Total pages in book: 97
Estimated words: 91636 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 458(@200wpm)___ 367(@250wpm)___ 305(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 91636 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 458(@200wpm)___ 367(@250wpm)___ 305(@300wpm)
“You are. You wanted to run, maybe, but you wanted to be caught and kept, too. Consider yourself caught. Consider yourself kept.”
His hands slide down to my hips and he pins me against the wall. His thumbs hook in my pants and draw them down. He’s getting me naked in the vampire’s dungeon; he’s playing right into Alexander’s plan. Our instincts are going to take over and there’s nothing I’m going to do to stop it.
“This was un-fucking-necessary,” he growls. “Running? Getting caught? Getting…” He pauses and doesn’t finish the sentence. Instead he kisses me furiously and spreads my legs by kicking them open. Before I know what is happening, he’s hoisting me up and thrusting inside me, claiming my tight pussy in one long, passionate stroke.
“Eyes on me,” he murmurs, clasping my face in one hand. “I want you to keep looking at me while I punish this pussy. This hole that I own. This breed-able little fucking cunt that should never have gone anywhere, and will never go anywhere again.”
He is mad. He is mad and he is right to be.
I fucked up. I ran and I got him caught.
And now he’s fucking me and that’s because I deserve to be fucked. I deserve to be punished. I deserve to be hurt. I probably deserve to die, but that’s not going to happen. He’s going to protect me. Even though I don’t deserve it.
His cock is so deep inside me, stretching me wider and wider, the knot at the base making my inner walls submit to him in that primal way only a wolf can make them submit.
He is my alpha, and I am his mate, and when his cock is buried inside me that’s all I can think about.
“I’ve got you,” he says. “And I’m going to make you a good little pup. I’m going to make you belong to me, and I’m going to give you everything you never had. You’re going to be safe. And you’re going to have rules. You’re not going to be left out of my sight.”
He does not rut me long, but he does fuck me hard. It is a quick, rough, and punishing interlude that has an urgency to it. We are both seeking refuge in physical connection, clinging to each other with animal desperation, mating in the face of almost certain death.
Afterward, when I am soaked in his seed, I fall asleep in his arms, in the cell, in the heart of the lair of the vampire who wishes only evil for all of us. Being left alive by Alexander is not a mercy. It is a prelude to pain.
CHAPTER 14
Conroy
The sound of the cell being unlocked is slight, but impossible to ignore when you sleep with an ear pricked.
I turn over, and to my absolute surprise, I see Tailor standing there. For a moment, I am almost certain I am losing my mind, either still asleep, or seeing a ghost, but then he steps inside and lifts his voice just slightly above a whisper.
“Are the two of you coming?”
“Tailor! You’re dead?”
“Not that I noticed. I thought you were dead, though. Vamp said you were.”
The vampire lied. Of course he lied. He is entirely untrustworthy. He is an evil, manipulative beast. Kita picked up the lying part. I have to hope that the rest did not rub off on her.
He might not be dead, but there is blood all over Tailor’s chest. He’s wearing tattered pants that must have belonged to some other unfortunate dungeon inhabitant at some point in the past. He has been hurt. He has been hurt terribly.
“What happened to you after we were picked up?”
“He took me into a room and he told me you were dead. Then he beat the shit out of me and told me I wouldn’t get to breed Kita because he didn’t like my genes. Then he left. Then I picked the lock, because it’s as old as he is, and I came to find Kita.”
“Is he really this inept?”
“He’s not stupid. He’s arrogant. Which makes him a little stupid. We need to get out of here,” Kita whispers, having woken up beside me. “Follow me. I know this place like the back of my hand. Or, like I would know the back of my hand if it was a prison from which I had escaped many times.”
Escaping the vampire’s lair is relatively easy. Kita is right. He is arrogant, and that makes him make the same mistake we did. He assumes he’s got us trapped even though we’re already escaping.
This feels a little too easy. A little too slick. We head out of the mansion via the servant’s entrance and head around to…
Beep.
Alexander is standing outside on his driveway with a stopwatch in his hand.
“Three hours. A little longer than I imagined,” Alexander says. “You’re going to have to work a lot faster than that to retrieve the relic. I suggest, when you retrieve the relic, you don’t stop to have sex and nap first.”