Page 133 of Bitten By Desire
“Stop calling me that. I’m not your doll. And you’re not killing Callum because he’s not hurting anyone.”
Titan raised his eyebrow at me. “I beg to differ.”
Gah.“And I’m in love with him.”
Titan looked even more surprised by that.
“He’s controlling her head somehow,” Bennett said.
“That’s now what’s happening!” I yelled. “What is wrong with you?” I turned to Titan. Maybe I could make him see reason. “I fell in love with Callum ten years ago. But he disappeared. And I finally found him again. I know he’s a vampire. I know you guys hate him. But he’s trying to be better. He doesn’t even drink human blood anymore.”
Titan’s eyes darted to my neck.
Damn it.“I asked him to do it.”Kind of.Technically I asked him to lick my hand. But I hadn’t even felt him bite my neck hard enough to draw blood. I’d been too distracted by how good he felt inside of me. I’d loved every second of it.
“You asked him to bite you?” Titan shook his head.
He clearly thought I was insane. But I wasn’t. “I asked him to taste my blood to prove that he could control himself and wouldn’t kill me. And…here I am. Standing in front of you. Very much alive.” I gestured to myself, as if he couldn’t see me.
Titan glanced at Bennett.
Don’t look at Bennett! Bennett’s crazy!“And Callum is the love of my life.”
“You know what I think?” Titan said. “I think it sounds a lot like mind control.”
“Titan!”
He smiled. A real one. That made him look significantly less intense. My eyes trailed down the scar on his cheek. And I wondered if one of his friends had done that, or if he’d done it himself by accident.
“I’m joking,” Titan said.
“Wait, what?”
He slapped Bennett on the back. “Bennett’s not used to being turned down. None of us are.”
“Are you serious?” Bennett said. “You really think…”
“Your ego is getting in the way here, man. She’s just not that into you.”
I wouldn’t really put it that way. I liked Bennett. I really did. But he wasn’t Callum. I kept my mouth shut though. Because Titan was actually getting through to him.
Bennett shook his head. “But…the plan.” He sounded so dejected.
“We’ll have to put it off for a while,” Titan said.
I shook my head. “No. You’reneverkilling Callum. You have to swear it to me.”
Bennett took a deep breath and looked at me. “I was talking about a different plan.”
Um…what? I was so confused. “What plan?”
“Nothing,” Titan said. “Don’t worry about it.”
Honestly, I was a little worried about it. Because they’d come in here with a plan to murder my boyfriend. Was this some kind of work around plan? Were they just going to maim him? “You can’thurtCallum either. Not a scratch.”
“You have our word,” Titan said.
Bennett nodded.
