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I felt something in my body shift, come alive. Although my heart had been beating for a century and a half, this was the first time it functioned other than keeping me alive. It beat for her. The air I took into my lungs was for her. Every single thing I did from this point on would always be with her in mind, for her protection, her happiness… her pleasure.
My eyes turned red, illuminating my office in a hazy ruby glow as I tracked her through the club, took in every single inch of her as if I hadn’t consumed a drop of blood in a millennium and was so starved I was a dried-out husk inside.
My dick hardened, the first time I’d ever had any kind of arousal, the ache in my balls painful. I panted and braced my hands on the glass, curling my fingers against it until I worried I’d crack the partition separating me from everyone else, like releasing a beast on the vulnerable.
Mine. Mine. Mineminemine!
That one word was a roar in my head, filling my body, coursing through my veins. I’d never known bloodlust like this… never felt desire like what was licking at my fingers and toes and spreading inward to consume my very dark and dangerous soul.
Things had gotten exponentially more interesting.
And as I tracked her through the club, unable to look away, knowing what I’d do and the lengths I’d go to, to link her to me, to fuse our bodies and souls as one, I knew the situation had just gotten very real and very dangerous for that tiny—very human—female.
Only mine.
Oh, I’d make her mine, and she’d hate me for it. I’d take her body but wouldn't be able to give her my heart. How could I, when it wasn’t something I had to offer?
And so I let my feral grin spread even more over my lips as anticipation for the hunt of my prey took root in my body.
She didn’t know it yet, but she had just become the mate to the most dangerous vampire in the world.
I had tunnel vision as I made my way out of my office and stalked through the back hallways of the club, winding my way downstairs. I could hear the low growling that came from me. I had one focus, one goal, and that was to get to my female.
For far too long, I stood there and watched as she danced, swaying her hips, her lithe body barely clad. The jealous, possessive rage in me grew, and it was suffocating. I’d seen men looking at her, human males and vampires alike who I could snap in half as easily as if they were nothing but a twig underneath my boot.
James rounded the corner and came to a stop but right away retreated a step as he took in my appearance. “Adryan?”
I knew my eyes were red, the glow strong enough it lit the area in front of me, my vision ruby as my emotions over finding my Coveted One so intense I had no control right now.
Let him try to stop me.
“Adryan. I… I?—”
I found myself taking a step toward him. “Move.”
“What’s wrong? Your eyes. Is there a threat?”
I let the growl percolating in my throat come out full force. “I’ve got somewhere to be, and you’re blocking the fucking way.” I took another step toward him, and when he took one back, the stink of fear poured from him.
I let my smile slowly spread over my face. Never in my life had I felt so on edge, so violent and territorial. And fuck was that saying a hell of a lot, given the fact that I knew I was a fucked-in-the-head bastard.
“You can either move the fuck out of the way, or I can move you myself.”
He stepped aside, and I was moving again, taking the last hallway that led into the club. Before pushing the door open, I closed my eyes and breathed out, gathering all my fucking control. It wouldn’t do any good going out to a roomful of humans with my fangs fully out and my eyes glowing red.
When I gathered a semblance of what control I had, I was pushing the door open and inhaling deeply, sifting through the smells of the cattle all around me until I found hers.
That first scent of my female had my big body swaying, my heart beating painfully in my cold, dead chest.
I kept to the wall, to the shadows, although I didn’t give two shits who saw me stalking my female, I was trying to be a civilized fucking male and not just throw her over my shoulder and haul her back to my bedroom.
At the thought—the obscene images of claiming her—my body grew tighter, my cock harder, the length pressing against the zipper of my jeans painfully. I’d never been with a female, never touched one sexually, kissed one… made one mine between the sheets. I’d never had the urge. That was reserved for my Coveted One.
But I knew without a doubt when I fucked this human, when I had her underneath me, her body covered with my bite marks, instinctively I’d destroy her in the best fucking way that happened when soul mates came together.
I’d make her crave me as much as I craved her. I’d make her yearn for my touch, beg for my cock, and bare her neck to me so I could drink from her as I slid so deep between her thighs she’d always feel me right there long after I was gone.
I was growling, the music in the club masking the predatory sound rolling up from my chest and out of my mouth.
