PS03 - Tall, Dark & Heartless (22 page)

here now.

As long as they were still putting all their hopes on Danni they wouldn't try to hurt her to stop their escape, hopefully.

Then again if she took a hit that knocked her out they would think that she was dead and wouldn't come looking for her. It

wasn't something that he wanted her to experience, but if it helped with their escape then she'd have to suck it up and deal. In

the long run, the pain and terror of being put into a void where only pain and fear could be found was a small price to pay if it

bought her some more time.

It wasn't until he downed the last drop of his sixth bag of blood that he realized that something was off. A slow warmth

soon spread throughout his body as his skin tingled in awareness. He tried to shake off the odd sensations, but it was useless.

His heart raced in his chest and his breathing quickened. His eyes shot down to the empty bag in his hands. He brought the bag

up to his face and inhaled deeply. When he didn't smell anything he frowned.

The bagged blood he ingested had been laced with something, what exactly he wasn't sure at the moment, but it was more

than obvious that they were up to something. Shit! They needed to get out of here, now.

He took a deep breath as he reached for his foot, praying like hell that whatever they'd laced his blood with wouldn't slow

down his healing rate.. If he had to he'd create a distraction for as long as he could so that Danni could escape. Hopefully, she'd

have enough sense to go into hiding. Then again, the woman was stubborn, he thought with disgust as his grip tightened around

his foot. He took another deep breath to prepare himself for what was to come when Danni's scent hit him.

Ah, shit, he thought as his balls tightened up and the head of his cock tingled as he caught a hint of feminine scent, a scent

he'd been working damn hard to ignore. Not taking Danni when she was practically begging for it had been one of the hardest

things he'd ever done, but he hadn't wanted to cross that line, hadn't wanted to let go of the memory of the little girl who used to

mean everything to him.

But it had been damn close.

He'd never wanted a woman more than he'd wanted Danni. It wasn't difficult to figure out why. She was beautiful, sexy

and while he normally preferred women who were soft and pampered themselves in expensive perfumes and covered their

bodies in silk, he couldn't deny the way Danni's no nonsense attitude and toned body left him burning.

He wanted to fuck her so badly that he actually ached with need. He was barely aware of anything else going on around

him as her scent intensified, causing his cock to fill with blood. If he didn't get away from her, he was going to do something

stupid like fuck her.

"Are you going to sit here daydreaming or are you going to move your ass?" Danni demanded, breaking through his lust

filled haze.

He forced himself to focus on the woman kneeling in front of him. It took him a minute before he realized that she was

holding up the broken end of his chain. His eyes shot down to the metal cuff still secured around his leg and the piece of

twisted metal link that had once secured the cuff to the chain.

What the hell.......

"I wasn't sure it was going to work, but when I saw you trying to twist the chain off," he had? "I thought I'd give it a shot. I

guess two Pytes are better than one," she mused as she stood up only to pause, sniff the air, and frown down at him.

"They drugged the blood," he said through gritted teeth and praying like hell that she'd just let it go.

With a shrug she did just that.

Chapter 18

"Stay behind me, Danni," Caine said, surprising her. Not that she was exactly shocked by his attempt to protect her, she

wasn't. What shocked her was his willingness to go along with her plan and escape before she learned to master her new skills

and get her strength up. He'd seemed pretty adamant about waiting and truthfully she'd been willing to go along with his plan.

That is until she humiliated herself with that feeding. After that she'd focused all of her time on trying to figure out a way

to get out of here and away from him. The compound was out since it probably wouldn't take more than a minute before one of

the demons or shifters scented the change in her and alerted the Council.

She might want to beat the shit out of the jerk for aiding in her humiliation, but that didn't mean that she wanted to see him

punished and there was absolutely no doubt in her mind that he would be punished for turning her. She didn't know all the

details of his probation, but she knew enough to know that the Council would make damn sure that Caine never had the

opportunity to create another breed of vampires. She'd heard rumors that they planned on encasing him in cement and dropping

him in the deepest, darkest part of the ocean, but up until this point she never truly feared that it would happen.

As long as she stayed away from anyone in league with the Sentinel Council, then Caine would be fine. They would never

find out what he did and she could go on with her life, her incredibly long life, she thought with a sigh. It was still weird to go

from fearing each day would be her last to knowing that she would never, could never, die. It was going to take some getting

used to, but then again she had plenty of time to do that. The only thing that she didn't have at the moment was somewhere to go.

She had no friends outside of the compound, no relatives and the small amount of money that she had wasn't worth taking

the risk of someone tracing it, so she was going to have to leave it right where it was. She had absolutely nothing and no one,

but that was fine with her. It would take some time, but she'd make up a new life for herself and continue with her purpose.

Actually, thanks to Caine, she'd be more efficient and could make more of a difference in this war against demons,

vampires and shifters. It would probably take her some time to master her new abilities and make any real difference, but now

that she no longer had to worry if the next day would be her last it wouldn't matter. She could learn new fighting skills, travel

the world, and find better weapons and-

Oh shit, she thought as she licked her lips and her eyes zeroed in on the powerful male before her. She felt her nipples

harden against the soft material of the men's shirt that she wore and felt herself go wet between her legs as the scent of his

arousal hit her, hard.

Her knees actually shook as she struggled to keep moving forward. The scent was mouthwatering and so much stronger

than it had been before. She didn't need a mirror to know that her eyes had gone red and that her fangs had dropped. She

ignored Caine's softly spoken curse as he threw a glare over his shoulder at her as if this was somehow her fault.

"I'm just reacting to you!" she pointed out in a harsh whisper even though they both realized that, well, he damn well better

realize that this was his fault.

"Well, stop," he bit out between clenched teeth as his eyes flickered between that beautiful steel gray that she used to love

to red. As the red solidified she knew that he was losing control. If she was still human that knowledge would have probably

scared the hell out of her, but she wasn't and they really needed to stay focused if they were going to get of here.

"Maybe I should take the lead," she suggested, moving to do just that when Caine's growl made her pause.

"Keep your ass behind me, Danni, and when the time comes you better not hesitate in moving your ass," he practically

snarled.

"I won't," she said tightly.

"See that you don't," he warned before turning his attention back on the closed door as her eyes admittedly dropped down

to his grey boxer briefs encased ass and may have stayed there for a few seconds before she got her head back in the game.

As she watched Caine reach out to open the door she struggled not to think about his ass and wonder what it would feel

like to run her hands over that perfectly curved ass as he thrust inside of her and-

One second she was walking behind Caine in a daze and the next she was flying through the air and her back was hitting

the hard wall as Caine's lips crashed down on hers. The kiss was punishing, brutal and turned her on more than it should have.

He didn't hesitate in taking what he wanted. Before she could register that Caine was truly kissing her, his tongue thrust

into her mouth and demanded that hers come out to play and God help her but she was helpless to refuse.

She slid her tongue against his, loving the way it felt, the way it made her entire body tingle with need and wanted more,

but before she could demand that he do more he was breaking off the kiss and moving back, panting hard as he glared down at

her.

"We don't have time for this bullshit, Danni," he snapped, his eyes once again flickering until they turned to cold steel and

she knew that he was under control once again. It only went to remind her that she wasn't. She'd lost control and she was having

a hell of a time getting it back.

"Then move your ass and keep your hands to yourself," she snapped back, pushing off the wall and moving towards the

door, more than ready to get this over with and put some distance between the two of them.

"Then stop sending out 'Fuck me' vibes and I will," he said, storming past her and ripping the door off its hinges.

She barely had time to duck as the door sailed through the air, over her head and embedded itself in the cement wall

behind her. She straightened up and stormed after him just as he attacked the vampires at the door. They looked startled as

Caine unleashed hell on them.

He easily ignored their efforts to subdue him. He grabbed the larger of the two men and yanked him up until he was close

enough for Caine to sink his teeth into the man's neck. When the other man moved to run away, Caine reached out and grabbed

him by his shoulder length hair and yanked him back, easily ignoring his struggles and screams for mercy as Caine fed from the

other vampire.

Danni opened her mouth to ask him what the hell he was doing since he'd just eaten when she remembered something he'd

told her when she was little and she may have accidentally poisoned him. Not that that had been her intention. She'd been

around ten years old at the time. She'd waited up for him, which she did most nights that he patrolled, but most nights he wasn't

carried in and brought to the infirmary, missing an arm.

After the doctors attached several bags of blood to an IV they left him to go take care of other patients, so of course Danni

decided that he needed someone to take care of him. Once she finished fluffing his pillows, washing his face as she of course

ignored his little growls of warning she decided that he needed medicine to make his arm grow back faster.

She walked over to one of the doctors that were busy removing an arrow from a Sentinel and demanded that he give Caine

medicine. When he told her to beat it she of course kicked him in the shin, hard, before she decided that if she wanted it done

right then she was going to have to do it herself. She wasn't exactly sure how she was going to get the cranky man to take his

medicine at first, but then she remembered how he tricked her into taking her medicine when she was sick.

Since she knew that he couldn't eat ice cream she decided that she would have to hide the medicine in blood. After she

stole one of the doctor's coffee mugs she filled it halfway with blood and then added the medicine she found in an unlocked

cabinet until the cup was full. When she was satisfied with how well it was mixed she presented it to Caine and told him to

drink it. With an annoyed sigh that kind of came off more as a growl, he did just that and then told her to get her little ass to bed

before he spanked it.

Of course she didn't listen to him. She sat by his bed and was extremely pleased with herself when Caine nodded off

minutes later and his arm began to heal faster. His screams of agony seconds later had been a little concerning. Thankfully he

knew what to do to make it better even if he didn't know exactly what she'd done.

While he chugged bag after bag of blood down he glared at her, just glared. She did her best to appear innocent as she

slowly crept towards the door. She didn't make it five feet before he had her over his shoulder and was lecturing her about the

dangers of playing with drugs. As it turned out all drugs were poisonous to his system and the only way to clear his system was

by overindulging in blood, which he was apparently doing right now.

She forced herself to ignore the mouthwatering aroma and focus on the empty hallway. There were five other doors in the

long hallway, but she couldn't smell anyone close by. Then again she was still new at this, she reminded herself and couldn't

depend on her new senses just yet. She didn't bother looking back at Caine as she moved to the right. Her fangs were retracted

and she could see normally, which was good, but she knew one look at the man feeding would have her losing control and

giving herself away.

As quietly as she could, she made her way down the hall and paused by the corner of another hallway leading to the right.

When she didn't hear anything she risked a peek and nearly sighed with relief. It was empty. That brought up an interesting