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"Did you just... growl at me?" I eyed him suspiciously, cocking my head to the side as I tried to decipher what could be wrong.
Rayne's eyes flashed an unreadable emotion before it was gone. Instead of coming closer to me, he backed a step away. "Uh, sorry. I..." He licked his lips. "I wanted to apologize for last night. I didn't mean to force myself on you or anything like that."
"No, no. I wanted you to kiss me." I blushed. "You didn't make me. It's just so... weird."
He huffed a laugh. "Yeah. I understand. I'm a vampire, and you're, well, you."
My lips pursed and my brows furrowed. "Hey, what's that supposed to mean?"
He shook his head as his eyes widened. "I didn't mean it like that. Just... you're not like other humans. You don't want our money. You haven't tried to jump into any of our beds."
Not outside of my head anyway.
My heart stopped, and my eyes widened as I realized what I'd just thought in front of a mind reader. I hoped against hope that he hadn't heard it, but with the way his mouth fell open and Adam's apple bobbed, that wasn't likely.
"You heard that, didn't you?" I winced as I wrung my hands together and shifted in place.
Quickly recovering, Rayne put his hands up and shook his head. "I didn't mean to. I mean, it's hard not to listen. God. Fuck! I'm messing this all up."
I let out a bitter laugh. "It's okay. Just try not to listen to hard?"
He nodded glumly.
"Good." I nodded back as the awkward tension filled the room. Not sure what else to do, I moved from the stairway and toward the coffee pot, passing closely by Rayne in the process. The only warning I had before his hand shot out and grabbed me was a deep inhale and a low curse. A blink of an eye later, I found myself pinned against the wall and Rayne's hard body, my heartbeat skyrocketing into orbit. I stared up at the redhead and gasped. "What are you doing?"
"Quiet," he commanded before dipping his head down to sniff along my neck and then my clavicle before lowering further. My body tensed and against my will, my nipples tightened. I wanted to push him away and ask what the hell he was doing, but every time I moved an inch, he let out a threatening growl.
It wasn't until his nose pushed along the edge of my shirt and pants that I stopped breathing. I knew what he was smelling. Oh, God. Why didn't I think of it before?
Because it hadn't been an issue before.
"What hadn't been?"
My head jerked down to meet Rayne's hot amber eyes. After I swallowed, I wet my lips and stuttered out, "Uh, I'm on my period."
Rayne's brows furrowed for a moment before shooting up to his forehead. The next second, he jumped back from me as if he had been burned. Stupidly, it hurt. It was a natural thing. It wasn't like I was dirty because of it. Surely, he'd been around a female while she was on her period before.
"You've been here long enough to have your period twice." Rayne seemed to come to this conclusion from somewhere. "It hasn't affected us before. What's different about now?"
I cocked my head to the side and thought about it. "Uh, well..." I fumbled with my words, not usually having to explain my body's natural actions for a man. "This time is worse than last time."
Rayne's lips turned down in a deep frown. "Is that usual?"
I shrugged. "For me. Every woman is different. Sometimes, it's barely anything, and other times..." I shrugged again like it wasn't a big deal.
Raynes thoughts were churning in his eyes, and it made me wish I was the one reading his mind. However, when he didn't say anything else, I tried to step around him and head to the coffee pot once more.
"Please don't." Rayne stopped me with his words, his feet shuffling further back the closer I got to him. I stared at him hard for a moment and then realized like a light bulb going off.
Did he want to bite me?
"No!" he cried out and then quickly lowered his voice. "It's not that... I want... Shit... please, just let me leave and then you can get your coffee."
As I watched him scramble away from me, a curious sort of feeling filled my chest. A part of me was disappointed that he hadn't stayed and done what he wanted. My traitorous vagina sure would have been on board for whatever it was he wanted to do.
"Piper! Fuck. Please stop." Rayne's jaw tightened, and his fist clenched at his sides as he paused in the doorway of the kitchen. "You don't know what you're asking."
"I didn't ask anything," I challenged him with a smirk. I was a cock tease, I knew it, but blame it on my raging hormones. My inner bitch was happy to turn the tables on him for once.
