Chapter 31
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A fter Ethan unlocked the front door to the Giles’s Edwardian home, Cole entered the house. He looked over his shoulder, waving back at Ethan who was returning to his car, and pulled the door shut behind him. The lights in the foyer and the hallway that led to the stairs were on, but the rest of the house was wrapped in darkness. Cole listened for sounds. It was quiet except for the sound of water running through the old pipes in the house.
Cole ascended the stairs to the second floor and stopped in front of Vanessa’s room. He lifted his hand to knock, but then decided otherwise and simply opened the door and entered. Inside the bedroom, only a small lamp on the bedside table was illuminated, but the room was empty. From the open bathroom door, more light shone into the room. He could clearly hear the shower running. As he walked toward it, he noticed Vanessa’s clothes strewn all over the floor.
At the entrance to the bathroom, he stopped. Vanessa was cowering in one corner of the shower, curled up into a ball, her arms hugging her knees, her head on her thighs, while water rained down on her. She hadn’t heard him yet. When he noticed how her torso trembled, he recognized that she was crying, and his heart contracted in pain. He had done this to her. He’d hurt her, and now it was up to him to fix what he’d destroyed—because he never wanted to see Vanessa in pain again. He loved her too much for that, he acknowledged that now.
Cole kicked his shoes off, pulled his shirt over his head, and dropped his pants, tossing them behind him, before he approached the shower only wearing his boxer briefs. With a start, Vanessa lifted her head. Their eyes met, and shock charged through him. Blood was streaming from her eyes down her cheeks.
Concerned, he rushed toward her. “You’re injured.”
“What are you doing here?” Her words were clipped. She turned her head away.
Cole stepped into the shower and crouched down to her. “Vanessa, your face is bloody. Let me help you.”
When he reached for her, she pushed his hands away. “I don’t need your help. I’m not injured.”
“But there’s blood on your face.”
Defiantly she tipped her chin up. “It’s tears. Happy now?”
The revelation that a vampire’s tears were blood-red made him see her in a vulnerable light. “No, I’m not happy about you crying. I’m sorry.”
“I don’t want your pity,” she spat.
Cole grabbed her shoulders. “You think I pity you?” He shook his head. “I’m here to apologize for what I’ve done. For hurting you.”
She met his gaze then, the expression in her eyes changing, but she didn’t speak. It appeared that he’d have to work harder to be forgiven.
“Vanessa, baby, I didn’t mean the things I said to you. I should have never said them. And I’m willing to do anything to earn your forgiveness. But right now, we have more important things to do. You’re in heat. You need sex.”
He rose, pulling her up with him, but she drew back and shook off his hold. “I don’t want pity sex.”
She was a stubborn one, his mate. But he could be stubborn too. He took her hands and led them to his groin, pressing them to his cocks that had turned hard the moment he’d seen her naked in the shower.
“Does that feel like I’m doing this out of pity?” he challenged. “’Cause I’m fucking horny whenever I’m near you.” He pulled her closer so their bodies touched. “Feeling you in my arms. Damn it, baby, don’t you understand? I love you, and I don’t care what you are. As long as we can be together.”
Even if that meant that one day she’d have to turn him into a vampire so he would stop aging and could spend eternity with her. But that was a discussion for another day.
Vanessa lifted her head. “Cole…”
With his thumb he wiped away the streaks of bloody tears on her cheeks. How had he ever doubted that vampires had a heart? He could see Vanessa’s spilling out from her eyes, showing him that she had feelings that were just as deep as a human’s if not deeper.
“You don’t have to say anything, baby. And you don’t have to forgive me right away. I’ll prove myself to you. But I beg you: let me make love to you now. We both need this. I can feel how hot you are. I can ease that fever for you.”
Vanessa inched her face closer. “It’s so bad this time. Worse than all the other times before. I think I need… I need…”
He framed her face with his hands. “I know what you need: both my cocks inside you. Just like it’s meant between satyr mates.” Nothing less would do tonight.
“Yes.” Her answer was but a tender breath.
Cole slanted his lips over hers, capturing them for a searing kiss. He felt Vanessa’s hands on him, sliding them into his boxer briefs as she kissed him back. Cold water rained down on them, but he didn’t bother switching it off, knowing that Vanessa needed it so her body wouldn’t burn up. He pressed her against the tile wall, while he caressed her naked body and dueled with her tongue.
Vanessa yielded to his touch, her body responding to him just as passionately as when they’d made love earlier today. To know that she was a powerful creature, and that he, a mere mortal, could turn this woman into putty in his arms, was a powerful turn-on. Her sighs and moans bounced off the tiles, and her body’s heat seeped into him, making every cell in his body vibrate with pleasure.
Still pressing Vanessa against the tiles, he severed the kiss and dipped his head to her breasts. Her nipples were hard little buds, pointing up at him, asking for his touch. He sucked one into his mouth, while he pinched the other one between thumb and index finger. A gasp burst over her lips, and she thrust her breast toward him, demanding more.
“Your teeth,” she begged. “Use your teeth.”
He understood now why she’d enjoyed it when he’d bitten her lightly when they’d had sex before: it was something a vampire did with a lover, and he wouldn’t deny her anything now. Gently, Cole brushed his teeth over her skin, then pressed harder until his teeth sank into her flesh without breaking the skin. He felt a visible shudder run through Vanessa’s body, confirming that she enjoyed his rough caresses. He switched to her other breast and did the same there, while he dipped one hand to the apex of her thighs.
Vanessa lifted one leg and wrapped it around his hip, giving him better access. His fingers found her female folds moist with her juices, and rubbed over her warm cleft, before drawing them to her clit. The tiny organ was engorged, begging for his touch, and he painted circles around it with his finger, his tempo and pressure increasing with every second. Vanessa panted heavily, and her hips moved in synch with his touch.
“Oh God,” she let out, and the sound was like music to his ears.
He realized just how much he loved giving her what she needed, making her body hum with pleasure. She was all woman now, and she was all his. He’d never before felt this kind of possessiveness toward anyone but the woman in his arms.
While he continued caressing her clit, easing up when he felt she was getting too close, then speeding up to get her close to the edge again, he alternated between licking her nipples with his tongue and biting her breasts.
“Baby, baby, please, let me come,” she begged, her voice sounding like she was miles away.
He lifted his head from her breasts. “Anything you want, baby.” He captured her lips with his and delved into her mouth, reacquainting himself with the delicious cavern of her mouth, while farther below, he rubbed his finger over her center of pleasure in a faster tempo.
Suddenly he felt Vanessa’s body spasm, and she moaned into his mouth. He let go of her clit and drove his finger into her pussy, just in time to feel how her interior muscles clenched around his digit as she climaxed.
Cole let go of her mouth and looked at her face. Her eyelashes fluttered, and her eyes shone golden, eliminating the green in her irises completely. Her lips looked bruised from his kisses, and heavy pants rolled over them. She looked thoroughly loved. Any sign that she’d cried only minutes earlier was gone.
“Now you’re ready for me,” he murmured at her lips. “For both my cocks.”
She opened her eyes fully and gazed at him, excitement sparkling in them. “Yes.”
Cole pulled her with him and stepped onto the bath mat. “Do you have lubricant?”
“Top left drawer next to the sink.”
Vanessa pointed toward it. Cole rid himself of his wet boxer briefs and opened the drawer. He found the tube of lubricant immediately, and squeezed a generous dollop onto his palm. When he turned around, Vanessa stood right in front of him, looking sexier than she ever had. Quickly, he lathered his upper cock with the lubricant. His cocks were super sensitive now, the anticipation ratcheting up his arousal even more.
Without a word, Vanessa turned to the sink, gripped it, and stepped back, while she placed her legs hip-width apart, her ass pointing up at him.
“Fuck!” He wouldn’t last long. Not with Vanessa giving herself to him like this; submitting to him by offering her body to him.
“Don’t make me wait,” she murmured, looking over her shoulder. “You know you want it too.”
He let out a nervous chuckle. “I think I want this more than you.”
She smirked. “How about we compare notes afterwards?”
“Good idea.”
There was no more stalling. Cole stepped closer, positioning himself. With one hand, he guided his lower cock to the entrance of her pussy, with the other he held on to his upper cock and pressed it against her anus. For a moment, he hesitated. He didn’t want to hurt her.
“Please take me,” Vanessa murmured.
Slowly, he pressed forward. His lower cock easily dipped into her pussy, while his upper cock sank into her anus. The tightness of the puckered hole made him gasp, before he pushed farther in. Another push, and he was inside her to the hilt, his upper cock in her ass, his lower one deep in her pussy. Her twin channels held him tightly as if he’d slipped into gloves that were a size too small. The sensation of Vanessa’s interior muscles squeezing him sent a sensual shockwave into his balls. He gripped her hips, stopping her and himself from moving.
Their eyes met in the mirror. He saw his own desire mirrored in Vanessa’s eyes, and knew that as long as he did what his body dictated, they would both experience pleasure. It was like a new instinct he’d developed. Was it the satyr in him that instinctively knew what his mate needed?
Without breaking eye contact, he withdrew his cocks until only their bulbous heads were still inside Vanessa’s body, before he plunged back faster than the first time.
Vanessa gasped in surprise, but she didn’t voice any protest. “Yes, take me hard. Let me feel that I’m yours and yours alone.”
Her words did something to him. They cut the leash with which he’d previously held himself back so as not to scare her away. But now he knew there was no chance that he could ever scare her away, no matter how rough he was with her, and how hard he fucked her.
A never before heard growl dislodged from his chest, and he withdrew and thrust hard into her ass and her pussy.
“Yes, you’re mine,” he grunted, his breath quickening. “And I’m gonna fuck you until you beg me to stop.”
“I won’t beg,” she promised, the golden hue in her eyes intensifying.
As he thrust in and out of her, plunged deep and hard without a second’s reprieve, he admired her body in the mirror. Her breasts were bouncing up and down, left and right with every thrust, her wet hair clinging to her skin, moans and sighs tumbling over her luscious lips. Lips that were parted, showing her perfectly white teeth.
But it wasn’t regular teeth he wanted to see. “Show them to me,” he demanded.
Her eyelashes fluttered and her gaze connected with his. “You mean…”
“Yes, your fangs. Show them to me now, or I’ll stop fucking you.” He paused his thrusts, but kept his cocks lodged deep inside her tight channels. He didn’t know why he suddenly wanted to see her vampire side, but he did.
“Oh, Cole…”
She opened her mouth wider, and slowly, her canines extended and became perfectly shaped, razor-sharp fangs.
His heart made a somersault. He could hardly believe what he saw, and what he felt at that sight. He’d never felt so turned on in his life.
Without tearing his eyes from the sight of her beautiful and deadly fangs, he resumed fucking her with both cocks, slamming harder and faster into her with every second.
“Fuck, you’re even more beautiful with your fangs.”
“Oh Cole...”
Her response was spoken on a surprised breath, while a jolt seemed to go through her body. Both her channels suddenly spasmed as she climaxed, squeezing his cocks so tightly that there was no chance stopping his coming orgasm. He felt semen shoot through both his cocks as pleasure washed over him, making his entire body feel weightless.
Still inside Vanessa, he wrapped his arms around her, and pulled her against his chest. He nuzzled his face in the crook of her neck. He was spent, but he’d never experienced anything even close to what he’d felt with Vanessa: a deep satisfaction, not just physical, but also emotional.
Cole lifted his face, and Vanessa turned her face to him.
“I love feeling both your cocks inside me.” She brushed her lips over his. She reached behind her, placing her hand on his backside to drive his cocks deeper into her again.
He chuckled softly, pleased that she enjoyed the experience as much as he had. “I love it even more.”
Her breath blew over his lips. “Then I hope you don’t mind if we do this at least daily.”
In response to her words, he moved his still hard cocks back and forth a few times, thrusting slowly this time. “You’re insatiable… Just as well that I was going to suggest the same thing.”
Vanessa laughed softly, before he kissed her and drowned out her laughter.