Chapter 5

Lily found her legs trapped beneath the weight of the prince, his bodyweight pressing down on her knees. His nails dug into the flesh of her thigh to keep her still as his bite put fiery needles in her inner arm. He drank from her like a man who’d gone a week without water, his ravaging thirst driving his teeth deeper and deeper into her flesh. She felt the wet, hot tears of blood leak down her wrist and drip down her leg, felt his tongue lap against the skin.

And a strangely pleasant sensation filled her veins.

Her breath grew hot and rapid, a yearning growing in her core. His fingers were dug into the skin beneath the hem of her short dress, and each time they squeezed, it pulsed through her with a want she’d never known before.

Suddenly, the prince withdrew his teeth and pulled back, watching Lily above him. His face had filled out—the signs of starvation gone now.