Passion Follows Pain (Passion Series Book 3) by J. A Melville Page B

getting Sirene to cast this spell on her, but let us at least see what is going on with her and be honest, wouldn’t you like to cut class and find out what you need to do to get closer to her; what you need to do to bed her, since you seem reluctant to use mind control so you can fuck her?”
    Lucian’s eyes searched his sire’s looking for something to indicate this was a trick, or a way to use Arissa for his own amusement. Not for sex; Fabian would not try to fuck her. He was a one woman man since he’d met Sirene. She had tamed him quite a bit in the time they’d been together, and she’d brought out traces of a softer, kinder man. Despite that, it didn’t change the fact that his sire could and would occasionally mess with their minds; his way of keeping them all under his control, under his command.
    The only ones he didn’t control were Dominick and Allegra but that was because they’d reached a tenuous level of respect for one another. Fabian had tried to have Dominick and Allegra killed and failed. Dominick and Allegra knew and yet they had saved Fabian’s life. With time, they’d all reached a kind of understanding. It was a case of ‘I won’t fuck with you, if you don’t fuck with me,’ which seemed to work for them all. Of course it helped that they didn’t live in Fabian’s house too. Dominick had his own home and he and Allegra lived there.
    “You won’t hurt her?” He finally asked, his hand reaching out to push a strand of Arissa’s pale blonde hair back from her face.
    “I’m not a monster, of course I will not harm her but you need to prepare for what we learn from her. It could be hard to listen to, and are you sure you will be able to look her in the eye afterwards and not be influenced by it?”
    “I can do that; now please, begin. Let me learn the truth about Arissa. I hate to see her so timid all the time. Now that you’ve chosen to do this, I too am interested to find out what she holds locked away inside. I just hope you’re wrong with your suspicions.”
     
    Chapter Seven
    Lucian
     
    “We’ll start with some easy questions for her Lucian and work up from there. I need to ask her things we know the answers to so we can be sure Sirene’s spell is working on her.” Fabian said. He touched Arissa on the shoulder so she would know he was talking to her. “What is your name?”
    “Arissa Petros.” She replied.
    “Let me ask her something please sire.” Lucian shifted closer to this woman who drove him crazy. “Where are you from? Where was home before you came to Tasmania?”
    “The Central Coast of New South Wales.”
    “Are you a virgin?”
    “No.” Lucian’s mouth dropped open in surprise at her response. She acted like a virgin, he’d been sure she was one.
    “Who took your virginity?” He asked, feeling himself tense as he waited for her reply.
    “Father.” She replied, just one word, but that one word caused his stomach to twist, tension tightening in it, before rage began to simmer in him, building up and up until he shook with it. He stared at her, his expression tortured as his eyes travelled over her, her fragile, too thin form and he felt pain stab at him for what she had suffered and what that suffering had done to her.
    “Oh god sire, you were right. How, how can her father have done this to her?” His eyes met Fabian’s briefly before turning back to Arissa. He reached out and brushed her silky soft hair back from her face.
    “When did you lose your virginity Arissa?” Fabian asked.
    “When father told me I was a big girl and needed to become a woman. He said I was ready. He said there is more to sex than just touching one another. I became a woman when I was 10. Father wanted me to lose my virginity on his birthday, I was his birthday present. Mummy was gone, she went to heaven and Father was lonely.” She said in such a matter of fact voice, like it was completely normal and Lucian struggled to keep himself under control. His hands