Surrendering(59)

Dev laughed loudly. “I look forward to showing you—multiple times a day—that I most certainly can keep up with you. It is you who will have a hard time keeping up with me, love.” He grabbed her mouth in a hungry kiss, grinding his erection into her stomach as he pulled her hips to his.

Jesus, he wanted her. The adrenaline from the events of the last two hours hadn’t waned and the only cure was to fuck it out. He needed to be inside her hot, always-wet pussy. Ensure she was safe, even though he could see with his own eyes she was. Know she accepted him for who he was and that she wanted him all the same. But she broke their kiss instead.

“We’re not done talking, yet. No kissy until we talky.”

He chuckled. “You are very strange, woman.”

“So get to the part about why I’m in danger.”

He told her about the call from Detective Thatcher and their arrangement with the local police. He explained that, as his Moira, he wanted her close to him, but also because of the types of dreams she was having, it truly did place her in real danger.

He finally told her about Xavier, who’d gone rogue and, in retribution for Dev ratting him out, killed Dev’s entire family, along with their entire village before he disappeared. He told her about Xavier’s sick obsession with wanting to rule over the human and vampire worlds and that he’d been kidnapping young women for centuries. They’d been trying to stop him, but he’d remained mainly elusive. He explained his role as Vampire Lord, their hierarchy and that each lord maintained order within their respective Regents. Even vampires had laws to live by.

“The other lords are here at the house and I’ll introduce you. What you walked in on last night was a strategy meeting we were having to track Xavier down once and for all.”

He knew the instant she figured it out. “But I can help with that, can’t I? I can help find him with my dreams. That’s what Olivia was trying to teach me.”

“Originally when we were called to the station, yes, we were hoping your dreamwalker skills could help us track down and kill him once and for all, but once I found out you were my Moira…well, no. Hell no. I’ve waited over five hundred years for you.” His voice hardened. “No fucking way am I putting you in any danger, so don’t even ask me. We’ll find another way to get the girls back and stop Xavier. We already have a couple of leads.”

They didn’t yet, but he didn’t want her anywhere near this debacle or this very dangerous vampire.

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Kate





Kate knew that wasn’t the right moment to argue, but there was no way in hell she was going to sit back and do nothing while young girls were being slaughtered by some psychotic vampire with a God complex. She may not have any fighting skills, but the least she could do was locate this Xavier person so those more skilled could stop him. For the first time in her entire life, she was grateful for her ability to dream.

And she knew with every fiber of her being that she was meant to be with this unbelievably gorgeous man, er, vampire, in front her. She’d known it from the second she laid eyes on him.

Information overload was knocking at the door, but she had a few more questions that needed answering now. Everything else could wait until later. “So…the whole blood thing?”

Smirking, he replied, “Are you asking me if I want your blood, Kate?”

Heart racing, scared of the answer, she could only nod.

He swallowed hard and his eyes shifted to her neck before locking on hers. “Fuck yes. More than you know. But I promise you it’s the most pleasurable sensation you’ll ever experience.”

Oh. My. Subject change.

“So what about these new abilities I seem to have?”

A weird look crossed Dev’s face. “Well, that’s a bit of a puzzle, love. After a vampire and his mate complete the bonding, she takes on his skills, as long as they regularly exchange blood. We haven’t bonded yet and even if we had, I don’t possess the skill of stasis, so I had the doc take some blood while you were unconscious from your fall earlier.”

Stasis? She didn’t understand at all what was happening. He must have seen the confused look on her face, since he continued explaining.

“The results came back this morning. That’s why I left you in the bedroom. I had to go talk to Big D, the doctor.”

She visibly paled. Her voice was barely audible. “And what did the results say?”

He hesitated for several beats, and she could tell this was going to be bad. Very bad. “They indicate you are part vampire.”

“What?” The words came out on a croak. There was no way Kate could have heard Dev correctly. She definitely wasn’t a vampire. Just the sight of blood made her a bit nauseous.