A Vampire's Purgatory (Romance In Central City Book 8) by Jordan K. Rose

Author:Jordan K. Rose [Rose, Jordan K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jordan K. Rose
Published: 2017-09-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

In nearly six hundred years Ricard had not been treated like this. No human had the nerve to stare him down, let alone force him to look at her. When he thought back he wasn’t even sure his own sire had done this to him.

The experience nearly had him at a loss for words.

He studied the curlicued pipsqueak, noting the way her bottom lip quivered and the way her blood raced through the veins at her neck. Her eyes were slightly dilated, another sign of rising anxiety.

“I do not like for you to be afraid.”

“I just said I’m not afraid,” she said quite sharply.

“You are not afraid to be bitten, so you say. But you are afraid I may turn you away.”

She huffed. “How perceptive of you.”

“You bait me.”

“Hardly.” She shook her head but did not make eye contact when she answered.

The fact was the little imp was baiting him. She was doing her damnedest to tempt him into either fighting with her or simply taking her. He fought to keep his fangs from descending.

He hated to admit all she said was true. For centuries he’d tried to apply logic to love, thus separating himself from the pain. Theories and conjecture, hundreds of them, lay scrawled on parchment, in notebooks, on the computer. But the impetus behind each was a painful longing. He’d waited so long that he’d begun to doubt.

Now sitting on his lap was the one he waited all these years to find, and he was terrified.

“Really, you’re the one who baits me.” She stared beyond him at the wall. “Sending me in here to sit and wait while you and Serge and Rafe argued over who would question me in your special vampire way. The whole time you knew I’d see all those pictures and find your charts and see your notebooks. You sent me in here to get me all excited about thinking you wanted me.”

She turned to look at him with a glare. “Or maybe you sent me in here to make me think you’re some sweet and interested man who lives with love ideas formulating non-stop in his brilliant little brain.”

“You believe I have a little brain?”

She rolled her eyes. “Or, did you send me in here to break it to me scientifically? That’s it, isn’t it? You don’t have any interest in me. You’re not even thirsty enough to take a bite. You wanted me to see how scientifically focused you are and that you have no real desire for me other than to find out what I might know that could help you with your mission.”

He laughed. “Yes, that’s it exactly. It’s both of those things. For hundreds of years I have had so little interest in the concept of love that I’ve spent time trying to debunk it’s existence. Furthermore, because I found you in a weakened condition from this most recent loss concerning…” He paused, and Jessica nodded.

“In your weakened condition you made decisions that led me to believe

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