Semua Bab Hunting the Hybrid Queen: Bab 1 - Bab 9

❀ Maeve ❀The thick scent of eucalyptus clogged my nostrils, and I sleepily blinked my heavy lids open.They quickly snapped back shut, however, when I saw the figure seated across from me. My environment, and the attack, came back to me in waves.The first vampire I’d managed to find had forcefully fed from me on our first encounter. Surely this wasn’t how it was meant to go. Dread squeezed my chest as I tried to think of a way to escape. Form shifted beside me, and I felt his suffocating presence hover from above. Cold air tickled my skin from a soft draft. “I know you’re awake. I will not harm you,” his voice, a breathy rumble, reached me.Rich talk coming from the source of my lightheadedness.I opened my eyes, no use pretending to still be unconscious. He’d probably heard it from my erratic heartbeat. His face was closer than I’d expected, black curls falling from his forehead and just barely touching my own. Blood-red eyes, slightly luminous and hooded in an almost drunken e

❀ Maeve ❀ In my dream, a cock crowed, and then flew off its perch when the dream version of me chased it off. “Maeve.” It crowed. “Maeve.” “Maeve.” My eyes shot open. My mother stood over me, her hand still connected to my shoulder where she’d shaken me awake. She smiled, not unkindly. “You’re late.” I sprang up. “Oh, shoot.” I swung my legs to the floor before I realized my state of undress. It wasn’t my nakedness that embarrassed me, but the dried flakes stuck to my inner thighs, and the whitish snail trails on my blanket. Mortified, I felt my skin burn from my scalp to my toes. “I’ll wait downstairs for you. But hurry,” she said, then walked out of my room. I covered my face with shame. At least she hadn’t commented on it. But I knew she’d seen it. Evidence of my new lewd behavior. I hurriedly soaked my bedding, showered, dressed, and joined her outside. She looked up expectantly at the sun while I secured the locks. “Pleasant day it’s looking out to be.” “Yes, plea

❀ Maeve ❀The overpowering stench from the large, rotund man I was pressed against suffocated me.Twelve of us, nabbed solely for being in the vicinity of District 3, stood in the tight wolf-pulled metal cage that had no canopy. The sun bore down hotly on my head. I had lost my shawl in the scuffle.“Let me out! You have no proof of any crime, and what gives you the right?!” the man beside me growled at the soldiers standing outside. Every time he shouted, his rancid breath and spit rained down on me.I couldn’t believe my first step into IronWolf territory would be by arrest.“Please, sir, I’m innocent. I only came to trade my mother’s baskets,” I implored.The lance-wielding hulks ignored us. Wolves who had been caught were sedated with heavy doses of wolfsbane, leaning against the cage lifelessly, at risk of being trampled.I hadn’t been sedated because they smelled no wolf on me. But I wished the man beside me was. He kept screaming expletives at the top of his voice.I had to thi

❀ Maeve ❀Nikolai gripped his cock, dragging the tip between my drenched sex and aching bud. I sucked in a breath as he pushed into me at the same time.Uncontrollable bliss thrummed in my center as he stretched my walls, filling me slowly. I tightened my legs around his waist, cupping his face.I moaned when he withdrew, only to slide back deeper into me.“Ty menya pogubish…” (You’ll be the end of me), he crooned.His eyes burned with a fire that consumed my soul.Resting on one elbow, his fist in my hair, he took my nipple in his free hand, circling the bud with maddening tenderness.Every cell in my body hummed as he set a rhythm and fucked me into the bed.The powerful thrusts came faster and faster; I closed my eyes and clawed his back with my nails.His face fell to the side of my neck, his wet tongue capturing my pulse. I felt the sharp points of his fangs pierce my flesh, and my breathing hitched with delirium. A shiver ran through me, pain and desire coursing together through