Total pages in book: 58
Estimated words: 53656 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 268(@200wpm)___ 215(@250wpm)___ 179(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 53656 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 268(@200wpm)___ 215(@250wpm)___ 179(@300wpm)
“You aren't using every weapon in your arsenal,” I said. “The only thing you're using right now is anger. It can be a useful tool but clearly it's not helping you when it comes to your enemy, which happens to be me right now.”
“Right now?” She laughed sarcastically. “Try the moment you laid eyes on me. You've had it out for me since then, and I'm doing my best to prove to you, to everyone, that I am not my family. I am not the blood that runs in my veins.”
“It doesn't matter what I think,” I fired back. “Right now, I’m nothing more than a vampire that's trying to kill you. Stop. Me.” I emphasized the last two words.
“You’re a thousand-year-old hunter! If you wanted me dead, I'd be dead—”
“Is that what you want? Would that make you happy? If I ended all of your suffering right now?”
“Did you seriously just ask if that would make me happy?” she snapped back, throwing punch after punch that I easily deflected. “Unfortunately for you, I don't share the same fantasy of my blood drenching your hands.”
“Then beat me,” I said. “Use that brilliant mind of yours. The one I’ve seen strategize and utilize to save innocent humans. Beat me. Use all the weapons you have, your most effective one being your mind. Outthink me.” I lashed out, and she was almost able to dodge, but was a half-second too late. My fingers wrapped around her delicate throat, and I took her to the ground again.
I pinned her with my body, her legs falling to either side of my hips, our eyes locked with my hand still on her throat, squeezing just enough that she knew she’d lost.
“You want me to use every weapon I can think of,” she said, something churning behind those brown eyes of hers.
“Yes,” I said. “I want you to—”
Her mouth broke the distance between us, her silken, soft lips pressing against mine with a hunger that made desire flood my veins.
Her hands flew to my hair, tangling as she yanked my mouth harder against hers, eliciting a growl from my chest. Instinct took over, and I slanted my mouth over hers, licking into it and shuddering at how damn good she tasted. Her tongue danced against mine, claiming my mouth in a way that had me rock hard and aching to sink inside her.
Her thighs clenched around my hips, tightening in a way that had me thrusting against her heat, my fangs distending.
Bite. Fuck. Drink.
My instincts pulsed with the demand as I licked into her sweet mouth, needing more. In the back of my mind, I knew I shouldn't be doing this. She was the daughter of a traitor. A stunning creature waiting to strike. But her soft, warm body felt too damn good beneath mine, eliciting a craving that I hadn’t felt in over five hundred years.
Her fingers tightened in my hair to the point of pain, and one second she was the one on her back, and the next it was me, her straddled atop me, her free hand at my throat.
She yanked away from our kiss, her eyes lust-hazed but triumphant as she smirked down at me.
“I do have a weapon I can use against you,” she said.
It took everything in my willpower to lock down each and every one of my muscles.
To not sit up and bring our mouths back together again.
To not raise my hands from where they laid at my sides and grab her hips and make her come right there even though she was fully dressed.
She looked more than fuckable, all flushed skin and swollen lips, her fangs out as she sat atop me.
“You took me off guard,” I said in the most aloof voice I could muster. “I'll give you that.”
She smiled, revealing more of those gorgeous fangs, and then she rolled her hips, her heat grinding over my hard cock.
I growled.
“I don't think all I did is take you off guard,” she said, but there was a little hitch in her voice that told me she wasn’t unaffected by what she was doing. The little tease. “I think it's definitely more than catching you off guard,” she continued, moving over me, making herself shiver as she shamelessly rocked against my cock.
I bared my fangs as I raised up on my elbows, bringing our mouths closer together. I could see the hunger in her eyes, could see her absolute willingness to keep this going if I allowed it.
“So this is your solution? You're going to seduce every enemy you come up against?” I tilted my head, raising up even more so we were face to face, our chests flush.
“It worked on you,” she said, her hand still at my throat, her nails slightly scraping my skin.
“Maybe,” I said. “But it won't work on everyone. And I'm trying to train you for those who will not be fooled by that mouth of yours.” I moved quickly, lifting the both of us to our feet and putting a good six inches between us. I never lost her gaze though. “So, for now,” I said, my eyes trailing over those lips that would haunt me. “Keep your fucking mouth to yourself.”