CHAPTER 9 #5
She hummed something in reply, her lips wrapped decadently around him as she did so, and just like that, the edge of his control crumbled.
“I’m going to come, Daniela,” he said roughly. He gathered her hair in a loose fist as sparks began to ricochet up the almost painful length of his shaft. “If you don’t want to swallow what I give you, you need to let me pull out now.”
She hummed again, and he let his head fall back, finishing down her throat in hot spurts.
When at last he grew too sensitive, Dani released him, licking her lips and catching a bit of his release that had dripped onto her chin.
“Stand,” he commanded roughly. When she did, he lifted her into his arms, and carried her to his adjoining bedroom with its four-poster bed.
He set her gently on her feet, then brushed her hair over one shoulder, softly kissing her neck.
“Hold onto the bedpost,” he murmured.
She did as he instructed, but craned her head back, seeking his lips, and he captured her mouth immediately.
“I need you again,” she whispered, a bit shakily. “If this is what blood addiction feels like, then I understand how people become lost in it so quickly.”
“We’ve only been together a few times.” He worked at the fastenings of her corset. “Blood addiction takes much longer to form.”
But an uneasy feeling had settled in his stomach.
What he’d said was true enough for most people.
But what if there was something about their bonding marks that sped up the process?
Sera was trying to find a way to get the marks removed, but what if that left them both permanently suffering side effects?
There was a simple answer, of course. They could get mated. His pulse picked up at the thought of Dani as his mate, as his wife.
Except that would mean living in exile, leaving the sector and going into hiding with her sisters. Vampire-human matings were outlawed. Could he really doom Dani to a life living underground, constantly afraid of arrest and imprisonment?
He stared down into her depthless gray eyes, lips closing over hers again. Could he actually imagine living without her now?
He finished unhooking the back of her corset, pressing kisses to the curve of her spine as he exposed each inch of bare skin.
“Exquisite.”
Dani draped her arms around his neck and he lay her across the bed in her stockings, panties and heels. He prowled over her, kissing his way up her body. She arched her back as he tenderly kissed the fresh bite mark he’d left at her throat, moaning softly when he tugged at her nipples.
“I want very much to be inside you.” He slid down the bed, kissing a trail past her navel to her hip bone. “But for tonight, that will need to wait.” He slid a finger beneath the lace panel of her thong, tracing the narrow thatch of dark blonde hair it concealed.
Dani inhaled sharply, fisting the duvet. “Alexander, please.”
His lips skimmed her right hipbone, first kissing, then softly biting. “I shall never grow tired of hearing my name whispered on your lips, nor of the way your heartbeat grows very fast just before you find your pleasure. It’s intoxicating.”
“Yes,” she breathed when he bit her again. “Oh, Alexander. Please make me come.”
“You like it when I bite you there?”
“I should think that would be very obvious.”
He chuckled. Using his fangs, he neatly snipped one strap of her thong. Dani gasped when his fingers pushed into her sex. She squirmed on the bed, seeking friction, and he slid her calves across his back.
“I rather love these panties. I shall have to buy you a dozen pairs.”
“Seeing as you’re destroying them, it seems I’ll be going through them quite quickly.”
He kissed the inside of her other thigh. “I’m going to carry your panties in my pocket when we go down to dinner so that every male vampire who approaches you will know exactly who you belong to. That you are mine, and no one else’s.”
He scraped her hip with the edge of his fang.
Her breathing grew very shallow. Alexander stroked deep inside her, seeking the sensitive spot high up in her sex.
When she began to hold her breath, he bit through her panties on the other side, nipping her just enough to sting.
He was rewarded by a gasp and an immediate rush of wetness over his fingers.
“Your fangs are still so long.” She whispered it, eyes dark. He could hear her heartbeat fluttering faster. “You just fed from me, and still, they’re so big. It’s arousing, seeing this version of you. I always knew you were a vampire, but… this isn’t the prince I normally see in media broadcasts.”
“I’m starving for you, Daniela.” His breathing grew rough.
“Seeing you splayed out before me, in nothing but your stockings and heels and that lace choker, your pussy soaked and aching for me, has me incredibly hungry. To answer your question, yes, I need to feed from you again, and to fuck you until we’re both absolutely, deliciously sated. ”
Dani moaned, writhing against the bed. “If your intent is to drive me mad, Your Highness, it’s absolutely working.”
“Spoken like a vampire.” Chuckling, he lowered the delicate panel of lace and used his tongue very lightly to part her sex. “Pleasure is always sweetest after a little bit of pain.”
She arched off the bed when his tongue lightly touched her clit, so aroused from the first feeding and climax that it took no time at all before she was at the edge again, panting and writhing against the sheets so he was forced to hold her down.
He could have feasted at her sex while her hands tugged hungrily at his hair all night.
You’re beautiful like this, Daniela. Your cheeks and nipples flushed pink from my kisses. Your hair mussed from fighting what you know is about to happen. So close to letting go and allowing me to see you take your pleasure.
“I’m not sure I can like this, Your Highness. Last night, it was dark. I’m sure I must look…” She held her breath, stormy eyes locked with his, and he felt her walls clench his fingers, her heels scraping needily at his back.
Don’t look away, Daniela. Watch me feed from you. Here. He sucked her clit roughly and she arched off the bed, gripping the duvet. And here. He scraped the inside of her thigh with his fangs.
“Alex.” Her heartbeat grew erratic. “Don’t stop. Don’t—”
He returned his attention to her nub, drank in her expression as her eyes went glassy and she arched beneath him, whispering his name in a curse and a prayer.
He held her firmly to the bed with the flat of one palm centered between her hips, giving her everything she asked for and more until her legs were shaking so hard he feared she would pass out if he didn’t stop.
“That was indescribable, Daniela. You’re incredibly beautiful.”
He kissed her swollen clit one final time, earning a shudder. Then he turned and sank his fangs into the vein deep in her inner thigh.
Daniela gasped when he began to suck from her vein.
Almost immediately, he felt her sex tighten again.
She had to be thoroughly wrung out after the first feeding and two orgasms, but when he felt another rush of wetness around his fingers, he began to slowly stroke her tight channel, pushing in and out, working the sensitive place deep inside her.
Dani whimpered, pushing her hair off her face. “It’s too much. I’m not sure I can again.”
She was getting woozy. He needed to stop.
He’d needed to go deeper to hit this vein and although her fainting spells had lessened after their first few feedings, he still worried for her every time his fangs pierced her skin.
The urge to protect her, which had been in place even when she’d been just Dani Girard, the client he’d known from the center, had grown to something raw, something he could barely contain anymore.
He withdrew his fangs, closing off the bite wound at the inside of her thigh.
“Oh… yes.” Sighing, Dani began to flutter around his fingers.
This release was softer than the others, but from the expression on her face, no less pleasurable.
He rose over her, fingers languidly pumping in and out of her slick sex as he stroked himself.
As she allowed her legs to fall open, spent, he gritted his teeth, his hot seed splashing across her bare stomach.
Groaning, he collapsed beside her on the bed. Dani curled towards him, threading her fingers into his hair and kissing his sweaty forehead.
“Better?” she whispered between kisses.
Alexander closed his eyes. When was the last time someone had touched him like this? Softly, adoringly. He curled his arms around Dani’s middle, needing every inch of her pressed against every inch of him. He could feel his fangs were finally retracting, his thirst sated.
“That was… intense.” His voice was hoarse. He nuzzled into her neck, kissing her throat where he’d fed from her. “Are you okay? I got pretty rough with you.”
“I’m sturdier than I look.” She laughed softly, ruffling his hair, and he captured her lips in a long kiss. “And I’m not complaining, in case you didn’t notice.”
Another kiss. He wanted to stay like this forever with her. Naked. Buried in the covers. Exchanging whispers and kisses. But if they didn’t get to the party soon, they would be missed. Likely, they already had been missed.
“We should shower and get dressed,” he said reluctantly.
“Zander,” she said softly, tracing his face, eyes suddenly serious. “I’m not afraid of what our future holds. I know what I feel for you. I’ve always wanted you. If you’re making the decision to try to break our bond because you think you’re protecting me, don’t. I can look after myself.”
A knot formed in his stomach. He kissed her once more, very softly, then slid from the bed and offered her his hand. “Come on. Let’s shower, and then I’ll help you get dressed.”
“Everyone has been wondering where you were,” Lara said from behind him.