Oh shit.I peeped out the door, still finding the two men seated, their eyes on the bar, searching.Shit, what had I gotten myself into?I couldn't leave in the middle of a shift and what was the chance they weren't going to be waiting for me outside. Below zero.I gulped down my fear, drying my sweaty palms on my jeans before walking out, feeling their eyes burning into me as I manned the bar again."You okay?" Luke asked, his eyes crinkling in worry as he glanced at me.I nodded gleamly, I couldn't tell him that two men were probably going to kidnap me or torture me once I leave the bar. Going home with him wasn't an option, they would definitely beat him up and leave him in a ditch him somewhere where the police wouldn't find him for the next three days.I was definitely watching way too much crime movies.I glanced at the men through the corner of my eye, finding the one who had chased after me, his body clad in a black suit, a tie knotted at his throat as he laughed at something
~Jacob's pov~What the fuck was I thinking? I thought, slamming my head into the steering wheel.Correction, I probably wasn't thinking at all.I could barely think around her, her blood always pulled at me and tonight I had almost lost it, my control had tethered at its edge. I had almost sunk my teeth into her enticing flesh and had a taste of what I had fantasized over for months now. It had gotten worse these past weeks, I literally had to close my eyes and a picture of her in that sexy gown would pop in my head.The attraction was unexplainable, so I had come up with one solution. The only probable solution.To fuck her out of my system.~end of Jacob's pov~I watched as Jacob pulled out, watched as his car sped down the road.A proposition for what? Was it for my dad's money laundering debt?Wondering why all these question hadn't come up when I had been in the car with him. How would they pop up when i was consumed with his presence? I thought derisively. I was basically br
What?I hadn't actually heard him right, had I?I looked up, finding fierce dark eyes on me, hooded fierce dark eyes."What?", I voiced out, after convincing myself that I had probably heard him wrong."I'm sure you heard me darling", Jacob drawled, leaning by his desk, putting his hands into his slack's pocket."No I didn't", I fired, stepping back and feeling the elevator's cold doors behind my body."Me. You. A bed. Naked and tangled up with my cock deep inside you and your moans draining out any other sound from my ears". I hitched in a breath as Jacob enunciated each word, the image slowly building up in my head as my sex began to throb with hot, clenching desire."Is that enough description for you?", Jacob asked, tilting his head in a predatory way. "Or do you want me to be more vulgar?"I shook my head, my brain trying to connect words to form in my mouth. "That's your proposition?""It seems I wasn't clear enough", Jacob countered.I raised my hand, indicating for him to sto
"You must be delusional", I whispered, scoffing even as my heart fluttered around, in contrast to the frown on my face."Aren't we all?", Jacob bit back in a low voice, his eyes glinting in the dim limo."I'm not your property. I'm no one's property", I said firmly, "Get that through your dark skull".Jacob huffed out a laugh, his eyes growing hazy, "Your fire always manages to turn me on. Every fucking time"."Now, aren't we forgetting another tiny detail?", He said, leaning forward and leveling his eyes with mine.I glared as he smirked, "Someone is in debt of two hundred million and a hundred thousand dollars"."Then find that someone", I seethed, gritting my teeth in anger."And here I thought blood was thicker than water", Jacob mumbled, chuckling to himself."Yeah you would know", I jibed, wondering where all my nervousness had gone."I do know that blood is thicker than water. That's why I'm here""You want to hold the debt to me?". "You have an army of techies at your disposal
Lanie came with three dresses and her bag full of makeup, she was a life saver."Choose your poison", Lanie announced, gesturing to the three dresses she had spread on the bed when she had arrived."I kinda like the blue one but the red would be fire on her especially with her eyes", Sacha chimed in, staring at the dresses."The red it is", I said, picking up the red dress from the bed and holding it to my body in front of the full length mirror, admiring how it looked on my skin. The dress was a simple and short bodycon dress with spaghetti hand for sleeves and a push up bra that did exactly what it meant, pushed up the breast.I put on the dress, feeling eyes on me all the way."Are you taller than me?"Lanie questioned, her face scrunching up in a frown as she studied the dress on me."How the heck are you taller than me?""Don't hate the game, Lanie", I whispered, laughing as I twirled around in the mirror.I was ready, my hair was curled up, exposing my neck as tendrils of curls
The voices woke me upThere was an annoying female one that was panicky and high pitched like it couldn't go lower and if it went any higher, the voice would become a screech.There was a male one that sounded lazy, telling the woman to shut it or he was going to throw her out.The third one was one I recognized, one I recognized very well, Connor's. I opened my eyes, and behold there he was, standing above me with a scary smile on his face."You're awake", he announced and two other sets of eyes turned to me sharply. I had been tied to a chair, I noted as my arms hissed in sharp pain when I tried to flex it and my eyes went round the room. A basement of some kind, I wondered if I was still in the house of the Kemlers"What do you want?" I said calmly, hiding my panic behind a firm voice.The woman scoffed and my eyes narrowed on her, her fake extensions obvious to everyone within a five feet radius."What I want is quite simple, Dalia", Connor said, catching my attention as he cro
"Well, I wouldn't say betrayed", Manuel corrected as we all stared at him. He was a vampire alright, I thought in my head, the way he grabbed people's attention."More like put off, all because of some silly mistake", He continued, pacing in front of me. "Jacob can be very temperamental"."Why are you telling me all this?" I asked with a straight face, masking the fear in my voice with indifference."So you would see I have no other reason but to do this", Manuel answered, like it should be that easy for everybody to understand."I was cursed because of that silly mistake and now I have to score the earth only at night because I can't even get a fucking daylight ring""How do I fit into all this?", I bit out. "I don't have his blood in me"."You do and now I'm tired of this chit chat", Manuel countered, exposing his fangs in a sardonic smile."About time", the man by the door groaned."Wait", Connor chimed in, "you remember the bargain right?"Manuel arched a very bushy eyebrow, "Th
"What do you mean by the last time I was here?", I repeated, my voice sounding brittle to my ears. Elda kept silent, looking round the room for imaginary signs of dust."I asked a question", I bit off. "What do you mean by the last time I was here?""Have I been here before?"In all honesty, I considered being less harsh, seeing as Elda looked like she wanted to cry but I had to. I needed to know if Jacob had taken my memories again."Elda", I sighed. "I just need to know""There's nothing to know from my end, miss", Elda responded wearily. "It was a slip of my tongue"."It wasn't", I argued, beginning to feel frustrated. "And stop talking to me like I'm a child""I'm very sorry, Miss"."Oh come on now", A voice sounded, the accent unrecognizable as the door swung open, revealing Sydney in an all black garb, her pose relaxed and yet still daunting."Why are you shouting at poor Elda?"I glared at her, "Where is Jacob?".Sydney's silver eyes gleamed, "Just because I act nice, it does
Epilogue.I sensed her before she came into the bedroom, the door opened and her eyes focused on me like I was her next meal and she intended to ravish me. My sex grew hard from the look in her eyes and the fact that she was finally mine all mine.She closed the door softly behind her and walked like a cat to the feet of my bed. I laid there watching her with heated eyes following every movement the I realized I would give my heart for this woman. She had healed quite nicely in two weeks. The scar on her heart had almost faded and she was glowing. Thanks to the vampire blood running in her veins. Dalia tugged on her robe and dropped it to the ground and my mouth watered. She was wearing nothing underneath. The glorious swell of her breast rose with each of her rapid breaths. “What’s the matter?”, I teased and brought out my hard as a dumbbell cock. My tip was already glistened with prec*m from anticipation. “You can’t stop now”.Dalia’s eyes heated and I think she darted out her
Sacha’s povThey were gone. Like their physical bodies were still intact but they were so still like they had moved to another dimension and left their bodies. I would never fully understand the ways of those folks and I wouldn’t start now because they were pressing issues to be attended to. My best friend was lying lifeless on the floor with a dagger protruding from her chest. I refused to believe she was dead. Dalia couldn’t be dead. No one was appearing out of the shadows. Kane’s mum and what I guessed to be the other chick’s mum laid side by side each other. Dead, unmoving, no more coming back to this world. I didn’t even know what to do. I wanted to run to Dalia’s side but I was so scared that someone was going to come out of the shadows and slice my neck next.I looked at Kane and he didn’t even seem like he was aware of his surroundings. The other girl who I think was Lanie had been mumbling something ever since her mum had been offed and she was still mumbling the same
I stared wide eyed at the figure that loomed over with a dagger in her hand. Her dark hair was flowing down her face and her lips were blood red like she had just finished a blood feast. Her eyes were empty big black balls and I felt the cold she was emanating all the way up to my veins. She wanted me to kill Jacob.She wanted me to kill Jacob to live.I screamed but I couldn’t scream out because of the cloth tied against my mouth.“Go on. Take it”, She nudged the dagger towards me. I started down at the dagger and wondered if this was the infamous blade made from the things Jacob told me a while ago.“Your time is ticking”, the evil woman said and the blade clattered to the floor and out of nowhere a clock started ticking loudly. Like a countdown to a huge bomb.Instead this time, I didn’t know how long I had or what was going to happen to me if I refused to do what she said.My eyes went to Jacob whose face was cleared from every emotion. He wasn’t even looking at me but I unders
This had to end. The damage was already enough, the casualties, the people being locked up in their houses from the fear of what was going. From the panel board, I could see Leon and his team had already arrived at the garden center to help rescue the injured. What exactly did Adriana want? For Jacob to concede the city to her?“She knows St. Laurent is in the city council building”, the vampire that had been put in charge of babysitting me alongside Sydney spoke up.My eyes widened. Jacob was at the city building? He was at the very place 200 bots surrounded at the moment?“What?”, I croaked out. “Why?” “I thought he evacuated along with everyone”“Indirectly this is a fight for his city. You didn’t expect him to cower and hide at the face of his mother”, Sydney retorted, throwing her hair back as she watched the screen with searching eyes. I hadn’t even known when she had appeared.“But he can’t seriously think of facing her alone. See the army she has amassed. This doesn’t even
I ran without looking back, the guards overlooking the place were probably slacking or the cloak I was wearing possessed some kind of ethereal power. The woman had ordered me to close the door behind me and not look back, saying everything was written out in the letter.Hoping the letter was in the envelope, I held it tightly to my chest as I sneaked out from a heavy iron backdoor that was already open.I had a feeling it was the woman’s doing.I walked for a mile or two, seeing nothing but grass all aroundWhere the fuck was I?Now was the time to try that little trick I had been taught once upon a time.I closed my eyes, taking in a deep breath in turn as I imagined my room in Jacob’s historical mansion. The blood red curtains appeared in my mind, or were they lavender colored?The fuck? This wasn’t going to work.I imagined the strategy room where we had stayed the last time to plan, the long table and the oak wood chairs. The wind whooshed through my ears and suddenly five sets o
Jacob's POVGreen eyes stared at me, his eyebrows quirked up in askance but I hadn't been paying attention.My mind was far away from here, my lungs felt tight with every passing minute. Questions swarm through my head, as I stared into space. What was happening to her at the moment? I knew she couldn't be dead because the bond still felt strong but the worry gnawed at me from within."Boss", Sydney voiced and my eyes snapped to hers. "We are awaiting your instructions".My head went blank for a second as I tried to rehash what Leon had said from where he seated opposite.Seeming to know I hadn't heard him, Leon repeated, his green eyes focused and mean, "Words on the street says a number of trucks had been seen moving into the city".I nodded, finally understanding. My birthgiver hadn't been building her soldiers in my city, she'd been transporting them in, right under my nose.I had given her that power.I had given her the power to bring me to my knees and she knew it. My lungs
InterludeHi, my loves. Merry Christmas. Happy new year. Happy new months… I suck…I know. I terribly suck for leaving you all hanging.Well, the past months have been my absolute worst. I've been through things and came out even when I thought I couldn't.Enough of the sob story…blahhThe good news is I'm back…And so is Jacob and Dalia. And…..drumroll please…. Leon and Sacha.Takeover III came to, my head pounding like a mega steel drum.Fuck, this kidnapping shit never gets old, does it?I blink, the lights like sears piercing through my corneas. My eyes adjusted quickly and I found out my hands were tightly cinched behind me.I looked around nervously, my heart rate tripling and sweat rolling like a snail down my back. The memories came back and I tried to swallow my fear. Michael, Adriana, there were a lot of people with me on their shit list, even though I had done absolutely nothing to deserve being on there.A noise sounded outside the small room and I closed my eyes immedi
No, I shook my head rapidly, my eyes still wide with shock. It wasn't possible.Michael smiled and walked into the house, his eyes scanning the place.Sacha, the thought flickered in my head. Sacha was in the kitchen. He was going to see her if she stepped out."How've you been, darling. Did you miss me?" Michael asked, tilting his head a bit as his cold and callous eyes met with mineHow had I never noticed this before?How had I not noticed the cold and calculating nature behind his eyes?"What do you want?", I managed to ask even as my head was going haywire with what to do. "A lot of things, sweet cheeks", He answered and Sacha chose that horrible moment to step out. Her eyes were wide and there was a butcher knife in her clenched fists."Get out", she seethed and the tension in the air grew more rigid.No, I screamed in my head. Michael was dangerous, surely she was bluffing about confronting him with a butcher knife.I stepped in front of her as Michael's smile grew and his fan
I kissed him like my life depended on it... because maybe it did.Jacob hefted me up and my body folded around his, my legs wrapped around his waist and my body melted into him.This was what I had always wanted."We can't do this here", Jacob mumbled at me but kept on nibbling on my mouth.I pulled away, feeling elated as I searched his eyes."You can drop me now", I murmured, looking anywhere but at his mouth."You feel so comfortable right here", He smiled and my heart melted."Sydney and Claude will be back any moment and we still have the Dick situation", I said level headedly Jacob sighed and placed me carefully on my feet. "Come home with me"."No", I stated immediately and watched his head tilt in confusion."No?"I nodded, trying to hide my smile. I took a step back to at least find a breathing space from his magnetic presence."What do you mean, no?""You hurt me more than a couple of times", I answered matter of factly. "Don't you think I'd be stupid if I don't let you wor