Chapter 61

I continued smiling at him. For the longest time I couldn’t grow an inch over four feet, and to now be able to look most men in the eye was a pleasure I wasn’t sure I’d ever outgrow. And to look down on one…

“You should have been mine.”

“Excuse me?” I’d started to extend my hand to him, but that brought me up short.

“I should have been your first. I am Juan de Vivar.” In spite of the fact he was shorter, he peered down his nose at me, and his lips curled, revealing his fangs.

I swallowed and involuntarily stepped back. Adam had at least waited until I was comfortable with him before he’d let me see his fangs.

“Well? What are you waiting for?”

“Uh…” My smile had vanished around the time he’d told me he should have been my first, and suddenly Juan de Vivar didn’t look so gorgeous anymore.

“Are you as dense as your uncle?” he snapped.

“What?”

“I can’t enter unless you invite me in.”