Chapter 17
Ali didn’t like the heavy taste of the blood at all. She knew that she needed it, her body craved it, but the taste was not something that she was getting used to. It would linger for hours and nothing she could do would get it off her taste buds.
“I see you still prefer the animal blood?”
Ali agreed when she saw Trenton coming in. He wasn’t happy about it, but that didn’t matter. She wasn’t there to make him happy. She’d tried that enough. Now all she was worried about was not making him too angry. He’d lashed out at her before and had come close to hurting her. While he said that she was his queen, it was clear what would happen if she crossed him. He would snuff her out and he wanted her to know how easy it was for him to do so.
“I do, Trenton. Thank you for getting it for me.”
“It’s been a week now, Ali. I thought you would be sick of it by now.”
Trenton didn’t like how stubborn she was. He was trying to make it easy, the transition, but it also seemed like Ali was going out of her way to make sure that she fought him at every turn.
“I’m done waiting for you to come around, Ali. I can make you.”
Ali didn’t like where this was going. How quickly things had changed in a matter of a week. She knew that he wasn’t going to let it go, but she was still holding onto the fact that it was going to be okay. She didn’t want to believe that there was any way he was going to be able to make her do the horrible things he was convinced she would do. Ali swore to herself that she wasn’t going to kill anyone. She would kill herself first.
Trenton tsked at her like she was a child. “I don’t want to be tested, Ali. You’re new and very weak. Don’t take my tenderness towards you as weakness. I can only be patient for so long.”
She knew what he was talking about. Human blood wasn’t the only thing she was refusing. He wanted her in his bed as well, but she’d told him flat out no several times. Each time she could see him getting more and more upset about it.
“Please, Trenton. This is all just so new to me. It’s just going to take me a little more time.”
Trenton would have killed her if he knew what was inside of her or what she had done with Cal the week before. He thought she was the one, thought Ali still believed he had it all wrong.
“I will give you some more time on one or the other. You must pick which one you are going to give into tonight. I can’t go on with you acting this way. People are starting to talk, and I can’t have that. We need unity right now, and that means getting you in line.”
Ali didn’t know what to say because either thing sounded detestable to her. It was literally two of the last things that she would want to do and to choose between the two of them left her speechless.
He started to move towards her and Ali knew which one Trenton wanted. It was easy to see the lust in his eyes, just like the night at the club.
“You have to choose now, Ali, or I’m going to make the choice for you.”
Ali didn’t know what to say. There was no choice. She didn’t want to kill, and she didn’t want anyone but Calum to touch her.
Trenton moved closer and their eyes met. She was nervous as all get out and she started to feel the rug swept out from underneath her. Ali fought the feeling and shook her head, trying to dispel the thoughts he was planting in her mind. He wanted her, and he wanted her to want him, but that wasn’t necessarily a need for him. That was not something that he shared with Calum.
He was only going to wait so long, and it looked like tonight was the night that was too late. Her imagination went to the half-human slave girls that were around the manor. It was hard not to wonder if that was what he wanted to turn her into. Ali shuddered at the idea of it all.
“It is still early, Trenton. Can we at least wait a little while?”
“Do you need time to think about it?”
She shook her head no. She knew which one she would pick when her hands were tied, but that didn’t mean that Ali wasn’t going to try and delay the inevitable if she could. It was not something that she ever wanted to do. Ali was still working on a way to get out of it. She was looking for an angle. There had to be one. She was sure of it.
“No, I am just drained and need a little while to prepare.”
Trenton wanted her now, but he agreed to wait a little while. “Not too long, Ali. A man can only wait so long.”
Ali went up to the room that she was given when she first arrived. She felt even more out of place there with the vampires than she did with the shifters. Ali was one of them, through no choice of her own, and she didn’t believe that she could ever really be one of them.
Laying on the bed, the world spun, and she was having another wave of nausea hit her. She hadn’t been feeling well at all, but as Trenton kept reminding her, it was because she wouldn’t drink the blood like she was supposed to. He’d assured her that it was only going to get worse until Ali caved in. He was sure of it and Ali was starting to think that he was right. She felt awful and the cravings were more intense than anything she’d encountered in her whole life.
The way nightwalkers felt about humans was much in the same as the shifters did as far as not caring about the species. But the vampires thought about them as food only. Ali could never be that way. She would never be able to forget that she was once human.
Her eyes closed as she thought about everything. Her life had taken an unexpected turn. At first it had been scary, then exciting, and now she was in a holding pattern of dread. Nothing good could come from it now, Ali thought to herself. She wanted to sleep and make it all go away.
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Trenton cameinto the room silently later and noticed that Ali was sleeping. He thought it was a ploy to make him forget what he wanted from her, but there was no way that Trenton was going to be able to wait any longer. Waking her up would be just as easy.
He could see her thoughts of Calum more clearly now as she dreamed, and it gave Trenton an idea. A glamour was easy to make, and he could now give her what she wanted, making it possible for him to get what he wanted as well. He wanted her moaning in pleasure when he slipped inside of her. Now Trenton could have it that way.
