[Vance’s POV]I look from Allister to the man that lays in his back seat with a busted temple and blood-clotted blonde hair while my mind whirls in an attempt to figure out exactly how my brother could do such a thing. This was taking it too far, even for him, which was saying quite a bit since Allister was known for being a bit too much.Of course, I had come to the garage to catch Allister when he came back because his actions recently came across as strange. Since meeting that woman at the bar, he has stayed out all night, and when he returned, he was usually out of it. I thought it could be due to excessive drinking, but now I'm not so sure.Narrowing my gaze, I continue to take in my brother as if I'll be able to read his thoughts on his face. However, I'm left with nothing except his shocked expression over what I've just revealed.“What do you mean this isn’t him?” Allister demands, looking at me in disbelief. “He wreaks of Tabitha’s scent.”“Tabitha?” I repeat, raising a brow.

[Tabitha’s POV]I drift in and out of sleep while trying to ignore the pain that is shooting through my body. When I asked Atticus to help me forget the sadness and shock I was feeling from Anthony’s leaving, I didn’t expect him to be so rough, but in a way, I guess that I deserved it. And if I was being honest with myself, I encouraged it during.Maybe I wanted the pain to make me feel and remind me that even if the one person who I thought would always be a part of my world disappeared, I was still alive. Well, living because I honestly didn’t feel like I was alive, but I was existing, and that was something.Letting out a shuddering breath, I turn over and take in the empty space beside me where Atticus should have been, and I feel a pang of pain shoot through me.Once we finished fucking like animals, he left, and so far he hasn’t returned. And just like the pain I was currently feeling, I knew that I deserved his absence.I was such a selfish bitch, but I couldn’t stop what my bo

[Atticus' POV]I sit silently in the passenger seat of Tabitha’s car while she drives us to the location of the most recent murder. Where she punched me hurts something fierce, but I can’t help but smile.“How long are you going to give me the cold shoulder?” I ask, taking in her coiled demeanor. She was just waiting for me to do something perverted so that she could attack again. “I explained to you that I had no other choice.”“No choice?” She hisses, shooting me a glare. “Isn’t there plenty of other ways to wake someone?”“Not someone who seemed to be in a pretty fucking lucid wet dream,” I counter.At my words, I can feel her mood shift even more, and I half regret bringing up whatever it was that she was dreaming of, but I half don’t.Since I managed to snap her out of it, she hadn’t said a word about what happened, and even though I was aware that it wasn’t any of my business since whatever was going on between us was mainly sexual, I still wanted it to be my fucking business.“

[Allister’s POV]“Then we simply have to kill her before she kills us, correct?” I ask, growing annoyed with this conversation. “Are you suggesting that we are too weak to take on a single woman?”“Not a single woman,” Damien counters. “This is Evangeline, the mother of vampires. She is much stronger than all of us.”“Not yet,” I counter. “If we get rid of that lizard, then it can’t complete its task, correct?”“He’s right,” Vance agrees. “This simply means that we have to kill the lizard to make sure that Evangeline doesn’t come back to power.”It really was a simple solution, so why was Damien talking like the end of the world was coming?“Vance, you encountered that creature, correct?" He begins, narrowing his gaze. “Why didn’t you kill it?”For a moment, Vance doesn’t speak as he considers Damien’s question, and when his face falls, I know that I’m not going to like what comes next.“His body was impenetrable.”There it was, but that didn’t mean that I would accept defeat so easil

[Tabitha’s POV]I wait until Atticus is on the road before undoing my seatbelt and then leaning over. I couldn’t explain why, but I suddenly really wanted him, and I didn’t want to wait until we got back to his place. Maybe it was due to the craziness of the day or the need to feel wanted by someone, but before I could stop myself, I was undoing his pants and pulling out his dick.“Careful,” he warns, when I bump the steering wheel. "Otherwise, you’re going to cause us to wreck.”“Lean back more,” I order, running my hand up and down his shaft.Nodding, he does as I command before getting comfortable. Licking my lips, I lean over more until I can run my tongue along his tip, cleaning off the salty, sweet precum that has begun to form there. Lifting my gaze, I take in his dark eyes, which have come to rest on me.“Eyes on the road,” I warn. “Otherwise, I’ll stop.”Letting out a growl of annoyance, Atticus does as he is told while I take him into my mouth and begin to bob my head.“Fuck