Every time Jess tried to take what was hers, it didn’t work. After Cole rejected her and Devon forbade her to try again, she needed a new target. She knew throwing herself at Constantine was a huge mistake. It had taken every ounce of courage she’d had to go to him and offer herself to him. She really thought he’d take her, hurt her probably, and she was prepared for that.

But no, so devoted is he to his stupid wife, he turned her down. She was more disappointed than relieved when he threw her out after slicing into her. He is incredibly sexy and so dangerous which just makes him more attractive to her and his blood, oh God, her mouth starts to water as she thinks of drinking from him. But the fact that he is Liv’s husband is just icing on the cake.

She sighs as she thinks of her failures and heads back downstairs to wait for Aster, who turns up right on the hour to ship her back home. She smiles her thanks and he looks like he wants to say something, but he clamps his mouth shut and disappears. Jess is glad. He’s nice and attractive, but the only way she will put out for someone other than her sire, right now, is if he belongs to Liv.

On that note, she runs upstairs to see Cade. Their one time together had been pretty good, and it had made Devon really

jealous, which had made her feel good. Afterwards, he’d punished her, of course. It was only then that she realized he was only pissed off because it was Cade. The one who told Liv about his affair with Other Liv.

She knocks on Cade’s door, but there is no answer. She pokes her head around the door, and she sees him sleeping. It’s all he seems to do. She hopes never to have to find out firsthand what losing your sire is like.

“Hey,” she says gently, as she climbs on the bed.

He opens his eyes and smiles at her. “Hey,” he replies with more strength in his voice than she has heard for a while.

“You sound better,” she says with a genuine smile.

“I feel better,” he says and sits up.

She can’t help but rake her eyes down his muscular chest. He is quite a bit older than her in human years. She thinks he was early forties when he was turned, but he is still super-hot.

“What?” he asks as he sees her looking at him and she shakes her head with a smile.

“I guess a quick fuck worked wonders,” she says dryly.

Cade looks at her with anger on his face. “It’s not like that,” he says. “I fed from her. That’s it.”

“Hey, you don’t need to defend yourself to me,” Jess replies. “You do whatever makes you feel better.”

“I am not sleeping with her,” he insists and the look of absolute distaste on his face piques her interest.

“You aren’t, are you?” she asks incredulously.

“No,” he growls.

“You don’t even want to, do you?” she asks again, full of glee that she has finally found a man who doesn’t want that whore.

“No,” he says again with a flush. “I don’t think of her that way,” he adds quietly.

Jess can’t help her delighted laugh but shuts it when Cade throws her a murderous look.

“Sorry,” she mumbles. “I just find it odd. How does that work with her being your sire?”

“My body wants her, but I don’t. I loathe it that I can’t live without her, now drop it. Case closed,” he says with a pointed look and stands up to enforce it.

“God, you really are miserable, aren’t you?” she says quietly.

He starts to say something, but then he stops. He knows that she wasn’t being sarcastic. “Yeah,” he says finally and stalks off to the bathroom.

Jess watches him go and all the guilt that she had been trying to push away comes right back up to the surface. He is this way because of her. She did this to him and she hates herself that someone innocent is suffering because of her actions. She was trying to hurt Liv, not Cade. She had contacted the Hunters and told them she would get them Liv. All she needed to know was did they have the means to capture and contain her. They had assured her they had a gilded cage that could trap a Dragon, so Jess had bargained that everyone else walk away while they took Liv. She didn’t know that they were going to take out Cade first for being a traitor. It hadn’t even occurred to her that she was hand delivering their most wanted fugitive to them. He hadn’t deserved what happened to him and she will have to live with her part in his turning for eternity. She can only hope that he eventually comes to accept what he is and learns to live with it.

She slopes off, feeling even worse than she had earlier. She wants to find Devon now and have him hold her. And hopefully more. But he won’t feed from her and she sure as shit isn’t allowed to feed from him. The last time she tried he nearly took her head off. In the literal sense. Ever since he started up this whatever it is with Cole, he has grown more and more distant from her and she just has one more person to hate and compete with. It is killing her. She needs the upper hand for just once and it will take her a long way. She is startled when she bumps into Sebastian on the stairs.

“Whoa, watch where you are going,” he says to her, grabbing her arm to steady her.

She glares at him and he looks closer at her. “Everything okay?” he asks.

“No,” she spits out.

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