Taunted: A Vampire Blood Lust Romance (Vampire Paranormal Romance Book 3) by Autumn Reign

Author:Autumn Reign [Reign, Autumn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

4

Jo Ann

Looks like it’s turtlenecks for me for the foreseeable future, I thought dryly, scratching my collar at the place where my one-night stand had sunk his teeth into me.

God, what the hell had that been?

And yet sitting in my desk chair now, squirming in my seat as I remembered the sensual pleasure that had erupted in me, I couldn’t deny at all that I’d enjoyed it.

And that was exactly what had freaked me out.

The walls of my office closed in around me like a prison cell as I worked. If last night had been bad, then this afternoon was nothing short of hellish. I pecked my way out through as many lines of legalese as I could before the words started to blur, even my surroundings fading away. In their place I saw the sweat sheen of the stranger’s naked body, the intensity of his deep blue eyes. I tasted the salt on his lips, the salt of my own body, and I felt my toes curl as he drank of my blood in its abundance …

And then I snapped myself out of it.

I shook my head, trying to get a grip on myself.

“Damn it, Jo Ann! This whole thing was a mistake.”

I should have known that just one taste wouldn’t be enough. I was obsessed with him now, intoxicated in a way that was seldom ever a risk for me whenever I decided to hook up.

He’d loved my body like no one ever had. He’d known me with a certainty that made me tremble to this very moment.

And more than anything, that had scared me away from him, even more than it had attracted me in the first place.

It made me feel claustrophobic. Like he had power over me. A sway that I wasn’t in control of.

I’d spent years trying to gain control over my life. Trying to push back against what was expected of me and achieve something meaningful.

I wasn’t about to let that all be thrown away for some pretty boy with a fetish for blood. I refused to cede control over myself or my life to this man, no matter how bad the temptation might have seemed.

“Focus, Jo Ann … focus!” I urged myself, even as I strove to forget the taste of his kiss.

Suddenly the phone on my desk rang, and I sprang up from my seat in a panic, as though my boss had just walked in on me straddling Sylvan across my desk.

I took a deep breath, calming myself, and let the phone ring a few more times before answering it. Finally, I cleared my throat, and picked up the receiver.

“Hello, you’ve reached the Law Offices of Clement and Associates, this is Jo Ann Lain speaking.”

“Please don’t hang up,” said the voice on the end of the line, and the words made me want to do so even worse than I would have.

“God damn it!” I hissed. “How the hell did you get this number? I’m at work!”

“I’m sorry Jo Ann,” said Sylvan.

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