Immortal Daria Vacanti guards secrets dating back to the beginning of vampire history but remembers nothing of her own past. On top of that, Daria is torn between Joshua and Holden Parker, the vampires she loves but can't have. When she leaves town to escape an impossible choice, she meets a witch who promises to restore her memories. It’s just the distraction she needs to get over the Parker brothers, but is the price for the witch’s help too great?
Joshua and Holden have tried to forget Daria, but when the clan elders sentence her to serve under them, the brothers discover that love dies hard. With the trio forced to live under the same roof, sparks fly, tempers flare, and desire threatens to consume them all. Can Daria choose between the brothers this time around? Will her quest for insight into her past destroy everything she holds dear?
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STORY EXCERPT
The Stonehill mansion was so grand
and brightly lit it could have been welcoming her to an upscale party rather
than what Daria was expecting—a serious scolding from Christoph. She was
surprised, though, that Joshua had brought her here. At this late hour,
Christoph was typically at home. He usually hunted closer to midnight and then
headed home to enjoy other pursuits.
“Christoph is meeting us here?” she
asked as Joshua drove slowly up the driveway. Obviously that was the plan, but
her surprise led her to ask the question anyway.
“No, as far as I know, he’s not
here.” Something in his voice made Daria uneasy.
“Well, then, why are we?” She’d been
chastised by a few of the other elders as a teen, but it seemed unlikely that
Christoph would let them tongue lash her alone. Not after she’d been away for
so long.
Joshua didn’t take his eyes off the
road ahead as he answered so quietly she wasn’t sure she’d heard him correctly.
“We’re here for the dungeons, Daria. We’ve been looking for you for two long
years. Christoph’s last orders were to find you, bring you home, and have you
imprisoned.”
“You can’t be serious!” Daria
couldn’t quite believe her life had come to this. She’d spent years as one of
the clan’s most trusted, cherished members, and now she was to become its
prisoner? “He can’t just lock me up like some common criminal!”
Joshua pulled his car over at the
top of the hill and cut the engine, turning in his seat to look at her, his sad
eyes meeting her confused glare. “For the first few months that we searched for
you, Christoph seemed to feel your actions were simply rebellious. He even
questioned whether you’d been forced to leave. Over time, though, the elders
began to insist that you’d left willfully and pressed their opinion that you
cared little for your duty. They argued that you deserved a more serious
punishment. At first Christoph disagreed, but eventually he gave in—or maybe he
just gave up. You could face The Cage, Daria.”
Her mouth dropped open in shock. She
knew Christoph would be angry. She’d known the elders would demand some sort of
punishment, but she’d never imagined he’d allow her to spend time in the
dungeon. And The Cage? It seemed unthinkable that the vampire who considered
himself her father would allow that.
“We don’t have to go right in, if
you need some time...”
“Why didn’t you tell me this
before?” She wasn’t sure she would have gone with him so easily if she’d known
such a stiff punishment awaited her.
“The shackles didn’t tip you off?”
Daria could only shake her head. She
didn’t know what she’d been thinking. The shackles should definitely have
raised an eyebrow. She’d thought Christoph wanted her dragged home like a
prisoner and brought to him for punishment. Maybe, she’d thought, the shackles
were his way of shaking her up a bit. But the dungeons and a real trial? No,
she hadn’t expected that, especially since she didn’t think the elders knew
what she’d really been up to in Philadelphia—not the whole story anyway.
“If you tell me what this is all
about, maybe I can do something to help. I hate the idea of you spending even a
second in the Baldassare dungeons.”
Looking into his eyes, she could
plainly see Joshua’s concern. It would be so easy to spill everything and ask
him to find some way of fixing it for her. But Daria couldn’t do that. Her
crime, at least the one she’d been planning, was serious enough to earn her
time in The Cage, and if she asked him to help her cover it up, she’d be
risking his neck as well. Besides, she couldn’t be sure he wouldn’t hear about
Maharet’s proposal and decide The Cage was exactly where she belonged.
She reached up to touch his face,
caressing the prickly beginnings of stubble there. Joshua had always preferred
to be clean-shaven, but the hair always grew back faster than a mortal man’s.
She liked the feel of his five o’clock shadow. “Thank you,” she said, touched
that he still cared for her so much, “but it’s better if you don’t know.” She
wanted to kiss him—to have something good to remember for whatever time she’d
have to spend in the darkness of the Baldassare dungeons, but that didn’t seem
fair either. Nothing had changed. They couldn’t be together, so why open that
door all over again?
Joshua leaned closer, apparently
having the same thoughts about kissing her, but Daria turned to face forward in
her seat. “I think it’s best if we just get on with it.”
It seemed he would argue at first,
but then he shrugged and got out of the car, closing the door a little too hard
on his way around to the passenger side.
ADULT EXCERPT
The bed sagged under their weight as
they each took a place next to her. Joshua, resting on one elbow, kissed her,
using his tongue to explore her mouth. He ran a hand under her shirt to stroke
the smooth skin of her belly before directing his attention back to her
breasts. Holden lay on her other side, kissing her earlobe, gently taking it in
his teeth before loving her neck. He alternated between gentle nibbles and soft
kisses that drove her insane.
Getting to his knees, Holden
caressed from her belly down to her thighs and then back upward, pushing
downward with ever-increasing pressure each time he got to her cunt. The heel
of his hand pressed right over her clit with perfect precision, and she lifted
her hips to grind against his hand, moaning into Joshua’s mouth and threading
her fingers through his hair. Daria couldn’t get enough of this. She craved
more.
Feeling Holden’s hands on the
waistband of her pants, she lifted her pelvis so he could easily tug them past
her hips and slide them off her bare legs. He moved between her legs then,
sliding downward to kiss her upper thighs and nuzzle her pussy trough the thin,
silky material of her panties. Daria knew why he didn’t just remove them right
away. He’d told her how much he looked forward to seeing her in lingerie on a
daily basis now that they were a threesome. She’d chosen the white silk thong
just for him. There wasn’t much to the material, but she’d known he would
appreciate it. He proved her right by licking her pussy through the silk, the
heat of his mouth torturing her while the wetness of his stroking tongue
provided just enough insight into what was to come. She bucked against him,
unable to control herself. Her body felt on fire with the need for his touch,
and the ache between her legs grew more insistent. Daria wanted to feel them
both everywhere, on every part of her body.
Joshua coaxed her shirt up and over
her head, tossing it and the already unfastened white silk bra out of the way.
He gazed heatedly down at her breasts, and when she raised her arms to him, he
covered her without delay. He kissed her briefly, then trailed his lips down
her neck, over her collarbone and to the tingling breasts he’d already feasted
on with his eyes. Circling her left nipple with his tongue, he gently flicked it
once, twice before taking it into his mouth. Daria immediately arched her back,
trying to get closer to him and the incredible sensations his lips and tongue
provoked.
Daria opened her mouth to say
something. She wasn’t even sure what, but the words evaporated when she felt
Holden’s tongue work its way under the silk of her panties and lick her pussy
full on.
“I can’t get enough of you,” Holden
murmured between lapping at the cream sliding out of her pussy and running his
tongue over her nether lips. She bucked and moaned under his ministrations,
trying to hold still but unable to do so. Gently squeezing her thighs, he
pushed her legs further apart. Opening her to him, he blew warm air on her
pussy.
“Please, Holden.” Daria craved the
pressure of his tongue, his hand, anything. Holden stiffened his tongue in
response, using it to part the lips partially shielding her clit. He treated
the needy bud to a long, wet lick that had Daria crushing her pussy hard
against his face. Holden backed off for only a second to remove her panties and
then dove back in to lick and suck her until she was pumping and grinding under
him.
“Joshua,” Daria managed between
gasps and moans, “I want to taste you.”
The rasp of Joshua’s zipper as he
shed his pants was murder on Daria’s senses, and the movement of her hips grew
more frantic. She was right on the brink, but she wanted, no needed, to taste
him before she let go. “Mmmm…Hurry, Joshua.” She wanted his cock in her mouth
when she came.
Joshua kneeled next to her, his cock
looming larger than life over her, and she reached for him, guiding him to
straddle her face. She angled her head so she could lick from his heavy balls
up to the tip of his cock and then back again, grasping his ass to move him
back and forth over her tongue. When he moved backward a third time, she opened
wider, and as he pushed forward again, she took all of him, inch by swollen
inch, in her mouth.
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