Page 105 of Bitten By Desire
“I just need you to trust me,” he said.
I really didn’t want to kill him. Maybe he was a good vampire. That just ate rare burgers or something. But he wasn’t offering to eat a bloody burger. He wanted to suckmyblood. And I couldn’t possibly trust him when that’s what he wanted.
And I didn’t have a choice. My hands were full of garlic products. If I opened my palm and let him cut me, he’d know I was planning on killing him. So…I just had to do it. With the element of surprise.
“What’s that?” I asked and looked up at the ceiling.
He looked up too.
And I opened my palm and blew the garlic powder right into his face.
He coughed and stepped backward. “Ow, fuck,” he said and rubbed his eyes. “What the hell was that?” He coughed again.
I didn’t respond. I just stepped away from him. I waited for his skin to start burning. Or for him to like…shrivel up or something. Or melt. I really should have done more research. But…nothing happened.
Titan started walking over to us.
I threw my garlic clove at him.
He caught it in his hand. And he didn’t even scream. He looked down at it and smiled. “Seriously, doll? Garlic?”
Why wasn’t it working?!
I pulled out my wooden spatula. “Stay back! I swear to God I’ll stab you in the heart.”
Huxley and Ace both laughed.
“Which one of us exactly are you planning on overpowering with a cooking utensil?” Huxley asked.
“It’s a wooden stake!”
He looked at the spatula and then back at me. “Is it though?”
No. It wasn’t. But I was stronger than I looked. Maybe not blunt-wood-through-flesh strong though. This plan was total shit!
Ace laughed. Probably at the horrified expression on my face.
Why weren’t they scared? I needed more garlic powder. I pulled out the value sized container from my purse, popped open the top, and waved it through the air. A very small amount came out of the small holes in the top.
Ace laughed again.
Damn it!
“Garlic and a wooden stake, huh?” Titan asked. He looked at Bennett. “She thinkswe’rethe vampires.”
Bennett just coughed in response.
“I don’t justthinkit. Iknowit.” I waved my spatula around and dumped more garlic powder on the floor. “And I’m not going to let you cut my hand and drain my blood. Over my dead body.” Why had I said that ofall things? I didn’t want to give them any ideas. “So…so…stay back. Or else.”
“Or else what?” Titan asked. “You’ll chuck another garlic clove at me?”
No.I technically only had one of those. I backed up even more. And I screamed at the top of my lungs when I bumped into someone behind me.
I spun around to a completely naked Otto. He smiled at me.
I screamed again.
Otto looked around. “Oops, wrong secret.”
