Here's another snippet as promised! Enjoy:
“Yes, please!”
The cry yanked Mencheres out of his musings. Gods, he’d been caressing Selene and unconsciously sending out strands of his power to stroke and stimulate her nerve endings. How could he have gotten so lost in his thoughts of Kira that he’d forgotten he still held Selene in his arms?
Mencheres pulled back his power and set Selene away from him.
“I’ve taken all I need,” he told her.
Her eyes opened as she pressed against him. “Let me give you more than blood,” she offered in a husky voice.
“No,” Mencheres replied. Selene was beautiful, willing, and desirable, yet he didn’t want her.
Kira’s face flickered in his mind, but he wiped her image away before he allowed himself to dwell on it.
“No,” he repeated to Selene in a tone that brooked no argument.
She left after one last lingering look that he pretended not to notice. Selene, like all the others, didn’t only want him. She also wanted the power, security, and supernatural pleasure he could give, but somehow, that was no longer an acceptable trade.
Selene had only been gone a few minutes before Gorgon, the only vampire Mencheres brought with him to this house, came into the library.
“Sire,” Gorgon said. “We have a situation with the human you brought home this morning.”
Mencheres rose, already striding up the stairs to Kira’s room, when Gorgon’s voice stopped him.
“Ah, sire? You might want to go outside instead.”
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