“You’re nuts.” Danny laughed nervously.
Dominic arched an eyebrow. “Am I?” He waved his hand down at the unconscious vampire. “When he tried to take your blood, he suffered for it. When I took your blood, we both felt more reenergized. I believe my case has been proven adequately.”
“That may be true.” Danny grinned. “But it doesn’t mean you’re not crazy.”
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Chapter 13
“Danny, I have news for you about Samuel.”
“Samuel?” Danny hung up the phone he was using to talk to Devlin, the mate of Prince Zacarius, and turned to see Dominic standing in the bedroom doorway. “Did you find him?”
“Word came to me through Prince Zacarius that a young human man fitting Samuel’s description was seen at another coven. I sent Sully to investigate.”
“And?” Danny twisted his hands together in front of him. He had been worried sick about his brother ever since they discovered he wasn’t lying in a coma in some hospital. Dominic promised to use all of his resources to find Samuel. Was this it?
Dominic smiled. “Sully just called. Samuel will be here within the hour.”
Danny shouted and ran into Dominic’s waiting arms, hugging his mate as tight as he could. “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”
“I told you I would do whatever I needed to do to make you happy. If finding your brother was what it took, I’d even buy a blood slave from another coven.”
“Oh fuck, a blood slave?” Danny raised his eyes to meet Dominic’s. “Is he okay?”
“He’s been pretty badly used, but Sully believes he will recover.
I’ve already sent for the prince’s doctor. Zacarius is very concerned about a human being sold as a blood slave, and he wants to make sure that your brother is okay, as well.”
“He sure turned out to be an odd one, didn’t he?”
“The prince?” Dominic chuckled.
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“Yeah.” Danny shrugged. “I mean, I thought he would be all uppity and shit, but he’s actually pretty nice.”
“As long as you don’t piss him off.”
Danny smiled. “Right.”
“But yes, he does seem rather easygoing. In fact, at his suggestion, we’ve decided to try and abolish the ‘no contact between covens’
rule. I think Zacarius would be a good man to have on our side if we ever needed him.”
“It wouldn’t hurt to have his mate at our side as well. I hear that man has connections.”
Dominic chuckled again. “If you want to know who has connections, you need to talk to Albert. I swear that butler of Zacarius’s has more connections than all of us put together. Since meeting him, I’ve often wondered if he’s a secret plant for the council. He knows everything and tells no one.”
“Uh, that’s not exactly true.” Danny twisted his lips together as he thought about how to tell his mate what he had learned. “You know that little poisoning thing?”
Dominic’s eyes narrowed. “Yeah?”
“Promise not to get angry?”
“No.”
“Dominic!”
“I can’t promise not to get angry when I don’t know what you’re going to tell me, chéri. ”
“Fine.” Danny rolled his eyes. “Remember that blood donor that attacked me because he was jealous?”
“Yes.”
“He was the one that poisoned me.”
Danny quickly smoothed his hands over Dominic’s chest when the man began to growl. “Now, calm down, love. Albert’s taking care of it in a most unique way. He hasn’t told me what he’s going to do, but he did promise to send me pictures when it was over.”
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“As your mate, and the prince of this coven, it is my right to take retribution.”
“I realize that, but we are just now getting the other vampires to start seeing blood donors as something more than cattle. They are starting to treat them with dignity and actually talking to them. And the other donors are all talking to each other. Hell, it’s like a freaking social club or something. We do not want to mess that up.”
“I plan on messing up that little fucker that hurt you, not the coven.”
“Please, just let me handle it my way.” Danny batted his eyelashes at Dominic for good measure. “If the coven sees you go ape shit on some blood donor, it’s going to toss all of our hard work right out the window. They’re still a little freaked out over that vampire dying because he bit me. They don’t need another reason to freak.”
Danny began to grow nervous when Dominic just stared down at him for several moments. Finally, Dominic arched his eyebrow.