Page 29 of The Slayer Seduction

“What are you talking about?” she scolds me and I shrug my arms.

“Untie me, and I’ll tell you everything,” I tell her. It’s not as though I can’t get out of the bindings myself. I have many times. It would just mean more if she were to trust me enough to free me.

“Don’t play with me, Slayer. Which one of my friends is in trouble?”

I keep my mouth closed, because frankly I don’t remember her name, just what she looks like.

“Maybe she isn’t in trouble. I staked him, but I didn’t feel the relief of a new mark on my skin. Maybe it was because I was injured, but I think he’s alive and if he is, you need my help to save your friend.”

Iris’ eyes flash, and Scarlett turns on me baring her teeth.

“Tell me who and what’s going on,” Iris says, digging her wand tighter against my throat.

“Ask nicely, my little witch,” I say, and I realize that my Iris does not like this game.

The spell ripples over me quickly and it fucking hurts, like my blood is being boiled from the inside. It pushes me to the recesses of my mind and I’m not able to speak, but I can hear everything as Iris holds me under the spell.

“Adam?” she questions.

“How did you do that?” he questions her.

“That’s not important right now. I won’t be able to hold it long. Which one of my friends is in trouble? What is the Slayer talking about?”

“She has pink hair, lives in a cottage. The vampire seemed obsessed with her.”

“Did you see what happened? Is she okay? What about this vampire?”

I’m struggling, trying to push Adam out and take control of the body, but it’s unbelievably painful. My witch is powerful, and I’m at war with myself, finding it endlessly attractive and being absolutely furious that she’s using her strength against me to speak to Adam.

“The last I remember, she was still safely in her cottage. The Slayer did stake him, but it wasn’t in the heart. Iris, you’ve got to get away from him. Please, please help me take my body back. He can’t stop himself. He relishes in the kill. Neither of us will survive him.”

With what feels like all my might, I rip away from Iris’ spell with a near roar. Along with it, I break my binds. I spring up from the bed, my head feeling woozy. I still haven’t replenished my blood, but I’m fuming.

Iris looks frightened, holding her wand up at me.

“I won’t hurt you,” I tell her, though I can’t control my level of irritation.

“Why should I believe you? You were withholding information about someone I love very much,” she says, still pointing her wand at me.

I rake a hand down my face, take a few breaths, and sit back on the bed.

“She’ll never want you, Slayer,” Adam says in my head, and I feel like ripping my hair out.

“Scarlett, go see if Ember’s safe,” she orders her fox familiar, who pops out of existence.

We stay in her room; me sitting on her bed as she threatens me with her wand. I decide to stay silent. It seems like every time I open my mouth, all I do is piss my mate off even more.

Her hand trembles as she points it at me, and I sigh. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. They promised that we would be made for each other, and she hates me.

She hates what I am and there’s nothing I can do about it.

“You could let her go,” Adam suggests, and I wish I could punch myself in the face so he could feel the pain.

Cause I can’t let Iris go. No matter if she wants me here or not. She’s my mate; she’s everything, and I’ll do whatever it takes to show her that I’m not a danger to her or her coven.

I must become better.

Chapter 16