Chapter 6

I stare at him like he has lost his damn mind. Did he really think I would give him my blood to drink? I'm a person, not a fucking blood bank! I meet his gaze head on and shake my head.

“If you are thirsty for blood, then how about you get an animal or look for someone else to…”

My back hits the wall before I can complete my sentence. Valrik:s hand settles around my throat and he leans in, so close that I feel his warm breath on my ear.

“It'll be in your best interest not to piss me off right now, little trouble. " His voice drops to an octave, making something tingle between my legs. “I'm being generous, and giving you the privilege to decide what quantity of your blood I get to take."

" Okay, okay, fine. I'll do it.”

He steps away from me and I can't hold in a sigh of relief. I head over to the table, pick up the knife and glass. I can't believe I'm doing this, freely offering my blood to a monster.

“At least he's hot,” Nymeria whispers. “It's been long we had sex, Liora. Get one of them to fuck you."

" Can you shut up?” I cut my palm and hissed at the pain. I let the blood drop into the glass till it's half filled before handing it to Valrik. " If there's nothing else then I'll take my leave.”

He stared at me for a while then scoffed. “You think I called you all the way here for your blood?” He takes a sip from the glass and shuts his eyes for a moment. When he opens them, they are flickering between deep red and crimson, like they can't decide a particular shade. “I don't know what that asshole Kaelen is thinking, but if we are keeping you then we will have to teach you to control that power of yours. I won't have you obliterate me me when I'm trying to fuck you."

I make a face. For some very insane reason, the idea of him above me, pounding into me doesn't leave me irritated. It's quite the contrary.

Urgh!

Must be the stupid period hormones. But my period is not till another week!

This is bad.

“Take a seat." He gestures at the other couch in the room, but I keep standing, glaring at him. “You can stand if you wish to. That's entirely your problem, not mine."

I reluctantly take a seat fighting an eye roll. " What do you want?”

" See, little trouble, the council of elders want you dead. We are keeping you alive and though they won't have the balls to question us, they'll definitely try to kill you.”

Great! For the past three days my life has been under constant threat from the prick named Kaelen, and now a bunch of stupid old men who probably can't get it up to please a woman also want me dead.

I'd say my birthday this year was the most fulfilling. I mean look at where it landed me? In paradise.

Way to go, whosoever created this messed up world in the first place.

“I need you to focus here.”

I roll my eyes so hard I'm surprised they don't fall out of their sockets. " Excuse me if I don't seem interested, but my life wouldn't have been in any danger if your hooligans hadn't kidnapped me.”

Valrik stares at me like he can't decide whether to strangle me or fuck me.

Great!! Now I can't think past the bulge in his pants I've been so conveniently eyeing all this while. Great fucking job, Nyme!

When my gaze meets his again, I know then that I won't be at peace till his dick is in me.

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I step out of Valrik's room an hour later with my palm bandaged. I almost forgot I had cut myself to feed his fucking appetite until he dragged me unto his lap and bandaged it.

Yeah, you heard right. The fucking vampire lord personally bandaged my hand all the while lecturing me not be so careless and blah fucking blah.

Like he didn't make me cut myself on purpose when he could just have bitten me, took what he wanted and left me the fuck alone. Rather than having senseless injuries.

I'm still busy mentally cursing Valrik when I walk straight into a massive wall. The impact is so strong that I am sure as hell going to have a headache for the next three days. I take a step back and fucking wow! The wall of flesh is none other than the Alpha prick.

He's dressed in a three piece suit and a pair of black shoes. His hands are in his pockets while he stares down at me like I'm some nuisance not worth his time.

“You look like shit," he murmurs.

God, the urge to punch him in the face. Like he wasn't the one who had me stuffed in a prison with just a single dress for three days.

I'm about to give him a piece of my mind, but the arrival of a petite brunette interrupts my plan. The instant her gaze lands on me, her expression morphs into one of horror.

“Gosh, you look terrible!" She rushes to me and takes my hand, examining me like I'm a six year old who played outside even though he was told not to and had gotten bruised. “What did Kaelen do to you?"

“Make sure she stops looking like a creative disgrace," was all he said before walking past us to God knows where.

The brunette glares at him for a while before shaking her head. She returns her gaze to him, and a smile instantly blooms on her beautiful chubby face.

“Don't mind Kaelen. He's an asshole most of the time.” She takes my other hand excitedly. " Come let's get you some new clothes.”

In less than an hour, we were at a very expensive mall, with shopping bags filled with clothes I couldn't possibly wear in the next five years.

We got some evening gowns, regular ones, jeans, tees, skirts and several other clothing types. We also got bags and shoes and some jewelry. I'm not a makeup person but she insisted and Nyme wouldn't stop yapping about it.

Oh, did I forget? Her name is Chimera and she's Kaelen's sister. Pretty ironic if you ask me.

She's all sweet and charming, while he's made it his mission to win this year's asshole award.

Presently we were getting some of those things girls called lingerie. I remember Jenny would drag me to buy them whenever she had a fight with her boyfriend and wanted to make up for it. We'd spend hours in the supermarket just to return with pieces of scrap material put together and sold as seductive dressing.

Pretty useless if you ask me.

But here I am accompanying Chimera to get one so she could make her anniversary night “special". For some reason, as I watch her gush over the pieces of clothing, my eyes rest on a particularly red one.

I looked risque and for reasons best known to the heavens, I start to imagine Valrik taking it off me or rather fucking me in it.

Way to go Nyme. I can't think straight without imagining the red eyed devil.

" You should try it.” Chimera's voice has me snapping out of my daze to find her standing close to the lingerie I've been staring at.

I shake my head and offer a polite smile. " No, there's no need. I don't have anyone to wear it for.”

“Nonsense." She takes it off the rack and hands it to me. “A girl must always own something sexy. Now go try it on."

Realizing she'll pester me till I give in, I take the dress, rise to my feet and head over to the fitting section. I open the first stall I come across and instantly freeze in my tracks.

“You?"