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Spot-on And holy shit, he wanted to lick that drop

"Are you afraid yet? Afraid you’ll be so crazed on the night of the full moon that you’ll attack any female you see?"

As a s off, don’t you?" she asked

"I’ to beHunter?" At her nod, he hooked his thu to tell him about us"

She snorted "Tell him what? That for years, every couple of ht of the full moon? That you have… special needs that only I can fulfill?"

"That pretty lazed over her eyes "I don’t think so"

"I didn’t tell you to get your blessing," he said "I told you because I at least owe you a heads-up"

She flipped her long blond hair over her shoulder with a brisk shove "You owe ot as eave ave you"

So utterly expected of her to point that out "And that’s why I’ Hunter I’ve done that So have a nice life I’ether" Deservedly so

He started to turn, but Rasha sank her nails into his forearm and yanked him around with a hiss "You will not tell him about us, or I’ll tell everyone in your clan about your time as a slave for the huouges in his skin fro" Turning his back on her, he started toward the front of the cave

"Mr Pritchard"

Myne froze A hot load of adrenaline dumped into his veins, even as a chill swept over him "What did you say?"

"You heard me"

He pivoted around slowly, afraid that if he moved too fast, he wouldn’t be able to stop until Rasha was dead "How do you know about Mr… hiiven Myne his na cur That’s your na with the kind of confidence that ca with Hunter, II could about everyone in his inner circle"

"If that were true," he gritted out, "you’d know I’estured toward the front of the cave, where Aiden and Takis were laughing about so "I know they’re lovers, but Aiden sometimes wets his ith a female Tsk-tsk Poor Takis" She pointed to Katina "And I know she was kidnapped as a human child and raised by wealthy people who paid a lot of money for her When she saw her face on a billboard, she ran away, but before she could go to the police, she was turned into a vampire" Rasha smiled "Shall I tell you what I know about what they did to you inside that Daedalus lab? How they experimented on you? Reed you? Subjected you to huh!" he barked Everyone in the cave turned to stare Lowering his voice, he ground out, "I get it I won’t say anything to Hunter But don’t you ever bring that shit up again, and if you use your ill-gotten infors and leave you on Daedalus’s doorstep so you can get some firsthand experience hat you think you know about er into her breastbone "Stay the fk away froen He practically ran out of the cave, and when he hit the outside ledge, he inhaled huge gulps of frosty air as snow and wind battered his face He scooted to the side, where a crevice and an overhang sheltered a cove large enough for five But he was alone, thank the spirits Putting his back to the rock, he closed his eyes and concentrated on keeping his shit together

Not a day went by without hi about his time as a human slave, but usually, it was in conjunction with memories of his brother They’d both been captured and sent to Daedalus for the three T’s, "testing, ta," as Daedalus staff called it Myne preferred the more accurate "tattoo, torment, and torture"

Myne and his brother, Cloud Walker, aka Subject 212NP, eventually escaped, but Cloud had been recaptured, and Myne had been wounded badly enough that he would have died if not for Riker

So yeah, Myne’s ti up shit he’d thought he’d buried a long tio

Footsteps put him on alert, but he relaxed when Riker ducked into the little cove with hied him with a nod "You want to knohat happened with Rasha"

"I’ Hunter about your full-s?" Riker was the only person besides Rasha and Myne who knew, and that was only because he’d caught the as you keep youras you never feed froe of heart?"

"Blackrowled "She knows shit she shouldn’t know About my time in captivity My kidney My… fuck it She just knows shit, okay?"

Rike’s eyebrows climbed "Your kidney?"

"Don’t ask But, buddy, watch your back, because she claims to have dirt on everyone"

"Know your enemy," Rike murmured "She’s a bitch, but she’s not stupid What can we do about your s now?"

We? An uneasy sensation wound its way through Myne at the way Rike had worded his question The male was a friend, the best Myne had ever had, and the clan had beco ever to happen to hi went to shit

He looked out at the wall of snow beyond the cover "I ements for a female in the city"

"Have you had her before?"

Myne shook his head The number of females who had let him feed more than once could be counted on one hand "She thinks she’s into pain"

What a joke It took soe, or both to be able to withstand the pain of Myne’s titaniureat – at first They’d punched through huh water But then he’d discovered that the agony they caused va short of horrific He’d tried to have them removed, but the titanium had fused to his bone, and the vampire-sympathizer dentist who installed them didn’t knohy they caused pain to others but not hiot his answer

Turned out that vaic to even the smallest exposure of their blood to titanium About half of the born-vampire population also had a sensitivity to it So Myne, in order to feed froht of the full moon, had to find either an immune born female or a turned feony Unfortunately, few of either existed