“You know they aren’t,“ Aurelia hissed. “Let’s go before we really cause a scene.”
She left us without another glance, and just like that, I was cast aside again.We. But somehow it felt more targeted at me. She let Vesper touch her. She soothed her.
But me?
She barely had anything to say to me, and when I tried to reach out, she sidestepped me.
I don’t understand.
Before Vesper was taken, I thought we were together. The three of us. But maybe I was wrong.
“Why’d you stop me?” I asked as Vesper came to stand at my side.
“The seer came to me in my dream,” she replied.
“What?”
She nodded, her face strained.
“But first, I need blood, or I might actually kill someone.”
Her arms wrapped around me, and I tilted my head to the side.
“Good witch.” Her deep timbre had shivers going up my spine.
In a flash, her fangs were buried deep inside me. Intense fire ran through my neck and shoulders before being quelled by the venom.
I didn’t fight the reaction it pulled from me.
I wanted to lose myself in it. Wanted to lose myself in her if it meant forgetting the betrayal for just a moment longer.
I let her back me up to the chaise Aurelia had been sitting on. With her fangs still in my neck, she hastily laid me down, moving on top of me. I held on to her, pulling her closer as the pleasure coursed through me and pulled me under a wave of warmth.
But all I could think of was Aurelia and the painful expression she left me with.
I couldn't take it anymore. I started trying to unbutton Vesper’s clothes. I needed her closer.
She pulled her fangs from me, and I had to stop myself from begging her to put them back in. The hit from her venom was too much. My core was clenching, and I was unbelievably wet for her.
“I need you,” I whispered. But the moment she met my eyes, it was like cold water splashed through me. “But…”
I swallowed the knot in my throat. I was aching for her to touch me. My cunt was begging for her to fuck me hard enough to seal away these unwanted feelings.
But Vesper, even in her bloodlust haze, saw something in me and paused, waiting.
“But I want her here too,” I admitted, my voice wavering.
Shit. Pull it together.
I couldn’t. I could feel the tears breaking in my eyes. I blinked rapidly and looked up at the ceiling.
And then Vesper wrapped her arms around me and laid her head on my chest.
“Soon,” she vowed. “We will get her back.”
I pushed my palms into my eyes, trying to stop the tears that were coming. I couldn't fully understand why it hurt so bad. Couldn't understand the reaction I was having.
How had this vampire princess gone from being the biggest annoyance I’d ever met to one of the two most important people in my life?
