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Dee took Erin’s wrist. Bit.
Another link. Zane’s attention moved to Jude. He already had his wrist up. The first time that the shifter had ever offered blood to a vamp.
But Dee wasn’t just any vamp. She was one of their own.
After this day, they’d be tied to one another, through Dee, forever.
His breath hissed out as a hot pain sliced his wrist. A quick glance showed that Simon’s fangs were out now.
He just had to make sure the guy didn’t take too much. After all, they had one hell of a fight waiting on them all.
A real bloodbath.
* * *
Simon awoke to darkness. Quiet, total darkness. No pain wracked his body. No cold chilled his soul.
Alive.
Or as alive as he could be.
“You scared the hell out of me.” Dee’s voice. Soft, shaking, and coming from right next to him.
His nostrils flared and he inhaled her scent. Rich, sensual. His Dee.
When he concentrated, he heard the drum of her heart. Strong and steady.
He rolled and realized he was in a bed. In a bed with Dee. Don’t need anything else. Simon reached for her and touched warm skin.
Her lips crushed down on his. A hard, angry kiss. Fury and passion. “Don’t ever do that to me again,” she ordered and kissed him again. Harder.
His mouth opened beneath hers and her tongue swiped inside. Yes. His arms rose and locked around her body.
Her nipples stabbed into his chest. Naked. He felt every inch of her sweet body against him. Every single inch.
She shifted position quickly, straddling his thighs, and she rose above him. “You nearly died.”
His eyes had adjusted perfectly to the darkness so that he could see the fierce tilt of her jaw. “You were going to live.” The choice had been easy for him.
“Bastard.” Her nails raked down his chest. He didn’t know how they’d both gotten naked, but he sure wasn’t going to complain about it right then. “What the hell gives you the right to make that kind of choice?” she demanded.
He caught her hand. Brought it to his mouth and pressed a kiss to her palm. Because I love you.
Monsters could love. Vampires who stalked the night could feel.
They weren’t soulless devils. They yearned. They wanted.
They loved.
Dee had worked her way right under his skin and into his soul. He hadn’t even seen the threat coming until it was too late.
But then her heart had trembled and he’d known she was slipping away—my life for hers, in an instant.
Love.
Hell, he knew he’d really fallen for her long before. When he’d first started to watch her. To see how bravely she fought. How fiercely she protected the ones she thought were innocents.
He blew lightly against her fingers and saw the shiver that worked the length of her body. “I wasn’t going to let you die, not when I could save you.” And she would have died. One look at her injuries and he’d known they were much, much worse than his.
