Rising Son (The Juliana Lucio Series) by L.C. DeCarlo Page B

here.”
    “No, I said to come find out if he was down here. He isn’t by the way, he’s out, not sure what he’s doing. There’s no way he’d approve of this, but since I am your Sire it doesn’t really concern him.”
    “What doesn’t concern him? Who are these people? I think we should talk about whatever it is you have planned.”
    I started backing up toward the door when Ana flashed over to my side. She didn’t grab hold of me, but she might as well have. She leaned into me and brushed my hair back over my shoulder. She let her lips slide across my cheek until she found my ear, and whispered ever so softly, “No, we won’t discuss it. You will sit in that chair over there and not move a muscle. Consider this part of your training.”
    I swallowed audibly as I stammered out, “Training? Training for what?”
    She put her hand on my chest and slowly walked me backward toward the only chair in the room; the couple was still standing there, not saying a word. They hadn’t moved or seemed to be alarmed in any way with what was about to happen. Ana pushed me gently into the chair and leaned over to look me in the eyes as she spoke to me.
    “I have seen Sebastian execute vampires on the spot for not being able to control their blood lust. He justified it by saying they were a danger to both the vampire and human society alike. He said if they lost control of their blood lust in public, around humans, they could risk exposing all of vampirekind to the human world. With the Coven trying so hard to do that very thing, I wouldn’t put it past Sebastian to try to incite your hunger. William trusts him not to; I however, trust no one but myself and William. Well, and you now.”
    She grabbed a handful of my hair and pulled it back over my shoulder, and into her face smelling it. Then just as abruptly dropped it and went to stand near the couple by the bed.
    “What do you think he’s going to do to me?”
    “To you? Nothing. But I do think he is going to put us into an environment that will definitely make you uncomfortable. You are a newborn and by nature are still more human than vampire.”
    She was now standing behind the woman as they both faced me. Ana was slowly undoing the buttons of the woman’s shirt. I really wasn’t sure where this was going, but I wasn’t about to sit here, and watch her have sex with someone; if that’s where this was headed.
    “Ana, what is going on? I’m not going to watch you have sex with someone! What are you doing?”
      I started to get up from the chair when Ana suddenly yelled out, “Sit down!”
    Her eyes were starting to become ringed in black, but that could mean anything at this point. I slowly sat back down not wanting to incite her anger. I had seen what she could do when pissed off before. As a matter of fact, I thought, as I looked around the room, I generally woke up in this room after she was pissed off with me. God I hated the basement.
    “As I was saying, Sebastian will use this to make you feel vulnerable. He will also try to incite your blood lust.” She had completely pulled off the woman’s shirt now, and was carefully pulling down the straps of her bra. The entire time the woman neither said, nor did anything to try and stop her.
      “If you give in to it, it will give him a reason to execute you, if that’s what he wants, or he can use it as leverage to pull you into the Council.”
    The woman was standing there completely topless, her blond hair falling to hit just the tops of her pert breasts so her nipples were entirely visible. She was wearing loose short shorts that barely covered anything on her tan legs. She looked to be in her early twenties. Ana moved over to the man standing on her other side, never taking her eyes off of me. The ring of black was increasingly growing larger. I still hadn’t figured out what she was trying to accomplish. She also took up the position of standing behind the man and ran her hands up his muscular chest.