Chapter 29

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“Where is your damned brother?” Loren paced the floor furiously.

“I’m here.”

Loren wheeled around, his blue eyes blazing with anger. In two long strides, he reached Evan. Loren gripped Evan’s shirt and bunched it into his fist. “Where the hell have you been?” Loren demanded. “Do you have any fucking idea how long I’ve been waiting for you?”

Evan ripped away from Loren’s hold. “I am not yours to control,” he growled

Heat built up within him, and the temperature slowly changed in the room, turning colder as his anger grew, his body absorbing all the heat. The fire in the stone fireplace flickered briefly, then died out in the breath of a second.

Loren twisted his hand in Evan’s hair and jerked Evan’s head in a painful angle. “Oh,” the vampire lord whispered near Evan’s tightly closed lips, “I believe you are.”