Hunger by TS McKinney

Author:TS McKinney [McKinney, TS]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Painted Hearts Publishing
Published: 2019-07-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Gabriel

I paced the length of my bedroom, back and forth, back and forth, while I waited on some great brilliant solution to push its way into my skull—some solution as to why Marchand, now a known vampire, his true nature exposed, was back in my home…back in my bed. What the fuck had I been thinking, bringing him back here? Still trapped in the sleeping spell I’d cast after I’d hustled us away from the Montague vampire family, he looked as innocent as he’d looked the night before—right before I’d fucked him. Now I had first-hand knowledge that the innocent act was that, an act. He was a bloodsucking vampire, with some sort of ties to one of the legendary vampire families in our country. Julian had referred to him as his child. While I’d only been awake for a split second after whatever Dom had used on me had tried to kill me, I’d seen Julian with my own eyes. I also knew that wherever Julian was, Valen would be nearby. The two most powerful vampires in this hemisphere. And they were lovers, which simply amplified everything.

Fuck, fuck, fuck!

What did I think I was doing? Nic would be furious. All of the Législateurs would be most vindictive when they found out I’d come to close to being killed. Both of those things, however, were nothing compared to the ire I’d sensed from Julian Montague. Add angry warlocks into the mix, and I’d opened a cauldron of fuckery on the Quarter. My only job was to protect both the human citizens and supernatural community, and I’d broken every damn rule in the book.

I allowed my gaze to travel back to where Marchand rested peacefully on my bed. This time, there were magically enchanted iron shackles wrapped around his wrists, ankles, and neck, trapping him to the bed. I could have used silver to cause him pain and weaken him even more but hadn’t been able to allow myself to hurt him that way. Three weeks he’d spent trying to convince me he was good and pure. It was going to be hard to forget all his fanciful tales after just one encounter, however ugly the encounter happened to have been.

The thing was, I wanted to believe him. I wanted him to be the poster child for innocence and goodness. Even for a few moments when I’d been buried deep inside of him, I’d allowed the fairytale idea of him becoming my everything to enter my mind. I wanted what Nic and Thibeau had and I wanted it with him.

Of course, all the things I’d fallen prey to happened to be the very things vampires were notorious for—their allure, as I well knew, was deadly to all creatures, human or supernatural. Why in the bloody hell had I believed myself to be immune? I should have known better. I’d been trained better—been entrusted with the safety of New Orleans. When my eyes traveled back to Marchand, his lavender gaze was alert.

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