The girl swallowed roughly and blinked hard. She shook her head and ripped the blood bag out of Kenneth’s hands and squeezed the rest of it down her throat.

  Kenneth was very quickly losing patience with this girl. “I’m not going to ask again.”

  “I want the farm,” she said again, her eyes finally focusing on her Head of House.

  He almost killed her then and there. But something stopped him. Maybe it was her grip on something that she felt was hers? Maybe it was just her audacity to stare death in the face and still make demands for what she wanted. But he knew that it was, in that one moment, he saw himself reflected back at him in this girl. He had risen through hard work and he had taken what he felt was his. This girl was only doing the same thing, if a bit uncouth about the whole thing. Maybe there was more to this girl than he would have supposed? Maybe she just needed a little bit of guidance, maybe a mentor?

  Kenneth smiled down at the girl, “You’re of House Dukart, yes?”

  “You know I am. What kind of bull shit question is that?” the girl spat.

  “Do you have any idea who I am?”

  The girl looked at him sideways, “No, not really. I was just told to come here and ask for some guy named Kenneth. I guess that’s who you are.”

  He pursed his lips, “I am Kenneth Pacifico. I am also your Head of House.”

  The girl looked unimpressed, “Are you going to give me the farm, or are you going to kill me? Either way, I wish you’d just do it instead of talking my ear off.”

  Kenneth backhanded the girl swiftly and hard. His hand connected with her jaw solidly.

  She stared up at him with hatred and rage in her eyes, “You touch me again and I’ll fucking kill you, you son of a bitch!”

  Kenneth smiled a bit. He was liking this girl more by the minute, “I can give you the farm. But you have to do something for me.” The girl stared up at him defiantly. Kenneth continued, “I am taking you as my new intern. If you want the farm you will work for me as a personal secretary. For your loyalty and service, I will teach you how to dress, act, what to say, and how to behave in our higher vampire society.”

  The girl scoffed, “I don’t need no bullshit hoity toity high society finishing school crap. I got all I need for myself, just give the farm.”

  Kenneth almost hit her again but didn’t, “You don’t just want the farm, you want more, which is why you’re here, demanding a piece of property even when your life was held forfeit by me. You think you’re owed more. In order to get more, there are rules that you must follow to be let into the higher circles where the keepers of all that you want reside. This is not a request; this is my condition. Take it or leave it.” Kenneth stood up and made to leave the girl where she was. After a few moments of silence from the girl Kenneth began walking down the service tunnel back to the night club section of the Cobalt Club.

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  The girl stood up quickly, “Wait!”

  Kenneth hid a small smile but he did not turn around to face the girl, “Will you meet my demands?” he called over his shoulder.

  The girl was silent for a moment. He could hear her hands crinkle and squeezed the empty blood bag that she still held. After only a few moments he heard a strangled and curt, “yes.”

  Kenneth smiled, “Wonderful, meet me in my office promptly after sunset tomorrow.” Shaking his head, he muttered to himself, “we have a lot of work to do.” Kenneth strode up the service tunnel back to the club and back to Nova without looking back.

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  “But baby, come on! If I didn’t know any better I’d say you didn’t trust me or something?” her hazel eyes gazed intently on him as he sat on the couch.

  The guy she was pleading with was lounging back on his worn leather sofa. His blond hair was swept to the side in a surfer look. It was long but not long enough to go past his shoulders. His blue eyes looked at her with a sort of happy impatience. Like he was looking down at a child that he had to instruct once again on something that he had told them more than a few times before.

  “And I told you, no way.” He shook his head and smiled, “Now why don’t you get your cute, sexy ass over here and show me again how irresistible you find me.”

  Silvia smiled to herself. She lowered her shoulder and let her eyes gaze at him through her eyelashes. She slowly knelt down and moved with cat-like grace and fluidity as she crawled toward him, giving him a great view of her ass and her toned legs. She slid up next to him and in between his legs, letting her nails slide up and down his skin. She looked up at him with an expression of pure submission and joy, her previous question seemingly forgotten.

  “Mmmm, that’s my good girl,” The guy said smiling. “Now what do you say, slut?”

  “Yes Master, thank you Master for letting me touch you and worship you,” Silvia said, her voice was pure honey that dripped softly and seductively into his ears.

  The guy smiled, perfectly content in his control over the situation. He was a member of House Dukart after all. He had this slut wrapped around his finger. It had only taken a day or two to get this hot bitch back into his apartment. She was a vampire too, obviously, but he had been turned before she had been, and she fell to his domination easily, once he asserted himself. All bitches wanted to be controlled anyway, he just helped her to find her true place in life.

  Silvia had been playing with this guy for about two weeks now. She was well aware of House Dukart’s mental Domination abilities. This guy was about as clumsy as a toddler, with hardly any control of his vampiric abilities at all. Had this guy ever been with a girl before he was turned?

  What he didn’t know was that she wasn’t in the least bit taken by his weak domination abilities. It was a danger, sure, all vampiric abilities had to be taken seriously and there was a twinge for a few seconds there when they first met. For a moment she had wanted to smile for him, not as part of her seduction, but simply because he had asked her to.