Loving The Man by Unknown

Loving The Man by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Format: epub
Published: 2010-02-13T07:27:10+00:00


Chapter Five

Katia prowled long into the night, ignoring the familiar blood-thirst, trying desperately to restore her equilibrium. She had set out not to kill the man, but to defeat him along with her own growing obsession. And instead he had defeated her, with a little conversation, a little kiss. By reminding her of gentler times, of her own lost humanity, her own needs and desires, he was destroying her.

When at last she fell exhausted on to the couch and slept, her dreams were confused, overlaying present angst with people and incidents from her past, with blood spilled and taken. She wasn’t really sorry to be dragged into wakefulness by the banging on the door, though she did feel momentarily disoriented.

There was shouting among it now too, though not the riotous kind. The “Katia, open the door, I know you’re in there!” kind.

Max. It was Max. Damn him. The one vampire whose company she occasionally tolerated.

Swallowing, she wiped her hand across her face, feeling the heat and the sweat, and rose from the couch. Stumbling slightly, she found an old cloak and flung it around her naked body. Though Max had seen her naked many times in their distant past, and she was sure it now meant as little to him as it did to her, she had no intention of freezing her butt off just for the sake of his impatience.

“If you break my door in, Max, I’ll make a new one out of your head,” she grumbled, sliding the bolts free at top and bottom. She wrenched open the door with more invective on her lips, but her words died there unspoken, for outside her door, she beheld not only Max, but the lupi Will.

* * *

Katia lit the lamp and kicked her black jumpsuit to the side of the floor.

“Forgive me,” she said sardonically. “I don’t entertain much, and I wasn’t expecting guests.”

Looking around him, Max said disapprovingly, “Why do you live here, Katia? You have a sick sense of humor.”

“Why ask when you know the answer? What do you want, Max? And why bring your new friend to me? I’m presuming the king of the lupi is not your hospitality gift to me?”

Will, the mocked “king of the lupi,” only smiled faintly. He looked no more afraid of her than David had. Less, probably. Mind you, this Will looked quite like him. The eyes were wrong, and Will’s hair was silvery rather than golden blond, but there was something about the shape of his face that…

Shit, Katia, this is obsession! Snap out of it!

“What hospitality would that be, Katia?” Max asked with mock civility.

Katia laughed shortly. “Fair point. Sit. Spill.”

Max sat on the couch, although he glanced up at Will, as if uncertain. Will was wandering around her room, restless. Katia caught a whiff of his blood. Powerful, lupi blood. She remembered she was hungry.

Max took a deep breath. “We’d like your help, Katia.”

Katia blinked, and lowered herself to the couch, still grasping the cloak around her naked body.



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