Free Reawakening by K. L. Kreig Page B

ability on a lesser vampire so I could take his form. I barely escaped with my life.”
    Geoffrey added, “I would never betray you, my liege. I would gladly give my life to protect you and your righteous mission.” Or he’d gladly give it bringing Xavier’s evil sorry ass down to hell along with him.
    Xavier scrutinized him closely. He was very good at detecting subterfuge, but Geoffrey had also mastered that skill many years ago. It was the only way to keep his head.
    “I have an assignment for you tomorrow,” Xavier simply said, turning to leave without another word.
    Whatever the assignment was, he’d follow orders to the letter. He needed to regain Xavier’s confidence and trust and prove that he remained his undyingly loyal servant, even if that had been the furthest thing from the truth for years.
    The only question was, how long would that take and how much longer would he have to live in this hell on earth?
     
     

Chapter 10
     
    Rom
     
     
    They’d been sitting here over fifteen minutes in a silent showdown. After he’d dropped his big bomb, his little firecracker’s cheeky comments suddenly evaporated and she hadn’t said one word since. He’d carried her into the library and deposited her on the well-worn leather couch, taking up residence in the ivory armchair sitting opposite her. Their eyes were locked in some unspoken duel and neither of them would give. He could do this all day.
    But what he wanted to do instead was haul her to his home and spend the next several days, or months, ravaging her. Every word he’d spoken earlier was true. He could think of nothing else other than repeatedly burying his painfully hard cock into her sweet, willing body until she cried uncle and acquiesced to be his. And she was very willing, despite how she was currently behaving.
    This morning when he’d heard her pleasuring herself, he’d almost broke down her door with the burning need to watch. He’d wanted to watch her wet fingers circle her clit, going faster as she neared the peak. He’d wanted to see the ecstasy on her face in the throes of orgasm. He’d wanted to lap up every single drop of her come, which he’d been able to smell through the thin drywall. His cock had throbbed so hard he swore it had its own heartbeat. And with the way she’d eyed him like her favorite treat after she’d open the door, he knew exactly who’d been the cause of such arousal.
    “How do you know I’m your Moira?” she finally asked.
    “It’s undeniable, Sarah.”
    She laughed, shaking her head. “You know, this would be a whole lot easier if you’d just answer a goddamned question straight up instead of being so damn obstinate.”
    Now it was his turn to laugh. “ I’m the obstinate one?” He’d wanted to tell her to look in the mirror, but he didn’t think that would serve him well during this particular conversation.
    “Yes. You’re the obstinate one. I ask a question and you give me half-assed answers, which aren’t really even answers at all. They’re more like riddles that I’m expected to solve or magically understand. I feel like I’m a kid again when my parents would tell me ‘just because’ or ‘because I said so.’ Those are not answers and neither is the crap you’re feeding me.”
    Damian’s words again rattled around in his head, not for the first time this morning. ‘ You’re bound to get one that will give you a run for your money.’
    And boy, did he ever.
    She’d crossed her arms, which only served to press her mouthwateringly plump breasts up. They were practically spilling out the top of her barely-there tank. It was very distracting.
    “I guess I just don’t speak Romaric , so you’re going to have to speak Sarah instead.”
    He was being a bastard, and he knew it. The problem was, he really didn’t know any other way to act. He hadn’t explained his actions to anyone else in hundreds of years. He hadn’t needed to. As a powerful vampire and a lord, no one