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A hush fell over the murmuring, glowing vamps and all gazes snapped to the main entrance. The one the guard led me through.
My nest mates stood straighter, their attention fixed on a hulking figure.
The king stood in the doorway, framed by his compound, and glanced over the vamps below him.
My mouth dried out.
I had never seen the man so close before.
Never noticed how he exuded power and dignity. How the planes of his face seemed carved and immovable. Or that his gaze captured, examined, and eventually discarded everything it fell upon.
I openly gawked at him, but only for a moment, before shifting behind Chester and Carisa. I couldn’t help it. Some instinctual part of my fight-or-flight response did not want his gaze on me.
Examine someone else, fucker.
Unable to keep myself from looking, I caught his golden profile between my nest mates. I watched him spread his arms wide and take a breath. “You do not know how thrilled I am to see you all here.”
His deep voice stole my breath away, mixing silk and rasp, pleasure and pain as it rattled through me, reverberating and vibrating shit it had no business vibrating.
Asshole.
What right did he have to a voice like that?
Deep and rough, just like the things I’d let him do to me.
Whoa! Eden! Get it the fuck together.
Stay focused. Stay on mission. Just get through his speech and look for your opportunity to sneak off.
Sneak off to a secluded hallway and let him rip my dress off and—
What the fuck was wrong with me?
Get your fucking head in the game!
It had to be his magnetism. Maybe he didn’t have it fully veiled. Yeah. A vampire as powerful as him probably couldn’t keep from leaking sometimes.
That had to be it.
Except I’d never heard of vamp magnetism affecting another vamp.
I snagged a flute of blood from a passing server and downed it, hoping to clear my head. It took the edge off, but my body still hummed with fiery need. My skin burned, and my lady bits throbbed. Even my damn nips were hard, saluting the whole courtyard through my dress.
Shaking my head, I forced myself to focus. Whatever was happening, I didn’t have time for it.
I tuned the king’s voice out as best I could, and headed toward Big Dumb Dick, making sure my movements stayed smooth and keeping behind someone at all times.
The last thing I wanted was the king’s undivided attention on me.
By the time I made it across the courtyard, the king was wrapping up his speech about who the fuck knows what.
I gazed up at BDD, hands trembling. “I’m not feeling so well,” I said, meaning it.
He took my complaint at face value, thankfully not bothering to use his sense of smell to discover I was putting out pheromones like the world was ending and he was the last dick on it. “Do you need a healer?” he asked.
I shook my head. “No. Just a restroom, please.”
He nodded and shepherded me inside, taking me to the closest bathroom, which I happened to know was three floors below and two rooms to the right of the room my jackpot was in.
