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“You will listen,” Ren snarled.

“I’m not going to argue about it.” I sniffled in.

In a flash, Ren tore my pants right down the middle. He forced my knee toward him, effectively baring me in all my exposed glory. I gasped and as I struggled against their hold, all I could hear was Asher’s, “I told you.”

I hissed up at him and Jax chuckled.

All in the span of time that it took for him to pry open my legs, he struck, sinking his fangs into my inner thigh. The sharpstab was soothed away by his suck. I gasped from the harsh tug of his mouth, my spine arching off the bed. I breathed in, and the scent of my blood permeated the air.

Tobias’s grip on my calf became painful. He suddenly cupped the bottom of my knee and yanked up and to the side, so I was fully spread open. Tobias sank his fangs into the meaty part of my inner thigh, closer to my knee. I sucked in a breath, lifting my head in time for Bastien to snarl and suddenly shove his face against my sex.

I screamed and pitched my hips up to rub my sex against his mouth. He met my force, and his fangs pierced me down there. I struggled to suck in a breath. All I could smell was my blood coating the air.

My entire body felt alive.

Jax lifted my arm and sharp pinpricks stabbed into my wrist. The four of them sucked simultaneously and the orgasm throbbed through my limbs. Electrical pulses traveled through my veins and my toes curled. Oh my God, this didn’t feel real.

Asher caressed the inner side of my arm. He moved and suddenly, his mouth was against my ear, and I could hear him over the high pitched ringing infecting my ears.

“You make us mad with desire, Pet.” His sweet breath caressed my cheek and that combined with whatever the hell Bastien did down there, catapulted me into a second orgasm.

I screamed so loud it hurt my throat.

Asher’s chuckle sounded sinful. His fingertips played along my straining neck.

“Look, Catalina. Watch your vampires feed on you.” His thumb grazed my nipple over the shirt. My entire body seized. Their touch and possession engulfed my soul. It devoured me. They fed and took, and I gave. So wholeheartedly, I gave.

Another orgasm throbbed through my senses and took me under. As if I were being tossed in violent waves not allowing me to surface.

Finally, my God, finally, I burst free from the mind-numbing orgasms. I pried my eyes open and watched Jaxon run his tongue across the bite marks he’d made on me. I couldn’t move my neck. A stuttering breath wrenched from my lungs.

“Fuck, Kitten,” Jax murmured, awe seeping his tone. His eyes flashed red, and he sank his fangs into my arm again.

I screamed and a ringing assaulted my ears. Lights burst behind my eyelids.

“We should do this more often,” Asher’s voice sounded as if it came from behind a thick wall.

Bastien shoved his fingers into my channel. My scream faded into helpless whimpers, and I gave myself over to the pleasure. My channel throbbed around his fingers, and I couldn’t stop writhing. The frenzy swelled, taking me under again.

THIRTY-SIX

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Tobias eyedme through the rear-view mirror. As he’d been doing the entire drive down to the sea front.

“Imogen cannot see you.”

“Tobias,” I gasped, exasperated. “That’s the twelfth time I’ve heard it.” I scratched at the uncomfortable wig. I hadn’t taken a single breath through my nose, because I didn’t want to sniff the god-awful perfume Baron spritzed on me. Since I’d been out of the social media fold, I didn’t know what was ‘in’ right now. But I guess it was popular enough that many people wore it.

“And—”

“No one can smell my blood, got it.”

Most of Bastien’s theories were correct. But a new thing he discovered was that the marker that healed blood-madness was morphed into vampire cells. The way he explained it to me was that humans had red and white blood-cells while vampires had an additional one—black blood-cells.

I’d ask him more about it, if he’d come with us, but he’d had to stay behind, because he’d reverted to his mindless state. Poor timing, but there was nothing to be done about it. Based off their reaction, none of them worried about his absence because Bastien seldom showed. Other vampires just didn’t know it’dbeen because he’d been blood-mad and chained up. He was just known to be a recluse.

Tobias pulled into the busy gas station and parked between two minivans. I looked over my shoulder through the rear window. The car Talia and Baron followed us in slid into the parking spot adjacent to this one.