Seduction's Kiss (The Allure Chronicles) by Alyssa Rose Ivy

He reached for my hand, but I pulled it
back.
    “Come now, I assure you
we’re going to get to know each other very well.” He licked his
lips.
    “No, we’re not.” I
looked him straight in the eye. That’s when I noticed he had this
same weird colored ring in his eyes that Duncan had. I looked at
the other men, they had the same thing. Freaky.
    “We are. And right now
you’re going to put your wrists together so I can bind them.”
    “Excuse me?”
    “You heard me.”
    “Why would I do that?”
I stepped back. That turned out to be a mistake as I walked right
into Duncan’s chest.
    “Because you’d rather I
didn’t kill your friend.”
    I noticed he said
friend in singular. Perceptive. Not that I wanted anything to
happen to the guys.
    “Please, just let us
go. Is it money you want? I don’t have much, but I’ll give you what
I have.”
    Jeryl laughed. “Money?
You think we want money from you?” He stepped closer just as Duncan
wrapped his arms around me from behind. “We want something more
primal from you.” He held his hand over my neck like he was going
to choke me “Much more primal.”
    “Don’t touch her!”
Shaun yelled.
    Jeryl laughed. “Showing
concern for the girl who rebuffed you? Humans are so
interesting.”
    “Like you’re not
human?” Chad asked.
    “No. We’re not.”
    In a flash, one of the
guys holding Reyna leaned her head back and rested his long sharp
teeth on her neck. Fangs. The guy had fangs.
    Jeryl laughed at my
obvious fear. “Hold your hands out behind your back, or he
bites.”
    “What the fuck are
you?” Chad struggled against his captors as he tried to get to
Reyna.
    Duncan laughed again.
“You’re denser than I thought.”
    “Vampires,” I said the
word slowly. I knew they couldn’t actually be supernatural, but
they wanted to be. I’d read about the condition online. People who
want to be vampires so bad that they have sharp teeth implanted and
stuff. Insane, but these guys totally fit the bill. Fake or not,
those teeth could cut Reyna. I held my hands out behind me. “Let
her go.”
    “If we let her go
she’ll just call for help.”
    “No she won’t.”
    “You think your friend
would leave you for dead?” Duncan asked.
    Jeryl tied my wrists.
“It doesn’t matter. We can’t take the risk. We don’t need her, but
we won’t kill her if you cooperate.”
    “And what does
cooperating involve?” I tried to keep my voice strong, but dealing
with crazy people for nearly an hour was taking its toll. I was
exhausted, and I just wanted to press rewind and be back at East
Madison.
    “Don’t scream or make a
scene.”
    “We’re not going down
quietly,” Chad growled.
    “Oh yes, you will.” His
captors started pulling him forward. Like the rest of us, his hands
were tied behind him.
    They led us back
through the VIP room. The bead curtains seemed more menacing this
time.
    “Get in.”
    I blinked in the
darkness. “I can’t see.” That line was starting to get old.
    “Sorry.” The lights
suddenly turned on again, and I saw a long, black bag in front of
me. “Uh, what am I supposed to do with that?”
    “Get into it.”
    I glanced around. My
friends were situated in front of similar bags.
    “You want to put us in
body bags?” Shaun said incredulously. “Aren’t you going to kill us
first?”
    “Would you like me to?”
Duncan asked. His dead pan voice seemed a whole lot more sinister
this time around.
    “Duncan. Go find
Lloyd,” Jeryl barked.
    “Now? Aren’t you
getting ready to leave?” Duncan glared at Jeryl.
    “I said to go. He’s the
only one missing.”
    “Fine. But wait for
me.”
    “No. We’ll see you
there.”
    “You just want her
first,” Duncan snarled.
    “And I will have her
first, but that’s not the issue.”
    Have me first? That had
better not have meant what I thought it did.
    “Why not send someone
else?”
    “The sooner you leave,
the sooner you meet us.”
    “Don’t harm her.”
Duncan gripped my