Hunter Wars

Chapter 6

I am straddling Johnathan's waist with my fangs dug into his neck. The flavor of his blood just explodes over my tongue, I take a deep pull off of him. I can feel his blood starting to go through my veins making the dizziness of the blood lust start to fade. Johnathan's hands grip my thighs, but he doesn't move to push me off of him. He just lays there letting me take from him. I never thought I would have a hunter willingly give me his blood. I take one more pull from him and remove my fangs from his neck. I sit up still straddling his waist and place my hand on his chest, to balance as I sit back.

"Do you feel better?" He asks me as he stares up at me with those violet eyes. I lick my lips and my fangs slide back into my gums. I look at him and he has a trickle of blood going down his neck. I lean down and lick it up. I watch as the puncture wounds close up and he wiggles underneath me which makes me very aware that I am sitting on top of him in nothing but a towel that has started to come undone. I swallow the lump in my throat that has formed.

"Yeah, I do." We continue to stare at one another. His thumb starts to run circles on my thighs. I tighten the towel around me and try to get off of him as best I can without it being completely awkward for either of us. "I'm not going to say thanks for that, if you hadn't brought me here in the first place neither of us would have been in this situation."

Johnathan sits up and crosses his legs. He looks like an overgrown child sitting on the floor like that. "You do have a point there that I did bring this on myself. I would be lying if I said that it wasn't all terrible though." He gives me a crooked grin and I notice that he has a small dimple on his left cheek. I shake my head. I guess even hunters can be perverted at times. "It has been a long time since I had a towel-covered woman attack me like that."

Is he flirting with me right now? "I'm shocked that you've even had one do it. If it wasn't for the fact I needed something from you it wouldn't have happened. Plus you just pushed my buttons." With a huff, I pick up the clothes from the floor where I dropped them from when I tackled him. I walk past him sitting on the floor and start to make my way to the bathroom to get dressed when he grabs my ankle and pulls me to the ground and has me pinned below him.

"I figured I owed you one since you pinned me once." This man is insane does he not realize that all I would have to do now is raise up a little bit to rip his throat out. The only thing that is stopping me from doing just that is I need him right now if I want to get out of here.

"Cap, I would suggest that you get off of me now if you know what is good for you." He gives me that crooked grin again and he leans down and actually licks the tip of my nose. He gets off me laughing, did I just get licked by a hunter? Can any of this get any weirder? He reaches his hand down to me and I push it aside and stand up on my own. I go into the bathroom and finally get dressed. I can't understand him. Aren't hunters supposed to hate anything to do with vampires. And here he is freely offering his blood to me. I'm going to have to be careful with him and do my best to keep my mind.

I come out of the bathroom dressed in his black t-shirt and red pajama pants, both of which are three sizes too big for me. He is sitting on the edge of the bed again and he has changed his clothes as well. He is now in just a pair of green sleep pants, this man has the most amazing set of abs that I have ever seen. I let my eyes wander down his body, the only bit of hair that I can see is the bit that is leading into the top of his pants.

"Hey, my eyes are up here, Bloodsucker." Johnathan's husky voice pulls me out of the thoughts that were about to start forming. It is my turn to clear my throat it would appear. I look to his eyes and he has an amused look on his face. Obviously, he knows that I was admiring his body. "The sun will be rising in about an hour." He informs me. I nod and look around the room trying to figure out where I'm going to crash for the day. He pulls back the covers and motions for me to get in. "Come on, Victoria. It isn't like you have much of a choice here. Unless you want to spend the day on the floor with my tripping over you. I know you will be sleeping like the dead but I don't and will be getting up and I really don't wanna break my neck tripping over a practically dead vampire."

I know that is sound logic and make my way over to the bed, slip in under the covers, and pull them over me. I watch him as he goes around the bed and starts to get into the bed on the other side. "Hey now, what do you think you are doing?" I ask him as he lays his head down on the pillow beside me.

"I am going to bed. What does it look like I'm doing?" He lays on his side facing me propped up on his elbow. "Now that I've seen you naked and have you in my bed I guess it is time for some pillow talk," he says, wiggling his eyebrows.

I can't help it. I end up barking out a laugh. He has a very weird sense of humor. "Look, just because you have seen me naked does not mean I am going to just start spilling my secrets to you. One you are a hunter. And two I don't trust you." I knock his arm out from under his head and watch as his head lands on the pillow. His hair falls into his face and I smirk at him as he looks at me through his hair.

He pushes his hair out of his face and props himself back up. "That wasn't very nice," he huffs out.

I grin at him. "Well, didn't you say that all vampires are monsters?" His face falls from being playful to serious.

"Yeah, I'm starting to wonder if that is completely true at this point. You don't seem to be all that bad other than the blood-drinking thing." I just stare at him

"Did you give me a compliment?" I fain a shocked face.

He lets out a little chuckle, "I can be nice sometimes. We don't always have to torture our guest you know?" We both go silent at the mention of the torture that I was put through. I know that the torture wasn't as bad as it could have been but the fact still remains that they think that is the best way to get information out of people. Granted had Phillip not taught me how to withstand some torturous things before it could've been a lot worse. As my mind goes to Phillip my heart starts to hurt with missing him. I never thought I would miss his bossy ways. What would he think about me laying so close to a hunter in bed? There is no way he would be happy about this. I smile at the thought of his face. If he could see me now, he would definitely make me work as punishment for this.

I do hope Phillip is proud of how I have not betrayed my kind. As soon as I am out of here I will have more information on the hunters than anyone else has had in a long time. This fills me with a little pride knowing I will be able to lead them to the council. That is if they don't move from this place by then. I feel the bed shift as Johnathan rolls over onto his back the movement pulls me back to the present.

"I am sorry for what I had to do to you. We are kind of desensitized from all that from a young age." Johnathan says and it sounds like he means the apology. "A hunter's life is not exactly the easiest to live. I know being a vampire might not be easy either but at least you probably had a normal life before turning." I lay here staring at the ceiling waiting for him to continue. If he is going to give me some information I can use against the hunters when I get out of here I will definitely take it.

"From the time I was born all I have known is the hunter's life. We are taken from our parents at ten years old, and placed in the academy where we start learning how to use our powers. The only ones that aren't removed are the youngest daughters. They are groomed and raised to try to catch the eye of the highest-ranking officers. Only the best hunters are allowed to have kids, this allows for selective breeding."

"Oh my gosh that is horrible. If it is that horrible, why don't you just leave?" I ask him, still staring at the ceiling. I hear him sigh. "It's not that easy, Victoria. If I leave then there is no one to look after my sister. My sister and I are the only two kids that my parents had and I don't want to see her go to a man that isn't right for her. I know my parents and they will try to bribe the highest-ranking officer they can. It is a great honor for a family to bribe an officer to take their daughter. I, myself, have a few generous offers to wed their daughters. Makes me feel like a bull being auctioned off at a cattle auction."

"I'm sorry, Johnathan, that you have had to deal with all of this from such a young age. My human life wasn't perfect but it was nothing like what you have described." I roll onto my side and study his features in the dark. He has a very nice face. A strong jawline and I can see the start of a two-day beard growing. I guess while he was guarding me he didn't get away very much. As I am looking at him, I start to feel the tug of sleep trying to pull me under.

I wake up the next evening and look around the room. I had almost forgotten that I was in Johnathan's bedroom. I try to sit up and can't there is something holding me down around my waist. I look down and Johnathan's arm is laying across me. I grab his arm trying to push it off of me and that just makes him wrap his whole body around me. He has a strong grip for someone who is still sleeping. No one should have that strong of a grip when asleep. I poke him and try to remove his leg and arm from around me and he lets out a grunt.

"Cap, if you don't wake up and remove yourself from me I'm going to hurt you." This does nothing to wake him, and they say vampires sleep like the dead. "I'm going to give you to the count of three to remove yourself from me. One, two, three." He still has not budged. I let my fangs descend, nothing wrong with a little bite to make him release me, is there? I bite gently into his shoulder and he wakes with a howl. He pulls away and I can see where my fangs have been pulled and scratched his shoulder as he pulled away.

"Seriously? That is how you wake someone?" He growls at me as he rolls away and lands on the floor next to the bed. I lean over the side of the bed looking at him laying there. His hair is sticking up all over. It is an amusing sight seeing him sprawled on the floor with one leg still on the bed. I start laughing so hard that tears prick my eyes. "It's not funny, Bloodsucker." Him saying that only causes me to laugh that much more.

"Oh, I beg to differ. It is actually quite hilarious. You look like a rag doll laying down there." He gets himself to a sitting position and pulls up on the side of the bed and is now kneeling two inches from my face. "So, you like to sneak attack your bedmates when they are sleeping?" He asks me in a sexy morning voice that sends a chill down my spine. His question stops my laughter in my throat and all I can do is stare into his eyes.

I lick my lips to clear them of the droplets of blood that fell into my mouth from biting him. "Only when they are trying to take me hostage in bed. Which you were trying to do." I informed him matter of factly. He sits there staring at me not moving. I'm not sure what he is trying to accomplish here by just staring at me like that. I open my mouth to ask him what his problem is when he jolts forward and his lips meet mine.