For my husband still loves me.
As long as we are together, no one can ever hurt me.
Thirty-Three
ALERIC
26OCTOBER1947
The whore at my feet is dead. Unsurprising, really, given I’m holding half her spine in my fist. The choking got a bit out of hand.
Or rather, got a bit out of her neck.
I grin as I bring it to my lips and lick the blood off the bone. Bits of torn ligaments, muscles, and nerves hang from it, and I suck a bit of muscle into my mouth to feed on before dropping the whole thing on top of the black-haired whore.
She was apoor imitation, just like all the others have been over the last two months.
A growl rumbles low in my throat as I’m reminded once again that the thing I want is currently in possession of another man.
I bet the fucker even hid the gift I left her.
He better not have destroyed it, I think with anothergrowl. That vampire hunting kit held the first stake to have ever stabbed me. I was so surprised some idiot had actually thought thatwould be a good idea whengunsandbowsexisted, that I’d kept it.
I wassolooking forward toseeing it in Sau’s hand, even more to having her shove it between my ribs as she tried to kill me.
My cock hardens despite its recent release, and I glance down at the open hole I ripped in the imitation’s neck. My office door isn’t locked, and I have a meeting in about twoorthreeminutes, but…it would besucha waste of a deep-throating opportunity if I didn’t…
My cock twitches as I bend down.
“Father,” Colton says ashe opens thedoor.
“You can talk, but I’m not stopping,” I say as I grab the dead whore by her long black hair and drag her over to my office chair. I settle into it, facing him, but by the time I look up, the door has been shut again, and he’s no longer here.
Smirking, I bring her open throat over the head of my throbbing cock, but the door opens again, this time with a bang, and I sigh heavily as Vlad fills the doorway.Unlike my namby-pamby of a son, he will not be so easily gotten rid of.
“Put your cock away,”my underbosssnaps as he drags in a man behind him.
“She was bad at giving head anyway,” I say as I shove her to the floor and push my cock back into my pants.
Colton steps in slowly behind them, his gaze held way higher than my face. I don’t bother looking at him either, my gaze on thewitchVlad’s brought in.
His hands are broken, bloody messes, and I lean back in my chair as I stare at him acrossmydesk.
“You were supposed to get Saupast the wardstoday,”I say as I hold his two black eyes.We had a date.
“Caden isn’t letting –”
“Caden... Caden... Caden...” Ihiss, hating hearing that fucking name, especially as a blockade to somethingIwant.
Not for the first time, I regret not keeping Sau locked up in my basement or chained to my bed. But there isn’t any fun with breaking someone who has nowhere else to run.
I want her to run.
I want her to find protection in all those dumb little places she thinks she can.
I want her to think that she is safe from me.
A cold grin spreads across my lips.