DarkHunger (4 page)

“Ian, are you going to sit here and look like you are not having fun all night?” Logan sat down next to him.

If not for his great hearing, he wouldn’t have heard the question over the music blasting from every corner of the club. Ian took a deep breath, then another swig of his drink.

“No. I’m going to sit here and look like I’m not having fun while trying to get drunk which we both know isn’t going to happen.”

Logan chuckled. “Brother, get over what happened before you left. Every man gets to a point in time where his equipment doesn’t work as well as it did when he was younger.”

Why did he tell his brother what happened? He knew that his equipment, as his brother called it, worked just fine. What inspired his problem happened to be the woman he used to love. “Nothing is wrong with my equipment,” Ian snapped.

“I beg to differ, Ian.”

“What do you want anyhow, Logan? You dragged me here when I wanted to get some rest.”

Logan shook his head. “Boy, she has turned you into a party pooper.” Logan lifted his hand to the young waitress.

The young woman smiled before making her way over to them. “What would you have, boss?” She threaded her fingers through her hair, a big smile still on her face as she leaned over the counter, giving them a direct view of her breasts almost spilling out of her white tank top shirt.

Logan didn’t miss her invitation. His smiled widened as he leaned over the counter, his gaze locking directly on her breasts.

“I see a drink right now, Emily,” Logan purred.

Emily’s eyes looked down, following Logan’s stare. She giggled before pretending to pull her shirt up to cover her breasts. “There isn’t anything to drink down there.”

“The hell there isn’t,” Logan retorted before sitting back on the stool. “Give me my favorite and another of whatever my brother had.”

“Oh, this is your brother?”

“Yes. This is my big brother, Ian. Ian, this is one of my favorite workers, Emily.”

Ian knew why she was his favorite worker. The faint hint of Logan was all over this woman. Logan had marked her as one of his own. Almost a hundred years with Meagan, and he had not even thought about marking. Ian shook his head. No need worrying about her now. He had other things, more important things to worry about.

“Well, he’s my favorite boss.”

“I am sure he is. It’s nice to meet you, Emily.”

“Same here, Ian. I’ll get your drinks right away.” The woman trotted off.

“Brother, how about you grab one of these females who would gladly do anything to you.”

Ian shook his head.

“Why not? Don’t tell me that you are waiting for Meagan to do a one-eighty in one day stop taking human cocks into her pussy?”

Ian growled, his hand shot out, his fingers tightly grabbing Logan’s collar. “That is the last time you say anything bad about Meagan. I’m getting tired of you talking shit about her.”

Logan snarled, his fingers working furiously at his brother’s fingers to loosen them, but with Ian being a lot older and stronger, he couldn’t.

“Let me go, brother,” Logan hissed. “I’ll say what I want about a woman who is dragging you to your grave. She is a woman who has my brother’s nose so far out of joint he can’t see the damn forest for the trees. Understand that you are the one who told me that you couldn’t get off because you dreaded being with her. So don’t blame me for you being unhappy.”

Ian loosened his grip. No matter how much he hated to admit it, Logan had spoken the truth. Meagan didn’t respect him at all, and she would continue to be unfaithful to him until he did something about it.

Logan pushed his hand away, readjusting his clothes.

“I’m sorry, Logan.”

“No need to apologize. No harm done. I just want you to be happy, and if Meagan is whom you want to be with, then I’ll not say anything else bad about her to you. I’ll accept what she is to you.”

“Here are your drinks.” Emily sat their drinks down in front of them before walking off to attend to the other customers.

Ian started to speak, but a tingling sensation began deep in the pit of his stomach, moving up his body, touching every fiber of his being. His stomach knotted up. The hairs on the back of his neck stood.

“What were you going to say?”

The sensation moved through him like fresh blood through his veins. He shivered as whatever made him feel this way made its way closer. Closer and closer it got. He turned around to look at the staircase. The nearer whatever it was got, the more the sensation went through him, the more he tensed up, the more he wanted to strike, but he couldn’t until he figured out what it was.

He took in a deep breath, waiting to see what drew closer. He tried with all his might to figure it out. Never had he felt anything like this in his life. It didn’t feel evil, but he had to make sure he kept up his guard.

Ian’s hand tightened around the glass, almost shattering it when five people made their way to the top of the steps. There was a rather short human male, a young wolf and three human females. They were all talking to each other as they climbed the stairs. Ian focused on the wolf and the male and noticed the sensation didn’t come from either of them. His focus went to the females. One had very long hair that touched the middle of her back, but it wasn’t her, so it was one of the other females. She was the one who called to him. The wolf, the human male, and the other two females were not paying attention to him.

They walked up to a room, still chatting among themselves. Four of them entered the room, but the one female who called to him stopped just outside the door. She placed her hand on both sides of the doorframe and took a deep breath. Pushing away from the doorframe, she turned and looked directly at Ian, and the moment she did, the music around him seem to fade until he only heard his own breathing.

In the blue room, unless you were close to that person, you couldn’t see their features that well. Ian didn’t need to see her features to feel. Something called to him with this female, a dark hunger. A deep need to go to her, take her with him and protect her, love her overpowered him. If she had grown up in the way of his people, he would have done just that. But she was a human female. Humans liked to be courted first. Ian needed to meet this female first. Before he could stand, the wolf walked out of the room, grabbed her hand, getting the woman’s attention. The woman turned away from him, then followed the wolf into the room.

Ian stood, about to go to the room when his brother’s hand on his shoulder stopped him.

“Ian what’s going on with you?”

Then and only then did the music once again start blasting. Ian blinked a couple of times. He stared at the door the woman went into before looking at his brother. “What?”

“I said what was going on with you? Was it the wolf?” Logan stood next to him. “He’s part of the Lone Wolves, I think, so we shouldn’t have any problems out of him.”

Ian didn’t know what to say about what just happened to him. How could he explain to his brother a feeling he had never felt? This woman ignited something inside him that wouldn’t die by trying to forget it.

“Ian, what’s going on with you?”

Ian growled at his brother but knew Logan was concerned about him. “It’s not the wolf,” Ian finally spoke.

“Then what was it?”

Ian let out a deep breath. “I can’t tell you what happened, brother, but the woman who the wolf pulled inside, I felt something with her.”

Logan stepped in front of him, smiling. “Oh, my brother’s pipes still work I see. You have a sexual feeling for a human?”

Ian growled. “No. I don’t feel a sexual need to be with a human.”

Logan stared at him. “Come on, Ian. We sleep with humans all the time. I find it fun to have a human bend to my will. Sometimes they can satisfy you more than our kind could.”

“I’m not sleeping with a human no matter what I feel, and that’s final.”

“Boy, Meg—”

“Don’t you dare say it or it will be the last words you speak for a while.”

“Someone is touchy. Sit down and finish your drink. I am going to make my rounds.”

“After this drink, I’m going home.”

“No! You stay here, grab some female, and dance with her.”

“No,” Ian snapped.

“For me. Just one dance to let me know that you are still the boss of your home, and a dick still hangs between your legs.”

“Me cheating on Meagan will not prove that I’m the boss.”

“But it will let me know that you still have a dick.”

Ian shook his head. “You’re impossible, brother.”

“I know, but do this for me. Stay for a little while longer. For me?”

Ian wanted to stay, but he didn’t want to stay for Logan. He wanted to stay to find out whom that woman was and why he felt what he felt when she came around. “Okay, I’ll stay for a while, but I’m not dancing.”

“I’ll take one out of two. I’ll be back soon.”

* * * *

What just happened to her? Kayla didn’t know what had happened a moment ago, but she didn’t like it one bit. She just didn’t take one look at a man and want to have sex with him. Hell, she wouldn’t have sex with a man she knew for over a year, so what was the deal with this guy?

When they first entered into
Diamond
, an eerie sensation filled her and no matter what she did, she couldn’t shake it. The longer she stayed the more the feeling made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. She didn’t believe in psychics or anyone who claimed to have mystical powers. Yet, what she felt when she entered the club didn’t feel normal. As they made their way up the stairs, she tried not to think about the feeling and she had almost had it out of her mind until she saw him.

She couldn’t get a good look at his face in the blue room, but she knew he was there.

Watching her
.

When she looked at him watching her, she wanted to go to him, to ask him to dance. Kayla smiled at that lie. She didn’t want to dance. She wanted to take this complete stranger to bed.

Her bed
.

Oh God, what was happening to her? She never had thoughts of being sexual with a stranger. She wasn’t some slut who slept with any and every man that looked at her.

Tyler’s voice broke her concentration. “Kayla, you all right?”

“Yeah.”

Tyler stood in front of her, his hands on her shoulders. “Are you sure? You got all weird a moment ago, staring at some man.”

“Oh, Kayla was staring at some man?” Julia sat on the couch.

“Yeah, she was. He was sitting at the bar,” Amanda jumped in.

“But I wasn’t staring at him like that. I just felt someone looking at me and it was him.”

“You might have some competition, Tyler,” Julia teased.

“Me? For what?”

Noah patted Tyler on the shoulder before sitting down next to Amanda and Julia. “Don’t act like you don’t have a thing for Kayla,” Noah spoke. “We all know you do.”

Kayla watched as Tyler ground his teeth. She found that when he did that he didn’t want to respond to anyone. Tyler did have a calmness she loved, but she might need to save him before they pushed his limits.

“Leave him alone, guys. Tyler doesn’t have any competition because it’s only friendship between he and I.”

She could hear the low grunts from her friends, but they knew not to push the issue anymore.

“I’m going to go get some drinks,” Tyler said in a low voice.

“You don’t have to go get them, we have someone who is supposed to get them for us,” Julia told him.

“Yea.” Kayla joined her friends on the couch.

“It’s okay. I want to get drunk, now. Very drunk.”

Once he left out of the room, everyone stared at each other for a moment.

“That boy has problems,” Noah spoke first.

“What are you talking about?” Kayla questioned.

“He is so deep in love with you that everyone can see it but you,” Amanda added.

“He may be in love with me, but it could never be.”

“Why not? Tyler isn’t that bad on the eyes,” Julia pushed.

“He may not be, but I’m not dating employees.”

“Well, fire him, and then get it on with him. He’s going to go crazy every time you look at another man. If you have sex with someone, I can see him going into a rage,” Julia told her.

Kayla didn’t know what to do now. She had this strange desire to go back out into the club and talk to the stranger she had been staring at. She didn’t want Tyler in any way right now. She almost felt repulsed by him.

What had happened in the past couple of minutes to make her go from wanting to be more than friends to repulsion? She had to be screwed up in the head to be falling for a man she didn’t know.

“It’s too bad because I’m not interested in Tyler in any way. It is best that he finds another woman to be with because I’m not her.”

“You at least have to tell him that, Kayla. He seems to be waiting for you,” Noah told her.

“I’ll talk to him about it and clear this up.”

Chapter 4

Tyler stormed out of the room and up to the counter where he knew the vampire sat.

“Look, vampire,” he hissed from behind, making him spin around to look at him.

“What, doggie? I’m not in the mood to play tonight,” the vampire said low.

Tyler snarled and before he could control it, slapped the drink out of the vampire’s hand. The vampire looked at him, his eyes turning red as his fangs lengthened in his mouth. Tyler stepped back when the vampire stood. He knew that at this stage, he didn’t have all his strength, but being so close to the full moon, he could take down a vampire.

“You owe me a drink.”

The waitress looked nervously at him before running off. He knew she was going to get help, but he didn’t care.

Tyler pushed his limits, wanting to fight with the vampire to get rid of some of the aggression built up inside him. He pushed the vampire in the chest, making him stumble for a moment.

“Now, you are
one
dead pup,” the vampire snarled, then charged him.

Tyler took his stance, ready to fight.

“Hey! What the hell is going on up here?” The voice of another vampire made both of them stop their movements.

The other vampire walked between them. Seconds later, two other vampires with
Bouncer
written on their shirts made their way up to them.