Blood Contract(Wolf Creek Pack 8)(12)

“You have the blood, he has the fangs,” Sully stated matter-of-factly.

That’s it! Dominic was officially going to string Sully up by his balls when he was at full strength. “I’m warning you,” Dominic threatened low and menacingly.

“Th–that would make him a vampire.” Danny squeaked as his eyes darted between the two. “There’s no way he’s a vampire. Is there?” Danny shook his head frantically. “No, there’s not. It couldn’t be, could it? No. That’s just fantasy. Isn’t it?”

Dominic watched Danny’s slow meltdown with a sinking heart.

He wished there was something he could do to comfort the human, but alas, he was too weak to even offer a word of support. He wondered where his compassionate feelings were coming from. As a vampire, he had emotions, but they were muted, dull.

“I gotta go. My dog needs to be walked,” Danny muttered as he walked around in a circle, biting his thumbnail. “If I don’t walk my cat, he’ll wet the floor.”



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Dominic’s brows pulled together as Danny seemed to come unhinged. This worried him. Yes, he needed Danny’s blood, but not at the price of the man’s sanity. “Take him to his bed. Make him rest.”

“But you need to feed,” Sully protested as he watched Danny’s circle tighten, almost as if he were chasing his own tail. Dominic growled at the awed expression on Sully’s face.

“I can wait while his mind absorbs what you just tossed out there without a thought.”

Sully looked like he wanted to argue and then nodded. “Do you want me to put him into a trance?”

Dominic felt a sudden growl begin to build in his chest. He clenched his hands in the sheets to keep from doing anything he shouldn’t. The mere thought of anyone attempting to glamour Danny sent rage boiling through him. Dominic blinked in surprise. That was new. He very rarely got angry over anything.

“No, not unless you have to. I’d prefer that Danny not be under any more influence than necessary.”

“You are off your rocker, my friend.” Sully chuckled as he shook his head and approached Danny cautiously, carefully, and then laid his hands on Danny’s shoulder. “Time for a nap, Danny.”

Danny looked up as if just now realizing that he wasn’t alone in the room. “Okay. Can you take my bird for a walk?”

Sully nodded, directing Danny back into the other room.

Well, that was very interesting.





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Dominic woke the moment the bedroom door opened. He hadn’t really been sleeping, more like dozing fitfully. The slow burn building in his stomach had started aching over an hour ago. The small amount of blood he had taken from Danny earlier was gone. The need to feed was steadily growing.



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When he heard the sound of feet padding across the floor, Dominic turned. His eyebrows shot up when he saw Danny standing next to the bed, just staring down at him. When Danny didn’t say anything, Dominic began to wonder if the man was sleepwalking.

Danny just stared.

“Danny?” Dominic knew Danny couldn’t hear him, but he couldn’t stand the silence any longer. His eyes rounded when Danny lifted the blankets and crawled into the bed beside him. Dominic didn’t have the strength to fight Danny.

And he wasn’t sure he wanted to, especially when Danny curled up next to him and snuggled in like he didn’t have plans on going anywhere. Danny wiggled for a moment, then reached back and grabbed Dominic’s arm, pulling it around him like a shield. Danny’s head nuzzled in under Dominic’s chin and his arm wrapped around Dominic’s chest.

And then he sighed.

Dominic’s heart began to race. He didn’t cuddle. Ever. It just wasn’t something vampires did. If the need to fuck arose, they found someone to relieve that need then went their separate ways. They didn’t cuddle.

So, why did it feel so right to have Danny in his arms, curled safely at his side? Dominic couldn’t ever remember being so confused in his life, and he had been alive more years than he cared to count.

Danny perplexed him. He was human, for one. That was a pretty big thing. After centuries of watching his kind being systematically wiped out and persecuted by the humans, Dominic didn’t have a lot of regard for them. They were good for feeding, and that was about it.

He had yet to meet a human that he considered a friend, or even wanted to consider as a friend.

Danny’s father was a perfect example of everything he hated in the human race. The man was evil right down to his bones.

Unfortunately, Dominic didn’t have any other choice but to deal with him. Lowell Erickson was one of the few humans that knew about