"I think we're just going to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that."

Prologue

Quenched Love

Eden's POV

My fingers swept lightly against his cheekbones. How powerful his face set even as he slept against knitted sheets, face pressed and lashes like black feathers, casting soft shadows against his sculpted face.

I never knew a human to be so breath-taking yet here he was in all his beauty, sleeping peacefully beside me.

It was only times like these that I could admire his face with no shame. To allow my fingers to roam as they pleased, lips to brush lightly against his tight muscles without embarrassment.

If only I would allow myself to show such affection while he were awake. Though I couldn't allow it. I was growing too emotionally attached to this man and times were growing far more dangerous.

The vein in his neck pulsed along with his beating heart, teasing me like a seductive lover. Oh how I wished to take a light nip to it, to drink only just a drop of his sweet, alluring blood. My eyes pressed shut, nails digging harshly against the knitted sheets as I contained my most potent desire.

My sharp fangs sliced into my bottom lip, droplets of crimson blood leaking like raw rubies to my folded knees.

Drip, drop, drip, drop.

Dots of red spotted my knees and soon the red turned clear as my blood was soon replaced with tears.

I was but a caged animal, playing the part of human as my hunger slowly ate me from the inside out. My craving for blood competed with my love for this human and I was beginning to fear the strength of both. I was beginning to question my love, whether it was more his blood I craved or his company. Though neither mattered as I was not to stay for long.

I was to play the part of a good human until my escape was enacted. Though as I spent more and more time here, the thought of leaving began to leave a bitter taste in my mouth and a dreadful shudder down my spine.

My lips pulled to a saddened smile, tears beginning to gradually fall down the slopes of my face. My fingers stilled on Malik's face, watching as he breathed lightly through his nose, chest rising and falling along with his slow movements.

A harsh knock pounded against the door of his bedroom, a loud, beaten sound that caused my heart to pulse and head to whip to the side. Malik turned in his slumber, an annoyed grumble slipping passed his lips as his arms wounded tightly around my waist, pulling me closer.

My hands immediately rose to my cheeks to brush away leftover resado of liquid heartache as another knock shook the room. One of Malik's eyes peeked open, his head turning to eye the door with a scowl.

"Yes?" He called, his voice rough and graveled in drowsiness.

The door swung open and Malik sprung up, his arm falling from my side as a threatening sneer pulled to his lips. I immediately grabbed for the sheets in my haste, covering my naked form from unwanted eyes.

Jarett pranced himself through the door, his large, muscular figure nearly hiding the smaller man behind him.

"We have a problem, Malik."

Malik's muscles pulsed, his wild blue eyes darkening. His arm wounded tightly around my waist, pulling me closer to his side as his eyes narrowed.

"Define problem," he gritted out.

Hey guys! This is a new book I've been working on recently and I'm super duper excited about it. It randomly came to me while listening to a particular song and has been ringing in my ears ever since. I couldn't relax until I wrote down at least a chapter and that chapter morphed into a couple more and now...well now there's a cover and a very excited Del lol :') The first chapter will be coming out July 28th so get excited!! XD