CHAPTER 9 #4
“I want you very badly right now, Daniela.” His lips found the vein at her throat, tasted each soft pulse beneath it as he slowly began to undo the fastenings at the back of her dress. “I ache to be inside you.”
Two more buttons came undone. He traced the bare skin at her back, taking the liberty of tugging lose the string securing her corset. When Dani shivered, arching against him, he bent to kiss the hollow of her throat.
“You’re shaking,” he murmured. “You want this.”
“I can see your fangs growing longer, can feel how aroused you are.” She was breathing hard, the round swells of her breasts trembling with every roving pass his hands made across her ribcage.
Her stormy gray eyes stared down into his, her fingers tangling in his hair, begging him closer.
“It shouldn’t feel so good when you feed from me, when you sink your fangs into my throat.
I’m your prey. You’re so much bigger than me, so much stronger.
And yet every time you withdraw and I feel the sore ache from the last time you had me, all I can think of is how long until you’ll take me again. ”
He loosened the corset a bit more. Dani arched her back as he pushed her breasts up so that her dark pink nipples peeked over the top. When his lips closed over one rosy peak, she released a soft gasp, fingers threading into his hair to keep him at her breast.
“That could make certain things feel especially exquisite.” His hand slipped beneath her layers of skirting, teasing up the inside of one stocking-clad calf.
When the edge of his fang scraped her nipple, she gasped, and he scented the immediate rush of wetness where her thighs lay parted over his.
“And you’re not my prey. That word is so crude considering that my every waking thought is of how many ways I can make my name fall from your lips as your eyes go unfocused with pleasure. ”
“That doesn’t sound… entirely unpleasant.
” She bit her lip. “And it is because I trust you would never hurt me that I can allow myself to lie back and enjoy feeding you, that I have come to crave it.” She trailed fingers through his hair.
“That first night, when you knew I was afraid, and you swore you would touch me nowhere but my wrist, it only made me want your hands on me everywhere.”
“Everywhere, hmm?” He reached her knee, circling lazily as she moved her other breast to his mouth. “Do elaborate. I believe I may need further instruction in this matter.”
“I regret to inform you, Your Highness, that if your hand continues on its current path, I may be unable to stay quiet. It would be most embarrassing if we were interrupted by a contingent of well-meaning guards, convinced my virtue was in danger.”
He reached the tops of her stockings, fingertips lightly stroking the lace he found there. Dani shivered when his fingertips grazed her bare skin, and he flicked her nipple with his tongue.
“Are you wet for me, Daniela?” His fingers slid higher, finding the thatch of curls at her sex resting beneath an enticingly tiny scrap of lace that could barely be called an undergarment. She keened when his fingers stroked deep inside of her. “Yes, it seems you are.”
“Alex,” she breathed. “I’ve been wet for you all day. Make me come.”
He guided her mouth to his, hand working beneath her dress.
“Like this?” His thumb teased the aching nub of her clit until she shuddered, head falling back. “Or more like… this.”
“If your intent is to make me rouse the entire palace, your aim is… rather perfect,” she gasped.
Pulling her over his chest so the creamy length of her neck was bared to him, he laved kisses down the length of her throat. “Tell me what you need, Daniela.”
His fangs were so elongated they hurt, his need to feed from her a raw pulsing hunger he felt from the burn in the back of his throat to the heavy ache in his cock.
But he wouldn’t. Not until she gave herself over to him.
Not until she begged for his fangs in her throat.
He could never be satisfied with anything less.
He needed the Daniela who craved him as desperately as he hungered for her, wanted him not because he was a prince, or because she’d harbored a secret crush on the man she’d known from the legal aid office, or because she’d felt the first dark stirrings of attraction to the vampire who’d spared her in the auction house, but because she wanted all the parts of him in equal measure.
Her vein hammered beneath his lips, warm and thrumming wildly as his fingers teased her to the precipice of orgasm.
“Alex, please,” she whispered. “I can’t hold back any more.”
“Your thighs are shaking.” His fangs scraped her throat. “And every time I tease your swollen little bud, you hold your breath in anticipation. How badly do you need to fall apart around my fingers right now, Dani?”
“Bite me,” she whispered, back arching as her silky walls began to flutter. “I need you, Alex. So badly it hurts.”
He cradled the back of her neck, relishing the way she trembled in submission and ecstasy as his fangs entered her vein. Dani shuddered as soon as he began to draw from her, and he felt himself instantly thicken when she began to whimper and come in earnest around his fingers.
He took from her in slow pulls, not wanting to take so much that she’d be lightheaded when they had to go downstairs to dinner.
You’re gorgeous when you fall apart. Your smell. Your taste. The way your cheeks flush and you bite your lip, trying not to cry out my name when I flick your nub.
“Alexander.” She squirmed needily, still wanting more.
I love knowing it’s my bite and my hands on your bare skin that make you feel this good. You’re mine, Daniela. Say it.
“You know I’m yours,” she whispered, fingers fisting in his shirt. “Only yours.”
He’d taken too much. She was thoroughly wrung out, and yet, she lifted her hand to trail through his hair, seeking his lips. He withdrew his fangs and sealed the puncture marks at her neck closed.
Daniela drew his mouth to hers, tongue tracing his still elongated fangs. She had to be able to taste her own blood on his tongue, and yet she wasn’t repulsed.
No, when presented with him in his darkest, most predatory form, the vampire who by all rights of biology, she should have feared, she wanted… more of him.
Alex shuddered. Gods, she was magnificent. He withdrew his fingers from her soaked sex. As Dani watched with stormy gray eyes, he sucked them clean. Rising from his lap in a rustle of satin and taffeta, she turned so her back was to him.
“Help me remove my dress.”
Heart thrumming, he worked the rest of the fastenings free, kissing each inch of exposed skin as he did so, then lifted the layers of material away and draped the gown over the back of the couch.
Dani turned to face him and his breath caught.
In her corset and black choker with his fresh fang marks just above the top edge of the lace at her throat, plus those stockings and heels, she looked nothing short of delectable.
Holding his gaze, she lowered herself to her knees in front of him.
“You know I want this, that I crave every part of you, need to be close to you in a way I scarcely knew I was capable of just a few days ago.” His breathing caught as he reached down to trace her cheek. “But if you’re not ready for this—”
“I can’t feed from you,” she quietly admitted. “I’m not a vampire. But there’s something about watching your mouth that’s entrancing.”
Her cheeks darkened at the admission. Slowly, he stripped off his jacket and shirt.
“You want to suck me off.”
“Yes.” She was trembling now.
Alex reached down to caress her cheek where she knelt before him. “Yes, what, Daniela?”
Her eyes darkened. “Yes, Your Highness.”
“Good girl.” He was straining in his dress pants, couldn’t quite mask the shudder of relief when Dani reached up to lower his fly, freeing his cock. Fuck.
Her eyes hooded slightly as she ran her fingertips experimentally along the length of him. Was she mentally calculating whether they would eventually fit together? He sucked in a sharp breath when her thumb began to glide curious circles at his very tip, which was leaking from his need to come.
And then without warning, her tongue was tracing the ropy vein that ran the length of him.
Alex hissed through his teeth at the contact. “That… is a most exquisite form of torture,” he said faintly.
“Then I must endeavor to learn how exactly you enjoy being tormented.” Her tongue repeated the motion along the other side of his shaft.
“For I very much like the way you are looking down at me now. Your fangs and cock are so long with want, it’s all I can do to stop from touching myself as I pleasure you. ”
“You do this to me, Daniela,” he said in a rough voice.
“Every time I’m forced to kiss you goodbye, it feels like my heart is being ripped from my chest. All these months, all these feelings I didn’t have a name for until now.
I don't know why fate sought to bring us together in this cursed moment when we could be torn apart at any time.
I don't care. I only know that my hunger for you is a craving I have no desire to control. "
Alex let his head fall back at the first kiss of her petal-soft lips against his engorged tip. Dani kept her eyes on his as she slowly traced his sensitive crown with her tongue.
“Your Highness has gone very quiet all of a sudden.”
“You’re going to be the death of me,” he slurred through fangs that hadn’t even begun to retract. He would need to feed again as soon as he finished fucking her mouth.
Dani wrapped both hands around his shaft, working him in long strokes while she sucked his head.
The pressure of his release came on faster than he’d ever felt.
It was taking everything within him to hold back, wanting to draw out the pleasure of her lips and tongue until he couldn’t bear it for another second.