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Why isit that all really good dreams always end before you get to the best part?
Usually my dreams were weird and vague—at least those parts that I’d remember. It was rare that I’d remember everything. Sometimes I’d get a real nightmare about losing my family or the massacre that killed my biological parents. It wasn’t like I actually remembered said massacre. I was a newborn when it happened, but my psyche remembered.
But this dream . . .
This one wasn’t like any other.
The land was lush. Warm. Crystal clear water fell from a rocky outcrop high above me. Verdant ferns popped up from cracks along the rockface with some sort of glowing algae. I couldn’t see where the waterfall ended up, but the spray touched my legs as my toes curled in wet sand.
As amazing as it was, the tropical paradise wasn't even the best part. That award went to the sexiest man I'd ever seen as he pounded into me with some kind of hip roll, slowly driving me insane.
Dark hair fell around his face, creating a curtain between us and the surrounding paradise. He had bronze skin and wide shoulders. His muscles were significant, but not beefy like so many of the shifters back home. It was said that you can't visualize a face you've never seen before, but his features were plain as day. Yet, I was absolutely certain that I'd never laid eyes on this man. He wasn’t the kind you’d forget—and that wasn’t just because he fucked me like a god.
“Who owns you?” he grunted, kissing my heated skin. When I didn’t answer, he growled, his chest vibrating, the sensation sending shivers up my spine. Vines wrapped around my ankles and knees, spreading me for him. “Who fucking owns you, Kali?”
“Kali?”
That wasn’t my name.
What the hell?
The dream evaporated. Instead of the warm sand against my back, and a hot, hard body pressing into mine—I woke in a cold bed. Empty. Alone, as usual. My phone screen lit up my tiny room and it buzzed so hard against the nightstand that it rattled obnoxiously.
Two thuds sounded from the wall beside me, followed by an annoyed voice.“Can you get that?”
I sighed.
Fucking vampire hearing. Not that shifter dorm-mates were any better on that front.
You’d think the walls would be spelled for sound proofing when an assortment of supernaturals lived there, but no. Instead, the walls were paper thin and poorly insulated. They claimed it was because they were destroyed regularly from fighting or fucking, but I thought whoever was in charge of budgeting was just a cheapass when it came to living conditions.
I reached for my phone, already knowing who would be on the other end. Not many people had my personal line. Even fewer would call it at such a late hour.
“What?” I answered.
My sister's voice flooded through the shitty speaker. “Why do you sound like a chain smoker?”
I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and cleared my throat. It did jack shit. “Because it’s four in the morning, and not all of us have a filthy rich vampire mate that can portal us around the world for vacation.”
“It's not vacation,” Elias said.
I couldn't make out my sister’s response as Danni squealed. It didn’t take much imagination to figure out what they were doing. I groaned. “Seriously, you can't wait until after you're done to call me?”
“Hey,” she protested. “We're not—”
“Save it.”
“For your information, Elias is working. So this isn't a vacation. A vacation means that there are no kingly duties or contracts to be signed—” Danni’s voice turned muffled as the phone shifted. I rolled my eyes. Not having sex, my ass. “Or people requesting an audience with one of us. Nope. This is not vacation. It's just a . . . leisurely tour through all of his properties so that I can get acquainted with all of Blood and Beryl.”
“Mhmm.” I tried to clear my throat again. “Blood and Beryl. Suuuuure. Whatever you say, sis.”
Well, it was true that Blood and Beryl did have many territories and that Danni, who was now queen, needed to become familiar with them.
However, I wasn't an idiot.
She and her vampire mate had been trying to conceive for the better part of the last year and decided that some time away from home—i.e. our moms—was needed. Namely so they could fuck like rabbits without interruption.
