I Only Have Fangs for You(102)
She remembered Lizzie’s suggestion that Mina just burn the place to the ground. Mina knew others in the Society wouldn’t have the same hesitations she’d had. And she couldn’t let something awful happen.
She stepped inside. The place was dark and definitely deserted. A noise of something scurrying away from her scratched on the concrete floors. But she saw a light in a distant room.
She walked slowly in that direction.
“Hello?” she called as she reached the doorway. The room was small and appeared empty, but there were chairs set up in neat rows. Maybe she was early. She stepped into the room, looking around.
“Hello?” she yelled again.
This time her call was answered by the loud slam of a door behind her. She spun to find Daniel leaning on the doorframe through which she’d just entered the small room.
“Daniel,” she breathed, her gaze moving warily to the closed door at his back. “Where is everyone?”
“Hmm,” he said as if he was considering the question. “They couldn’t make it.”
Her fear immediately flared, although she tried hard to block it from him. “Are they going to meet another time?”
He nodded. “I’m sure they will. The Society does love their meetings, don’t they?”
Daniel stepped away from the door, but rather than moving toward her, he walked a slow circle around the room. She glanced at the door, taking a small step toward it.
Daniel stopped, spinning to look at her with his eerie dark eyes. “Don’t bother. I’m much faster than you.”
She paused, trying to calm herself. Trying to pretend she didn’t know what he meant. “What do you mean?”
“I mean that you and I need to have a little chat.”
“W—why?”
“Because you have made things difficult for me.”
“H-how?” She forced herself to meet his eyes, even though something there terrified her. Something so familiar, even though she didn’t know what it was.
“Surely what I’m doing with Sebastian Young should have no effect on you,” she managed to say.
“No, not really,” he agreed. He began walking again, his hands clasped behind his back, his eyes focused on the floor just in front of his precise footsteps. “But you have ruined a good thing for me.”
“What? How?”
He stopped again. “You really don’t remember me, do you? I was so certain you did.”
She frowned, staring at him. His profile, then his back as he continued his circle.
“Daniel, I have no idea what you are talking about.”
He turned back to her, a smile splitting his face, as creepy as his eyes. Again she did feel she should know him, but she couldn’t quite place from where.
“No, you don’t, do you?” He smiled smugly.
Suddenly, whether it was something in that smile, or it was the fact that she could now sense him in a way she hadn’t been able to before—not until Sebastian had helped her focus her vampire senses—she knew why this vampire made her so uneasy. So scared. Yet, what she was realizing couldn’t be possible.
His smile slowly faded as he became aware of the change in Mina. She tried to block her emotions, her thoughts, using the techniques Sebastian had showed her. Focusing outside of herself. On Sebastian.
“But it will be great fun getting reacquainted,” he said and began walking again, his back to her once more.
She took another backward step toward the closed door. And another, but she stopped as he spoke again.
“Let me refresh your memory, cara mia.”
Daniel turned back toward her, but this time it wasn’t that cadaverlike face that greeted her. It was a wide, charming smile. Dimples. Dark eyes and curly hair.
Mina stumbled back, fear seizing her, strangling her.
“Oh my God,” she cried, scrambling backward not even aware of where the door was, where she was. She just needed to get away.
He slowly walked toward her.
“Now is that any way to greet your first love?”
Chapter 28
“Earlier I discovered Mina with one of the members of the Society,” Sebastian admitted to his brothers. “She was telling him that the sabotage was working. She had me under control, and it was only a matter of time before she convinced me to close this place.”
Both Rhys and Christian looked surprised by his words. Not nearly as surprised as Sebastian had been to hear them.
“Mina said that?” Rhys said.
Sebastian nodded. “She told this guy that she was doing whatever she had to do to control me.”
Again Sebastian thought of her offer to let him bite her. An offer that he’d seen as the moment when they’d truly be committed to each other. Sure, he’d bitten many women, but this was going to be the first time he’d bitten, not solely for sustenance, not solely for pleasure, but to make them one. He’d believed that was what she was offering.