Bleed for Me by Eden Cynthia

Author:Eden, Cynthia [Eden, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General
ISBN: 9780985554422
Publisher: Cynthia Eden
Published: 2012-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

A circle of laughing, leering men surrounded Terese.

Apollo paused inside the doorway of Hades, every muscle in his body seeming to turn to stone—and Medusa wasn’t even around.

What in the hell did Terese think she was doing?

He’d asked her to meet him there at dusk. He hadn’t thought that she’d—

Terese broke away from the circle, her hand outstretched, beckoning, to one of the guys.

Apollo’s jaw clenched.

The foolish mortal eagerly followed her—like some kind of damned dog. The mortal was a big, brawny guy with short cropped red hair and muddy brown eyes. He licked his lips as he watched Terese, and, even from across the room, Apollo could smell his lust.

Oh, hell, no. He waved his hand, parting the crowd as he stalked toward them.

He wasn’t sure what kind of game Terese thought she was playing, but there’d be no—

Terese opened the back door of Hades and led her mortal out into the alley.

“Terese!”

The dancers around him stilled at the lethal yell. But the back door had already swung shut.

* * *

A heady rush of power swept through her. Terese stared up at the red-head—Jeez, what was his name again? Martin? Marvin?—and felt her bloodlust grow.

The man was completely under her thrall. His gaze was helplessly fixated on her, his pupils dilated to tiny pinpricks.

“Get on your knees,” she whispered softly…and he did. He actually lowered to his knees before her! He stared up at her, waiting.

She’d been practicing her thrall over the last week. Little tests at first. Not on Apollo, never on him because she didn’t want to take his will away. She’d experimented only on strangers. Just little pushes before, but…

Now this.

A car horn sounded in the distance and laughter drifted in the air around her.

Terese was alone with the guy in the alley. Alone with a guy who outweighed her by at least two hundred pounds, but she wasn’t scared. She had all the control. All the power. Finally. “Tilt your head back,” she whispered and licked her dry lips.

Instantly, his head cocked, and his throat, that thick, muscled throat, was offered up to her.

Oh, my. Terese swallowed as her gaze drifted to the racing pulse point that tempted her—

“Don’t even think about it.”

She yelped and spun around at the rough rumble of Apollo’s voice.

He stalked out of the building’s shadows, his blue eyes glittering with rage. “Get away from him, Terese.”

“It’s…ah…not what you think.” He would have appeared at just that exact moment.

“Oh?” He took another slow step toward her, and the street light fell across his face. His seriously pissed face. “You didn’t just bring that guy out here so that you could stick those lovely fangs of yours in his throat?”

Well, the idea really was tempting…especially now that the fellow had his head tilted back so far and his throat was just waiting for her, but— “No. That’s not why I’m here.” Her fangs burned, but she ignored them.

The guy on the ground shook his head, then blinked groggily. “Wh—what’s goin’ on?”

Terese could have screamed.

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