Blood Mated (Princes of Avari, #2)

She makes a bet with a powerful vampire billionaire for the money her family desperately needs. But he’s only playing for her.

Lucy

I didn’t technically steal from the arrogant vampire with glacial blue eyes—no matter what the security footage says.

We’re not strangers. He won tasting of me in the blood auction a couple of weeks ago, but then refused to drink, disappeared, and somehow never stopped haunting my thoughts.

So, when he demands repayment for the wallet he lost, I offer him a deal instead: one week living in my district, surviving life as a low fae, far from his luxury towers and designer suits. If he gives up before the week is over, he pays me enough to cover my mother’s expensive medication.

Easy money.

Men like him don’t survive my streets.

Except Valor refuses to break. Which makes no sense.

A man like him should have walked away days ago. Why is he still here?

Now, the stoic vampire keeps slipping beneath my defenses, awakening the dangerous pull of my siren-incubus bloodline. And the longer he stays close, the more I wonder if winning the bet was never the reason he accepted.

Valor

Business shark. Vampire prince. Heir to the McKinsington empire.

When my wallet disappears after a night at a club, I’m ready to hunt down the thief myself.

Then I realize it was her.

The same girl from the blood auction. The one I told myself I rescued out of obligation, not obsession. Yet weeks later, I still can’t forget the pink streaks in her hair or the unnatural green of her eyes.

Lucy thinks she’s challenging me to survive in her world.

What she doesn’t realize is that she’s just handed me exactly what I want: a week at her side, far from a world built on lies, power, and hollow connections.

Then I taste her blood.

And everything changes.

Because the savage need it awakens in me to protect her will never be satisfied with “for now.”

Now, I’m keeping her.

Blood Mated is book 2 in the interconnected standalone series Princes of Avari, in which powerful fae men discover they’d do anything for true love. Expect slowburn to spice, yearning, groveling, and a well-earned HEA.