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"Cut it out, Alpha," she shouted, punching her fist into his seat back
He aze in the rearview ry as he was; he hadher that he’d hunted her kind, that he’d observed and studied their habits and places of congregation in minute detail so he could kil the ones who stepped out of line
She deserved to be unco hi The ue across her skin, her taste had exploded across his senses with the force of an incendiary grenade There was nothing reasoned or calculated in his response to her It was pure prinition of a unique and potent physical attraction Lust at first sight, exacerbated by their heightened lupine and vampire natures
He could stil taste her, damn her Smel her His palms burned with the need to feel her Inside, his beast hoith rage to be freed, forcing hile in a way he’d never had to before Because he…liked her Crazy as that was Crazy as she was Control ing his baser nature had always been as easy as breathing, but it was exhausting hi at hi what restraint he had left after a week of painful blows and savage lows and highs She’d witnessed those trials and, in her oay, been an asset to have around while going through the at hih as she was, he no he could make her soft and submissive, and he wanted her like that Wanted her li beneath hi less
The nearly two-hour drive to Shred ended up feeling like two years, and not just for him Salem unfolded froh the thick metal entrance door in a flash Vash was fast on his heels, fleeing Elijah as if the hounds of hel were after her When the door slah
As if a si If only it was that easy
Needing to get himself under control before he entered a va out the exterior of the unobtrusive building for changes He surveyed the i his memory of the industrial properties on the periphery that had closed long before the party got started He took note of the armed vampires on the roof before they deliberately , and because he was spoiling for a fight, he lifted his hand and flipped theilely froraceful crouch The vamp was sleek and sinewy, his world-weary eyes and econoe They circled each other slowly, baring fangs and canines, claws extended Neither of them looked away from the other when the door opened and a e! Leave hied Elijah that his spine rippled with a partial change He didn’t fucking need her to clear the way for hi?" Dredge taunted, his a "Or a meal?"
Elijah’s ed Expecting the reaction, Elijahhi lot and into the side of a delivery van, creating athe sting out of his fist, Elijah turned toward the open door, his ears trained for the sound of a retaliatory a the extent of Vash’s power--her as law for va the proof of ithis need for her, which had grown steadily over days of watching her run the show She wielded poith the same control and skil that she used to wield her katanas, which turned him on as much as her body did
Once inside the outer door, he encountered a second entrance It opened as soon as the first door shut, releasing a flood of pounding techno- pop music and the rich ulfed hi his ferocious ated ferocity, and the need to do both increased with every second that passed
Rounding a corner, he was thrust into a , grinding their undulating bodies against whoever was close enough Others were feeding, their bloody hs Stila vampress from behind as she drank froled in front of her
The unrestrained hedonised senses, the thick hu hie of insanity, he searched for Vash ae of his control, trying to batter its way out at the thought that sheonto a tal boy table, he roared, drowning out al sound The rooly loud within the absence of sound
Then a slender blonde ained the bar top She ripped her shirt apart and exposed her tits, shaking thenited into a frenzied mass Drunk on endorphins, they resu bass of thethem like a war dru his vae and scanned the roo for so and lean Blond His eyes were heavy-lidded, his lounging pose was insolence personified His chest and feet were bare; his skin was pale and smooth The antithesis of Elijah But best of al were the piercings riddling his body--his ears, brows, nose, lips, nipples, navel…She was certain there would be s in his skin Intricate designs that had been sliced by a skil ed blade and prevented fros
The ht it out deliberately and found beauty in it And she wanted to inflict pain on someone who could take it and wanted it Because she hurt and was infuriated by that hurt Because she’d pushed her way through dozens of beautiful, desirable e, and none of the in her blood Because she was dead to every male just as she’d been ever since the day Charron died…every male but one
"You" She beckoned her quarry with a crook of her finger
He straightened with a slow, sensual smile and ca her, he took her in frolance, then licked his lower lip "I was beginning to think you’d never come forhis head, he exposed his neck…and the tattoo that ritten there with silver-tainted ink: VASHTI, BITE HERE
A shiver h her at the craziness of the act They’d never met, yet he’d marked himself as her property