A Vampire’s Soul: The Order of the Black Oak - Vampires by Marie-Claude Bourque

Author:Marie-Claude Bourque [Bourque, Marie-Claude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sea Storm Publishing

Chapter 17

The fucking jerk! Her mouth opened in disbelief. Her pulse still racing from the rush of dizzying sensation, she pressed a hand to her throat. A lump was mounting in her chest at the ache in her heart.

She knew him, knew that he never, ever let his guard down. If he had women after Marie-Louise, Emme hadn’t known any of it. Hells, he might have been celibate all this time.

But she’d guess right on one thing—there was passion in him.

And now…leaving her like this on a pretense. How could he have been so intimate with her before vanishing without a look and act as if nothing had happened?

She’d seen the expression in his eyes when the housekeeper had walked in. He wasn’t amused as he should’ve been. No.

His gaze held shame. Embarrassment to be seen on the cusp of having sex with her.

It was like a switch had been turned back off.

One moment he was acting on his urges. The next, he was Professor St-Amand again. Above them all. Too smart to be overtaken by something like lust. Too good for someone like her. The p’tite Emmeline from the shop. The vampire who had killed.

Not like Saint Marie-Louise who never set a foot out of line, prim and proper as she glided in the street with her head high and her arms filled with books for her latest salon gathering.

Emme pursed her lips as she pushed around Justin’s diaries on the library table. She was being silly. Why would she compare herself with someone who had been dead for three hundred years?

While Justin had always helped Emme clean her mess, each time he’d return home to his respected matron. Why would that even matter? She fumed. That was so long ago, it was a mere blink in a life many generations past.

He had held her in his arms, kissed her, and so much more. Just a few minutes before.

But he had rushed out as fast as he could. As if he was scared not just of her but of his own hunger.

And here she thought he had feelings for her.

When she had slipped into that dress, she’d thought for sure she would know. That perhaps she had indeed taken the wrong course by settling for Valerian. And that maybe, they could change it all now.

Justin’s callousness was painful. Unlike anything she’d felt before.

Was that what having a soul meant? Feeling things so deeply that your chest ached with sadness?

She fingered the pages of one of his logs without seeing it. Did she even like him?

Of course she did. She was kidding herself by ignoring it. She had always liked him.

More than his reliability in all things—which she did value—she also appreciated his honesty. He always told it like it was. And he saw her. Always. As a person. With her own ideas and autonomy. What do you want to do now? he’d asked, after one of her episodes. Always inquiring about her opinion. Always giving her that choice.

And now that she understood things more clearly, she saw beyond her loyal fixer.

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