{"id":388,"date":"2011-09-27T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2011-09-27T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:00:00","slug":"teaseday-forbidden-blood-vampire-romance-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/27\/teaseday-forbidden-blood-vampire-romance-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaseday &#8211; Forbidden Blood &#8211; Vampire Romance Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Teaseday is brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Forbidden%20Blood\"><b>Forbidden Blood<\/b><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Forbidden%20Blood\"><b>Forbidden Blood<\/b><\/a> is the first book in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebookseries.php?series=Vampire%20Venators\"><i>Vampire Venators<\/i><\/a> romance series, and is a long novel full of passion, action, betrayal and revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the tease&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Forbidden%20Blood\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/images\/uploads\/picDetailforbiddenblood.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Forbidden%20Blood\"><b>Forbidden Blood<\/b><\/a><br \/><b>Felicity Heaton<\/b><br \/>In  a dark world where vampires exist and where Source Blood, a rare  human  blood type, can bestow godlike powers upon them, the vampire  Venators  of the Sovereignty fight to protect the humans by banishing  those who  drink it to the endless dark.<\/p>\n<p>Exiled from his family  and with only his duty to sustain him, Kearn has  been on the trail of  an elusive Source Blood abuser for three years.  When he saves a  beautiful human female from the vampire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grasp, it  turns out she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the  lead he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been waiting for. Amber is a Source Blood  and the perfect  bait, but for who?<\/p>\n<p>As they race to catch the vampire  and survive the cruel games he plays,  Amber is pulled deeper into  Kearn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world and discovers the painful  secrets he hides behind his  handsome but emotionless exterior\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhurt that  she has the power to heal  if she is brave enough.<\/p>\n<p>Forbidden Blood is book one in  the Vampire Venators series and a dark,  sensual tale of betrayal,  revenge and a love that knows no bounds.<\/p>\n<p>ebook price: $3.99<br \/>genre: paranormal vampire romance<br \/>length: 126000 words<br \/>rating: sultry<br \/>released: June 2011<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebookseries.php?series=Vampire%20Venators\">Book 1 in the Vampire Venators series<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Available in e-book from:<\/b><br \/><b>Author&#8217;s website:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Forbidden%20Blood\">http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Forbidden%20Blood<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #c27ba0; font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>EXCERPT<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The smell of everyone in the club wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even drowning out her scent. It  was a good thing because he needed the vampires to smell her blood so  it would lure them into speaking to her but it constantly pushed at his  restraint. Since tasting her, he hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stopped desiring her. His lust  for her blood was strong, so much so that he had dreamed of her and  nothing else. She had been in his embrace, bare breasts against his  chest and her arms around him, holding him close as he kissed and licked  her throat. He had drunk from her, sinking his fangs deep into her neck  and marking her as eternally his. He knew that was what he had been  doing. He hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t intended to kill her. He had wanted to make her a  vampire like him. He had wanted to keep her.<\/p>\n<p>Which was insane.<\/p>\n<p>But her blood had tasted so good even in his dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Kearn struggled for control as the memory of it assaulted him, sending  an echo of the buzz he had felt through his body and fogging his mind.  Something deep within him cried out for more, for another taste, another  fix.<\/p>\n<p>The club started to heat up as people moved and the smell of her blood  grew stronger. It was a divine smell\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsweet and fragrant. The voice at  the back of his mind whispered that it could be his, just as it had been  in his dreams.<\/p>\n<p>He touched his neck again, pulled at the collar of his shirt when it  felt as though it was strangling him, and frowned. He couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember a  time when he had felt so hungry.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you okay?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Amber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voice startled him. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look so good.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>His eyes leapt to hers and then fell to her neck. His temperature  increased the moment his gaze landed on the black choker wrapped around  it. Her blood was delicious. She was delicious. His throat ached at the  sight of hers, his hunger rising. He tightened his hold on his neck and  tried to get a grip on himself. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just her blood doing this to  him. It couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be. There was something deeper at work.<\/p>\n<p>He forced his eyes up, until they met her wide ones. She stepped closer  and her scent grew stronger, overwhelming him. He stood and took a step  back, trying to distance himself and keep control.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am a little thirsty.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That was an understatement. He was parched,  gasping for the smooth slide of her blood down his throat and the giddy  rush of it in his veins.<\/p>\n<p>Like an addict.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Come on.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She grabbed his arm.<\/p>\n<p>He looked at her hand on him, slender but strong. She walked away,  luring him along the length of the bar to where she had been sitting,  and he followed her blindly.<\/p>\n<p>Kearn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes stuck like glue to the back of her neck, catching teasing  glimpses of the nape of it and the black velvet choker through her dark  hair. He longed to part the brown waves and kiss there, to run his  tongue over her skin and taste her, and feel her shiver in pleasure. He  wanted to ease his fangs in deep and slow, claiming her and her blood as  his and his alone. Nothing compared to biting someone, to the  incredible rush from the connection and the intense intoxicating feel of  their blood in your veins. It was what he had been born to do\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto take  life from the blood of humans like a thief.<\/p>\n<p>Like a beast.<\/p>\n<p>And right now, he wanted to take all of Amber. He wanted to strip away  the mask and show her just what he was underneath\u00e2\u20ac\u201da creature lost in  her, thirsting for her body and blood.<\/p>\n<p>For her love.<\/p>\n<p>He tore his eyes away from her neck, horrified by his last thought and  the realisation that his hunger for her went beyond physical need to an  emotional one.<\/p>\n<p>She stopped by her stool and flagged down the bartender, giving him a wide smile.<\/p>\n<p>Kearn stared at the man, remembering what he had said. Lonely. The hand  around his throat dropped to his chest and he focused there. Did it  really show? Had Amber seen it? He had been on his guard around her but  there had been times when he had felt as though she had looked right  down into his heart and seen the man beneath the armour.<\/p>\n<p>Amber put a tall glass of icy dark liquid into Kearn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hand, bringing  his attention back to her. She held a similar glass. He sniffed his.  Sweet and bubbly. Some sort of soft drink. It was cold against his hand  but would do nothing to satisfy his thirst.<\/p>\n<p>Amber only made it worse.<\/p>\n<p>She tilted her head back, her profile to him, and drank her drink. He  couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop himself from staring at her throat. It was unbearable to  see it so exposed, so clean and soft and smooth, crying out for him to  mark it. He wanted to tear off her choker and sink his teeth into her,  to pull her close and feel her heart pound against his, beating as one.<\/p>\n<p>Kearn clamped his mouth shut against the strong urge to bite her. His  fangs extended enough to catch his lower lip. He licked the blood but it  wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough. It had to be her blood. Only that would satisfy his  craving. The voice at the back of his mind, deep in his heart, commanded  him to bite her.<\/p>\n<p>She lowered the glass from her lips and looked at him with beautiful round eyes, tempting him with her innocence.<\/p>\n<p>His fangs receded with only a little resistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not drinking?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She frowned at his glass. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my treat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>She flicked the long dark waves of hair away from her neck and strands  of it stuck to her damp skin. He narrowed his eyes on the pulse  fluttering on her throat. If it was her treat, he would drink her down  in one go.<\/p>\n<p>It took all of his willpower to resist surrendering to the desire to  give in to temptation. His blood pounded in his temples, driven to a  frenzy by the unquenchable and undeniable hunger he felt for Amber. It  wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just her blood. It was everything about her\u00e2\u20ac\u201dher smile, her  beauty, her body, and how she looked at him sometimes with concern. He  had never experienced such need, such intense attraction and desire, for  anyone in all his years.<\/p>\n<p>Not even the countess.<\/p>\n<p>His need for Amber, his hunger for her, was raw and uncontrollable. It  thundered in his veins and ran deep in his bones. It commanded him.  Ruled him.<\/p>\n<p>She smiled and then frowned at his face.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve cut your lip.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She touched it with her delicate fingertip,  peering closely. The warm caress enticed him, making his lower lip  tingle, and the smell of blood was too strong to fight. He couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take  it.<\/p>\n<p>His fangs began to extend again and he almost gave in to the desire to  nick her finger with them. He couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do that. He couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make her  like him.<\/p>\n<p>Kearn stepped back and covered his mouth as his fangs fully extended, his eyes as wide as hers were.<\/p>\n<p>The flames of desire burnt away the last threads of his restraint and  he turned away, sensing that his eyes were about to change against his  will too. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want her to see him. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to be himself  around her.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Is something wrong?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Amber touched his arm.<\/p>\n<p>He shirked her grip and took another step away from her.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am unwell. Excuse me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said and rushed into the crowd, heading through the packed club towards the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Humans blocked his path, bumping into him and making it hard to get  through. The smell of their blood increased his hunger. He kept his hand  over his mouth and pushed through, shoving them aside in his haste to  reach the relative safety of the bathroom. The room began to brighten.  His eyes were changing. He squinted and lowered his head, forcing his  way through the hot bodies that stank of wretched blood.<\/p>\n<p>And all the while, he could smell the sweet scent of hers.<\/p>\n<p>His mind filled with visions of Amber. He saw himself taking her into  his arms, her warm supple body moulded against the hot hard steel of  his, and sinking his fangs deep into her throat. He would drink every  drop of her blood without a moment\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s regret and it still wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be  enough. He would do it regardless of the fact that he would hate himself  in the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>Kearn hit the bathroom door so hard it slammed into the tiled wall and  wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t close automatically. A man standing at one of the white basins  lining the left hand wall of the bright room made a quick exit. Kearn  grabbed the door and forced it shut. He stumbled to the row of white  sinks and ran the water in one until it was freezing, and then splashed  it over his face. It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop the images of Amber from dancing around  his mind. He could see everything he had dreamed and swore he could  feel her naked body against his.<\/p>\n<p>Kearn doused himself in water again. It did nothing to cool him. He was  on fire, sweat beading and running down his skin. Burning for her.<\/p>\n<p>He gripped the edge of the white basin with trembling hands and stared  at himself in the long bank of mirrors above the sinks. Red eyes watched  him. His other side. The one he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want her to see. Why did he fear  it all of a sudden? Being a vampire had never bothered him before. His  species were above humans. They were strong and beautiful. Not beasts.<\/p>\n<p>So why did Amber make him feel like an animal?<\/p>\n<p>How did she make him feel so hungry?<\/p>\n<p>He had never felt such thirst. Never. He had tasted forbidden blood  before but it hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t left him feeling this way\u00e2\u20ac\u201dneeding another fix.  Needing her.<br \/><a name='more'><\/a>Water dripped from the ends of his silver hair. The sound of the  running tap and his rough breathing filled his ears. He stared hard into  his red eyes, struggling against his hunger. After a few long minutes,  his irises slowly melted back to green from the pupil outwards.<\/p>\n<p>He took a deep breath and sighed, regaining control.<\/p>\n<p>The bathroom door opened and a human male walked in, nodding at him and then heading into the stalls behind him.<\/p>\n<p>Kearn turned off the tap and left. The music in the club was loud when  he opened the bathroom door and walked out into the darker main room,  grating in his ears. Even more people were crammed into it now. He made  his way back to where he had left Amber at the bar and stared wide-eyed  at the empty stool.<\/p>\n<p>She was gone.<\/p>\n<p>He scanned the club for her, trying to keep his cool. Perhaps she had gone to the bathroom too.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the vampire had found her while he had been acting like a ridiculous junkie.<\/p>\n<p>No. That couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have happened. He wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let the man have her.<\/p>\n<p>Amber was his.<\/p>\n<p>He headed down towards the dance floor, methodically searching and  taking account of every face, marking each as either human or vampire.  He was nearing the back of the club in a quieter spot favoured by Nobles  when he saw her.<\/p>\n<p>And he saw who she was with.<\/p>\n<p>Kyran stood beside her, both of them facing away from him, with his  hand against her lower back, far enough down it that his fingers were  lazily resting on the bottom of her corset, close to her backside. Fire  burned through Kearn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s veins. How dare his brother touch her so  familiarly? Kyran laughed with his friends and Amber laughed along with  them. The sound of it and the sight of her smiling into Kyran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes  fuelled the inferno inside him. He wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let it happen again. His  eyes changed and Kyran looked over at him.<\/p>\n<p>Kearn shut his emotions down in an instant, forcing his eyes to switch back.<\/p>\n<p>Kyran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dark eyebrows rose, his blue eyes cold and empty.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There you are,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said casually, as though he hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t felt the threat Kearn had directed at him.<\/p>\n<p>Amber turned around, broke out of his brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grasp, and came over to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you feeling better?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Concern shone brightly in her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>She reached up with her right hand and touched his face, sweeping the  wet strands of hair from his face. Her actions brought the bandage  around her hand too close to his nose. The smell of her blood threatened  to overpower him. He caught her hand and slowly brought it away from  his face, trying not to startle her by reacting as he had wanted to and  throwing it aside.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You look terrible.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kyran stopped beside Amber. His brother placed a  hand on Amber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bare shoulder and looked him over. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Amber mentioned that  you were unwell. Rough day?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Kyran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gaze slid to Amber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s throat.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You seem to be struggling.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kyran smiled at him and released Amber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arm. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought you of all people would be used to it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Amber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes met his. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to answer the question he could  see coming. His brother wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talking about his job. He was talking  about forbidden blood.<\/p>\n<p>He grabbed Kyran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arm and dragged him away, leaving Amber with Kyran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  friends. They wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t dare hurt her. A thousand things he wanted to  say sprung to the tip of his tongue, all accusations and anger, but he  let them go and released Kyran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arm.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Thank you for keeping her safe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It was difficult to say those words  when he knew that Kyran had probably only been friendly to Amber to  irritate him.<\/p>\n<p>Kyran smiled and, for once, it was genuine. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She looked lost. I  approached her and she seemed so relieved to see me. She started  babbling about you and how you were sick and thirsty and I knew where  you had gone. Are you better now?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Kearn nodded. He was back in control at least.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I can get some blood sent over\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kearn cut him off. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I do not want you on my list. The hunger will pass.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Kyran looked worried. Kearn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s senses said he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lying.<\/p>\n<p>He forced himself to look at Kyran. A reflection of him, but not the  one he had seen just now in the mirror. The dark shorter hair, the blue  eyes, the wide charming smile and fine black suit. Kyran was everything  he had once been, and everything he wanted to be again. His brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s  face and his own were torture to him, a constant reminder that no matter  what he did, he would never be the man he had once been. He couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t  change the past, and that meant he could never undo the damage to his  relationship with Kyran either.<\/p>\n<p>Kyran smiled. It warmed his eyes and reminded Kearn of better days when  they had been young. It was unusual for vampires to be born so close  together in age. Their mother had given birth to them only four human  years apart, and due to a difficulty in her health, they had been her  only children. To a human, they looked the same age, and would have  appeared to be twins once.<\/p>\n<p>But not now.<\/p>\n<p>A Venator was different to a vampire, and his appearance now marked that. They were distinguished.<\/p>\n<p>Hated.<\/p>\n<p>None more so than him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You should take more care of yourself.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kyran touched his shoulder. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Especially now that there is another of you in town.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Kyran looked to his left and Kearn followed his gaze. A female Venator  stood alone in the corner of the club opposite the one where Amber and  Kyran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friends waited. With her long silver hair flowing over her  slender shoulders and her vivid green eyes, she was unmistakable. Her  appearance was enough to make every vampire around her cautious, but she  was even wearing her black uniform. The silver buttons down the breast  and the sky blue detailing on the collar and cuffs of the thigh-length  military-style jacket caught the flashing lights of the club. She was  new to the job if she was foolish enough to wear her uniform in public.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You should introduce yourself, shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Kearn nodded. The Venator was watching him, and so was Amber. He sensed  her gaze on him, the remnants of her blood in his veins calling to him,  and then the feeling was gone. He glanced at her to see her looking at  the female Venator.<\/p>\n<p>He was required to introduce himself and greet any Venator in his  territory, but this wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a good time. His thirst for Amber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blood  burned strong in his veins and Venators were trained to recognise the  effects of forbidden blood on a vampire. The Venator would see what he  had done. There was an allowed amount that they could take in the line  of duty, but it was still taboo for a Venator to do such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the only reason he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to greet her.<\/p>\n<p>Amber was glaring at the woman and he wanted to go to her instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Go on,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kyran said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I will make sure that Amber is safe here. I have teased you enough and will not reveal anything to her.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He still hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>Kyran pushed him forwards.<\/p>\n<p>Kearn felt Amber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gaze on him again but walked over to the female Venator. She lowered her head when he reached her.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lord Savernake.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She pressed her right hand to her chest. The silver  markings on it were different to his. She was shorter than he was,  possibly even more so than Amber, and was much weaker. Females that  became Venators were never as strong as their male counterparts were.  The role passed from father to eldest son. Daughters were only involved  when there was no son in the Venator line. He studied her. She wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a  Noble either.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Venator. We are above such formalities, are we not?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A remnant of his  old self, buried deep inside him, said that she was below him. A Lesser  Noble. She deserved to scrape and bow at his feet. Weaker blooded,  poorer connected, and lower bred. She was beneath him in all ways. The  only things worse than her kind were Commoners and humans.<\/p>\n<p>She kept her head bowed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Welcome to my territory. I hope our meeting is fortuitous and not a  sign of something else.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He kept his tone warm, trying to tamp down his  thoughts. The woman was a Venator. They were equals, and he had no right  to judge her by her blood when he was an outcast of his own family.<\/p>\n<p>She raised her eyes now, green irises and wide pupils betraying her  shock at his words. Her expression only added to her appearance of  youthful innocence. She looked as weak as he sensed her to be. Far too  young to deal with their duty. He placed her at no older than two  hundred. To the humans around her, she looked like a twenty year old.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have noticed, have you not?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said and she glanced towards Amber.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You are struggling against the effects of blood.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Her voice was soft but he could still hear her.<\/p>\n<p>The corners behind the speakers were far quieter than the rest of the  club, and Lesser Noble and all Noble vampires desiring to protect their  hearing favoured them. It was a good place to discuss business, and  afforded them a view of the entire room so they could pick out prey at  their leisure without suffering from the ear-bleeding volume of the  music.<\/p>\n<p>She gave him a shy look, as though she felt guilty for confirming that  she knew he had recently tasted blood from a Source, and then her  expression gradually changed back to awe. Had she never met another  Venator? How many vampires had she killed and how long ago had she been  given her duty?<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have seen the human with those vampires.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look their way  but he could feel Amber\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes on him and the female. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A vampire I have  been seeking for several years attacked her and fed his blood to her. I  tasted her blood to confirm her as a Source Blood and so I could  maintain control of her and question her. The human is now bait in my  plan to lure out the man and sentence him.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I see.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The woman peered past him. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is forgivable then. Did your plan include her leaving?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Kearn turned on the spot. Amber was gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Excuse me,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said and crossed the dance floor to his brother.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153She wanted to go.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Kyran shrugged. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We tried to make her stay and  wait, but it seemed the little thing did not like seeing you with  another woman.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Kearn glared at him and then hurried through the club. Had Amber really  left because he had been speaking to the Venator, or was Kyran lying?  The thought that she might be jealous warmed his chest but he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t  allow himself to believe it. He had given Amber no reason to feel that  way and he had no reason to feel anything in response to it.<\/p>\n<p>What was he getting himself into?<\/p>\n<p>He pushed through the throng, growling under his breath about the way  people were hindering his progress and the growing awareness of his  feelings towards Amber.<\/p>\n<p>She was bait. It was just her blood making him act this way. And that was just a lie.<\/p>\n<p>It ran deeper than blood. She had entranced him even before he had  tasted her. It had been difficult to keep his eyes off her in the street  when he had fought to protect her from the man, and in his car as he  drove her to his apartment. He had been under her spell since the moment  he had met her.<\/p>\n<p>Amber meant something to him.<\/p>\n<p>But she was human. She was beneath him, fit only to serve his kind.<\/p>\n<p>Kearn broke through the crowd and out into the night.<\/p>\n<p>He wished he could bring himself to believe that but he couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. She  didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel as though she was beneath him. She felt above him, beyond  his grasp.<\/p>\n<p>Human or not, he wanted her to be his.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see her in the street. He searched all of the side roads  that branched off the main road outside the club and then got into his  car and drove around. 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