Page 63 of Wedlock (Vampire Bachelor Games #3)

Yin stares sadly at her island as our boat pulls away from the dock.

I’d told her what Jag said about getting help from The Free Men and staying here, but she was determined we needed to run.

“The Free Men always come with a price,” she’d growled, “and I’ve paid enough already.”

I’d gone silent after that, because I know I’m the cause of her being embroiled with this group, reeled in as payment for their help to free me.

She’d previously told me that part of the price was that if they called her she’d be bound to answer, but she doubted they’d bother since she was funding many of their missions and they wouldn’t want to get their cash cow killed.

But I know it’s still a shadow at the back of her mind, after all, she’d also paid with the man she’d loved.

Watching her now, I sigh heavily knowing I’m the cause of her leaving her beloved island and, once more, having to run.

We’ll transfer to another island and fly from there because Jag said we can’t risk having choppers in and out of here all the time drawing the attention of the attentive.

He’d been able to narrow down where we were through the flights, and so could others.

The fact that those flights were necessary for the regular delivery of blood…well, that’s where our conversation derailed, and I’d really infuriated Yin.

Because Jag now knows about the twins.

Kind of.

Perhaps having lived among vampires for such a long time, or having learned from the master secret-keeper, Eleanor.

Or perhaps because I’m not a total fucking idiot, despite Yin’s assertion to the contrary, I didn’t show him my daughter.

Instead, when he’d pressed me on why I needed blood I’d shown him Talon and told him that I’d kept one son and given the other to Falcon.

He’d accepted my story readily, too readily, and it was then that I realised he already knew.

He’d discovered I’d given birth to twins through a slip-up Marianne had made when he’d visited my brother and learned of my thrall. Luckily, she hadn’t mentioned one was a girl.

His relief when I’d told him about Talon was obvious, because he said he now knew I trusted him as fully as he did I.

Of course, he was wrong.

I’d be a fool to ever trust a vampire.