mean about
maintaining it?”
“Because you aren’t true Faerie. Only half. A powerful half
to be sure, but still only half. Well, is it even half? Your particular
conception is quite confusing. But your blood does have its own power. I told
you in Vegas it is like a drug. They feed from you and you have them at your
mercy. You can ask them to do anything and they will do it. Haven’t you
noticed?” he asks, squinting at me. “Or did you just think it was your girlish
charm that sways your lovers?”
“What are you talking about? I don’t control anybody,” I say
with an authority I don’t really feel. I try to think back to a situation where
what he says makes sense, but I can’t think of anything.
“I can feel the pull to do your bidding, but it is easy to
resist. You’re going to test it now, aren’t you?” he says with a half-smile.
“No!” I say loudly. Probably too loudly because, err yeah,
I’m gonna test it.
“Liar,” he teases me with ease now and he is back to the
Sebastian I know.
“Well as fascinating as this is,” I say huffily. “Back to
the matter at hand, you have to keep this between us, Sebastian. Tiamat said
that Cole had to forget and he has. We need to leave well enough alone.”
“I will leave it alone…for a price,” he says.
I should have been expecting it. CK said he doesn’t do
something for nothing. Apparently just doing something out of the goodness of
his heart isn’t in his wheelhouse. I sigh.
“You know what I want,” he says. “It is non-negotiable. I
won’t settle for anything less than the real deal or I spill to Cole exactly
what you were up to over there, and to our sire that he had you and lost you.
And don’t think that I don’t know you slept with other me as well.”
My eyes snap to his as he elaborates, “Our sire is correct
in saying that everything passes across your face if you look closely enough. I
saw your guilt when you were talking about the baby. He somehow convinced you
to fuck him in an effort to produce this baby. Which I don’t think is really
fair seeing as I am the one who knows you and yet you won’t take care of me.”
“Sebastian, I…”
“Oh, you don’t have to explain your actions to me,” he
interrupts me easily. “I am not your keeper. But I do want what you can give me
and I will destroy you if you don’t give it to me.”
I am momentarily stunned at his threat. “You are
blackmailing me into giving you what you want. Is that really how you want it?”
I ask sadly.
“No, you know that it isn’t,” he says softly as I hit the
nerve I was looking for, “but if this is the only way, then so be it.”
Well I can’t say that I really have much of a choice, and I
am extremely worried about the whole baby consequence, but I try to take some
of the control back as I say to him, “I will speak to Constantine about it. If
he is still agreeable then I will do as you ask. I will not go behind his back
with this as it is too sensitive and I don’t want another lie to add to the
growing pile.”
“Of course. I don’t want it to be a secret from him either.
He will agree so you will comply,” he says confidently.
I nod and look away from him, not best pleased to have been
put in this situation, but it is my own doing. I should never have let the
other two anywhere near me.
He moves to stand in front of me. “Liv,” he says softly, “I
don’t want to hurt you, it is the last thing I want to do but if you won’t come
to me on your own, I have to make you.” He runs his hands down my arms and my
whole body tingles in response. “But I know that even though the first time you
will come under duress, when you feel what we have, you will come to me then,
for yourself, for me. For us.”
“I know what we have,” I whisper, tilting my head up to look
at him. “I have felt it. The real connection that we will have, it makes me
ache to be with you. Yes, I am agreeing to this now because you have left me
maintaining it?”
“Because you aren’t true Faerie. Only half. A powerful half
to be sure, but still only half. Well, is it even half? Your particular
conception is quite confusing. But your blood does have its own power. I told
you in Vegas it is like a drug. They feed from you and you have them at your
mercy. You can ask them to do anything and they will do it. Haven’t you
noticed?” he asks, squinting at me. “Or did you just think it was your girlish
charm that sways your lovers?”
“What are you talking about? I don’t control anybody,” I say
with an authority I don’t really feel. I try to think back to a situation where
what he says makes sense, but I can’t think of anything.
“I can feel the pull to do your bidding, but it is easy to
resist. You’re going to test it now, aren’t you?” he says with a half-smile.
“No!” I say loudly. Probably too loudly because, err yeah,
I’m gonna test it.
“Liar,” he teases me with ease now and he is back to the
Sebastian I know.
“Well as fascinating as this is,” I say huffily. “Back to
the matter at hand, you have to keep this between us, Sebastian. Tiamat said
that Cole had to forget and he has. We need to leave well enough alone.”
“I will leave it alone…for a price,” he says.
I should have been expecting it. CK said he doesn’t do
something for nothing. Apparently just doing something out of the goodness of
his heart isn’t in his wheelhouse. I sigh.
“You know what I want,” he says. “It is non-negotiable. I
won’t settle for anything less than the real deal or I spill to Cole exactly
what you were up to over there, and to our sire that he had you and lost you.
And don’t think that I don’t know you slept with other me as well.”
My eyes snap to his as he elaborates, “Our sire is correct
in saying that everything passes across your face if you look closely enough. I
saw your guilt when you were talking about the baby. He somehow convinced you
to fuck him in an effort to produce this baby. Which I don’t think is really
fair seeing as I am the one who knows you and yet you won’t take care of me.”
“Sebastian, I…”
“Oh, you don’t have to explain your actions to me,” he
interrupts me easily. “I am not your keeper. But I do want what you can give me
and I will destroy you if you don’t give it to me.”
I am momentarily stunned at his threat. “You are
blackmailing me into giving you what you want. Is that really how you want it?”
I ask sadly.
“No, you know that it isn’t,” he says softly as I hit the
nerve I was looking for, “but if this is the only way, then so be it.”
Well I can’t say that I really have much of a choice, and I
am extremely worried about the whole baby consequence, but I try to take some
of the control back as I say to him, “I will speak to Constantine about it. If
he is still agreeable then I will do as you ask. I will not go behind his back
with this as it is too sensitive and I don’t want another lie to add to the
growing pile.”
“Of course. I don’t want it to be a secret from him either.
He will agree so you will comply,” he says confidently.
I nod and look away from him, not best pleased to have been
put in this situation, but it is my own doing. I should never have let the
other two anywhere near me.
He moves to stand in front of me. “Liv,” he says softly, “I
don’t want to hurt you, it is the last thing I want to do but if you won’t come
to me on your own, I have to make you.” He runs his hands down my arms and my
whole body tingles in response. “But I know that even though the first time you
will come under duress, when you feel what we have, you will come to me then,
for yourself, for me. For us.”
“I know what we have,” I whisper, tilting my head up to look
at him. “I have felt it. The real connection that we will have, it makes me
ache to be with you. Yes, I am agreeing to this now because you have left me
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