Carolina groaned as consciousness dragged her out of a deep, sated slumber. Her limbs were heavy, her skin still humming from the night before. The sheets were tangled around her legs, the scent of s*x and Charles’s cologne thick in the air. And blood. She blinked, disoriented, before the memories of last night flooded back…Charles’s hands on her, his mouth, the way he had pinned her to the bed and made her forget everything but the pleasure he wrung from her body.Then the way he bit her… Fed on her… that was hot… too hot and sexy. Nothing like she had ever felt before… If that was what it meant to have a vampire husband… she was all for it. And she would fight. A flush crept up her neck. God, what am I doing? She sat up abruptly, clutching the sheets to her chest. The other side of

