“Yeah? Should I tell you how amazing you are?” I asked, my words and thoughts returning to me. The vampire had broken the spell by whispering the truth.

He pulled himself further from my neck with great effort while he gazed down at me, hunger and insane possessiveness lurking in his eyes. No one had ever looked at me like that, as if I were his universe.

My breath hitched, and I inhaled a lungful of his intoxicating scent of powerful male, faint pine, and spring.

“Tell me then. Go ...