“The moon?” Seth leapt to his feet as Max stopped pushing amusement into everyone. “I want to see the moon – I’m coming!”
“Yeah, I could use some fresh air too,” Max agreed.
Fuck no.
“Same, this room smells like a bonfire. Darius has been sleep smoking again,” Caleb said, pointing to the haze of smoke swirling up by the ceiling.
“I love it when he does that.” Tory kissed Darius and he immediately released a small plume of smoke against her lips as she grinned.
“No,” I said simply, grabbing Darcy, throwing her over my shoulder and shooting out the door at high speed.
I tore through the tunnels, making my way to the exit before planting Darcy down in front of me and smirking at her. She didn’t smile back, pursing her lips instead.
“That was rude,” she said but I stalked closer to her, pushing her hair over her shoulder and knotting my fingers in it.
“And?” I leaned in close, teasing her lower lip between my teeth, but she pressed a hand to my chest and stepped back.
“And you could try getting along with them,” she suggested.
I shot behind her, locking my hand over her throat and tilting her head sideways to expose her neck to my fangs.
“Mmm. Or I could drink your sunshine-sweet blood then find somewhere private to fuck you breathless.” My fangs hit a tight air shield over her skin and a growl left my throat. “Playing hard to get, Blue?”
My instincts rose as my hunger for her increased and I scored my thumb along the length of her neck as I hunted for weaknesses in her defences, but fuck she was getting good at her casts these days.
“Maybe I’ll give you a sip if you promise to play nice with the Heirs,” she offered with a teasing lilt to her voice. But if she thought she could play games with me and win, she was about to find out what it was like to go up against a man whose name was defined by the constellation of the Hunter.
“I don’t do nice,” I warned as I released her throat and started to circle her instead, my eyes narrowed on my beautiful, delicious looking prey. The game was too enticing to resist, and so long as she didn’t run and I didn’t chase, I wasn’t breaking the Vampire Code. I knew how to control myself, but I also knew how to work at the very edges of my leash too.
“You do with me,” she pointed out.
“Nice?” I laughed, showing enough teeth that she knew I was nothing but an animal right now. “Am I nice to you, Blue? Do I kiss you nicely? Do I fuck you nicely? Do I spank you nicely?” I slowed to a halt behind her, clasping a handful of her ass in my hand and leaning down to speak in her ear. “Or do I kiss you like our tongues are made of fire and ice? Do I fuck you like the world is ending and you’re the goddess of my salvation? Do I spank you hard enough for you to feel it everywhere? So you know exactly who owns you.”
She spun away from me, lust rising up from the seven sins in her eyes.
“I can’t be owned,” she said, a dare burning in her gaze like she wanted me to prove she could be.
“Well I can,” I said, hounding after as I tipped my head down, shadows sliding over me as I turned my back to the closest sconce. “I can be owned and shackled and made into a slave for you, beautiful. But I’m not the kind who does as he’s told. I’m the kind who seeks out the secret desires in your eyes and feeds them to you piece by piece. I’m your most corrupt wants brought to life and it’s my fucking calling to sate you, Blue.”
Her ass hit the door that led to the farmhouse and I rested my hand above her head, caging her there as I tasted my lower lip, wishing it was hers. Her gaze was hooded and her chest was rising and falling with her quickening breaths, but I wanted her breathing even faster and gasping my name like it could deliver her redemption. Having to stay away from her in front of the rebels was exhausting, and with Seth sharing our room it was rare to get her alone. But now I had her, I didn’t plan on letting her go until dawn.
“Let’s go outside,” I said, my voice nothing but sex as my eyes fell to that perfect mouth which I was about to do unspeakable things to.
“I love the moon and the moon loves me,” Seth sang somewhere behind us and I could have put my fist through the wall there and then. Was there no privacy in this fucking place? “Oh hey moon friends, shall we go see the moon together? Everyone else will be here soon. They said something about giving you two space, but I was like ‘why did they invite us along if they need space?’”