Filed to story: Sinful Mates (Imogen) Book by Jessica Hall
He cocks his head to the side, his beady red eyes boring into me as his lips pull back slightly, revealing his fangs.
“Alaric,” Theo growls when he realizes the man is scaring me.
“Apologies, miss. I find it hard being around your kind when you smell as delightful as you do.” I nod, not liking the way he is staring at my neck.
“Well let’s get down to business, then. The courts have ordered some tests to check for anything in her bloodline. Tarina will escort her down soon to have her blood taken. I’m still waiting to hear back on when it will be decided what will happen with your mate, but seeing as you have marked her already and your family’s reputation, we have decided we won’t condemn her death and you won’t be punished for taking her as your mate. However, we can’t allow her to remain human. I honestly don’t know what you see in this human, but luckily for you, your father has said he will leave the council if anything happens to her that would jeopardize his sons. You’re lucky your father has stepped in on your behalf and that Maxwell has a soft spot for your father, because if it were my choice, she would already be dead,” he says, looking over at me with disgust on his face.
I suddenly feel exceedingly small, I can tell humans are nothing but blood bags to this man. The way he keeps glancing at me makes my skin crawl.
“Don’t talk of my mate like that, Alaric. You may be in a position of power now, just remember who got you where you are today, disrespect my mate again and we will have problems,” Tobias growls.
Alaric smiles challengingly at him but doesn’t glance in my direction again. The door opens and the woman from the lobby steps in, making me glance in the direction of the door.
“Go with Tarina, she will take you next door to have some blood taken,” Theo says, not taking his eyes off Alaric.
I can tell he wants nothing but to kill the man, I feel his hatred strongly through the bond. Walking over to the woman, she smiles down at me before I follow her into the room next door, which is like a small infirmary, with different creatures on the wall and their anatomy. I sit on the stool next to the steel table.
“I really don’t understand his hate for humans. We were all human at one stage, after many centuries as a vampire, I think he often forgets that” she says softly.
I relax a little, realizing she doesn’t share the same view he has. She puts a strap on my arm before pulling a needle out of the drawer under the table and a vial. She attaches the vial to the needle and holds my arm.
“You won’t pass out on me, will you?” I shake my head.
She is vastly different to the man next door; she is actually nice, and she kind of reminds me of Sally. I flinch when she jams the needle in my vein. I can tell she is holding her breath, as she holds my arm steady, letting the small vial fill with my blood. She then withdraws the needle and places a cotton bud on it.
“I was a nurse before I was changed, back in the 1800’s” she says.
That explains why she looks like she knows what she is doing. She holds the vial up to the light, obviously able to see something in the red liquid that runs through my body.
“Most peculiar indeed,” she whispers so low I don’t think I’m meant to hear. She then places the vial in a small box before placing it in the fridge under the desk.
“Come on, I should take you back.”
I suddenly don’t want to go back there. “Is there a bathroom around here?” I ask, wanting to stall for time, I don’t want to go back to that room where I know that man is waiting and looking for any reason to kill me.
Tarina nods, her hypnotic blood red eyes searching my face. “Yes, down the hall, the last door next to the waiting area on your left.” I follow her instructions and walk to the bathroom. Just as I open the door, I notice Caroline and Josiah are no longer in the waiting room; I wonder where they have gone. I step into the bathroom, it has a few stalls, three sinks and a huge mirror. The white tiles gleam under the bright fluorescent lights.
I quickly wash my hands and wet the back of my neck. I already want to leave. Looking in the mirror, I will myself to go back in the room and face the man. When I turn around, though, I’m not alone.
I didn’t hear the woman that stands in front of me come in. She is gorgeous with her blonde hair and green eyes, she has soft facial features, and I can tell she has a lovely figure under her tight floor length gown.
Her eyes narrow when I look at her face, her lips pressing into a tight line. “You must be Tobias and Theo’s new plaything,” she says, looking at me not even hiding her disgust. “I just had to see which pathetic thing they decided to take as a mate, although you are prettier than I thought you would be. So, where are they?”
“Excuse me?” I ask, wondering who this stunning, yet nasty woman is standing in front of me.
“Your mates, you pathetic human, where are they?” She says, leaning on the door frame.
I roll my eyes and go to walk past her; she is really getting on my last nerve. She places her arm in my way blocking the exit. “Move,” I say, glaring up at her.
“Well, aren’t you a feisty one, not even intimidated when I could snap you like a twig. I figured you must have a backbone to take something that doesn’t belong to you.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, now move!”
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