James's Risk [The Vampire District 5] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic ManLove) by Marcy Jacks

Author:Marcy Jacks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2013-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Vaughn couldn’t take being bedridden anymore. Being down in the basement and suffering from the cold and hunger was almost better than this.

He was being practically pampered. No, actually, he was being pampered. As far as prisoner treatment went, this was VIP stuff. It was like he was a king or something.

He shifted in bed, and this time when he tried to get out and put his feet down on the floor, he did so without falling flat on his face. He was still a little wobbly, but he got the job done as far as he was concerned.

There was no one else in the room with him, so either the place had been stripped down to prevent him from harming himself or others, or the vampires assumed that a human couldn’t cause any real damage.

He looked toward the fireplace. The fire inside was still large and bright, so someone must have come in to tend to it when he’d been out of it, but there were no fire pokers around for him to grab.

Vaughn had never been inside of a vampire mansion before, not including the lake house, but he was willing to bet that this place was at least four times the size of that place. For that reason alone, he looked around in case he should find a hidden cupboard, or some place where the metal rods would be kept out of sight instead of in the open.

There was nothing.

Well, the fire was still going, and the grate hardly looked like it was locked. Maybe he could break the legs off of one of those nice, polished wooden little table things, light it up and then burn down the door.

Solid plan, unless the fire got out of hand and he ended up killing him since no paranormal creature in their right mind would rescue a human from a fire.

He shuffled over to the little table in question, just sitting beneath the tinted window, ready to try it out anyway when the lock on his door clicked, and the heavy wooden door swung silently open.

The vampire stopped when he noticed that the bed was empty, but then he turned and found Vaughn standing off near the window.

Daren, one of the vampire lords who ruled this mansion, actually had a silver tray in his gloved hands. There was a steaming bowl of something on it, along with a glass of juice, and what looked to be another small bowl filled with cut-up fruit.

Vaughn could barely remember the last time the man had come to him, but it had been with a tray similar to that.

Vaughn almost blushed when the thought of the way the vampire had to hand-feed him. Vaughn had been too weak and sick to lift his hands very much, never mind eating like a normal person.

As though reading his mind, Daren spoke. “Because you are over there, can I assume that you can feed yourself this time? As well as eat everything on your plate?”

Vaughn’s growling stomach was the deciding factor in getting him to walk over to the other man.

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