his body ached, and the slight scar under his chin from the spike of Eva’s boot needed more time to heal. Either the huntress had horrible aim or she was toying with me. Biding her time. Waiting for the perfect moment to stake him in the heart. After all, that was the only way to kill a vampire. Regardless of Eva’s motive, sparring with her had been well worth the injuries.
As he slipped a pair of well-worn jeans over his bare ass, Andreas couldn’t help but groan at the thought of her. The smell of gardenias still lingered on his skin from where he’d touched her. Eva.
Damn, he really needed to get laid. His cock still stood at attention, so he carefully zipped and buttoned his fly. The tight fit of his jeans rubbing against his erection was becoming excruciating painful.
He moaned as his adjusted himself and proceeded to get dressed. “Come on now little buddy. It’s been six days. Time to get over your little high school crush and get some ass tonight.” At least he had a name to go with the face. Andreas hoped to put Eva Sambucco out of his mind. At least for one night. All he needed was to screw the first hot blonde who appealed to him. Horny as all hell, any bimbo with a heartbeat would do.
To hell with the fact that Eva nearly made him cum in his pants with a single thought. He’d do whatever it took to take the edge off and get back to running his multi-million dollar empire.
As he made his way out of his penthouse on the 32nd floor, Andreas’s cell phone rang. Natasha. He didn’t want to answer, but he had no other choice. She clearly knew something was up and ignoring her would only make the situation worse.
Andreas sighed in irritation before he picked up the phone.
“Good evening, Natasha.” He pushed the button and paced as he waited for the elevator door to open. “I’m on my way to the office now. What’s up?”
“There’s been another security breach.” Natasha’s slow, monotone voice underscored the importance of what she said.
Andreas’s ears perked up. “This time they broke into the mansion.
You need to get in here right away.”
Within minutes, Andreas arrived at The Crypt . He sank in the Italian leather chair behind his desk and gawked at the pictures laid out before him. “These images just came back from the company I hired to digitally re-master the surveillance footage from the club the other night.” Natasha motioned toward the picture of the woman in black. The same woman who haunted his dreams for the past week.
“How do you know this is the same woman who broke into the house in Connecticut?”
“She accidentally tripped the silent alarm your father had installed in his office. Then she fought with a security guard but was able to escape,” Natasha responded. “We identified her from these photos earlier today.”
“Interesting.” Andreas tried his best to mask his excitement.
Showing even an inkling of emotion would only piss Natasha off and clue her in on the raging boner he’d endured ever since Eva crossed his path. “What do we know about her?”
“Quite a bit actually,” Natasha retorted smugly. Damn it. Her condescending tone screamed at him like a police siren, and there was no way in hell to deny his interest in the girl.
Natasha spoke in rapid-fire succession as she filled him in on the details about their intruder. Her name was Eva Sambucco. He knew that much already. But he didn’t know all the other tidbits of information. Twenty-two years old. Born in Albany, New York to immigrants of Italian ancestry. Her parents ran an import/export business for several years, selling olive oil and other Italian specialty foods across the United States and Europe.
“She seems innocuous enough. Any idea why she’s stalking me?” Andreas scratched his head, completely clueless. Then Natasha dropped the bomb. She described how a young Eva, on the cusp of pre-pubescence, witnessed her own parents’ brutal murder at the hands of vampires. The
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