Page 95 of The Devil We Crave
I tell her to be careful, then head to where I parked my Range Rover a few streets over.
I don't make it far beforeshecatches my eye.
…My currentfascination.
I can’t quite make out the expression on Yelena’s face as she stands alone in the small parking lot next to the closed Elvira’s Café, a single dim streetlight glowing down on her.
It’s times like this that Idoworry about having the same kind of blood in me that Lochlan worries about. Because when I look at her, standing there alone in the dark, lit only by the ghostly glow of a fading streetlight, I don't just see her as beautiful. Or sexy. Or alluring. Or even interesting.
I see her asprey.
Sweet, delicious, blood-igniting, cock-swellingprey.
Myprey, to be exact.
I slink into the shadows, my pulse quickening and senses sharpening as the hunter inside me comes alive. I creep across the street, moving against the side of another darkened building as I draw closer, ready to pounce.
To devour her.
To swallow her fucking whole and feast on her screams.
But just as I’m about to round the corner, I realize she’s talking to someone.
“Kyle—”
My blood turns cold.
“You know what I think, Yelena?”
God fucking dammit, itisKyle.
“I think you like having this between us. It’s why you can’t let it go.”
Lethal violence erupts inside me, rampaging through my system like a barbarian horde.
We hooked up. She was okay, I guess. But then she got clingy, you know?
Ididn’tknow. Or maybe I wanted to pretend that was Kyle twisting the facts to make himself look like a stud.
But here I am, watching it play out in real time.
She’s talking to him, alone at night, in a quiet side street of a romantic little seaside town.Kylehas a reason to be in Hawthorne Hollow tonight. He fucking lives and has an office here.
Yelena, on the other hand, hasnoreason to be here.
Or maybe she does. Maybe I’m looking at itright the fuck now.
Maybe the whole time I’ve been obsessing over her, she’s been doing the same thing.
…But not tome.
Suddenly, I see the scene for what it is.
I see a girl who hooked up with a guy, who then moved on. And now she'spatheticallytrying to get him to look at her again.
I take a quick glance around the corner, my jaw cracking as it grinds tightly. Venom flows through my veins as I look at her facing Kyle, her back to me. I can't quite make out everything they're saying, but I clearly see the motherfucker sigh and shake his head, even though it's dark.
“Youcame that night. So eagerly, too.”
