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“Come on,” he said, guiding me back to the door. “Blade should leave you alone now. Let’s get out of here.”
We walked back up the stairs and out the front doors of the club.
The cool air shocked my body, snapping me back to reality.
I didn’t want to face the truth of what had just happened. Alek,a demon,had just bitten me, which somehow meant I was now bonded to him. I placed a hand on my stomach.I was going to be sick.
“Is this permanent?” I asked him, motioning to my shoulder. He opened his mouth to respond but shut it quickly.
That was the answer I needed.
“The bond will last forever, yes,” he said.
“What does that mean?”
“It means you’re one of us. It means you’re protected. You can trust us, and we can do the same to you. That’s what it means.”
“But you were the one who bit me. Does that change anything between us?”
Alek ran a hand down his face and through his hair. “I don’t know,” he answered. “I’ve never bitten anyone before. I can’t tell if what I’m feeling is from our deal or from…”
What he’s feeling?
My mind raced. This was all happening so fast.I wasn’t actually part of his crew, was I?I was a fraud. A phony. If anyone found out about this, I would be dead.
“Were you bitten once?” I asked.
We both sat on the empty concrete sidewalk outside the bar. “Ages ago, yes.”
“By who?”
“My father,” he answered.
“Your father? But isn’t that…”
Alek shook his head and laughed quietly. “It was painful and necessary. There was nothing enjoyable about it.”
I crossed my arms over my stomach. Did he know how the bite had made me feel just now? Maybe that was part of our magical tether. Or maybe I had imagined the entire thing. “So your bite was different?”
He looked at me, his eyes a shade darker than usual. “Why?” he asked. “Are you saying that you liked it?”
Fire erupted in my stomach. He was teasing me, I knew that. But the danger in his eyes excited me. I had never felt this before. I had never felt this wild, this free.
My life had been a cage of protection. It was hardly a life, really. I wouldn’t consider what I had done the past twenty-two years living. Especially the years with my mother…
I shoved the memory away.
Alek waited for an answer.
“It…it wasn’t what I expected,” I responded. “And since when do you have fangs?”
Alek ran a tongue over his sharp teeth for emphasis. “They’re not real fangs, just a predatory defense.”
“So you go around biting your enemies?”
“Only when necessary.”
I took a long breath of the cool night air and let it calm my nerves. It wasn’t Alek that excited me, I reminded myself. It was this life. This danger.
