Jace's POV
I wasn't supposed to be here but I had to dance my pain away. Linx had broken my heart after two years of loving him unconditionally and I have come to this masked party to drink and dance my pain away.
"Mmm".l gasped finishing the third glass of Crimson Widow, a wine that burned like it knew my story.
The bass pulsed through my chest drowning any memory of him; of us.I danced harder, laughed harder trying to convince myself that I no longer want him.
"Hey, care for a dance?". I heard a deep masculine voice from behind.
"Noo I don't". I said without turning back.
Boom!! And the glasses of wine the waiter carried came landing on my body.
"Whaaat…you god-damned bitch.." I cursed loudly. My dress was a mess.
Before I could say a word more he took me in his arms. "Whaaat, where're you taking me?"I tried to break free from his hold.
"Do you wanna change your messy dress or not?"
His hands were strong and felt possessive.
I was clearly tispy "make sure I get….."
I remembered him taking me into a dimly lit room, laying me on a soft bed and I closed my eyes. That was all.
Lucian's POV
I watched the brown-haired slender looking girl dance aggressively like a child who was let out of the house after being forced to read. There's something about her that just feels different.
I felt my wolf howl in arousal
"Whaaat!!" I am surprised 'cause my wolf hasn't howled this way at the sight of a lady.
"Hey, Innerman you've gotta behave…" I said to my wolf but it refused to adjust.
I couldn't control my wolf anymore so I walked up to her. She refused my offer for a dance. I turned to leave but my wolf made an invisible kick and the waiter stumbled on her.
"Take her now!!" My wolf cried. "Else I will break loose". He was fighting so hard. I took her up in my arms and walked into the VIP suite reserved for me. She drifted away as soon as I laid her on the bed.
I slowly started removing the strands of her dress, my fingers brushing over her warm skin. Every inch I uncovered felt like a sin, a delicious, forbidden sin. She inhaled sharply and a soft moan slipped through her lips.
That sound…
"Hmmaf". I growled again, deeper this time.
And gosh, the second I caught her scent…
I felt my wolf howl in deep arousal. It was a violent, loud stir. Clawing under my skin like it would rip open just to have her. My jaw tightened, I swallowed hard but the longing stayed deep and dangerous.
I ripped off her bra exposing her full rounded breast.
My wolf didn't want to wait. He wanted her. Right here, right now.
I could hear his voice in my blood "Mine,mine.Take her".
I inhaled deeply. She's drunk and she doesn't know who I am. This would be a rape.
"Grrahhh". My wolf lost the last of its patience.
I watched my fingers transform into claws.
"Noo!!!" I ripped off everything except her mask.
Just then I saw a mark on her lap. A black crescent surrounded by runes. Ancient. Cursed. Vampire.
I roughly pulled out her mask and there was a shocker…it's Jace, my girlfriend's best friend.
I was frozen. "What the…"
She opened her eyes partially and muttered "Take me". But I knew she was drunk.
"Arrrgh". My wolf howled loudly echoing the room. My legs was gradually transforming into hoofs. My back arched and my vision flickered. I was losing control and I knew once the shift was complete, I wouldn't be me anymore. I would be a beast and I would harm her.
I had two choices now; leave her and risk shifting alone or do the needful.
But doing the needful meant sleeping with my fiancee sister and worse, a vampire girl.
"Noooo!!" My tail was already out.
"Forgive me," I said lowering my head to her neck, feeling her warm breath against my lips.
"I have to do this… before I destroy everything".
Her skin felt so soft and warm beneath my lips. Warmer than I expected because vampires were marked under the cold.
My face hovered above that cursed crescent feeling strongly drawn to it like prey to a predator or maybe it's the other way round.
I should have pulled away but I didn't. My wolf was charging.
"Mark her".He growled inside me. " Bind her to us, before it's too late".
My chest was heaving, my claws…shaking, I wasn't thinking like a man anymore. I was feeling like a wolf.
I was burning with desire and possession.Everything in me screamed mine. Even the part of me that feared who she was.
"Forgive me". I whispered again through gasps "You're the last person I should want".
But I needed her… like mad.
She stirred beneath me, a soft sigh escaped her lips. She tilted her head just slightly, exposing the delicate column of her slender neck.
I lowered my mouth. My half-formed fangs itched against my gums.
I didn't bite to kill but bite to bind.
My teeth grazed her teeth and then I sank them in.
"Ouch!!" She gasped; not from pain but from recognition. Her eyes fluttered open. There were vampire red; wide, glowing faintly.
"Lucian?" Her voice was raw and musky. "What are you..."
I pulled back quickly, my mouth slick with her blood. I licked my lips, she tasted like fire and moonlight and every sin I had tried to bury.
Her mark burned brighter; my wolf roared in satisfaction.
The bond had been formed. It was too late to undo, too late for any explanations.
She stared intently at me, her mouth agape, eyes filled with confusion and something else…something that scared even me. Longing.
I stared at her body. My eyes went to the crescent on her lap and then to the mark I had just made on her neck.
My wolf became calm. I felt an instant brain reset.
I just bonded with a vampire girl who happened to be my fiancee's bestfriend.
"Fuck!!! Noo!!"
Just then I heard a knock on the door. "Is anyone in?"
It was my Beta. I felt my heart sank.