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her.” Her eyes blazed. “You can’t deny that the act is intimate.”
    Brant
couldn’t deny it. He wanted to. The lie was on the tip of his tongue. He ground
his teeth instead of releasing it.
    “Drink
from me or there will be no sex. The choice is yours.” Her eyes widened like
she was shocked at having offered her blood to him. He knew better though,
neither of them would be able to deny the attraction. Even though he had
offered her time, he knew it wouldn’t take long. They had been made for one
another.
    Brant
raked a frustrated hand through his hair and strode towards his dresser. Agreeing
would place her in danger, there was no choice to be made. “I can’t.”
    Brant
turned to watch her enter the room after him. Tanya closed her eyes. The
disappointment was easy to read on her face.
    “Fine
by me.”
    He
cursed. “You would taste too good. I don’t know if I would have enough
willpower to hold back.” Just the thought of tasting her blood made excitement
rush through his veins.
    “Excuses,
excuses.” She made a noise of exasperation and walked out of his quarters.
Brant heard her door slam.
    As
tempted as he was, he couldn’t do it. Her life meant everything to both him and
his coven.

 
     
     
    Chapter 4
     
    Tanya
paced from one side of her spacious suite to the other. What an asshole .
    Brant
wanted to get to know her better, yet he expected her to turn a blind
eye every time he sank his teeth into the sexy female vampire. The brunette clearly
would do anything to get him into her bed if she hadn’t already.
    She
paced faster. Chances were good that they had been lovers. Would he remain
faithful once they were mated? This wasn’t going to work for her. No freaking
way. She so didn’t want a mate, but if she had to have one then he would need
to be completely monogamous. Fangs and all.
    “There
you are.” Stephany entered her room, she smiled as she walked towards Tanya.
    “Listen,
I’m so sorry. I hope I didn’t dump you in the shit…”
    The
other woman reached out and touched her arm. “No biggie. Brant will get over
it. I shouldn’t have said anything anyway.”
    “No,
I’m so glad you did. I still know so little about the ways of your people, of
what’s expected of me.” Tanya sank down onto the edge of the bed. “I don’t know
what to do. I never expected to be here. If it were up to me, I would leave.” The
vampire people were not her own, yet she couldn’t just leave knowing that their
future survival rested on her shoulders. It irritated her but she was also drawn
to Brant in a way that scared her. It was as if their lack of knowledge of one
another didn’t matter. Like they were being brought together by unseen forces. It
was weird and it freaked her out just a little.
    “Brant
is a good man. Please give him a chance. ”
    “Except
he isn’t a man is he?”
    “No,
he isn’t but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a successful union.” Stephany sat
next to her.
    “We
can’t have much of anything if he keeps seeing Alexandra. This is so messed up.”
    “I’m
sorry you had to see that”—she tilted her head—“It wasn’t…like that between
them…you do know that don’t you?”
    Tanya
sighed. “Yeah, right. If it was up to Alexandra it would so be like that.” Her
jealousy felt like bugs crawling over her skin. Tanya detested the feeling yet
couldn’t manage to shake it. No matter how many times she mentally swatted,
there were plenty more vile bugs to take the place of the dead ones.
    “Don’t
let her get to you. I shouldn’t tell you this, but Brant hasn’t had sex with
anyone in months. That includes Alexandra.”
    Great.
Confirmation. So the two of them had some sort of a thing in the past. The bugs
crawled faster.
    Stephany
must have seen or sensed her reaction because she quickly added. “It wasn’t
like that. Vampires are highly sexual. Since males are not permitted to take
humans it is accepted that all unattached males and females are