as well. She was quite attractive in a classical way. Her cheekbones were neither severe like Ginny’s nor soft like Tiffany’s, but they were strong. She had fair skin, and slightly bowed lips.
She was quite attractive with a perfectly average hourglass body, which wasn’t willowy, athletic, nor voluptuous in body type, but perfectly proportional at five foot four in height putting her right in between all three extremes. She had lovely curves with C cups, a small waist, and flared hips. She really was quite stunning, despite her cold and controlled outward demeanor. A reminder the vampire race tended to be cold and calculating in their decisions, which was why their rogues were considered so cruel, but I knew most vampires put that cold calculation toward protecting the humans.
Despite her lovely beauty and killer body, and her extremely powerful magic which was a rival for my other mates, she was no more attractive to me than Serina or Carmen was. It was an acknowledgement of her beauty in my mind, not a chemical attraction or that weird instinctual mate recognition. I felt almost ridiculous, because I’d half expected that to happen, but I felt more relief than disappointment that it hadn’t, and I didn’t feel that instinctual need to claim her. I was truly happy with what I had after all. I just suspected fate wasn’t quite done with me.
Violet nodded fractionally at Ginny, “Alpha. My father congratulates you on your accomplishment, and I’d be pleased to assist you in taking down more.”
Despite her words, which were surprisingly soft and didn’t match her cold demeanor, I wondered if she was pleased at all. I pushed that down, the emotionless mask was their vampire power’s influence, but they all had a human half as well.
Violet nodded to us as well, “Tiff, good to see you again. Nice to meet you as well, Sam.”
Ginny said, “Thanks for coming. We suspect that your assistance will enable us to discover his associates, and it’ll help clean up quite a few cities. We also need to know why they set up a trap. If I’d gone in with just two teams, things wouldn’t have worked out nearly as well.”
Violet nodded slightly to indicate agreement. Her scent was very muted, but I caught enough at that point to know she was glad to be there, and that she wanted to help.
We headed down the hallway to a steel door with two of the enforcers guarding it. They opened the door wordlessly with alacrity for their alpha, and the four of us walked in. The room had a few cells, though they were more very large cages with silver mesh wrapped around the usual iron bars of a cell. No doubt to stop a shifter from escaping if they had a small form, or from bending the bars in a large one.
Silas was chained against the wall with silver chains, which would also presumably prevent a shift.
Violet stared at him for the longest time, and I could see her aura and power trying to thread through his. So much for the simple eye contact thing in popular fiction. Silas had his eyes shut and I could tell he was fighting back, but Violet just looked calmly deliberate and completely unmoved by his resistance. It was maybe two minutes later when her power slipped through, and Silas stiffened, then he relaxed and looked up.
Violet ordered, “You will answer all the alpha’s questions, truthfully and completely, without an attempt to mislead or leave out pertinent information.”
Silas grated out, “I will.”
Ginny asked, “What was the ambush about, why did you come back here?”
Silas glared, and it was obvious he was still fighting, trying to eject Violet from his head. I suspected humans would be a lot more accommodating that way when under compulsion.
“I returned to capture the angel born. The price offered was too good to ignore. I chose the tactic I used in hopes of gaining revenge for you destroying my business in this town and forcing me to flee. I was a victim of my own cleverness. No other alpha would’ve brought so many with them.”
Ginny gave off a surge of anger in her scent, as she growled out, “Who wants my mate, and why?”
Silas grunted, “I don’t know.”
Ginny asked pointedly, “How could you not know?”
Silas replied, “The offer came through another contact. A rogue even more paranoid than I am I suppose. The delivery and payment would’ve been done blindly over the dark web. I have no