Part 38 (1/2)
”Why did you get so upset the night I went out?”
”Excuse me?”
”Why did you care that I'd been with someone else? Or did you just feel like a little rough s.e.x and needed to hide behind a reason for it?” His eyes s.h.i.+fted to hers. The blue was neon sharp, nearly too bright to look into. ”Listen, the next time you want some hard grind, all you've got to do is ask. I can play it like that.”
Oh, G.o.d. This anger was not what she'd wanted. ”Rhage-”
”You know, I really got into it. I liked that domination s.h.i.+t you threw out. Liked the s.a.d.i.s.tic part, too. Tasting my blood on your lips after you bit my mouth? Huge turn-on.”The cold tone of voice was awful. His flat, glowing eyes were worse.
”I'm sorry,” she said. ”But-”
”In fact, I'm getting hard right now, just thinking about it. Kind of surprising, considering how I spent the last twenty minutes.”
”What exactly do you think the future holds for us?”
”We'll never know, will we. But you'll stick around until nightfall, right? If only because you need me to take you home. So let me see if I can get myself tuned up again. I'd hate to waste your time.” He reached under the covers. ”d.a.m.n, you're good. I'm hard as a baseball bat.”
”Do you know what the next six months are going to be like for me?”
”No, and I'm not going to know, am I? So how about some s.e.x. Since that's all you want from me, and because I'm enough of a pathetic loser to take you any way I can get you, I guess I'd better hop to it.”
”Rhage!” she shouted, trying to get his attention.
”Mary!” he mocked. ”I'm sorry, am I talking too much? You'd rather have my mouth doing something else, right? You want it on yours? No, your b.r.e.a.s.t.s. Wait, lower. Yeah, you like it lower, don't you. And I know just how to do you right.”
She put her head in her hands. ”I don't want to leave you like this. Fighting.”
”But that's not going to slow you down, is it? Not you, not superstrong Mary. No, you're just going to go out into the world-”
”To be sick, Rhage! I'm leaving you to go be sick, okay? I'm going to the doctor's tomorrow. There isn't some huge party waiting for me when I get home.”
He stared at her. ”Do you think I am so unworthy that I cannot attend to you?”
”What?”
”Will you not let me attend to you in your illness?”
She thought about how hard it had been for her to see him in pain and not be able to make the hurt go away.
”Why would you want do that?” she whispered.
Rhage's mouth went lax, as if she'd struck him.
He shot out of bed. ”Yeah, f.u.c.k you, Mary.”
He jabbed his legs into a pair of leather pants and snapped a s.h.i.+rt from the dresser.
”Get yourself packed, sweetheart. You won't have to put up with a stray dog anymore.” He pushed his arms through the s.h.i.+rt's sleeves and pulled it over his head. ”I'll get V to hardwire your house ASAP. It shouldn't take him long, and until he's done, you can sleep somewhere else. One of the doggen will show you to your new room.”
She leaped off the mattress, but before she could reach him, he pegged her with a hard look, stopping her dead.
”You know, Mary, I deserve this. I really do. I've done the same thing to so many, just walked away without giving a s.h.i.+t.” He opened the door. ”Although the females I screwed were lucky. At least they never remembered me. And man, I'd kill to forget about you right now, I really would.”He didn't slam the door on the way out. Just shut it firmly.
Chapter Thirty-two.
O leaned over the civilian male and tightened the vise. He'd abducted the vampire in the alley next to Screamer's downtown, and so far the newly erected persuasion center was working perfectly. He was also making headway with the captive. Turned out the guy had a tangential connection to the Brotherhood.
Under normal circ.u.mstances, O should have been as close to a hard-on as he could get. Instead, as he watched the vampire's cold shakes and gla.s.sy, lolling eyes, he saw himself with the Omega. Under that heavy body. Powerless. Out of control. In pain.
The memories clogged his lungs with siltlike dread until he had to look away. As the vampire moaned, O felt like a p.u.s.s.y.
Christ, he had to get his s.h.i.+t together.
O cleared his throat. Sucked some air in. ”And, ah... just how well does your sister know the Brotherhood?”
”She... has s.e.x... with them.”
”Where?”
”Don't know.”
”You're going to have to do better than that.” O hit the pressure some more.
The civilian yelled and his wild eyes bounced around the center's dim interior. He was getting close to pa.s.sing out again, so O loosened the clamp.
”Where does she meet them?”
”Caith goes to all the bars.” The male coughed weakly. ”Zero Sum. Screamer's. She went to One Eye the other night.”
”One Eye?” Odd. That was out in the sticks.
”Can I please go home now? My parents are going to be-”
”I'm sure they are worried. And they should be.” O shook his head. ”But I can't let you go. Not yet.”
Not at all, but the vampire didn't need to know that.
O reapplied the vise grip. ”Now tell me, what was your sister's name again?”
”Caith.”
”And which of the brothers does she f.u.c.k?”
”Know for sure... the one with the goatee. Vishous. She likes the blond warrior... but he's not into her.”