Possessed by a Vampire by Susan Griscom

Author:Susan Griscom [Griscom, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-25T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Lily

Preston didn’t know the half of it. I kept my gaze toward the floor, unable to look at the man I’d fallen for. The sorrow and shame on his face were too much to bear. I supposed in some sense, I was a whore.

Though not for money.

I was a whore to the man who kept my brother captive. I did everything and anything he demanded in order to keep my brother alive. My brother’s life was my payment.

“I’m sorry,” he said again. I couldn’t look at him, but my senses broke loose. The shame he suffered for what he’d called me flowed from him and exploded in my mind. Then he placed his finger under my chin, lifting my face so that my eyes had no choice but to meet his. “I am extremely sorry I called you a whore. You are the furthest thing from a whore that anyone could ever be. And when you left me sitting in my car I was so overwrought with grief and fear that you were in danger. I felt it here . . . inside.” He splayed his hand over his chest.

I swallowed the sob in my throat and silently accepted the apology.

“Oh, Preston, What are we going to do?”

“First, we are going to do this.” He pressed his lips against mine and kissed me slowly, carefully, with such tenderness that I surrendered to him completely. I was his, and he was mine, and not even Dorian—

I tugged away, ending the kiss and he looked at me, his dark eyes glowing with that amber color I loved so much on him.

“Dorian . . .” The name was like tar on my tongue, sticky, black, and disgusting, and I hated that I’d even thought of it at that moment, tainting the kiss that had made me feel cherished and loved. “Dorian has always kept me close, never allowing anyone else to have me. And then, when he’s ready to join in the fun, I’m always whisked away to my room by Malik or one of the other vampires he trusts before anyone can claim me.”

Preston swiped his hand through his dark hair and bit his bottom lip.

“Lily, why are you here?” His gaze dragged down the length of me. “Wearing this extremely risqué outfit? Why do you allow Dorian to do this to you? You’re a vampire. Use your abilities and teleport the hell away from here.”

“I can’t.”

“That’s ridiculous. You leave all the time. You meet me at The I.V. You come to my club. What do you mean you can’t?”

“You wouldn’t understand.”

“Oh, believe me, I would. I know the man, remember? He’s my maker, or did you miss that part of the conversation out there?”

“No. I caught it.”

“So, try me, love. Tell me why you won’t leave him?”

I sighed. “He is also my maker.”

“Shit.”

“Preston. I would leave . . . but I can’t.”

He stood up and walked a few feet away, rubbing his eyes as if they burned, and then turned back to me.

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