demons out there, but they won’t bother us. The sister-queens’ scents are all over us now. Plus, our necklaces. They know better than to cross Camila.”
“How’d you get so smart?” Samantha asked. I wasn’t so amused with the tone she was taking with Benny.
“Your dad’s one of them, right?” Laura asked.
“My step-father. He oversees the vampires north of the equator, between Greenland and Alaska. The seat of power is in Asia though,”
Benny said.
• 79 •
reBekah WeatherspOOn
“What happened to your real dad?” Anna-Jade asked. I’d been thinking the same thing.
“He was my step-father’s main contact in the White House.
He’d planned to blackmail a group of vampires in China. After he was disposed of, my step-father took my mother and me in.”
“You don’t sound too sad about that,” Samantha said.
“I’m not. He wasn’t a good man.” Benny left it at that.
“What happens after graduation?” Amy finally spoke up.
“You go on with your life, feeding another vampire wherever you decide to live. I don’t know if you noticed, but they picked a diverse group for a reason. None of us would hang out normally. No more than two of us share a major. When we graduate, we’ll go off to different places and work with vampires in different fields. Each of the sister-queens only needs to feed from three of us, but they take on six at a time to bring more feeders into their world. This is all just to prepare us to share our lives with them. To show us how to live with the secret.”
It got quiet again, all of us letting what Benny had just said sink in.
“It’s easier this way. They will feed no matter what. It’s better if they trust us and we trust them. No one gets hurt that way and we both can exist,” Benny added as a final note.
It had been hard to believe Camila, but I knew Benny was telling the truth.
“So why’d you sit out last night?” Samantha looked pointedly at Benny. “Not into the lady loving like the rest of us?”
“Hey. Back off,” I snapped. Benny was giving us a lot of useful information. What did it matter if she wasn’t into the group sex scene? Samantha had no reason to be a bitch.
Benny replied calmly, ignoring my attempt to defend her.
“Because as kind as they are to us, I don’t believe in having sex with people I barely know.” She kept her voice low and even, but she didn’t back down. “It has nothing to do with my sexual preference.
I can serve Camila and the other sister-queens without fucking them or any of you. We all can. They love us for our sacrifice, and if we get to know them better, they will like us as friends.”
• 80 •
Better Off red
She looked directly at Samantha. “Natasha has had close to one hundred and eighty lovers since this house was built. Her husband is the King of Omega Beta Alpha. His name is Rodrick, if you were wondering. The feeding is a necessity. The orgasm is a bonus. The sex is for you to brag about. We all feel affection for our sister-queens, but it’s part of the blood bond we all agreed to last night.
Nothing more. Thinking it can be something more is a waste of everyone’s time.”
That shut all of us up. Benny was completely right. The agreement we’d struck made sense. We work with the vampires; they don’t kill us for sport. But the sex was a whole other issue. I’d enjoyed my night with Camila, but I didn’t know her at all. I didn’t know how many lovers she’d had. I didn’t know if she was married.
Natasha was just as involved in the sexual escapades as the rest of us, and we didn’t know a thing about her personal life.
I’d been seduced thoroughly, but like Benny, I wanted something more than to be Camila’s one hundred and eighty-first plaything, and when the time came, I’d never intended on sharing my first girlfriend with thirty-six other people. I’d thought I wanted to experiment, get some clarity, but that wasn’t true. I wanted something special with one
“How’d you get so smart?” Samantha asked. I wasn’t so amused with the tone she was taking with Benny.
“Your dad’s one of them, right?” Laura asked.
“My step-father. He oversees the vampires north of the equator, between Greenland and Alaska. The seat of power is in Asia though,”
Benny said.
• 79 •
reBekah WeatherspOOn
“What happened to your real dad?” Anna-Jade asked. I’d been thinking the same thing.
“He was my step-father’s main contact in the White House.
He’d planned to blackmail a group of vampires in China. After he was disposed of, my step-father took my mother and me in.”
“You don’t sound too sad about that,” Samantha said.
“I’m not. He wasn’t a good man.” Benny left it at that.
“What happens after graduation?” Amy finally spoke up.
“You go on with your life, feeding another vampire wherever you decide to live. I don’t know if you noticed, but they picked a diverse group for a reason. None of us would hang out normally. No more than two of us share a major. When we graduate, we’ll go off to different places and work with vampires in different fields. Each of the sister-queens only needs to feed from three of us, but they take on six at a time to bring more feeders into their world. This is all just to prepare us to share our lives with them. To show us how to live with the secret.”
It got quiet again, all of us letting what Benny had just said sink in.
“It’s easier this way. They will feed no matter what. It’s better if they trust us and we trust them. No one gets hurt that way and we both can exist,” Benny added as a final note.
It had been hard to believe Camila, but I knew Benny was telling the truth.
“So why’d you sit out last night?” Samantha looked pointedly at Benny. “Not into the lady loving like the rest of us?”
“Hey. Back off,” I snapped. Benny was giving us a lot of useful information. What did it matter if she wasn’t into the group sex scene? Samantha had no reason to be a bitch.
Benny replied calmly, ignoring my attempt to defend her.
“Because as kind as they are to us, I don’t believe in having sex with people I barely know.” She kept her voice low and even, but she didn’t back down. “It has nothing to do with my sexual preference.
I can serve Camila and the other sister-queens without fucking them or any of you. We all can. They love us for our sacrifice, and if we get to know them better, they will like us as friends.”
• 80 •
Better Off red
She looked directly at Samantha. “Natasha has had close to one hundred and eighty lovers since this house was built. Her husband is the King of Omega Beta Alpha. His name is Rodrick, if you were wondering. The feeding is a necessity. The orgasm is a bonus. The sex is for you to brag about. We all feel affection for our sister-queens, but it’s part of the blood bond we all agreed to last night.
Nothing more. Thinking it can be something more is a waste of everyone’s time.”
That shut all of us up. Benny was completely right. The agreement we’d struck made sense. We work with the vampires; they don’t kill us for sport. But the sex was a whole other issue. I’d enjoyed my night with Camila, but I didn’t know her at all. I didn’t know how many lovers she’d had. I didn’t know if she was married.
Natasha was just as involved in the sexual escapades as the rest of us, and we didn’t know a thing about her personal life.
I’d been seduced thoroughly, but like Benny, I wanted something more than to be Camila’s one hundred and eighty-first plaything, and when the time came, I’d never intended on sharing my first girlfriend with thirty-six other people. I’d thought I wanted to experiment, get some clarity, but that wasn’t true. I wanted something special with one
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