Bound by Her Destiny by Mara Leigh

Author:Mara Leigh [Leigh, Mara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989318089
Publisher: Half Dome Press
Published: 2020-02-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Colton

I take Chelle’s pulse for the tenth time. It’s excessive to check so often, but making sure she’s still alive is at least doing something. It’s been steady and normal each time I’ve checked, which doesn’t seem possible given what I witnessed—Selina plunging her fangs into the woman’s neck and drinking.

Chelle didn’t even cry out when pierced, and based on her expression, she enjoyed feeding Selina and fell asleep happy. So weird. Rock insists it’s always like that and not some kinky fetish of Chelle’s. She claimed she’s never fed a vampire before, and I need to reconfirm this when—if—she wakes.

And speaking of kinky fetishes, I got hard when I was watching Selina feed. Assuming it wasn’t some kind of mind control trick, I don’t even want to think what that says about me.

I drop into the leather chair I pulled over so that I could stay close by the waitress as she slept on the same couch where I was unconscious earlier. Rock stands about ten feet away and, even though I’m a big man and trained in hand-to-hand combat, his massive height and size are intimidating.

It’s not like I’ve never noticed that Rock was big before, but somehow, out of the context of his bar and trapped in this basement with him, the man’s name suits him even better, and he seems to have grown a foot both in height and girth.

Rock’s stubborn inability to see the truth about vampires is maddening, but I know which one of us would win if this argument turned physical. Not me. And in my experience, while fists can blow off steam, they rarely, if ever, solve disagreements.

He’s explained the whole feeding thing a few times, claiming that vampires are harmless to humans, and that we’d be living happily alongside each other if humans hadn’t overreacted when vampires were outed to humanity two decades ago.

I’ve heard these claims more than a few times. He’s answered all my questions with plausible answers, and I’m having trouble holding onto my grip on reality, the things I know to be true.

My hand covers my throat again, over the place where Selina fed.

I can’t believe she did that to me—not once but twice. I trusted her and my heart breaks that my trust was so misguided. Talk about blinded by love.

“So…” I shake my head “…you’re saying I might have been bitten by a vampire before Selina, and not even know it?”

Rock shrugs. “It’s possible, yeah. Like I said, humans and vampires have coexisted for millennia.”

“Because they mess with our minds.” I lean back in the chair.

“They can’t implant thoughts.” Rock tips his head to the side. “If that’s what you’re suggesting.”

Frustration builds inside me. Rock doesn’t get it. “But you’ve already admitted that they don’t ask permission to feed and then they make us forget that it happened!”

“You’re right.” He nods. “The ethics are a little murky. But few things in the world are strictly black or white.”

Rock might not know black from white, right from wrong, but I do.

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