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“Why can’t I scent you?” he snapped, face hard and eyes going full dark with vamp magic.
“Stinging nettle,” I said and stepped back. “Please, can you tamp down your magnetism, I can’t…” My hands and voice shook. My skin blazed with heat and desire.
All I could think of were the king’s lips on mine, hands on my body, and me grabbing fistfuls of night-dark hair, directing where I wanted his mouth next.
Or his clothes coming off and my hands on him, my lips everywhere.
“Stop that,” he hissed, turning his back to me once more.
I let out a shuddering breath, and the king bellowed for someone. “Rory! Take her out of here.”
BDD appeared at my side in a blur.
“At once, sir. Where would you like me to take her, King Julian?”
“Get her out of my sight!”
BDD grabbed my neck again and led me from the study. Back up the stupid stairs we went. This time we stopped on the second floor where he pushed me inside a room. I didn’t stumble.
What the holy fuck was that?
Jeez, I felt like a cat in heat yowling and sticking my ass in the air for a big tomcat in a gray suit.
Thankfully, the buzzing heat began to burn itself out. Just in time for panic to freeze my limbs at the sound of the door locking from the outside.
I ran to the door as soon as I could to try the handle myself.
I jiggled it hard, testing the limits of the lock.
But it didn’t budge.
So, the king had vamp-proof locks on his doors, but not his safes?
I slid down the door and sank to the floor, my stomach bottoming out.
It was a setup.
It had to be.
The king and BDD were right. I was a young and stupid vamp with too much confidence.
I’d thought studying hard would be enough.
I should have known there was so much I just didn’t know.
And now I had to sit and wait in this…what was this, a guest bedroom?
I supposed that was better than a dungeon. Or a padded room. Or a coffin. Until the king decided how he wanted to kill me, BDD had thrown me into a really cute, comfortable bedroom with pretty green wallpaper and a gorgeous four-poster bed.
Fantastic.
I’d really fucked this up.
I’d worked my ass off prepping for this job, and it hadn’t helped a single bit.
Because I was still just a baby vampire whose maker died before she could teach me anything about anything.
It was why I enjoyed living and working with humans. Exile aside, I understood humans. I knew how they operated, how they thought. Hell, it wasn’t that long ago I was one.
