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But it was always Casey. If he couldn’t have me, I didn’t want anyone else.
We were on the Hell plane. I was his captive. When I thought about it, did I really have a choice? I would be violating my oath to the master, but I had to use every trick in the book to get away and take Dean with me.
“You know I do, but I will not listen to your logic.” He already thought the worst of me. I didn’t buy his whole rapid change. This was a tactic. Clever vampire, but I was smarter. I could use this to my advantage.
“You will if you want my tongue on you,” he whispered. “If you want my fangs in you. It’s been twelve long years, Olivia. Do you know how hard I’ll fuck you?”
Every word threatened to light me up, but I resisted. “You’ve had other women.”
“Not a single one. I’ve fed, but I’ve been true to my companion even when she tried to kill me,” he said gravely.
My stupid heart clenched because I almost believed him. “Vampires need sex.”
“And I’ve done without. I told you. I will have no other. It didn’t hurt that there was a Green Man running around most of the time. Rhys didn’t know how to shield when he was younger, and it soothed Sasha and I to be in his presence. It was harder for Sasha. He’s taken a few lovers over the years, but I refused them all, and I assure you Henri paraded them in front of me.”
“I never slept with Myrddin.” The words were out of my mouth before I could think to stop them.
His head shook slowly. “I don’t care, Liv.”
Somehow, I had to tell him this truth, to let him know I’d been faithful in one way. “I didn’t. I…have been purely focused on magic for these years. Any sexual relationship would have been a distraction. I was too important to the cause.”
A soft look hit his face, and I couldn’t help but admit how beautiful he was. “I would take you back no matter what you’ve done. Especially now that I believe you don’t even know what you’ve done. He used your body from time to time, right?”
It was a form of possession that allowed the master to be with us when we needed his strength. He used our bodies to communicate, to work his will. But he always told me what happened.
Didn’t he?
Casey leaned over and shoved a hand in my hair. “It doesn’t matter. Not tonight. I’m going to sleep with you tonight. You can stake me if you want to. I’m done living without you.”
The idea of sleeping with him shocked me in a way having sex with him hadn’t. It was too close, too intimate. “You can’t stay here.”
“I can and I will. I won’t touch you if you don’t want me to, but the minute you give me the okay, I’ll be inside you again. I’ll be home again. Don’t make me wait too long, Olivia. I’ve missed you. Think about it. All the orgasms you want and all you have to do is listen to a couple of questions.”
I’d underestimated him. “This is insane. I’m not doing this with you.”
He took a step back, and I immediately regretted the words. I wanted him close, but I didn’t want to want him close. We were on the Hell plane. The fucker should take what he wanted but no, that academic had to torture me.
“When you’re ready I’ll be the one beside you in bed. Don’t try to go to Gray and protest. Despite the fact that Donovan doesn’t have a contract with the demons, Vampire rules are still in play here. You belong to me, Olivia.”
He was wrong about that. “I haven’t taken your blood in years.”
“That is the claim a warrior makes. I am not a warrior,” he pointed out needlessly.
An academic claimed a different bond, though the blood bond would work. “It’s been years.”
“And yet I know you ate oatmeal this morning with a hint of brown sugar, and for lunch you ate a brown bread and ham sandwich and an apple that wasn’t as ripe as it should have been. Really, my love, you can send that back. Eddie would find you a sweet one,” he said.
The world seemed to stop. He could still taste what I ate? That bond should have broken years before. Years. Distance alone should have broken that bond. How could he…
“I can prove my claim on you.” Casey was talking like this was a casual thing and not my whole existence. “While Donovan won’t enforce it, I assure you Grayson will. He won’t want a vampire going to the demon council complaining that the rules aren’t being followed.”
“You wouldn’t.”
“I would,” he assured me. “You’ll find me changed in certain ways. I’m more ruthless than I was before, and I will use any law I need to in order to keep you close to me. I’ll use my place in the rebellion to further my pursuit. The only thing I want more than my king back on his throne is you.”
I hadn’t thought about the claims he could make on me, hadn’t thought he would even want one. “You can’t have me.”
“On that we will have to agree to disagree. So what will it be, Liv?” He stood across the room from me, but I could feel his hands. I could remember every time he’d touched me, every brush of his fingers over my skin.
