Chapter 542

• He stepped from the last stair and turned right, heading into the living room and walking over to the French doors out into the surrounding forest. "So, you're one of Alexei's girls." It was a rhetorical question.
• She followed him into the room, her gaze slowly roaming over his wide back, her wolf moving restlessly as she took in every inch of the vampire. There was something very appealing about the male, something that called to both her wolf and the woman. She tried to tell herself that she was interested in him as a scientist. He was, after all, the first vampire ever to be scarred, a unique specimen among his kind. However, she knew she was fooling herself the longer her wolf prowled and paid attention to the male. There was something else about Pietro de la Rios...
• "Since coming here I've been poked and prodded, and I've had sample blood taken by the pint. I've had medical staff and my friends trying to get inside my head to find out if I'm 'okay'. I've had my flesh cut out time and again to see if the muscle and tissue will grow back undamaged. All I've wanted is to be left alone, to be given the time to fully heal so I can go back to my normal life and now you show up asking for more samples?"