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prevarications to try to impress her. There was just him, then all of that was pushed aside by an avalanche of desire.
    Lissianna forgot all about her intentions to soothe him, she forgot everything but the hunger that was raging in her body: both the old need for blood and the new need for the pleasure he was giving her. In that moment, with their bodies entwined, both of them moaning, arching, and writhing against each other, only this man seemed able to satisfy her hunger, and Lissianna might very well have lost herself to the point of draining him dry had Thomas’s voice not caught her ear and distracted her.
    “I don’t see why you’re so upset. She just came up toget new stockings. She—” His voice had started out muffled by the door, but had grown in volume as the door opened, then died abruptly, and a brief silence followed. Very brief.
    “Lissianna Argeneau!”
    Lissianna went still, her eyes shooting open as she recognized her mother’s voice.

Chapter 3

    Teeth retracting, Lissianna pulled free of Greg Hewitt’s neck and glanced guiltily over her shoulder. The sight of Thomas and her mother staring at her wide-eyed from the doorway was enough to make her stand quickly, her hands moving to straighten her clothes and hair.
    “I cannot believe this!” Marguerite stomped into the room. “Sneaking around and unwrapping your gifts before your birthday like you’re twelve instead of two hundred! What were you thinking?”
    “Well, technically, it is her birthday, Aunt Marguerite,” Thomas pointed out as he closed the door.
    Lissianna tossed her cousin a grateful smile, but said, “I wasn’t sneaking around. I came up to get fresh stockings.” She scooped them up off the bed, and added, “And I didn’t unwrap him.”
    Marguerite stared pointedly at the floor.
    After glancing down to see the untied bow lying forgotten there, Lissianna grimaced, and admitted, “Okay, I did unwrap him, but only because he was upset, and I hated to leave him distressed.” She paused, then tilted herhead, and said, “I take it Bastien’s arrival interrupted you before you could put the full whammy on him? He was upset about being kidnapped and wanted to be untied when I got here.”
    “I didn’t kidnap him,” Marguerite said with affront, then peered past Lissianna to Dr. Gregory Hewitt to say, “I didn’t kidnap you. I borrowed you.” She turned her attention back to Lissianna to add, “And I did put the full whammy on him.”
    “Really?” Her eyebrows rose in surprise, and Lissianna glanced from her mother to the man in the bed with confusion. “It doesn’t appear to have taken.”
    Marguerite sighed, some of her tension leaving. “Yes, well he appears to have a strong mind.”
    Lissianna nodded. “I noticed. I couldn’t get into his thoughts to calm him. Not at all. That’s why I was feeding on him. I thought it might allow me to merge with his mind and soothe him,” Lissianna explained.
    “That seems to have worked well,” Thomas commented with amusement. “Although I wouldn’t say he was soothed exactly.”
    Lissianna followed his gaze to the man’s groin, where an erection was pressing his dress pants upward. Even as she peered at it, the tent in his trousers slowly deflated.
    “Not a cucumber then,” Thomas commented lightly, and Lissianna had to bite her lip on a nervous giggle.
    Clearing her throat, she murmured, “I’m sorry, Mother. I didn’t mean to spoil the birthday dinner you had planned. And really, I didn’t. I mean, it may not be a surprise anymore, but I didn’t really have much, just a quick bite. A small nibble really. I could feed a lot more.” Her hungry gaze slid to the man in the bed, her body tingling at the idea of feeding from him again.
    “He isn’t your birthday dinner.”

    Lissianna reluctantly gave up ogling her birthday gift and turned to her mother with confusion. “What?”
    “He isn’t your birthday dinner,” she repeated. “I ordered Chinese for