Page 234 of Cruelly Bitten

His fangs pierced my lower lip again, making me jolt as the pain melted into ecstasy, stealing my ability to speak.

Vampiric kisses were addictive, especially ones delivered by this man. And he knew it, too.

He was playing with me.

Escalating my need.

Ensuring I would enjoy what he was about to do to me.

His blood had served as both a healing agent and an aphrodisiac. I felt nothing but pleasure now, memories of my neck snapping nonexistent. And not just because I couldn’t remember Cane killing me, but because the ache I’d awoken with was long gone.

All I could focus on wasCam.

“You’re not very good at begging,” he admonished, his deep voice commanding as he tugged on my hair. “Do I need to take my brother up on his offer to find a replacement downstairs?”

Those words were uttered for Cane, not for me, something Cam told me with his mind. But that didn’t mean Ilikedhis question.

My gaze narrowed, my spine straightening despite my strange position on his lap.

He arched a brow, his impatience lighting a flame within me.

Because fuck that. And fuck this. This man was mine. He wouldnotbe replacing me with an immortal fuck doll. How dare he even fucking say that!

I dug my nails into the arm he had wrapped around my abdomen and ignored the sloshing water as I forced him to let me turn around. To truly face him.Straddlehim. Look him dead in the eye. “You will not replace me.”

“Oh?” He canted his head to the side, his cock throbbing against my slick center. “And what makes you think that, hmm?”

“I don’tthinkanything,” I told him. “I know you won’t.”

Such a good fucking queen,he replied into my mind.Are you going to help me show my brother why I’ll never replace you?

He fisted my hair again, his torso flexing as he pressed his hard chest into mine.

Demonstrate why none of those blood virgins ever appealed to me? Not even when I didn’t remember you?he went on.

He nipped my lower lip, the skin already healed despite his recent bite.

Prove once and for all why you’re my mate? My equal?He punctuated those final questions by sliding his tongue into my mouth, his eyes holding mine while he devoured me.

I bit down, angry that he’d even uttered that question about replacing me out loud. It didn’t matter that it’d been for his brother to hear.Ihadn’t wanted to hear it.

And I wouldn’t even fucking entertain it.

Not after everything I’d overheard between him and Mira. Their conversation about him playing with blood virgins. The insinuation that he’d been with other women before I’d arrived.

Nothing happened,Cam promised me now, his memories confirming his truth.I bit one of them and barely drank from her. It was a complete waste.

How would you feel if I did the same to another man?

His chest rumbled, his muscular arm banding around my back.I’d kill the man.

Then you know how I feel about the blood virgins. Plural. Right?Because Mira had definitely implied that Cam had tastedseveralblood virgins.

I was offered a few, yes. I only bit one, he reiterated. If you want her dead, I’ll give her to you to kill.

It was an enticing offer, even if it was wrong to consider it. The blood virgin was innocent. Just as it hadn’t exactly been Cam’s fault that he’d been tempted to bite her.

It says everything that I didn’t want any of them, Izzy,he whispered into my mind.My body rejected them because my soul belongs to you. As it always will. Even if you no longer want me, I’m still yours.