Once Bitten: A Paranormal Vampire Romance (Arcane City Book 1) by Tilly Hart

Author:Tilly Hart [Hart, Tilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-05T05:00:00+00:00

Twelve

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Pres snarled as I kicked my bin with ferocity. ‘Would you calm the fuck down?’

‘She left. I told her, and she left. Now what?’ The bin upended on the floor, spilling day old food, used blood bags and other debris over the floor. It did nothing to calm the tension bubbling up.

‘Now you move on and stop this one man pity party. She’s a human, what did you expect?’

‘We were human too, once. We weren’t born this way, I didn’t ask for this, why should I be punished for it?’ It wasn’t the first time Pres and I had had that argument, even if it was the first time over a human love interest.

‘Does it matter that we didn’t ask for it? It’s what we are, and we have to get on with it. You want a human playmate? There are plenty of them out there. But don’t be going to pieces over a girl you barely knew. You must have expected this, didn’t you think she’d wonder when you couldn’t go out in the day? Why you could never go to a theme park, or a weekend away without having to hide during the daylight? Why people go through spates of hunting us down? You can’t just ignore what you are to play happy families.’

‘I really liked her Abe.’

Pres gave me a small, wan smile. ‘It doesn’t matter now. We’ve got bigger problems than you being a lovesick vampire. There’s been no word from Calvin, and Greyson’s been spotted out, so he’s still whole and hale at the moment. Time is running out. You need to get us invited in before it‘s too late.

It killed me how easily Pres had discarded my feelings, but bar his own soulmate, he didn’t care about anyone else’s happiness.

‘Come on, I’ll get you a drink.’

It had been hours since Rebecca had left, and day ticked on into night. I ignored my exhaustion and sat next to Angus as he watched another noisy game show, while one by one the other vampires emerged from their slumber. Rebecca’s absence didn’t go unnoticed.

‘Lost your toy?’ Vance grinned as he took up a seat by the bar, downing a tequila and smirking.

I ignored him completely, my eyes narrowing as I stared at my drink.

Emmeline stretched out her long legs and came over, reaching her arms around my shoulders and kissing me on the cheek. ‘I can always help distract you, if you need it…’

Pres picked her up by the waist and gave her a look. ‘I don’t think so, Emmeline.’

‘I’m not a child, I’m hundred of years old. You can’t play the daddy-says-no card anymore.’ Pres’ jaw stiffened.

‘Maybe I can’t, but there will be no intervampire relations going on under my roof. I am President of the Guardians of the Underworld, and I will allow nothing that will give me more shit to worry about.’

Emmeline rolled her eyes and smiled. ‘I wasn’t proposing marriage, just a minor stress relief.’

Len opened the outer door, and for one sickeningly sweet moment I thought it was Rebecca.

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