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Chapter Thirteen
Hugh
As much as I wanted to fall in love with Kristin, all I could think about when I looked at her was that she wasn’t Angelina.I sighed as I got out of bed quietly and slipped into the bathroom to get dressed.
I had tried.For a couple of weeks, things had been good with Kristin and me, but I realized that I just couldn’t pretend that I cared more than I did.I owed her a lot, and I would always be there for our child and help in whatever way I could with both her and the breed, but I couldn’t pretend any longer that I was trying to make it work.
Even sex wasn’t what it had once been, and it made me wonder if that compulsion that Portage had done on me had finally wholly disappeared.Angelina had warned me that I might not feel the same for Kristin after it was broken, and she was right.Only, I couldn’t tell Angelina that.
I stood on the small outside balcony and closed my eyes.Over the last month, the ability to reach Angelina had been getting harder and harder.It was like our blood bond was wearing thin, and that made me wonder just how much other vampire blood she was consuming.
Sometimes when I came up here and reached out to her, I found her having sex with someone else.At first, I would get out of her head immediately, but then I started sticking around.It was very voyeuristic, but it was the only way I could connect with her.She would generally get satisfied, but she was seldom happy once it was over.
I wished that I could really feel her and see inside her head at what she was thinking.Was she missing me?Or was she looking for someone else to take my place?Maybe she thought that I would stay with Kristin after our daughter was born.I had considered that at one point, but the longer I was with Kris, the more I began to wish I had never met her—almost.
If it weren’t for meeting Kristin, I would be dead now, and my soul would be gone forever because I wasn’t in a relationship where I could have left a possible baby behind to capture that soul and carry it forward.Where would it have landed?
It didn’t particularly matter now.
I closed my eyes and reached out to her.It took a moment, but I finally found her and felt her frustration very vaguely.She was with a man, and they were discussing something.I wished that I could hear what was said, because it seemed like a serious conversation.
As I continued to view her side of the conversation, I watched things change, and I was about to leave her alone when she went to her knees, but something made me continue.I had to admit that watching her have sex with another man wasn’t my cup of tea, but for some reason, I could not look away today.
She fed from his groin, then she removed her final piece of clothing and climbed over him.I envied the hell out of him for what he was doing to her.When he sank his teeth into her leg, I gasped.Didn’t he know that would kill him?Was she trying to kill him?
As I continued to watch through her eyes, I felt just a little bit of her satisfaction, and I frowned.He wasn’t screaming in pain.He was enjoying it, and so was she.
My hands were wrapped tightly around the thin wood railing of the balcony I was on, and I wondered absently how much it would take to snap it like I wished I could do to this guy’s neck.
In my view, Angelina and the man were face-to-face and talking.Their touches were soft, tender, and I wanted to scream as she began to kiss him.There was only one way that he was still alive after consuming as much blood as he had, and that was because he was a reborn!
Angelina had found another reborn, and as I continued to watch, I felt the bond I had with her slipping.I held on as tight as I could and watched as they began to have sex.She leaned forward and bit into his neck, and then I was back where I was, the bond between us completely severed.
The anger burst through my body, and I almost roared as I stood there.Instead, I ran into the compound and went straight to Kristin’s office.Isaac tried to keep me out, but that wasn’t going to happen.
Inside, I lost my shit as I explained that her sister had just mated to another man.I expected her to be concerned, maybe weary of what she was hearing, but damn if the bitch didn’t start laughing when I mentioned the name that I had felt on the edges of her mind just before our bond vanished.
What the fuck was so funny?Why would she get hysterical over hearing that her sister had mated some guy named Corbin?I couldn’t wrap my head around it, and when Clayton, Zander, and Garrett joined the hysterics, I couldn’t fucking take it anymore, and I stormed out.
Screw all of them for finding this so funny.Now that Angelina was mated to someone else, she didn’t need me.Hell, she probably never wanted me.Kristin knew I had intended to leave her once the baby was born.What was I supposed to do?
Clayton, Kristin, Garrett, and that fucking asshole, Zander, probably had something like this planned.Maybe they set it all up.Perhaps that is why they found it so fucking funny.
I was beside myself and didn’t know what the hell I was supposed to do now.I was amped up from watching Angelina have sex, and now my anger made me irrational as I walked down the hallway.
As I turned the corner, I practically slammed into Novah.I knew she was seeing Garrett, but I had also seen her watching me from time to time.After one heated look, I speared my hand through her dark hair and pulled her face toward mine.
Although surprised, she didn’t fight me.Instead, she pulled me into a bit of a nook in the hallway by a closet.Our kiss became almost fierce, as if she were feeding off my aggression.
“In the closet,” she whispered as I ran my mouth down her neck and palmed her ass, pulling her against my throbbing erection.
We pulled apart long enough to get the door open, and I glanced around quickly to make sure no one saw us and then slipped inside behind her.The closet was more of a workroom, which worked for me because there was a small butcher block island in the center.I walked her back to it as I kissed her and then lifted her to sit on it as I began to lift her shirt.
She moved her hands fast to undo the buttons on my shirt and roughly pushed it off my shoulders.She brought her mouth back to my neck and nipped at the skin above my vein.God, I wished she could suck from me, but I didn’t want to hurt the woman.
I yanked her hair and exposed her neck as my fangs dropped, and then I scored her skin.She clung to me, whimpering as I squeezed her breasts and pulled the cups of her bra back to expose one firm breast.They were smaller than I preferred, but I didn’t care at the moment.I pinched one as I sucked deeper from her neck, and she arched her back toward me, holding my head against her neck as her breath came in pants.
I removed my fangs and lifted her off the worktable.“Remove your underpants.”
