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My eyes trail over the man, finally taking in the form of my mysterious employer.
My brows furrow. It doesn't make sense, and yet it does. I halfway expected him to be hideous with the way he kept himself hidden away, yet his voice is so beautiful I always suspected he was attractive.
But the term "attractive" doesn't do him justice. The man is gorgeous. His brother, Dorian, is certainly handsome as well, but he's more of a model-type handsome. This man is a darkly powerful, dangerous, bad boy type of handsome.
He probably has women throwing themselves at him everywhere he goes.
"Hello, Elena," Stephan greets me cordially as if we already know one another, which I guess we do, but certainly not in this capacity.
I shake my head as if I can clear it of all the muddled thoughts swirling through it. "What's going on? Where am I?"
Stephan sits on the edge of the bed, causing it to dip and tip me closer to him. I instinctively scoot further away from him because while I know his voice as that of my employer, his physical form is still like a total stranger to me.
"Try to remain calm," his voice is as beautiful and controlled and soothing as ever. "I'll explain everything in due time. Right now, you need to rest."
I open my mouth to argue. I don't want to rest. I want to know what the hell's going on. Why I'm meeting him like this. Where he's taken me. What the hell happened back in the elevator?
My mind flashes back to Dorian and how he cornered me in the elevator. How it looked like he was going to kiss me, but instead of going for my lips, he went for my neck.
I don't get to ask any of my questions, though, because before I can Stephen commands me, "Look at me, Elena."
His voice is deep and dark and strangely seductive, and I couldn't deny him if I tried.
My eyes snap to his, and I feel a weariness overtaking all of my limbs like I've just been injected with anesthesia.
I don't know what's going on, and before I have a chance to fully analyze the situation, everything goes black—yet again.
Sixteen
Stephan
I gaze downat my beautiful Elena. She lies sleeping in my bed. Something about seeing her finally in my bed has me feeling even more protective and possessive of her than I already was.
She looks like such a perfect little blond angel laying on her back with her hair fanned out around her on my black satin pillows.
I don't really know why I have a bed. There's no technical need for it since I never sleep. I suppose I'm nostalgic like that and just want to have one for the propriety of the situation.
Not like I've ever brought any women up here or anything. I truly am an eccentric creature, I suppose. I have all the trappings humans care so much about, yet I couldn't give a fig less about them.
All I care about is spread out on the bed right before me.Elena.
Anger licks through my veins, hot and potent when I remember Dorian's hands on her. My vision nearly goes red when I recall how his mouth was moving down to her neck.
I inhale a deep breath to calm myself—as pointless as it is since all it does is fill my lungs up with Elena's intoxicating scent.
My entire body vibrates with fury at the thought of my brother's intentions. He knows she means something to me—that she's essentially mine.
The thought that he would take her away from me like that…I'm regretting not ripping his head off when I had the chance all those years ago.
Because once bitten, the changeling becomes enslaved to their sire. The only way out is through death of the sire.
And in the case of a female having a male sire, more often than not, she becomes in thrall to him. It's not exactly the same as love, but it is certainly a type of lust where she'll do whatever he bids. She'll have a fierce loyalty to him, and fucking Dorian knows that.
The underhanded fucking snake.
Hell, he probably knew he couldn't get her any other way, so he would try to take her from me by force like that.
I've known for a while now that my brother resents me, but I never really truly understood the depth of his hatred for me. I always knew he was jealous and that he wanted anything I had, but I didn't really know he truly hated me until the moment I saw him trying to steal Elena from me.
