Page 13 of Bite Me

Ky clasped Cage on the arm. “Tell me what happened. I don’t understand how it could have been taken.”

Cage finally sat on the bench next to the window. “A succubus, and she didn’t have to take it, I gave it to her.”

Match huffed, smoke curling out of his nostrils. “What he means is he lost his head over a pretty girl, and in the course of fucking around, lost his god damn soul.”

Cage shook his head. “She was more than pretty, dickhead.” Then he lowered his voice to speak to Ky only. “We gotta get this bastard laid. He gets grumpier by the day.”

“I know some mermaids that would be happy to put out his fire.” One of them who needed rescuing. “Match, you need to head down to the San Carlos Caldera. The Mami Wata are waiting for you.”

Match grumbled. “Hell, Wyverns are supposed to have control of themselves. Including their libidos. You’re all in your prime. Act like it.”

Match sounded a hell of a lot like grandma Kiki. Except grumpier.

“Speak for yourself. Ever since I mated Ciara my sex drive is way beyond when I hit puberty at a hundred. I’m a walking hard-on around her.” Jakob wore the grin of a satisfied man.

Hard on or not, if one of the green dragons had a new mate, one who was in a shitload of danger, they needed to get to rescuing her. “The demon dragons have kidnapped one of the Mami Wata who is half human. She’s a dragon’s mate, I’m sure of it.”

Match let out a string of swear words in his guttural Polish. Then he turned his alpha of alphas voice on. “Jakob and I will go to Africa. If she’s a green dragon's mate, we’ll find her and get her home. You’ll recover Cage’s soul shard. You’re the only one of us that can track it.”

Cage rolled his head back on his shoulders like it was going to fall off. “I need you to go get it back from her, brother.”

This was guts for garters. But, Ky would always do everything for a brother Wyvern. “No worries, cuz. Easy as.”

Face to Face with Temptation

Jada paced back and forth in the little room, biting her nails and glancing at the decorative clock hanging over the small desk in the corner.

Tomorrow morning would mark the longest she’d ever made it, one week without blood or sex.

It was also the day she was scheduled for her first busy morning shift serving coffee and donuts at the café below her apartment.

She had never been more terrified in her entire life. Not when the demon dragons had attacked her. Not when she was very little and her mother had died. Not even when Leon – King Leonard, Ruler of the Incubus - had shown up mourning her mother and taken her away to initiate her into the coven.

The woman, or rather, witch, who owned Nine Holes Donuts had mistaken Jada for her newly hired help. Jada wondered if the mysterious man and the woman in white had done that. Until someone else showed up, she would take the job and the apartment that went with it, and keep her mouth shut.

And her teeth to herself.

But the cravings were getting worse by the day.

Chocolate covered, Bavarian cream-filled bismarks helped. So far.

She also hadn’t been face to face with temptation. Whatever kind of witch Ninsy was, she was only part human. The other unknown part of her smelled strange. Like a beautiful, but poisonous hemlock flower.

All Jada knew was Ninsy wasn’t edible. She was super nice, so it was a relief that Jada didn’t want to suck her blood. It made her training and the slow early afternoon shifts she’d started with a hell of a lot easier to handle.

Ninsy had asked Jada to join her for tea every afternoon around one, after the not so busy lunch rush. They had tea and scones together, and then Jada practiced on the cash register, and served the very small trickle of customers under Ninsy’s watchful eye.

One customer, or a cute little family in for an afternoon treat, she could resist.

The hot delivery guy was another story. A juicy, sexy, do me in the back of the walk-in cooler while I suck you dry story.

Ack. There she went daydreaming again. Bad succubus. Bad, bad, succubus.

This whole going cold turkey blood and abstinence thing sucked. Not in the fun way.

She had to keep her mind off humans and all their scrumptious arteries and veins and arteries...and veins.

Jada flipped through the recipe cards Ninsy had given her to study and grabbed a blueberry sour cream donut hole, popping it into her mouth. The burst of fruit and sugar exploded in her mouth. These baked goods, combined with anything to distract her brain from the incessant neediness, were the only way she’d made it through the last few days.

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