Chosen by Blood

Author:Virna Depaul [Depaul, Virna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary, Romance, Science Fiction, Fiction, General, Paranormal, Man-Woman Relationships, Vampires, Paranormal Romance Stories, Antidotes
ISBN: 9780425241547
Google: OTHwjwEACAAJ
Publisher: Berkley Sensation
Published: 2011-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

They arrived in Quantico within the hour. While O’Flare and Wraith holed up together, hopefully to decipher the addresses from O’Flare’s vision, Felicia locked herself in her room. She was so pissed that if she didn’t, she was sure she’d come unglued.

Was it true? Did Knox really think she was helping Mahone to play him? After their history? Her history with his family? After what they’d become to each other?

“And what exactly is that, Felicia?”

She shrieked and whirled to face Knox. “You—you . . .” Cocking her arm back, she punched him in the face with all her might. He didn’t even try to deflect the blow, so his head snapped back. But just barely.

“Don’t sneak into my room again,” she ordered, “and don’t sneak into my mind, damn it.”

Knox touched the corner of his mouth, then wiggled his jaw. “I plead to the first but not the second,” he countered. “You were muttering to yourself.”

“I was not . . .” she began, but then paused. Had she . . . Okay, so maybe she had been. It didn’t justify his little surprise drop-ins. She turned her back on him and rubbed her knuckles, more for something to do than because she’d hurt herself on his thick, dense skull.

“Again, I’m hearing your thoughts loud and clear with absolutely no effort on my part.” As he spoke, Knox tugged her around and took her hand. After a brief game of tug-of-war, he lifted her hand to his mouth and kissed the knuckles she’d been rubbing.

She’d just started to melt before she remembered she was pissed at him. She snatched her hand away. “Don’t. You might get dirty. After all, I’m a traitor, right?”

“I never said that.”

“Yes, you—”

“No,” Knox insisted loudly, his voice practically booming to be heard over hers. “I didn’t. I said you didn’t have to list all the evidence that might lead someone to jump to that conclusion.”

“Someone, meaning you?”

“Of course not.”

At his calm words, which she knew had to be the truth, she hesitated. “Then what—”

“I don’t believe it, but if we don’t end up finding the antidote, there are those who might latch on to that explanation out of fear. Desperation. Prejudice. Who knows?”

“Those? Those who? Your mother would never . . .” Realization formed. “Ah. You mean the Vamp Council.”

His face was grim when he answered. “It’s a possibility.”

“And that would be pretty bad for you, right? Because it would be hard to have your piece of ass on the side—that’s assuming I’d ever agree to such a position, which I wouldn’t—if the Council thought she was a threat to your clan.”

His brow furrowed and he shook his head. “You just love to push me, don’t you?”

She scowled. “I don’t have to push you. Everything that pushes you is already there. It exists just by virtue of who we are. What I am.”

“I thought we settled this the other night. What you are is mine.”

With a casual flick of his fingers, he undid the top button to his shirt.

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