas were identifiable by their fangs and the alohen they were angry, thirsty, or horny

Sventés, however, couldn’t boast of ifts were mostly defensive rather than offensive, and we didn’t have super strength or a bewitching allure Still, ere stronger and faster than huility We didn’t have visibleirises – and our bloodlust wasn’t overpowering All of that enabled us to blend ith humans, and therein lay our power But the other two breeds didn’t perceive that as strength To them, Sventés were inferior in that ere tame and too huh Jared overcame his prejudice and wasn’t the narrow-minded arsehole he’d once been, the va with him As Antonio’s Heir, Jared was destined to one day hold the position; to rule and protect vampires ide As his mate, I would share that position as ruler The vae that their rulers could protect the a Sventé as a ruler hadn’t been an attractive idea to them

It was only the fact that I was very powerful as a Feeder – a gift that should technically only run in Pagori lines – that had stopped a riot frouests had spent the week approaching the cereth Fate had decided it would be funny for me to be weak at the tiradually altering while at the sa or what the bloody hell would happen We had found out pretty quickly The sociopathic scientists had been trying to create a hybrid – a mix of all three vampire breeds

The wackos had also succeeded

Thanks to them, I was now the only hybrid in the world In addition to having the Sventé eable bloodlust, I also had the hypnotic allure of a Keja, and the strength of a Pagori Nonetheless, I was a Sventé at heart

A side effect of this hybrid business was the new lohen, yes you guessed it, I was thirsty, angry, or horny Jared swore they looked beautiful, but I personally believed he was talking tripe and I rather ht think it would be fabulous to be a hybrid, to be so strong But the very few of us who knew about it were all set on keeping it secret, co to my irises and my sudden increase in power Everyone believed Antonio’s excuses as they had no reason not to; they trusted hiht not be too co ht, they would be stronger than the other three, oris would lose their ‘throne’, Kejas would be knocked down a notch, and Sventés would be even more vulnerable than before No one would like that

Less than tento meet with the squad, Jared unfortunately lived up to his word and teleported my presents out of the apartment and hid them somewhere It was probably for the best I was addicted to the ‘Vah chance that I would have dug it out and played with it again beforeat our destination, we found six of the squad gathered at the long bar, ordering drinks Dae fuss of David, who had proven to be the nment – they were like a football teaoal’ The youngest of the squad was actually the strongest; David’s gift was to produce a psionic boom that could cause such extreme pressure on the skull that it totally overwhelmed the brain and led to a temporary coma

"It wasn’t all me," I heard David say as Jared and I approached "We’re a teaot close enough to the building to get inside"

That was true Butch used his ability to negate or deflect anything that ca so powerful et When the others turned to Butch andI had noticed about Butch was that his crooked grins never quite reached his eerily dark eyes Whether that ood with emotion or that he was simply a sociopath that experienced none, I wasn’t sure Given how creative he could be with his kills, it could very well be the latter But I didn’t haveJared and reeted us with pats on the back Yeah, they thought of me as one of the boys I wasn’t sure whether to be offended or touched Even out of work hours, they all called me ‘Coach’ rather than Sa out a coood" Seeing the htly, but he was still as aree of possessiveness

Groaning at Daed him "Maybe you should astral project onto the dance floor before you say soer your life"

Damien snorted "No way The last tiot back to find myself naked with some of Chico’s thorns stuck in the cheeks of my ass My body didn’t wake up for, like, three hours" Chico’s gift allowed him to release poisonous thorns that caused a victim to temporarily lose consciousness