Chapter Five #2
“I was lost without you.” His hold tightened even more. “I won’t be lost again.”
“Ben—”
He kissed her. Fury was in the kiss, so was desire. With the touch of his lips against hers, Simone knew the white-hot passion that had surged between them before was still as strong as ever.
Maybe she should have pulled away. Tried to get him to listen to her story. But…
I only have an hour. One precious hour with him.
Ben didn’t realize the battle that was raging this night. She did. And if she could just show him the value he had. Show him that he was loved…
Her hands pressed to his chest. His heart raced beneath her palm. A fast, wild rhythm. She parted her lips even more for him. Kissed him with the desire that had remained within her for ten long years.
“I need you,” he said, voice rumbling, as he began to kiss his way down her neck. She didn’t tense when his fangs raked over her skin. There was nothing that his bite could do to her now.
She slid her hand under his shirt. His skin was warm, almost hot. In the movies, they said that vampires were cold. The movies were wrong.
So wrong.
He was like a furnace, and she loved that heat. It surrounded her. Banished the chill that had clung to her ever since she’d awakened in a morgue and realized that he was gone.
Her fingers slipped down, down, moving to the snap of his jeans.
“Simone?”
She undid the snap. Slid down the zipper. His cock sprang toward her. Fully erect. Thick. So hard. Simone lowered to her knees before him. He watched her with a gaze she couldn’t read. Once, she’d been able to read him easily, but not anymore.
She could only hope her emotions were as hidden. She couldn’t, wouldn’t let him see the fear that curled within her. Passion would win this time. Desire would triumph.
Her fingers curled around his cock. She stroked him once, from root to tip. Again.
Then she put her mouth on him.
“Baby…” His fingers sank in her hair, but he didn’t push her away. He urged her closer.
And she wanted to be close. She wanted to memorize his taste. Wanted to stroke and touch all of him. She kissed his heavy length. Loved the way his cock stiffened even more beneath her mouth. She loved—
In a flash, Simone was on her back. The old bed sagged beneath her, and her vampire stared down at her with his glowing, golden eyes.
“If I didn’t know better,” Ben said, his deep voice hard with desire and rage, “I’d think you missed me. But then, angel, you wouldn’t have stayed away ten years if you really wanted me that much.”
If they kept me away, if they didn’t give me a choice…Simone swallowed back the words. They would only hurt him more. He didn’t need to know what he’d done to her. “I want you more than anything,” Simone told him, and her words were the truth. She wanted him enough to trade all that she had.
Enough to risk the dark that could come.
His hands flew down and a second later, her shirt went sailing across the room. Her bra followed it. Then his mouth was on her breast. He licked and he sucked and desire surged through her as Simone’s hips arched toward him.
“Hurry,” Simone whispered. “I need you now.” Before time ran out for them.
He pulled down her jeans and took her underwear away with them. His own jeans were tossed to the floor. He positioned himself between her spread legs, and the broad head of his cock pushed into her.
Yes!
But he stilled. “Why?”
Simone shook her head. “Please, Ben, now.”
“All these years…you should have come to me.” His fingers curled around her hips. Lifted her up.
Then he plunged into her.
Simone moaned. Ten years. There had been no one else for her during that time. There never would be anyone else.
“I needed you. I wanted you.” He withdrew. Thrust in even deeper. Had her eyes rolling back in her head as the pleasure lashed her. “You should have come to me.”
His thrusts were rough. Frantic. His hands made sure that she met him, plunge for plunge as he lifted her hips up against him.
“I wanted to,” she whispered, then Simone bit her lip. She couldn’t say more.
“I’ll be the one to bite.” His mouth pressed to hers. “And I will bite.”
His hand lifted from her hip. His warm, wicked fingers covered her sex. Found her clit. Stroked her as he thrust.
Her release was close. Her entire body tensed as his mouth slid to her throat.
“Do you still taste as good?” Ben demanded.
Speech wasn’t really possible for her. The wild pants were pretty much all Simone could manage as her fingers fisted around the bed covers. He was driving so deep into her.
“I bet you do still taste as fucking good. Let’s find out…”
His teeth sank into her throat even as he plunged into her again. His bite electrified Simone as pleasure erupted within her. His mouth…his cock…she cried out, lost, as her climax shook her straight to the core.
“That’s right.” Ben licked her neck. Kissed her. “You didn’t come to me, but you can come for me.” He lifted her legs up higher, opening her even wider to him as he thrust and thrust and—
He came on a hot burst of release inside of her. “Simone.”
Her eyes flew open. When had she closed them? And Simone saw her vampire staring down at her with a gaze gone blind with pleasure. She let go of the covers and held him as the pleasure continued to pound through them both.
Sex with Ben had always been phenomenal. Powerful enough to steal her breath. To make her shudder.
But it wasn’t the sex that had bound her to him.
He pressed another kiss to her lips, but this time, the kiss was gentle. “I missed you,” he confessed softly. The rage was gone from him.
It would come back. He still didn’t realize what would happen that night.
But she did, and the pain already had her heart aching.