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nod, her mother slapped her again. “You are nothing to me. Had I
known before you were born what you were, I’d have aborted you instantly.”
    Lou had looked at her father, hoping for
some help from him and she saw him talking to the police. She knew then that
she’d said what the man had been up to. She knew then that there was no help
coming from him either.
    By the next morning she was in a large
house with other children. None of them were like her, but they knew what she
could do. Her mother had announced it to the room when Lou had been shown to
her cot.
    “Stay away from this girl,” she’d said
in a loud voice. “She’ll steal your soul and make you do things that will get
you into trouble. She’s a monster, one that lays in wait for you to be close to
her then she will attack you.”
    The children hadn’t ever come near her. And
the others, newer ones that had been brought in, were told the same thing. After
that Lou had tried daily to get away until finally she was sent out into the
world to live with foster parents. And they were no better than the children.
    Then there had been the Hermans. The
last people she’d been shipped off to. Mrs. Herman had only wanted her to
babysit the other five children in the home, but the mister had wanted her to
give him information. The kind that made him money…
    Lou looked up when someone opened her
cell door.
    “I’ve come to take you home.”
    She looked away from Connor and the man
standing next to him. She wasn’t overly thrilled with the judge standing there
either.
    “Come on. I’ve paid your fine and you
can—”
    “I’m fine right here.” She was too. “You
can get your money back from him if you want, but I’m staying here.”
    The judge laughed. Both she and Connor
glared at him, but he didn’t seem to mind. Connor moved out of the older man’s
way as he moved into her cell.
    “Can’t let you stay here, girl. You have
to go with this man until things are settled. And you’ll be better off there
than here in this little cold cell.” He was speaking low, but she knew that the
man behind him could hear. “Nancy pulled some strings with me and I shouldn’t
have done it, but…well, she can talk a good game when she needs something.”
    “That other man, Austin, he said that he
would break my contract with him and I was free to sit out my sentence here. I’m
not leaving.” She looked at Connor when he growled. “You have something to say
then say it. I’m not leaving.”
    The judge stood up and walked out. She
sat up on the cot when Connor moved into the cell with her. She watched the
older man move down the hall and out of sight. She glared at Connor when he
towered over her.
    “You will mind me. I said that you’re
coming home with me and you damned well will.” She stood up. “Good girl.”
    Lou was just getting ready to give him a
piece of her mind when she suddenly had the urge to lean into his neck. He
smelled good, delicious even. When he gripped her arms she thought he was going
to push her away from him and was surprised and pleased when he pulled her
closer.
    “Lick my throat.” His voice was low,
sexy, and warm. “Lick along the vein and taste me.”
    She did as he’d commanded and moaned.
Christ, he tasted like sex. Before she could pull away, he tangled his fingers
into her hair and held her there. She thought he said “bite,” but didn’t know
for sure until he said it again.
    Biting him seemed like a wonderful idea.
The thought of sinking her teeth into his flesh sounded good, very good as a
matter of fact. Licking him again, she nipped at his flesh and was rewarded by
a deep rumbling from his mouth, a groan that made her wet to hear it again.
    He tore her from his neck and took her
mouth. Lou had been kissed before. A quick peck on the mouth from someone she’d
known, but nothing like this. When his hand slid down her body and cupped her
ass, pulling her tight to him, she threw back her head and moaned