Chapter 1
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He agreed to bring me home to meet his
family and promised to “feed” me the night I
turned twenty and my powers awakened.
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But on Christmas Eve, the night of my
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awakening, he took off when his precious ex
called, leaving me high and dry.
While he was out there, wrapping his arm
around her waist and lighting fireworks to
make her happy, I was starving and
lightheaded.
I went out looking for him but ended up
collapsing into the arms of his neighbor.
“I’m so hungry… could you maybe give me
something to eat?” I sobbed, burying my face
in his chest, feeling his muscles tense up.
The next morning, I snuck out of his place, my
face flushed and my legs wobbly, after having
been thoroughly fed, while my boyfriend and
his ex stared at me, dumbfounded!
“Carter, please don’t go…”
I cried, my eyes red and swollen, clutching at
the leg of Carter’s jeans, begging him.
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My succubus blood was awakening, my head
was spinning, and my body was screaming for something to eat.
But Carter just kicked my hand away. “Let go!”
“I barely get to come home, and Bethany just wanted me to help her with some fireworks.
Do you have to make everything so difficult?”
“Am I not even allowed to help out a friend
when I’m dating you?”
I whimpered, a sound that was both painful
and alluring.
Carter didn’t even turn back as he left to go
find his ex, Bethany.
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He told me to wait for him, but waiting was
agony.
I struggled to my feet and stumbled out of
the house, desperate to find him.
That’s when I crashed into a broad, solid
chest.
“Mmm, smells good…”
It was the scent of food, a million times more
appealing than Carter.
I lost all reason and threw my arms around
the man’s neck.
The scent radiating off him started to get to
him too, his eyes turning a deep crimson.
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I stood on my toes, pressing my body against
his.
I kissed him desperately, whimpering, “I’m so
hungry, please, can you feed me?”
His handsome brow furrowed slightly. “Carter
not feeding you?”
I was out of my mind with hunger, clinging to
him and whimpering, “So hungry… please…”
Without a word, he swept me up into his arms
and carried me across the hall, unlocking the
door directly opposite Carter’s.
In the heat of the moment, a thought flashed
through my mind about who he was.
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Living right across from Carter? Could this be
his childhood best friend, the one he always
talked about, Jason Wilder?!
But clarity lasted only a second before I was
pulled back into the vortex.
The next morning, I fled from his apartment,
my face burning with shame.
As soon as I walked through Carter’s door, he
confronted me.
“Summer Lane! Where the hell were you last
night?”
“I told you to wait for me at home!”
I had waited, but I was just too damn hungry.
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If Jason hadn’t been so generous and fed
me…
The thought brought a flush to my cheeks,
and my eyes grew even wider.
“I just went out to grab a bite to eat.”
