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“I’ll kill them before they can touch me,” I say with confidence, and he chuckles.
“I don’t doubt that for a second, and since you’re as wanted as I am, I’ll allow it. But only if you stay in my bed for the night.” He says, causing my heart to explode. “You know, to make sure I’m okay.”
“Ha, will there be space for me inside your coffin?” I do the best thing I can at this moment, and that’s stall.
He rolls his eyes and pulls me closer to his chest; I’m sure that I can feel his heart beating, but how can that be?
“Hilarious, but that’s my condition since you want to play nurse to a Vampire King,” he says.
Vampire King? Is this why Valentine said that they’ll be going to DC? So, he’s taken over as the King then…. That means the safest place for me would be at Gabriel Priest’s side until I can move on.
I sigh, then nod. “Fine, I’ll stay the night only and no funny business,” I say, really wanting whatever funny business he has planned, but as per Valentine, I have to resist him as much as I can.
The grin on his face tells me that he has no intention of listening to me. “Deal. For now, I’m feeling quite weak and need your help in the shower–”
“Don’t push your luck, Priest,” I say, then hop off the bed and gesture towards the shower. “I’ll call Valentine to help you.”
“You’re a ball of fun, aren’t you?” he says, then gets up and ambles over to the bathroom while I can do nothing but stare at his glorious body retreating.
GABRIEL
The woman who supposedly hates me more than anything in this world saved my life tonight. I know that I was shot close to my heart courtesy of that cunt, Xenia, but Katherine even removed those as well as the splinters.
She tended to me when she could have let me die and escape, she cleaned my wounds when the door was open for her to leave.
Why doesn’t it bother me as much as I thought it would? Even the way she looks at me is different, and I am not sure if I like it. Maybe I should push her a bit tonight and see how far I can get before she snaps.
But those thoughts curdle in my throat as I think them… I can’t exactly repay her kindness with cruelty, can I?
I look down at my chest where I was shot, and even though the wounds have closed up, I can still feel where the bullets were. Katherine did more than save my life, she saved my entire nest along with the vampires who will serve under me.
I don’t think that I can use her or torture her anymore, even if her blood is responsible for the deaths of my family.
Sighing, I wash the blood and regret from my skin before getting out of the shower and heading to my walk-in. I have to show my face to my men so they can see that I’m still alive and that I have a plan after this.
For weeks I’ve anticipated this ambush, and they didn’t disappoint either; Xenia led them here with only a handful of hunters to an army of us. I’m sure they didn’t expect us to be so well prepared, especially now that I’ve taken the position as Vampire King.
The council was all but ecstatic to hear that I’d made my decision, but they told me that I need to produce an heir within ten years or the title will be stripped from me.
Unfortunately, I cannot fight them on this since they are all older Purebloods, and they want my bloodline to continue our Vampyric monarchy.
But the problem lies with me and not having met my Fated since I will only be able to produce an heir with them. So, I guess from now on, I will have to seek out the one Goddess Nyx intended for me, even if I hate the entire thing.
“Do you always walk around naked after a shower?”
Katherine’s voice snaps me out of my thoughts, and when I turn to look at her, I notice her wide eyes… Then I realize that I’ve walked out of the shower completely naked.
“Apologies, I’m not used to having women in my bed,” I say, making a show of bowing down to her, and I catch her rolling her eyes at me just as I walk into my closet.
“One day, I’m still going to take you over my knee for rolling your eyes at me like that, little lamb,” I called from inside the walk-in and heard her laughing.
“Oh, please, I’m not some naughty schoolgirl you can reprimand,” she comments with a hitch to her voice, telling me that she would love it if I took her over my knee. “Besides, I don’t believe for one second that you’ve never had women up here.”
I grin while pulling a t-shirt over my head and walk out to meet her, fully dressed. “And what makes you say that?” I ask while stalking over to where she’s sitting with her legs pulled close to her chest. Her eyes are laced thick with desire, and she doesn’t break contact with mine even as I lean over her.
“D-do I really have to explain that to you?” she asks with a red face. “You’re literal sex on two legs.”
“I won’t deny that I like to fuck, but I’ve never brought a woman to my bed,” I say and chuckle, then watch as her eyes widen.
