Page 9 of Blood Bonds

“Her mind belongs to another.”

I found my jaw tightening in my anger as I gritted out,“Who?”

A jealous fury quickly built within me quicker than ever before. My reaction enticing another flinch from her, before causing her to tense in fear of me this time. But then just before I could punch the smug look off my bastard friend, he shocked me.

“Yours, My Lord. Her mind is yours.”

It was my turn to suck in a hiss of breath at my astonishment. I raised a brow in question, causing Andras to nod before walking away knowing I would want privacy once more. Which was when I tested it, leaning down closer to her ear, the fang marks long gone after I had allowed my saliva to heal her skin. Oh, how I wished to see our mating mark upon her flesh, a scar that would never heal.

But first things first.

Time to get her home.

So, after taking liberties once more and breathing her in deep, running my nose along her trembling flesh, I whispered softly,

“Sleep, my Peach…sleep for me, my beautiful Moirai.”

Astonishingly, she obeyed, giving in to my gentle command. When I felt her freely gift me her weight, I lifted her easily into my arms. I then started to walk with my new treasure over to the SUV that Andras had the foresight to open the back door of. Meaning I could easily lay her inside. But before joining her there, I looked back to the mess I had made of the traitor and nodded.

“The clean-up crew are on their way,” Andras told me before I could ask.

“Good, then you know what to do.”

Andras grinned, one that many would have been terrified of, for it usually meant something sinister was swimming in the depths of his mind. But when you had the power to control others, then let’s just say that he could quite easily be affected by so much darkness our world had to offer.

“And which part of him would you like me to use this time to send a message?”

I grinned before looking back at my sleeping beauty now finally within my grasp. Hence why I told him,“The heart…for I am feeling somewhat…sentimental.”

He laughed at this before bowing his head in respect.

“It will be done, My Lord.”

I nodded and slid in next to her, closing the door before giving my driver the order to take us to 520 Park Avenue.

I was tempted to take her to our private estate in Millbrook but I was unsure how long she would remain asleep for and I was eager to speak with my brother. Right now, nothing was more important and although our unique gifts allowed us to walk in the sunlight without burning to a crisp, we preferred conducting our business at night like most Vampires did. In fact, being day walkers made us some of the rarest Vampires in existence. This as well as being able to shift the shadows and move at incredible speeds. Of course, all Vampires were blessed with enhanced speed, strength, and senses, but there was speed and then there was shadow shifting.

There was the darkness.

One we could manipulate, becoming one with it for a short time. Absorbing it, twisting it to our heart’s desire and using it to travel or at times, as a weapon. We were known as the stuff of nightmares and stories of us were even told to our younglings as something for young Vampires to fear. At one time they had tried to hunt us, to rid the world of us, fearing the uprising and that we would become too powerful to control.

Well, nothing had changed in that department, only the power and position had changed to one of understanding and respect. For we had no ambition to rule over all Vampires and take over the world. No, New York would do nicely and who knows? Should we choose more, then that was another story. But as for now and my consumed thoughts of the future, I gathered up our queen. Our innocent little Angel, knowing thatI could see us being quite content with all we had. For suddenly all the vast fortune we had amassed over the centuries, seemed to pale in comparison.

I settled her in my lap and took the time to study her sweet face. Every detail, every unique feature that painted the face of beauty was one I could see even in the darkness. I batted shadows away from her face like a child playing with soapy water, disturbing the suds to get to the clear liquid beneath. That was what I did now, absorbing the light from the surrounding streetlights we passed and the glow from the car’s console. I pulled them toward me and held them suspended over her, gasping at the sight.

She was stunning.

I had called her pretty, but I see now that I had underestimated her beauty greatly. She was a fucking goddess, and I couldn’t help it when a laugh escaped at the dumb fucking luck I seem to have been blessed with. An evil creature such as I… I found myself shaking my head in awe and disbelief.

Fuck, I couldn’t wait to see the look on my brother’s face. In fact, had I been in control of the car, I would have broken every speed limit this city had. But as it stood, I didn’t trust anyone with my girl’s life in their hands but mine and my brother Victor’s. So instead, I forced myself to relax my excitement and simply spent the drive back to the city taking her in.

The delicious curves she had were a torture in their own right. My cock was as hard as fucking granite and my mouth watered as my fangs refused to retract. God damn it, it was like being a youngling once again. I just hoped I wasn’t the only one who struggled. At the very least, if Victor had the same problems, then it would give me something to fucking laugh at.

My brother and I were like chalk and cheese.

He was the silent assassin that stalked the night and would slit your throat without a word of ever knowing why. Nothingruffled his fucking feathers. And as for getting a smile off the dark bastard, well, not unless Hell froze over and invited us for a fucking party would that ever happen.

As for me, I was the danger you saw fucking coming. The freight train you couldn’t stop. I was loud, I was brash, I was a fucker. I also sucked every ounce of life the world had to offer…quite literally.I smiled, I laughed, I joked (usually at my twin brother’s expense), and I fucked my way through the woman of the world, draining the evil fuckers I hated.

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