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Sinful Cravings

Lake City Stories

Book 2

Annie Nicholas

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Date of Publication: August 11, 2014

Word Count: 50,000 word

Cover Artist: Kanax

Book Description:

Pia Blyton, a succubus, isn’t ready for an official engagement since her skillset consists of setting kitchens on fire, singing at vampire hellholes, and most embarrassingly, she recently passed out in bed while feeding Valerio Hunan, the most eligible incubus in Lake City. Yet somehow he turns a blind eye to all her faults and still wants to set his marriage tattoos on her wrists.

The compulsion to have sex forces their people to have unconventional relationships. Every three days, she has to orgasm creating energy to survive. She can’t even live off bad sex. Unlike her, Val can’t feed off just anyone. He consumes the energy only a succubus creates and his hunger isn’t on a clock. Most incubi feed legally by luring multiple succubi into marriage with money and power. Val had caught Pia by the heart strings. Sneaky bastard.

When his food supply suddenly stops, he’s faced with starvation. Despite Pia’s adoration, she’s not an all you can eat buffet. He would suck her dry of all her life force within days. In order to save her, Val forces her to leave. With nowhere to go, Pia ends up at the last place she wants to be—her parent’s home, with nothing but her pink suitcase and a list of all her failures.

Pia needs to pull on her big girl panties and figure out why Val’s energy supplies have stopped arriving before he kills some unsuspecting succubus. But the demon inside Val is closer to the surface than either of them realize. When Pia leaves, the only thing on its mind is tracking her down and dragging her back into its bed where she belongs...even if it kills her.

John snatched my offending finger and kissed the tip. “You were worried?” A shy smile tugged at his lips. No fair.

I yanked my hand out of his grasp. “Of course I was. It’s not like I have suitors waiting in line.” My excuse for worrying sounded thin but I didn’t want to give John the wrong impression. Caring about my suitors was dangerous and falling in love against the rules. Emotional detachment had to be maintained to protect my fragile heart and to ensure my relationship with Val would work. For an incubus, he was oddly very possessive.

“You could have anyone you wanted. You just don’t—”

“Want to.” I finished the old argument between us.

“So.” He stared at his shoes. “You met my brother.”

“Yeah, I did. He wants to suck my soul out of my body like a juice box.” I set my hands on my hips and gazed out at my parent’s wooded property. Val was wandering out there under the bare branches. Somewhere.

“Sounds like Amel.” He twisted and followed my gaze. “Did he come looking for me here?”

“No, I used the locket you gave me last Winter Solstice.” I scowled and leaned closer so he couldn’t escape my glare. “You didn’t tell me that wasn’t your name.” When pressed the locket would say something and it turned out to be his brother’s name.

His shy smile became a grin. “I didn’t say it was either.” The dumbass’ smile faded. “Wait. You tried to summon me using that name?”

“Yeah.”

“Oh…”

“Yeah.” Instead of my sweet John appearing in the pentagram, his pissed off big bro showed up and let’s just say he wasn’t happy about it.

“The city is still intact. Did your father defeat him?”

My eyebrows shot up. Dad? Beat a Mazzikim demon? “No.” John feared my father like no one else. That he stood on our doorstep showed how much he wanted my forgiveness. But Dad wasn’t a warrior. Zur-Sin, my vampire suitor and co-ruler of Lake City, however was not only a warrior he also practiced black magic.

“How exactly are you still alive?” His whispered question took me by surprise.

“Sin blood bound him.”

The blood drained from John’s face.

Reflexively, I reached out and steadied him. “John, where have you been?”

“Yes, John, where have you been?” Val strolled around the corner of the house, hands in pockets, and looking quite warm in just a suit. Incubus powers?

I jumped at his voice, an undeserved wave of guilt crashing over me as I released my hold of John’s elbow. Our people didn’t practice love. They saw the emotion as a weakness and I could see their point. Falling in love with a human had almost killed me a few years ago. Sex equaled food for my people and fidelity couldn’t be part of the equation.

My parents managed to have a beautiful four-way loving relationship. Well, until now, with a fourth wife on the horizon. After being raised in such an environment why wouldn’t I crave to have the same? I smiled at Val and held out my hand.

He was willing to give me everything, even his heart, but unlike me he’d been raised in a cold, sterile traditional succubus household. He wanted to love me, he just didn’t know how.

When our hands touched, I half expected to see sparks of desire dance between our fingers. I met his pale blue stare and my stomach fluttered. Would he ever stop affecting me this way? “John, this is Val, my fiancé.” Valerio Hunan had recently moved to Lake City. After a whirlwind courtship over a few days, I agreed to an engagement. My stomach rolled as I recalled why he’d dragged me here today. He wanted my mothers to force me to pick a date so we could publically announce our families uniting.

We had only been living together for a few weeks. In a hotel room no less. His wives hated me. What was the rush?

“Fiancé? I thought you didn’t want to ever get married, Pia.” John’s gaze traveled from Val to me and back again.

“I’m beginning to believe the same thing.” Val murmured under his breath.

I could kick John where the sun didn’t shine. “Shut up. A lot’s changed since you left me high and dry on my day three. So why don’t you answer my question before I ask Val to drag your scrawny ass to your big brother.”

Character Name: Pia Blyton

Character Bio: Pia is a young succubus who had failed spectacularly at trying to live on her own when she went to college. It almost ended with her death and she came home broken. Now, she’s back on her feet and taking chances again with her heart. She wants it all—love, marriage, and family. It’s hard for a succubus to find these things when she can’t be physically monogamous.

 

Describe yourself what is your worst and vest quality?

My sense of style is my best quality. I can rock any pair of platforms and I never blend in with the crowd. My freaking curly hair is my worst. It has a life of its own and so far it’s winning the battle for dominance in my life.

What is the one thing you wish other people knew about you?

That I’m trying my hardest to feed like a succubus should.  It’s not easy when you want to fall in love.

What is your biggest secret something no one knows about?

That I wish I’d been born human. It’s not something I’m proud of but I can’t it. I think life would be easier.

What are you most afraid of?

That I’ll be forced to use a stranger to feed from and he’ll hurt me. It takes a lot of trust to drop your panties and sometimes my demon nature takes over and that side of me doesn’t care who I jump.

What do you want more than anything?

Someone to love me for who and what I am. It takes a strong man to able to share. That’s what I need. I can’t be monogamous. No matter how much I want to be. Been there, done that, and it almost killed me.

What is your relationship status?

Recently engaged to the hottest incubus in town. *high fives*

How would you describe your sense of fashion?

On the money.

How much of a rebel are you?

Uh…I guess to my people I’d be considered a rebel? I mean, they think falling in love is a weakness. Honestly, they’re more like to say I’m stupid than a rebel.

What do you considered to be your greatest achievement?

Getting my driver’s license  without sleeping with the instructors. Take that, sisters.

What is your idea of happiness?

A hungry Valerio naked in bed with a jar of Nutella.

What is your current state of mind?

I don’t even know what that means.

What is your most treasured possession?

My family picture album. My parents are the best.

What is your most marked characteristic?

Curly, crazy hair that can only be tamed with enough hair products to bankrupt a small country.

What is it that you, most dislike?

Being treated like a sex object. Just because I have to feed off sex doesn’t mean I’m a slut or sex kitten. It’s not by choice.

Which living person do you, most despise?

Amel. He’s a demon who would like nothing more than to suck out my soul. He has reason to hate me though. I kinda accidentally gave his name to a black magic user and now Amel is a slave.

What is your greatest regret?

Ugh, I fell in love with a human. I tried to feed just from him and almost died. Not my best moment.

What is the quality you most like in a man?

Confidence. For me to feed, I have to orgasm so I can’t even survive off of bad sex.  But it’s not all about the sex, I have to feel protected and cherished.  It’s not easy finding a man who feels this way about a woman like me.

Which living person do you most admire?

My dad. Nobody would have thought an incubus could take over a city, but he came in by storm to make a safe place for his daughters to grow up. What’s not to admire?

If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?

I wish I could feed from my fiancé, Valerio. If we could just feed each other and just be together like a human couple that would be paradise.

What is your motto?

Blue and green should never be seen except in your mother’s washing machine.

 

 

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Annie Nicholas writes paranormal romance with a twist. She has courted vampires, hunted with shifters, and slain a dragon’s ego all with the might of her pen. Riding the wind of her imagination, she travels beyond the restraints of reality and shares them with anyone wanting to read her stories. Mother, daughter, and wife are some of the other hats she wears while hiking through the hills and dales of her adopted state of Vermont.

Annie writes for Samhain Publishing, Carina Press, and Lyrical Press.

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