Page 7 of Rescued By the Vampire Assassin

"I would imagine because he needed someone like me as a lab rat," Joshua said grimly.

That explained where the bloodless bodies might have gone to. They weren’t just stolen out of the morgue. They were new vampires that the Vasile could use to experiment on.

A chill ran down Keri's spine. "So Chrissy is an experiment, too?”

“It certainly sounds like it.”

“What are they creating here?"

Joshua shook his head. "I don't know. But I imagine it’s got something to do with...” He gestured vaguely at the air around them. "...this. And now, it seems, we've become their latest test subjects."

"We have to stop them," she said.

"We’ve already thrown a wrench into their plans by not cooperating."

Her gaze locked with Joshua's, and she saw the same hunger she felt reflected in his eyes.

"We need a plan," Keri managed, her voice husky with unwanted desire. "Before we lose control."

Joshua nodded, his jaw clenched tight. "We need to understand what they're doing to us. Why do they want us to fuck so badly."

Keri flinched at the word fuck and grew impossibly wetter. “Internet porn?” she joked weakly.

He snorted. “This is hardly the ideal setting for it.”

"I wouldn’t know. I’m not a connoisseur of those things." Keri asked, trying desperately to focus on the conversation and not how Joshua's muscles rippled as he shifted position.

“Oh, the things I could teach you,” he purred, tracing a finger down her cheek.

Her eyes half closed, and she shuddered.

A dangerous glint entered Joshua's eyes. "We could give them what they want. Let them think their experiment is working."

She swallowed hard. “It’s just sex, right?”

“As long as I don’t bite you, I’ll be safe from the drug’s effects.”

She trembled.

“But as tempting as ravishing you would be, that’s not what I’m offering.”

Disappointment flashed through her, which was ridiculous. She was being compelled, having basically been given a vampire roofie. She should be grateful that Joshua wasn’t using this as an opportunity to bang her like a bongo drum. But damn, she could imagine how good that would feel. It had been a while since she had anything between her legs that didn’t run on batteries.

“What then?” she breathed, licking her dry lips.

For a long moment, neither of them spoke. Keri's heart pounded in her chest, equal parts fear and residual desire coursing through her veins. The intensity of his gaze made her skin prickle. She was acutely aware of every inch between them, of the raw power coiled in his frame. Ally or not, she was trapped in a cell with a predator who saw her as potential prey.

"We make them believe we succumbed. And when they let their guard down..."

"We get our answers," Keri finished.

Joshua nodded, a grim smile playing at his lips. "Precisely.”

As if on cue, the scent of pheromones intensified, flooding the cell with a heady, intoxicating aroma. Keri's body betrayed her with a rush of desire, even as her mind screamed danger. She watched Joshua's nostrils flare, his pupils dilating as he drank in the scent of her growing arousal.

“How do we do that?”

“We wait it out,” he growled, his voice rough with barely contained hunger.

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