Of course, I didn’t miss the look of hatred she sent my way, and I know it was bitchy, but I also couldn’t help but snigger because of it. She was beautiful and no doubt used to receiving a lot of the attention from most men. Something she probably craved like a drug. So, it was nice to see someone so full of themselves get the same disrespect that she had shown me.
I think it’s what most people would call Karma.
And the irony to all this was that she would most likely run screaming to the hills had she known the truth and seen the things that I had. That they were in fact two ruthless Mafia Vampires who ran this city and didn’t mind getting their hands bloody. If anything, they seemed to prefer it that way. Or, at least, they certainly did when it was my ex hanging there like a dying fish from a hook. A sight that would, no doubt, still give me nightmares decades later.
But it would also serve as a brutal reminder as to who they were at their core and how dangerous they could be. A fact I tried not to think about. Not seeing as my biggest worry was that they would wake one day from the curse being broken and I would become collateral damage. Because they may have both seemed head over heels for me now, but what would they be like once the curse was lifted?
I tried not to think about it. But that was hard when it was like a darkness that clung to me, catching me off guard when I realized it was still there, lingering beneath the surface. Just like my nightmare, as if someone was always watching in wait. Waiting to pull the floor out from under me again. Something that left me asking myself when I would fall to my death. Because even if the brothers didn’t kill me, they would leave me broken, regardless.
Hence why I still tried in vain to protect my heart.
“Questions, you say?” Victor replied in a knowing tone, his smirk only adding to this.
“Questions you told me you would answer,” I reminded him as I took my seat, that at this point might as well have my name stitched into the leather because I seemed to have claimed it.
“Fair enough, what do you want to know?” Victor asked, leaning back against the counter like so many times before. His hands curled around the edge either side of him. As for Tal, he was replaying the evening before grabbing beers out of the fridge.
“If it’s what’s our favorite position is, then the answer is any with you between us,” Tal answered with a wink as he twisted the cap off my beer before sliding it to me.
“One track mind, I see,” I commented dryly, making him agree.
“Hard not to be on that track after we know what it’s like to claim you…emphasis on the hard,”he replied, making me blush.
“Ask your question, sweetheart,” Victor said, after ridding his own beer of the cap and tossing it in the sink, which seemed to be a habit of theirs.
“Why are there no clothes in your closet?” I asked, surprising myself that this was the first question I had wanted to ask. And I wasn’t the only surprised one because Tal smirked at his brother, who scoffed a laugh.
“Why do you think there would be?” he asked, making Tal look back to me, clearly interested to know why also.
“Er… because it’s the room you both share,” I said, my tone making it obvious… or at least I thought so until they started laughing.
“We may be twins that share many things, but a room isn’t one of them,” Tal replied with a chuckle. My frown must have said it all.
“That room is for sharing you, and one we will continue to sleep in when you are between us,” Victor clarified.
“So, you each have your own rooms, and I have my own room, so why the need for…”
Victor stopped me by holding up a hand.
“Correction, our rooms, along with your room, are a thing of the past.”
“I’m confused,” I admitted.
“We wished to give you your space in the beginning, solely for your benefit, but that need is at an end, as is the use of our own beds. From now on, there is only one bed, and we will share it together,” Victor stated.
“But why?” I asked, shock clear in my tone, despite how nice it had been waking up in between them and feeling a comfort of the likes I had never known before. Even if I had been in the throes of a nightmare at the time. However, this wasn’t going to help me in protecting my heart, but instead baring it wide open for them to steal more of.
“I think that would be obvious seeing as we can barely keep our hands off you. Why do you think that, when night falls, it should be any different?” Tal answered before his brother could.
“So, we will be all sharing a room?”
“Well look at that, Vic, I think she’s getting it,” Tal replied wryly, making me scowl at him.
“And I don’t suppose I get any say in this?”
“Smart cookie,” Tal commented condescendingly, whereas Victor looked like he was being asked to chew glass. His jaw hard and unyielding as he moved to fold his arms across his wide chest.
“Do I have any say in anything?” I asked frustratingly.
