Page 67 of Feeding Frenzy

“More than she already is,” I agreed, thinking of her feeding on Jax. Feeding on another vampire had always been taboo. Some claimed it was cannibalism. Her blood should not draw us in. “Our little human upstairs has something special.”

“And you plan to poke her up with needles?” Asher hissed.

I narrowed my eyes at him.

“I would never endanger her.” She meant my life. She was my savior and my Beloved.

“Asher, he will need to test her blood to even see if it is still different now that she’s a vampire.”

“Of course it will be different. She’s a whole different kind of vampire.”

Considering she finds human blood repulsive as they informed me downstairs, that was not a far-off hypothesis.

“Why does she fear me?” Her hesitancy wasn’t lost on me. It was as if she fought with herself when she was around me.

“You had her trapped in a cave. You starved her. And sodomized her when she tried to escape,” Asher snapped.

I jolted as if struck.

“She was a terrified asthmatic female when she came into our lives.”

“I do not recall,” I struggled to speak. My fang punctured my mouth. Hurting Catalina was not something I could understand.

“She obviously does not blame you,” Tobias interjected. “Anymore.”

I struggled to collect my thoughts.

“Do I . . .” I stopped speaking. For once, I did not have an explanation.

“Nothing. Do nothing and say nothing.” Asher pinned me with his gaze. “This is pissing me off, so I’m changing the subject.” He sighed. “How did you know how to call me?”

I worked my jaw side to side. The youngling was angry with me?

I fished out all that was left of the rectangle device from my pant pocket.

“I observed you using this.”

“You’ve been regaining your mind since she arrived, haven’t you.”

“Yes.”

“There’s where my phone went.” Tobias snatched the piece from my hand. Half of it crumbled until all he held was a small corner of plastic. I had been unsuccessful putting it back together after I crushed it.

“There’s something else you should know. Not only does she feed on us, but her blood calls us as much as it did while she was human, more so.”

My vision fluctuated.

I snarled at Tobias. Mine. My human. I hissed a breath out.

The violent, mindless beast continued to live within me. I wrenched back control and tugged my fingers through my hair.

“She won’t be safe here, anymore,” Asher said to Tobias. He opened his mouth, but a sharp ringing broke through the room, interrupting him.

“We have a situation, Sire,”the small voice on the other end of the call reached my ears. I turned toward Asher as did the rest of them.“Imogen is here with a Council representative.”I tensed.

“We’ll be right there,” he hissed.

These males had been with Imogen and allowed her into Catalina’s space. A mistake I would not have made. Unlike them, I saw through her madness from the beginning but had cared more about what she could do for me.

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