Page 13 of Deadly Cravings
“So considerate. Must be the priest in you.” Jax smirked.
Tobias’s nostrils flared.
“Oooo, it’s getting juicy.” Asher crammed his large body beside me on the love seat. It was a tight fit with his huge body invading my personal space. He wiggled his leg beneath mine so my thigh was half on him. I gawked as he maneuvered me with ease.
“What are you doing?” I wheezed, tugging my purse into my lap and hugging it to my chest.
“Don’t worry, Pet.” He stroked my arm, dragging his warm fingers down the flesh in gentle caresses. My attempt to jerk away was met with resistance and he forced my arm back down. I didn’t get to continue arguing, because the other two continued their argument.
“It’s not about giving, it’s about decency. I also must chase after Asher to make sure he doesn’t do something idiotic while you stay here sulking, trying to find Ren’s whereabouts.”
My back was as straight as a board, but it didn’t take long to relax under Asher’s soft petting, and soon, I leaned into him as exhaustion weighed on my limbs.
“Tobias is—was—a priest in the sixteen hundreds. His moral compass sadly remains intact.” His breath tickled my ear and I shivered, releasing an unintentional laugh. My shoulders tightened and he chuckled but said nothing. Something hard pressed into my leg and it took me a few seconds to work out that it was his cock. I sucked in a breath, heat flushing over my face. It really shouldn’t have intrigued me as much as it did. I cleared my throat, my fingers flexing around my purse strap.
Warmth bloomed in my belly, spreading and inching low, near my core. My toes curled. Asher’s hand tensed on my arm, and I groaned at the pressure between my legs. If I moved a smidge to the side to straddle him, it would relieve some of the pressure.
Jaw clenching, my body tensed. No way was I getting turned on by an evilvampireright now. I refocused on the argument. It had faded to the background with the pleasure flushing through my nerve endings, but I was done with the petty sniping back and forth. What boiled my blood more was that Jax was hitting low blows, while Tobias was trying to find a logical way to get him to calm down. “The human needs to give us answers?—”
“Okay,” I shouted and shoved off Asher’s lap before his wandering hand reached my inner thigh. When all eyes rounded in my direction, I cleared my throat and shuffled from foot to foot. “I knew about vampires because I’ve met one before.”
Jax crossed arms, making them bulge intimidatingly. “That’s it? That’s all you’re going to say. No explanation? Was he your lover? Were you his pet? What?”
I rolled my lips into my mouth.
“I can make you talk.” Jax’s threat flushed through my brain and shot off warning bells. A boulder settled on my chest. I didn’t have the luxury of choice.
“I wasn’t with him willingly.”
Asher released a half-rumbled hiss. “And he released you?”
“He likely didn’t know she is resistant to compulsion,” Jax snapped.
“Wait a minute, she’simmuneto vampire abilities,” Asher said like it was a revelation, which it clearly wasn’t. Jax uncrossed his arms and moved a step in my direction. They stared at me like I had a dick growing out of my head. Tobias smoothed his torn sweater down his chest.
“That means she can get close to them to figure out where Ren is. They’ll think they compelled the memory from her, but she’ll be able to tell us everything she hears.” The interest in Jax’s eyes scared me more than anything else. The twins seemed to speak on the same wavelength.
I licked my lips at the sudden interest glinting in my direction. They wanted me to get close to “them?”Oh no.
“I-I’m not getting involved with more vampires.” My fingers clenched as I wrapped my arms around my torso, shielding myself.
Jax’s eyebrow lifted and his lip twitched up in a sneer. The judgment in his expression hit my pride because although I may look a little disheveled, I wasn’tthatfucked up. The twins exchanged a look and it caused my stomach to dip. Freaky blankness entered their eyes—almost glazed. A chill skittered down my spine.
“What do you desire?” Jax tacked on. Head twitching predatorily to the side. “Money?”
Unbelievable. Did I have needy written all over my face or something? I clenched my hand to hide the tremble.
Okay, yeah, it wouldn’t hurt to have more funds, or to build up my savings, but not in exchange for working with vampires. My mouth opened and closed but I was already shaking my head. I wasn’t to the point of desperation that I was okay with being exposed to vampires for a longer period of time. Being with them was already enough for me, any more and I may havea heart attack from the panic. I didn’t know what they wanted me to do, but it sounded like I would be surrounded by them and no thank you.
“No,” I said forcefully.Fuck no.They were stronger than me and outnumbered me. Force wasn’t out of the equation and I understood that, but if they ended up forcing me into it, there was nothing I could do.
Jax’s jaw twitched and he shrugged. “So she chooses death.”
I gasped, my heart rate spiking.
“Jax,” Tobias intoned.
“What? Do you want to let her go even though she knows of our existence? Our laws exist to ensure shit like this doesn’t happen.”