His thrusts became harder and faster, his breath quickening as my orgasm skyrocketed and I came. When I did, he pressed his lips to mine, quieting my cries of pleasure. I gripped hold of him tightly, wrapped my legs around him and dug my heels into his ass to push him deeper inside me.
“Harder!” He did as I asked without question, shifting up to open my legs wider. He drove himself into me hard and the sound of flesh against flesh, and my moans echoed around the space we laid in.
My heart thundered in my chest, and I felt as though it was about to explode as Shane stroked another orgasm out of me, making me arch from the ground and grip his thighs tightly. Thrust after thrust sent me spiralling out of control, and my desires begged for more until my human body couldn’t take it any longer, and Shane finally gave into his own pleasure.
He leant over me, breathing heavily while sweat dripped from his brow—such a human thing that let me look past the fact that he was actually a vampire.
I was doomed.
He smiled and his fangs peeked out. “I see you missed me too.”
And just like that, I snapped out of it—cursing myself and my weak body for giving into my sinful desires. I pulled myself away, sorting myself out and undoing my messy hair. “There wasn’t a second that I didn’t think about you. But it was never good, Shane. I hunted you and I planned to drive my dagger into your lifeless heart for what you did.” I still do.
Shane grabbed my hand and placed it on his chest. “You feel that?” His heart thumped just as fast as mine seemed to beat. “I’m alive and I always will be until someone strong enough ends my life. Drinking his blood just granted me strength, speed and senses we only dream of but it didn’t kill me.”
“And the thirst for blood,” I whispered, pulling my hand away. “We need to get out of here. I can’t have the humans back in the hands of the vampires who marked them.” Despite everything, I still couldn’t forgive him even though my heart sang out for him.
Shane didn’t speak. He just nodded and turned to the large rocks surrounding him. He punched and kicked with all his vampire strength. The rock crumbled under his attack until there was a gap large enough for us to crawl out of.
As soon as I crawled out from the gap, pain shot through the back of my head and I felt myself falling.
Chapter Seven
When I woke, I was knelt in the middle of a large, round room, my hands chained to the wall either side of me, preventing me from moving. There were stands surrounding me, and my instant thought was about Sonja being burned alive at the stake in Underworld.
My head hurt, but I ignored the pain when the vampire who had killed me, entered the room.
“My, my, isn’t this a surprise?” He circled me as others, including Shane and the humans I’d tried to protect, entered the room, walking on the stands.
“Brandon,” I whispered.
He didn’t seem to notice me. None of them did. They stood by the vampire’s side, their eyes glazed over. Their hands were crossed in front of them, manacles cutting into their wrists and their chains dragging along the floor. They were hurt—their faces, arms and clothes smeared with blood.
“It seems you are full of mysteries, Kianna. I left you dead on that floor, how is it you are still alive?”
“You killed her? You swore if I let you change me you would spare her life!” Shane growled angrily when the vampires close to him, grabbed him to hold him in place.
He held his arms out to the side. “Vampires lie, my dear boy.” He turned his attention back to me. “Now, why is it you seem, and smell so different?” He was in front of me in seconds but my brain was working too slowly to flinch. I just stared at him as he brushed my hair to the side and inhaled deeply. “So familiar.” He bit me, and I held in my cry of pain when he took a mouthful of my blood. He stood, seemed to swirl it in his mouth and then swallow.
His red eyes brightened. “Can it be?” He whispered, staring at me with shock. He glanced up at the high ceiling and a loud grinding noise sounded around the room as a small hole appeared directly in the middle and slowly began to open up.
I began to pant as the moonlight shone directly down on me and pain instantly assaulted my body as my wings unfurled, spreading out either side of me.
“Ah, that’s why. One of the Fallen, I must say, those creatures are just full of surprises.”
I glanced up, shaking, and met Shane’s wide eyes. I couldn’t leave when I knew what existed among us. I refused to take Death’s hands. My revenge was set and not even fate could change that, so they gave me a helping hand. I didn't know why, but I needed him to understand that I didn’t choose this life. It was chosen for me.
The vampire chuckled. “Ah, even after the change you still look at her with that love sick expression of yours. How...romantic.” He wrenched my head back and bit into my neck hard enough to rip a scream out of me. Shane struggled instantly but he wasn’t strong enough against the vampires holding him as they dragged him to the floor and beat him.
Pain travelled across my body in flames, tearing and eating at me until I couldn’t scream any more. I began to feel light headed, dizzy as I tried to breathe and get my blood circulating through my body.
The vampire let me go with an inch of my life left, hanging by a thread. I took comfort knowing I couldn’t die, but I despised it at the same time, knowing I would have a lifetime of torture by the hands of the vampire that destroyed my life.
“What to do with you both, hmmm.” He paced in front of me while I sagged against my chains, breathing heavily and trying not to vomit.
The vampire’s eyes gleamed when he met my eyes. He bit into his own wrist but I clenched my teeth together and refused to let his blood go past my lips. He hit me, but that only made me press my lips together tightly. “I see you don’t want to play nice.” He moved behind me, and I felt his hands run across the feathers of my wings.
When he grabbed one of them, and snapped the spine, I screamed loudly, blinded by pain and then choked as suddenly, my mouth was filled with the tangy taste of copper. My eyes watered as I swallowed the blood and streamed from my eyes as more pain tore through my body. My canines lengthened, ripping through my gums and sending blood dribbling from my mouth. My insides burned as the vampire blood attacked my human blood cells and dominated over them before attacking the Fallen in me.
The pain became too much, and the blood rushing in my ears too loud for me to hear anything that was happening. I couldn’t breathe and couldn’t see or fight to stop the change in me.
“Kianna?”
I moaned, turning my head to the touch on my cheek.
“Kianna, open your eyes.”
“Ssshane?” my word came out in a lisp that made me frown. I opened my eyes slowly to see Shane’s face close to mine. “What happened?” I asked in a whisper as my throat burned painfully. I was so hungry. I glanced around and noticed that we were in a small, dimly lit room with no windows and only one barred door. The floor was filthy, and the air smelled dank and dusty. “Where are we?” I sat up slowly and winced, clutching my shoulder when my broken wing sent pain shooting down my spine.
“In Dimitri’s cells.” Shane touched my hand gently, his eyes sad as they travelled across my wings. “Why didn't you tell me?”
“Tell you what? That your sire same back after you left? That he drained me until my heart no longer beat in my chest? That I defied the order of some higher being because I wanted revenge for what happened?”
“How?” I knew he was asking about my change.
“I don’t know. All I remember is dying, and then waking up. When the sun rose, I collapsed in pain and then had these wings sprouting out of my back. I tried to get help, but no one could see me. It was like I was invisible. Until someone actually saw me and then tried to kill me instead of helping. I realised then, while fighting, that I had extra strength and speed and a dagger that could kill him if I spoke the right words. When the sun set, the same pain came back and my wings disappeare
d. I found out the hard way that I didn’t keep my strength and speed.” I lifted my top up to show him the long scar on my right side. A vampire had gotten close with my own dagger as I tried to call Light to kill him.
Shane was silent, never looking away from my wings. “The sun rises in a couple of hours and you’ll be vulnerable.”
“I can’t change unless the sun hits me directly. And I think Dimitri will have much more fun when I can’t be killed.” I didn’t want to be in the hands of Dimitri while in my human or Fallen form. “Can we escape?”
“It’s possible, but dangerous,” he replied.
“I have to help the others. I swore to protect them and I’m still bound by my word. And if the chance comes, I’ll kill your bastard sire.” She wanted to torture him, make him feel the pain his victims felt when he attacked and ruined their lives, but she’d be happy ending his life if it ended it all.
Shane stiffened, bringing me out of my own thoughts. “Kianna, you don’t understand. We can’t kill him—we can’t even touch him.”
“Why not?”
“He’s our sire...Kianna, you’re half vampire.”
Table of Contents
Sinful DesiresBook One: The Hunting Darkness SeriesNatalie Hancock
The right of Natalie Hancock
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
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