Crimson Truth: An Onyx Assassins Novel by Samantha Whiskey

Author:Samantha Whiskey [Whiskey, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-15T23:00:00+00:00

11

Benedict

“They’re all staring,” Jocelyn muttered beside me as we ate evening repast. She’d barely picked at her omelet, but at least her orange juice was half-gone. The woman needed her calories after yesterday’s activities. Today’s, too.

I glanced around the room, noting that Jocelyn had the attention of every vampire seated below the dais, and nodded. “That, they are.” And it wasn’t the kind of attention I appreciated.

The younger females watched Jocelyn with a curiosity that bordered on jealousy, which I could understand given the seating arrangements. A witch had never been invited to dine at the Domum, and we were only a few seats down from Alek and Lyric. The older females bore narrowed gazes as they whispered, no doubt pondering what exactly Jocelyn’s place was. But the males…

One blatantly ran his gaze down her profile, her neck, her frame, in open admiration. The neckline of her black shirt dipped just enough to bare a hint of cleavage, and my fangs extended as he noticed.

“Hey there, Benny,” she whispered, but my attention was locked on the soon-to-be-dead aristocrat who obviously thought Jocelyn was fair game—witch or not. Thanks to the magic in her blood, there wasn’t even the slightest mark on her neck from when I’d fed at her throat, which would have at least warned the male that she wasn’t on the market. “As pretty as those fangs are, you might want to put them away.”

My gaze whipped toward hers and found a smirk playing on her lips. I fought back the urge to kiss the expression off her face and forced my fangs to recede.

“Good boy,” she teased with a wink.

I rolled my eyes, keeping every dirty response silent in my brain. Even if I whispered the things that this “good boy” was going to do, the other vampires would hear. Super-hearing was a bitch.

“You’re causing a stir,” Valor said from my left. “I mean, it was one shock to find humans up here one day, but a witch?” She tsked her tongue. “Scandalous. Plus, you’re hot, so you know the tongues are wagging.”

“Well, it’s awkward as hell,” Jocelyn responded, tugging on the sleeves of her shirt for the hundredth time since we’d sat, making sure her mark—my mark—stayed hidden.

Mine. Mine. Mine.

Yeah, yeah. I know. But the rest of the world didn’t, which meant I’d put myself in the very dangerous position of being mated without publicly claiming my female.

“You guys headed off to fun and exciting places tonight?” Valor asked.

“No coven meetings today.” Jocelyn shrugged. “So I’ll probably be out in the courtyard, putting on another show for the fifteen prissy little debutantes that are just there hoping to get in Benedict's pants.”

I nearly spit out my coffee.

Valor laughed. “Oh honey, fifteen is a slow day around here. Once Benedict went to the matchmaker the females started crawling out of the woodwork. You planning on putting them out of their misery soon?” She aimed that last question at me, arching her eyebrow as if to remind me that she’d heard the fight Jocelyn and I had on the stairs last night.

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