Bite Marks (The Lycans, 5) by Jenika Snow

Author:Jenika Snow [Snow, Jenika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jenika Snow
Published: 2022-01-23T16:00:00+00:00

19

Kayla

Damn the flush of heat that slammed into me over his words.

“You have a shitload of questions, and I have all the time in the world to answer them.”

I narrowed my eyes again. “All the time, huh?” I didn’t know why I was being sassy to him. After everything he’d said, after knowing what and who he was, it was clear that snapping back was probably a bad idea.

But it was like I knew he wouldn’t hurt me, so this push and pull that we were doing, this game of will and wits made me brave.

He was silent for long moments, just watching me, my words hanging in the air between us. “For you I have all the fucking time in the world.”

His words—that declaration—did something funny and exciting to my insides.

I cleared my throat and didn’t respond, just started eating. And the more I ate, the more my appetite surged. When I was finished with as much as I could stomach, I pushed my plate away and reached for my wineglass.

With my first swallow of the red liquid, the sweetness covered my tongue and slid seamlessly down my throat. It was heady and full-bodied.

I could feel Adryan watching me. He’d been doing it the entire time I was eating. Ignoring him was harder than it should’ve been, but I refused to let him know he had one hell of an effect on me. Even if he is already fully aware.

I looked at him then, keeping my expression neutral. He kept running his fingers around the rim of his glass, slow… so slow that my mind instantly went into the gutter, thinking about what else he could do with that finger.

“So if I’m playing along and accept that you’re a vampire”—holy shit, how weird did that sound?—“how old are you? Like Dracula old, or are we talking decrepit like Nosferatu?”

He tipped his head back and laughed loud and hard, his thickly corded neck coming into view. His Adam’s apple bobbed for a second before he sobered.

“One hundred twenty years.”

It was my turn to sober so hard and fast I might have died. “Goddamn,” I murmured. “You take ‘robbing the cradle’ to a whole new level. You do know I’m not even twenty-five?”

He hummed as if that turned him on. “You could have been old and wasted away when we first met, and I’d still find you the most gorgeous female to ever walk the planet.”

Okay. That was… beautiful. And weird. Definitely weird, but whatever.

“You don’t eat?” I asked instead of saying anything in response to that. My voice was a squeaky whisper before I cleared it and pulled my shoulders back.

Adryan made sure to keep his glass full, and damn him for even making that look sexy.

He leaned back in his chair but didn’t respond, just watched me as he lifted his glass, peering at me over the rim, and took a pull of the alcohol. When he set the crystal down, his fingers still wrapped loosely around it, the smirk he gave me had equal parts of annoyance and arousal raging against each other.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.