Charming the Beast (Purgatory 3)

Olivia glanced over her shoulder at Shane. Eric knew he had to tread carefully when Shane was around. The vamp wouldn’t like it if he jumped across the desk and shook Olivia in order to make her talk.

Not that he would do that.

Yet.

Chloe shouldn’t have become a vampire. That’s not the way the transformation worked. Only, she had. Holly had conducted the tests to prove that fact.

“The words were actually Chloe’s,” Olivia said as she shifted some more in her seat. “She said something like…‘Are you sure you don’t have another wish in you?’”

He waited.

“I didn’t think I had another wish in me,” Olivia mumbled.

His fingers tapped on the table.

Olivia bit her lip. “She asked… ‘Maybe one that makes me indestructible and lets me live forever with the man I love?’”

Hell. That would do it. “And you said…?”

Olivia looked down at her hands. “I told her that I wished I could do that for her.”

Oh, I think you did, Olivia.

He glanced over at Shane and found the vampire glaring at him.

“Did I do it?” Olivia asked, voice hushed.

“Either you did with your wish or with your blood.” And that vampiress had helped, too. He currently had the mystery vamp in containment, but that would be ending soon. He needed to talk more with her, but every time he got near the woman…

There is something about her. She puts me on edge.

He would study her more. Learn her secrets. Figure out how the hell she’d wound up—according to Connor—chained in Keegan’s hell.

But, he’d take things one at a time. For the moment, he had another victory, of sorts, to savor.

Shane and Olivia slipped from the office. He’d have to watch Olivia very carefully. If another wish came true, then they could truly be screwed.

A djinn had too much power, and there was no way he could let one run unchecked in the world.

He turned on his laptop. Keyed up the security feed. And there she was. The vampire they’d found. The woman with the light blue eyes and the face that was eerily perfect. The woman who—

She stared up at the video camera. Looked into it as if she could see him.

Impossible, of course. She had no idea who was watching her.

But then…that vampiress lifted her hand. She pointed at the camera—at me?—and said, “Come to me.”

He started to rise, but Eric caught himself. What the hell? He danced to no one’s tune.

No one.

He would uncover that woman’s secrets. Every single one of them.