Alpha Maddox's Mortal Temptation
But he bends past my mouth, to the shell of my ear.
Through a landslide of what has to be relief, I hear him inhale and say, “And you smell like you know all of this very, very well.”
That hint of challenge solidifies, heavy as concrete, into something cities could be built on. “Maybe you should stop breathing in so much,” I say, pulling back to look him squarely in the eye.
And then everything happens much too quickly.
The glint of steel at the corner of my view. An unfamiliar, rage-filled voice yelling, “You Vampyre bitch!” Hundreds of gasps, and a sharp blade making its way toward my throat, my jugular, and—
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