by E. M Reders
She wasn’t scared of me. There was no doubt in my mind that if she had been, she wouldn’t be in my arms now, but running as fast as she could in the opposite direction. But the fear and panic rolling off her still worried me.
“I was so scared, Thayne. You could have died. He could have killed you.”
“But he didn’t,” I said, moving her back to look at her face, though, keeping her within my arms. Tears glistened on her lashes, tracks running down her face. She was so beautiful. She took my breath away, so to speak. “You’re safe now. Never again will anyone use you for your blood, keep you prisoner, or think that they own you ever again.”
A small smile pulled at her lips before it spread across her face in a full beam of pure joy and love. “But you own me, Thayne. You own my heart, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Eve - 5 months later…
It was perfect. Everything had gone just as planned and the club looked like it was going to be a huge hit.
Tonight had been the grand re-opening of the newly named Blood and Velvet club. It had taken a lot of work, but the club was finally what I’d always dreamed it could be. The whole place had been given an uplift. The walls repainted, new flooring laid, and the bar – which was reasonably new but once again damaged – had been replaced. The apartment upstairs that had been my home/prison for the past few years had also been redone, along with the whole floor on which it sat.
“You like it?” I asked Reese as he stepped out of the door, a smile pulling at his lips.
After Thayne had taken over as Master, he’d begun to go over the problems that Gideon had never been bothered about sorting out, mainly the care and safety of the vampires under his power. Quite a few of the vamps that had come to the region since his takeover had been ones seeking sanctuary, a safe place to live. Unfortunately, Gideon’s idea of safe was an abandoned office building on the other side of town, far away from himself or any form of help.
With Thayne and I moving into the townhouse he’d taken me to the night of Vince’s attack, it only made sense to renovate the top floor of the club and create living space for those who needed it. Reese, Chad, Trent and Dean were the first to move in, along with a few younglings in their care. They’d spent the past few years doing their best to look after the younger vampires in the area, guiding them as best they could, but they needed a true Master to really do any good.
“It’s brilliant,” he beamed. “Though, it would have been perfect if I didn’t have to have the room next to Chad’s. You have no idea how much that guy snores.”
They’d all at some time or another over the past few weeks since construction began complained about who their new neighbours were going to be. If their complaints had been genuine and not just light-hearted ribbing, I might have listened. But I knew that no matter what these guys said, they loved each other as brothers.
Walking down the hall, I checked in on each of the new club residents, making sure everything was alright with the rooms and that they had everything they needed. In total, we’d managed to fit twelve bedrooms and one large communal living space with a small kitchen on the top floor. The chance of the kitchen ever being used was slim, but if any of the guys ever brought a human up – for whatever reasons – it might come in handy.
“Everything okay?” I asked an hour later as I entered Thayne’s office.
Well, our office. The argument we’d had about separate offices still put a smile on my face. With the club now in my name and me having complete control of it, it was important that I had somewhere to work and keep on top off all the paperwork Gideon never gave a damn about, but Thayne didn’t want me too far away. Both my old office and Gideon’s had been turned into storage, Thayne refusing to use either one of them after all the pain I had suffered and blood I had spilt in them.
Now, after many an argument, we had one large office space, with a divide that we could pull across if warranted. Not that Thayne would ever do that. A few high-end vampires had been a little miffed when forced to speak of sensitive matters with me in the room. Thayne though didn’t care and explained that he would only repeat everything to me later that night if I hadn’t been there in the first place.
I was his mate. He told me everything.
Pulling at his short hair, he sighed. “Why did I get myself into this?”
“Because you care too much for others just to sit around and watch them suffer.” He had a big heart… for a vampire assassin.
“I was crazy. Completely out of my mind. Do you know that even though she classes me as a friend, Sabrina continues to demand that all this useless paperwork is completed? She only created the damn stuff to piss Gideon off! I swear I can hear her laughter from here… and she’s on the other side of the fucking country.”
I had yet to meet Sebastian’s sister but was under no illusion that it wouldn’t be a memorable occasion when I did. I’d heard a lot of interesting things about that woman. “I'm sure she believes that it is important.”
“Important to get her revenge on my trying to kill her once.”
“Wait. When did you attempt to kill her?”
“Long story. I’ll tell it to you one day.” He smiled as he stood up and walked around the desk, pulling me into his arms and crushing his lips against my own. “Right now I just want to get my luscious mate home and back in my bed, where she belongs.”
“Belongs?”
“Yes, belongs – at least until I’ve had my fill of her luscious body. Though to be honest that will never happen. I will never get enough of this, of you. Which means that you’re stuck with me for a very long time. Forever in fact.”
“No complaints here.”
Sebastian had done his research on Feeders well, very well, and in the aftermath of the fight that had won Thayne his title, he’d told us everything he had discovered. There was a whole lot of information that I’d never known about my kind. Like the fact that as long as I fed another on a regular basis, willingly, I would not age. The chemicals in a vampire’s bite affected me differently than the average human. While they just got the pleasure of the bite and incredible strength, I got a whole lot more. I got the chance to live forever. But the only way it worked was if I didn’t fight it, didn’t fight the chemicals seeping into my body like I had done all my life. But with Thayne, that was no problem.
I trusted him. I loved him.
He was my world.
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