Tegan's Power (The Ultimate Power Series #4) by L.H. Cosway Read Free Book Online

announces, “This is what happens to those who try to betray
me.”
    Lightning fast he
plunges the stake into Raul and then Angelica before tossing their bodies out
onto the road. Mere moments pass and they dissolve into a black sludgy mess.
    Dead silence fills the
street as the assembled vampires look on in terror, whispering hushed
exclamations of shock and fear. Ethan turns and re-enters the house, bringing
his attention to Lucas who is standing by me with a pleased expression. He’s
glad that Ethan has shown the vampires a display of power. And to be perfectly
honest, I am too. It will make any of them planning a similar assassination to
think twice about it.
    Long hours later, Ethan
has met with most of the vampires who had been waiting. He tells those
remaining to return the next night and they leave, quickly obeying his orders.
I take the liberty of using his home phone to call for a pizza delivery.
Something about drinking Ethan’s blood this morning kept my hunger at bay for a
while, but now I’m starving.
    When Lucas sits beside
me on the sofa I take the opportunity to ask him about the others. “Where is
everyone? You were with them on that roof, weren’t you?”
    “I was. They were
frightened when they saw what had become of Ethan and fled. I haven’t located
them yet. I searched the slayer’s house but it was empty. They can’t have
gotten too far since we’re all trapped in anyway.”
    I sigh. “Yeah. That’s
true. We have to find them, make sure they’re okay.”
    “Delilah will return
when the time is right.”
    “Speaking of my
sister,” says Ethan entering the room. “I would like her found now, Lucas. I
don’t like thinking of her out there alone.”
    “She’s not alone. She’s
with Finn and the others,” I interject.
    Ethan lets out a low
sound of derision and I roll my eyes. Before I know it I’m being flipped over
his back and hauled upstairs to his room. Seconds later he throws me down on
his bed.
    “Do that one more time
and see what happens,” he warns playfully, leaning over me and nipping at my
shoulder with his teeth, no fangs – not yet.
    I smirk at him and take
my time doing one big leisurely eye roll. In response he turns me over abruptly
and spanks my bottom hard. I yelp.
    “Ow, ow, okay, I’m
sorry. Please forgive me, oh great one,” I can’t help giggling while I say it.
“That good enough for you?”
    Ethan growls and licks
a line from the curve of my neck to my ear where he sucks my lobe into his
mouth. His hand slips over my belly and then down into my pants, his fingers
digging into the fabric of my underwear. I moan in response and he massages
lightly then pulls away.
    I turn and stare at him
in frustration.
    “Glad to see you’ve learned
your lesson,” he smiles just as the doorbell rings with the pizza.
    “Oh, come on. It’s not
polite to leave a girl with blue balls,” I protest and Ethan quirks a brow.
    “You have a curious way
with words.”
    “So do you,” I reply,
rising from the bed and walking past him to go collect the pizza.
    Several minutes later
I’m sitting by his kitchen counter digging into a slice when he decides to join
me.
    “Not going to share, my
love?” he asks with amusement.
    “Go ahead,” I say
gesturing to the open box.
    We eat in comfortable
silence for a few minutes before I begin to broach a conversation. “You do want
this, don’t you? Leading the vampires of the city and all? It kind of feels
like you think you don’t have a choice.”
    “I don’t,” says Ethan
placidly before throwing the crust back in the box.
    “Of course you do. I’m
sure there are a whole bunch of vamps who genuinely want the job. Just give it
to one of them.”
    “I could do that, but
then I’d have to disappear. They couldn’t rule comfortably knowing a far
stronger candidate is still residing in the city. And I don’t want to
disappear, Tegan.”
    I study him a moment.
“Well, maybe it’s a good thing. They always say that