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  Her men snatched him away then, none of them willing to sacrifice. As they hacked him to pieces, Ellis leaped onto the bed with her, covering her bloody body with his.

  She was fading from the blood loss, devastated by the silver, in agony from the cuts.

  Ellis held his wrist to her little fangs. “Take the blood, Rune. Take the blood.”

  But the berserker pulled her out from under Ellie, his face covered with blood not his own.

  Jeremy’s malevolent blood decorated the walls of her bedroom, his howls of agony fading to sighs of death.

  Strad looked at Ellis. “I will feed her.”

  “Okay,” Ellis said. “Okay.”

  Levi stood beside Ellis, his eyes fierce, bright. “Thank you, Rune, for allowing us to avenge you. To avenge Lex.”

  She smiled. “Thank you, baby.”

  Or that’s what she meant to say. Maybe she spoke, or maybe she didn’t.

  But she forgot him as Strad carried her to the living room where things were less bloody and crowded. Her men would deal with Jeremy’s body and the mess they’d left behind.

  He sat in the big armchair and cradled her in his arms, his embrace so different from Jeremy’s she didn’t know how to take it.

  He stared down at her, his eyes as fierce as Levi’s had been, as dark as the night outside her window. “You will feed from me. But first I will take the taste of that bastard from your mouth.”

  He lowered his lips to hers, snatching the breath from her lungs, the thoughts from her head. There was only the feeling of his kiss, his mouth, his body.

  The pain was chased away by his kiss, and she gladly drowned in the embrace from a man who would never hurt her.

  He finally dragged his mouth from hers, his eyes hot. When he held his wrist to her mouth, she shoved it away.

  Shoved it away and dropped her fangs, then went for his throat.

  Fuck a wrist. His throat was so much more…appetizing.

  “Oh fuck,” he whispered.

  I am my monster.

  My monster is me.

  And they both smiled as they fed on the blood of a berserker.

  About Laken Cane

  Laken Cane is the pseudonym of a published paranormal romance author currently living in the Midwest. Shiv Crew is her debut book under this pseudonym and the first in the Rune Alexander series. You can learn more about her and join her mailing list at www.lakencane.com, follow her on Twitter @lakencane, or friend her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/laken.cane.3

  Watch for book two in the Rune Alexander series, Blood and Bite, coming soon.