King of Midnight by Adrian Lara

Author:Adrian, Lara
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: vampire romance, vampire romance series, paranormal romance
Publisher: Lara Adrian, LLC
Published: 2022-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 24

She couldn’t look away from Darion as he fed.

She watched transfixed, riveted when she should be repulsed.

Aroused when she should be appalled.

What was wrong with her?

It was impossible to look away from his scorching gaze. No longer the absorbing brown eyes that made her wonder if she might find any softness inside him, but shocking amber that burned as hot as an open flame. His pupils had winnowed down to the narrowest vertical slits as he drank greedily, his sensual mouth latched onto the human’s throat.

The tunic he’d been given to replace his own clothes hung open at the collar, the linen laces unfastened and loose. It revealed only a wedge of his smooth chest, but what little of it she saw drew her attention almost as magnetically as his eyes.

Breed skin markings curved and tangled across his chest, alive with dark colors. Changing shades of deep red, indigo, and gold, twisting and pulsing.

He was as alien to her as anything she had ever witnessed, beautiful in a disturbingly erotic way.

Yet for all Darion’s coiled power, he seemed to be holding it in check with the aged mortal. His grip on him was almost gentle. The man’s legs had given out the moment Darion struck, and instead of letting him sag or fall to the floor, Darion carefully held the old man’s body upright with one arm.

It wasn’t hard to imagine what it might be like to be pinned under all that power. Utterly at the mercy of those sharp, unforgiving fangs.

It should have unsettled her, even terrified her.

In many ways it did.

Because instead of the sick feeling she had anticipated, watching Darion slake his hunger electrified every cell in her body. Arousal spiraled, unbidden, a deep, liquid warmth she could hardly bear.

As if he sensed what she was feeling, he made a hungered sound while those fiery eyes consumed her with unrelenting heat.

Finally, she couldn’t take another moment. If playing spectator to his hunger wasn’t jolting enough, her strange reaction to Darion’s penetrating gaze was.

She rose, making her way down the steps as swiftly as she dared without breaking into a run.

She fled immediately for the stairs leading up to the royal chambers, her heartbeat hammering at every pulse point on her body.

She had hardly been inside her quarters long enough to catch her breath when the air stirred behind her with dark energy. She spun, astonished to find Darion standing there.

Alarm rang through her. “How did you-- What did you do to my men?”

“Relax, Selene.” That low voice of his seemed even deeper with his sharp fangs gleaming behind his lips. “Yurec and the others are fine, aside from the headaches they’ll have when they come to.”

“Get out, or I’ll call more of my guards.”

“Go ahead.” He had the audacity to grin. “I’m running on all cylinders now, and fuck knows I need to work off some serious aggression right now.”

She swallowed, refusing to shrink away from him as he strode farther into her personal space. Her hands came up out of reflex, palms warm with the waking of her power.

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