Chapter 34
Chapter thirty-four
Cora
Cora tried furiously to remind herself of all the reasons she’d refused to give in to Saiden, but the moment he looked at her with the kind of heat that threatened to burn her alive, they all fluttered away like ashes in the wind.
Dying in his arms suddenly didn’t seem like such a bad way to go.
Abandoning all her reservations, Cora allowed him to fully claim her.
Lightning arced under her skin, and she pressed herself tighter to him, sending the tiny shocks into overdrive. A moan slipped out, and she didn’t know if it was from the pleasure or the pain.
She didn’t care. She just needed more.
If this was what it was like to be with a vampire, she understood where all the romance novels came from. Being in his arms just felt safe. It felt right. It felt like she had always been destined to find her way to him.
It was almost embarrassing how badly she craved him right then.
“Saiden.”
His name fell from her lips, a wanton plea for him to take more of her.
All of her.
Wrapping a leg around his hip to pull him closer, she pressed her aching pussy against his rigid cock. She was grateful for the swim since the water hid how wet her panties would have been otherwise.
Not that she needed to hide her arousal. She was done hiding from Saiden.
She was done hiding from life.
He growled something incoherent in her ear, but she understood his intention all the same.
They weren’t teasing this time. Weren’t dancing around their attraction.
There was something primal happening, a need inside them both that couldn’t be, wouldn’t be, denied.
Her muscles could spasm however much they wanted, but all she would feel was Saiden.
She reached between them to slide her hand inside his boxer briefs, and nearly stopped breathing altogether when she felt him.
She knew now what he meant earlier about his cock being underwhelming when he was low on blood.
He must have fed at some point because he had gone from unquestionably large to ‘Oh dear God, am I insane to try this?’
Of course she was insane. She was out of her fucking mind, and there was no turning back.
She curled her hand around as much of his girth as possible, loving how his cock twitched and his hips thrust forward.
As if her touch alone might drive him to madness.
She circled a thumb around the tip and tried not to blush at the drop of moisture that was not water.
There was something empowering about knowing he felt just as strongly for her as she did for him.
A tiny prick of pain nipped at her lip, and she pulled back in time to see his fangs slide the rest of the way out.
A drop of blood dangled off the edge of one tooth.
Just a single drop, waiting to be sucked into the ecstasy that was Saiden’s mouth or lost to the cold, hard ground where it would dissolve into nothing.
If she gave herself over to him, he could take whatever he wanted. Could take her completely. Yet for some reason, she wasn’t afraid anymore.
She was intrigued.
She leaned forward and let the tip of her tongue dart out to snag the drop of blood, surprised that she didn’t entirely hate the coppery taste.
Saiden fixed an intense stare on her throat when she swallowed before dragging his eyes up to meet her heated gaze. He must have seen at least some apprehension on her face, though, because he pressed his forehead to hers and whispered, “I won’t hurt you. I promise.”
Her hand squeezed tighter around his cock, and the resulting moan sank into her skin, fueling the heat throbbing between her thighs.
“What if I want you to?” she offered breathily.
His eyes shuttered, and his body stiffened. “Don’t say that if you don’t mean it, Cora.”
She released him so she could slide both hands up and around the back of his neck. Leaning forward, she licked a water droplet off the thick muscular column of his neck.
“Look at me,” she ordered, her breath hitching at the beauty in his eyes when he did. “I want to experience all of you, Saiden, and I do mean all. So shut up and make me forget about everything else in this world for at least a little while.”
He shook his head. “I can’t bite you, Cora. The way you taste… What you mean to me… I might not be able to stop.”
“So then don’t bite me,” she offered. “You’re more than just a vampire, Saiden. Show me what it means to be with you. Just you. Just for tonight.”
He winced, and she didn’t know if it was because he wasn’t able to separate sex and blood, or if it was something else.
She didn’t even have time to ponder it because between one gasp and the next, he wrapped her in his arms and shot them over to a spacious green meadow on the other side of the pool, somehow shucking his briefs in the process.
He lay her out on the soft, mossy ground and parted one thigh with his knee. He stared at her for a long moment, drinking her in like he was a dying man and she was his salvation. She couldn’t think too much about that look though, what emotion was shining through as he possessed her with his eyes.
The last rays of sunlight danced over his skin, casting his features into a mixture of glowing peaks and shaded valleys. The contrast was hypnotizing, like he was a fallen angel come to claim her.
She let out a whimper when he bent down and sucked one of her nipples into his mouth through the thin fabric of her bra.
His tongue flicked and swirled around that taught bud, teasing it while his hand slid down her stomach to cup the space between her thighs.
He brushed his palm along her throbbing clit, and Cora rolled her hips against his hand, grinding into his fingers to chase the satisfying friction she’d dreamt of the night before.
When he pulled back, she cried out at the loss of sensation.
“These are in the way,” Saiden growled before tearing her panties off with his teeth. His behavior was animalistic, skating the edge between violent and erotic, and if he didn’t fuck her soon, she might honestly start begging.
Saiden had other ideas, though. Ideas she got fully on board with when he licked a line straight up through the center of her pussy. Back bowing, she threaded her hands through his dark hair, gripping the soft strands as she bucked and writhed against his face.
And then he showed her exactly what it meant to be pleasured by a vampire.
She screamed when his tongue kicked into overdrive, practically thrumming against her clit in a way that not even her high-end vibrator could achieve. The intensity bordered on excessive, yet she would die a not-so-little death before she stopped him.
The orgasm exploded inside her, and she cried out in ecstasy, riding his tongue until every last ounce of release had been wrung out of her.
She lay on the ground, spent, weak, and thoroughly satisfied.
“That was…” Her mouth tried to speak, but her brain was so drenched in oxytocin that it hung up a ‘back in ten minutes’ sign and completely abandoned her.
“I’m glad you think so,” Saiden purred as he crawled up her body, leaving soft kisses in his wake. “That was just the beginning.”
Staring down at him, she sucked in a breath when he gripped his impressive erection and rubbed his cock over her swollen clit. Her body shuddered under the overpowering sensation, the lightning under her skin shooting down her body to create another thunderstorm between her legs.
“Beginning?” she croaked out. He was really going to test her belief that dying in his arms wouldn’t be a bad way to go.
Saiden grinned as he positioned himself at her entrance and teased her with just the tip of his cock. “Oh, Cora. I’m going to embed my scent so deeply into your skin that no amount of time will ever let you forget me.”
Forget him? Like that had ever been an option to begin with. Saiden was not someone you forgot. Saiden wasn’t a person; he was an experience. Fucking him was like being swept up into a tornado. All you could do was hang on and hope to survive.
He thrust into her with one smooth motion, sinking himself completely to the hilt. The slightest hint of pain fluttered through her at how wide he stretched her open, but then he started rocking his hips, and there was only euphoria. All-encompassing euphoria that demanded her complete surrender.
She chased that feeling as he pushed himself harder and faster, reaching a spot inside her she thought was a myth.
His mouth latched onto the soft space above her collarbone, and his fangs scraped against the sensitive skin.
She shuddered, wishing for just a minute that he would let go and take all she had to offer.
“Fuck, Cora,” he moaned when he pulled back. “Do you even know how much you drive me crazy? I want to murder any man who has even looked at your sweet pussy.”
It should have scared her. His declaration.
Because if any guy could make good on a threat like that, it was Saiden.
But the shiver that ran through her wasn’t fear.
It was exhilaration. And it took her to the edge once more.
She wanted to say something, but she had no words to describe how he made her feel.
At least not any she was ready to give voice to.
All she could do was wrap her legs around his torso and lock her ankles, deepening the angle and bringing him flush against her.
Then she dragged her nails down his back.
She didn’t care if any scratches healed immediately.
She wanted to leave her mark on him in some small way, even if just for a second.
Because the mark he left on her would last for the rest of her days.
His answering moan sank into her skin, and she did it again.
He wrapped an arm under her back and pulled them both upright until she was all but bouncing on his cock as he lifted her up and down.
She couldn’t take it any longer. She grabbed his face and slammed her mouth against his, letting her tongue graze his fang. Letting him taste just one more drop of her lifeforce.
Saiden threw his head back and growled, “You’re killing me, Cora. I need you to come for me now. I need to feel you clenching around me.”
Then he reached down to flick her clit with his thumb, and she was lost to him. A second orgasm rolled through her in a crashing wave of pleasure she would gladly drown in.
Moments later, Saiden shouted his own release in a deep roar that felt like he was announcing his claim to the world, and the pure warmth that filled Cora was unlike anything she’d ever felt before. Unlike anything she would ever feel again.
Hope to survive? Talk about na?ve.
She was already gone.