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CARNAL Chapter 7
Ella's P.O.V."Here's where you'll be staying."Jai opened the bedroom door and pulled my suitcase inside the room for me. I followed him inside and cringed The room was huge, just like the rest of the place. The ceiling was at least fifty feet tall. The dark paneling on the walls made the olive-colored curtains stand out, which hung beside a ginormous bay window that was in the center of the far wall.One of the biggest beds I'd ever laid eyes on sat against the wall to my left. It had a four post bed frame that was a dark oak just like the paneling on the walls and the flooring.The black duvet matched the pillows on the bed and the two black couches that were on the other side of the room.The Victorian-style couches sat across from each other in front of a fireplace that was big enough for three grown men to stand beside each other inside it."Over there is your bathroom," Jai said, pointing to a door that was on the same wall as the fireplace.We heard someone walk into the room
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"Didn't you say you found the last man that this happened to?" I asked. "Did you talk to him about what happened?""We did talk to him," Cain said. "He didn't remember a thing. He said he fell asleep in his bed and woke up in the woods four days later.""Have you kept track of him? Maybe he remembers something now. "I said."He died yesterday," Cain informed me.My eyes widened. "How?""He had an aggressive form of leukemia. He was diagnosed two days before he was kidnapped and died shortly after he was found."I thought for a moment. "Leukemia is a blood-based cancer," I pointed out. "They were all given blood transfusions and all suffered from either a heartcondition or anemia. Do you think this could all be connected? Maybe the clinic they were seen at for the transfusions is where they are being targeted."Cain nodded thoughtfully. "It's a good start," Cain said. "I think we should keep looking and see if we find anything else." So keep looking we did.Hours went by and both Jai
CARNAL Chapter 9
Narrative P.O.V.Cain sat at his desk, looking at nothing. The tower was dark. Moonlight invaded his senses almost as much as the sunlight did but the thick stone walls kept the majority of the noise out inaddition to the light so he could actually think.The only thing he didn't like about where he sat was the fact that he would've rather been somewhere else. He was restless that night knowing that Ella slept only a few floors beneath his feet.Cain still couldn't believe she existed.She certainly wasn't supposed to... that's what everyone had told him his entire life.Looking at her, he thought he was dreaming. But standing next to her, he was reminded she was real. Whenever he touched her, she was a reminder of the fact that he wasn't so different from everyone else and that he wasn't so unlovable.Selfishly, he liked being around Ella for that reason.Cain knew monsters didn't deserve mates. Maybe, just maybe, if he had one it meant that he wasn't themonster he'd been raised t
CARNAL Chapter 10
Ella's P.O.V."Thank you." I took the steaming mug from Daniel before he sat down at the table in front of me."What are you doing up so early?" He asked."I'm a morning person."He scowled."No thanks."I faked a smile as I took a sip of my coffee. I couldn't tell him I hadn't slept. My bed would have fit four ofme comfortably. It was so large that it swallowed me up. It was cold and empty.Because I couldn't sleep, I had been up most of the night catching up on the schoolwork I had missed. I was also contemplating over the hundreds of sheets of paper I had combed through in Cain's office. I was beginning to lose confidence in the fact that we would find my grandfather."Why are you up so early?" I asked him, trying to distract myself from the pit my thoughts were dragging me into."I have to be for work," he explained, yawning."It's only seven o'clock." I said. "It's not so bad.""I hate it," he groaned."You don't like your job?"Daniel scoffed."I like this job only marginally
CARNAL Chapter 11
Narrative P.O.V."She's his mate." Priya's eyes widened."You can't say anything,'' Jai said firmly. "Not to anyone, not even her. Myself, Daniel and Cain are the only ones who know.""How can she not know she is his mate?" Priya asked incredulously. Jai pursed his lips."She's a human."Priya sucked in a deep breath and shook her head."How are you planning on dealing with that?""I don't need you to tell me this is a complicated situation," he said. "I just need you to go in there, do whatever she asks you to do, and not say a word about who you are, who we are, or what we do.""Great," Priya said sarcastically. "So that narrows down my topic of conversation to the weather.""Don't get sassy with me," Jai said.Priya rolled her eyes. "Where is she now?" She asked."She's in Cain's office."Ella's P.O.V.I heard the door open at the bottom of the stairs.I looked up from the file folder in my hands to see a girl walk up the stairs into Cain's office.She was of Indian descent with
CARNAL Chapter 12
"Well, that's just fantastic."Jai's words dripped with sarcasm as I delivered the news. Cain's reaction to the news was to remain completely stone-faced."Does this not creep you out?" I asked him.He said nothing, just stared at me in thought.How could someone still be practicing medicine thirty years postmortem?"How do you know this?" Daniel asked me."I called around and found out all of the missing men had been seen by the same doctor then I called the hospital and the nurse informed me that he had been dead for thirty years."Cain crossed his arms. "Did the nurse happen to mention how he died?" He asked.I shook my head. I probably should have asked her, but I was too shocked by the news to think of anything in that moment."I need to see that certification of death and the M.E's report if there is one," Cain said to Priya.She shook her head "He died thirty years ago," she argued. "Those records won't be online. I'm sure they're in a hospital somewhere, but I can't get you vi
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Ella's P.O.V.Daniel and Jai joined Priya and I as we put a plan in place as to how we were going to go about finding this man who was supposedly dead.We sat around the large desk for a few hours deciding where to start and what we were going to look for. The two of them were somewhat annoyed for the remainder of the day and Priya seemed uneasy. I, however, was enthralled.Of course the idea of a man faking his own death or someone stealing a dead man's identity didn't settle well with me, but I knew we were getting closer and closer to the truth. Maybe we would find my grandfather after all. That night, we all ate a quick dinner in Cain's office as we continued to flip through files looking for other leads.Cain was nowhere to be found which I surprised myself by being disappointed about. It was late when I finally returned to my room that night. So late,in fact, that I was actually sleepy and nodded off in the bed, despite how enormous it was.I wasn't sure what time it was when
CARNAL Chapter 14
Narrative P.O.V.Cain stood out in the hallway, his breathing erratic.The fangs in his mouth were extending from his gums and poking his bottom lip. He tried to focus on the smell of disinfectant in the air but the only things his senses had zeroed in on were the scent and sight of her blood.For the first time in his life, he wasn't resisting the vampiric pull to completely drain someone of their blood.The urge he was fighting was not one to kill or satisfy hunger, but to satisfy lustful and prurient desires.It was much stronger than anything he'd felt before.He heard the doctor walking down the hallway and he turned to face away from him."When was the last time?" The doctor asked him as he walked up."I don't know what you mean," Cain remarked."When did you drink last?"Cain closed his eyes tightly as he caught another whiff of her blood on his hands, despite his earlier attempts to scrub it away."Yesterday morning," he answered."You shouldn't be trying to last that long," t
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