Stolen Bride: BWWM ROMANCE by Rachel Knight & Hailey Smoke

Author:Rachel Knight & Hailey Smoke [Knight, Rachel & Smoke, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Emily

I wasn’t snooping. In fact, I just so happened to be coming from the library when I saw her in the hall.

Beautiful, blonde and pale, she rushed down the hall in a shimmering gown, rushing to put on her coat as she moved to the door…and blood on her neck.

She was a Vessel. Young and beautiful humans who made money selling their blood and their bodies to hungry and horny vampires. I shouldn’t have been surprised at all to see her. After all, Malachi had to eat. And if he wanted more than that, he certainly had a right to it.

And yet my chest tightened with something bitter. I stood in the doorway of the library, book to my chest as she rushed past me without even seeing me and out into the foyer. She didn’t look especially elated the way that Vessels tended to once they had an encounter with a vampire, but it was clear that she’d spent some time with Malachi. I hated to admit it, but I was jealous.

What a strange feeling being jealous of my captor’s affairs. I didn’t really understand it. Maybe this was all an emotional response to my giving him head in the shower. It was an intimate act…especially since…

I looked down at the bite marks on my wrist. The ache in them reminded me of the sound of his voice as he moaned in pleasure and the twist of sweet pain when his teeth penetrated my skin. My sexual pursuit of him started as a way to gain his trust, now it was turning into something else. Something that maybe I wanted to.

Perhaps I was suffering Stockholm syndrome. I didn’t want him to have anyone but me.

After the girl was gone, I took my book and made my way back up to my room. I got as far as the stairs before I saw Malachi coming out of the parlor, his skin looking a little pallid and clammy. Maybe something had gone wrong with the Vessel and now he was ill…

“Are you all right?” I asked. He looked up at me with surprise, as if he didn’t realize I was there.

“I’m fine,” he replied, looking away from me and continuing forward to the study.

I scoffed as I turned to walk up the stairs. “You should be,” I muttered under my breath.

“I should be what?”

I froze. Damn Vampiric hearing. As many times as muttering under my breath got me in trouble as a child, you’d think I’d have learned by now.

“Nothing,” I responded and continued on my way. I felt his eyes on me as I walked away. I paused when he spoke again.

“If you have something to say to me, say it.”

“What would I have to say? I’m just your hostage. What do I care how you spend your evenings?”

He narrowed his eyes at me, then a smile turned up on one side of his mouth. “Really, Emily? Jealousy is not a flattering look on you.”

I scoffed, “Don’t be ridiculous. I’m not jealous.

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