“Soon, chéri,” Dominic replied, patting Danny’s hand. “I need to make sure that everyone understands what I want from them and answer any questions that they might have. But you don’t need to be here for this, my love. You can go back to our room if you’d prefer.”
Danny did prefer, but he bit his lip and shook his head. If he was going to be Dominic’s mate then he had to grow a set of balls and stand by the man’s side. “I’ll stay.” Dominic smiled, and Danny knew he had made the right decision. Dominic needed a strong mate by his side, not someone afraid of their own shadow. Danny just hoped his balls of steel grew really, really fast.
“Why don’t you let Sully take you into the kitchen and get something to eat?” Dominic grinned, showing two perfectly white fangs. “I’m feeling a little hungry.”
Danny swallowed hard, his pulse rate increasing rapidly at the sensuous light in Dominic’s deep blue eyes. “Yeah, I can do that.”
“Make sure you take some vitamins, but only the ones Sully gives you.”
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Danny nodded. Even though Dominic had claimed him, and essentially saved his life, it had still taken over a week for Danny to get back on his feet. He didn’t want to repeat that. Being ill had sucked big time. Mostly because Dominic refused to fuck him again until he was on his feet. It had been a long few days until that happened. The kisses and soft caresses hadn’t made up for not having Dominic’s cock in his ass, no matter how good they felt. Danny had been close to begging when Dominic finally relented and fucked him into the mattress.
Danny gave Dominic a quick kiss on the cheek and a squeeze on his arm then followed Sully out of the room. He knew the way to the kitchen after having visited there several times. As he was human and had to eat human food, Danny wanted to meet the people cooking for him, and thank them. Dominic’s cook was a marvel, one that Danny wanted to make good friends with. He wanted to keep eating in style, and he wasn’t stupid. The cook was a god among cooks.
“Sully, do you think—” Danny let out a scream as he was suddenly shoved from behind. He stumbled forward and crashed into the wall, catching himself right before his face would have been smashed into the plaster. He spun around as fast as he could, his heart sinking when he saw Sully on the floor, red blood pooling under his head.
Danny swallowed hard and slowly raised his head to the vampire standing just beyond Sully’s still form. It was the same vampire Dominic had tossed out of the coven. It was also a very pissed off vampire. His face was nearly red with rage. Drops of saliva dripped from his fangs as if he had lost whatever sense he had left and gone insane. Danny didn’t think that was too far from the truth as the vampire looked across at him and grinned.
“I told you that you would be mine.”
Oh shit! It was the vampire that had attacked him in the hallway.
Danny recognized his voice. He turned and ran as fast as his legs
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would carry him. He didn’t really care where he was going as long as it was away from the crazy-ass vampire bent on draining him dry.
Danny was embarrassed by the girly scream he let out when he felt a hand grab him from behind but not enough to not let out another one. His scream was quickly cut off when he was slammed into the wall, his head hitting the hard surface with a dull thud.
Danny groaned, disoriented for a moment until he felt a hot breath blow across the back of his neck. He cried out when the collar Dominic gave him was ripped from his throat. Danny distantly heard it clatter to the floor.
“Le-let me go,” Danny cried out. “I belong to Dominic.”
“I know.”
Sharp, jagged pain swept through Danny as the vampire’s fangs started to sink into his throat. He squeezed his eyes tight, trying to block out the pain and the knowledge that it wasn’t Dominic taking his blood. Dominic brought him nothing but pleasure when he drank blood. This was pure torture.
Danny heard Dominic shout from behind him at the same moment he felt a tingling in his neck. The vampire attacking him suddenly screamed and pulled away. Danny thought Dominic had intervened until he turned around and realized that Dominic was still at the other end of the corridor. The vampire that had attacked him, however, lay curled on the floor, clawing at his throat, gurgling as if he was choking to death.
“Dominic, wha—”
“Get away from him, Danny,” Dominic shouted as he ran towards Danny.
Danny was never so happy to see Dominic as he was when the man’s arms closed around him. He breathed in deeply, taking in Dominic’s strong, reassuring scent. Danny started to tremble when Dominic growled. He tightened the arms he had wrapped around Dominic’s waist.