A Love Worth Biting For (11 page)

His teeth elongated, and I felt the sharp points start to slide over either side of my hardening tip. My skin was on fire, and yet I held still. I knew he wouldn’t hurt me, but he was hitting me in just the right spots, and damn if I was going to accidentally throw him off his game.

He flicked his tongue against the tip, and I couldn’t keep the moan from erupting from me as my head slammed against the pillow.

I opened my eyes and realized everything was black. “Jake? What the hell?”

“It’s the blindfold, baby. We are going to let you enjoy. And wonder what I am doing to you next.”

Fuck.

I felt the feathers first. I knew what they were immediately. I’m not a prude. I’ve tried feathers before, but Jake knew something about feathers that other guys seemed to have missed the memo on.

Delicate wings touched my cheek and brushed over my lips before moving over my nipples. Just the tips of my nipples. He moved back and forth between the peaks until I was sure they could cut glass. My traitorous breasts were trying to jump off my body to get in his mouth.

“Jake.” His name panted out of me. I didn’t recognize my voice. I might have been begging. And if I wasn’t, I was about to.

“You are so beautiful when you beg.”

I might have growled, but he silenced the anger with pleasure as he tickled the feathers down to my core. I felt the faintest of touches against my clit, and my body bowed. The feathers pulled away. Before I could complain or beg, or breathe, his tongue thrust into me, and I came. Pulsing against his mouth. I felt him groan, and the vibrations helped me roll through the waves caressing my body.

“That was so sexy. I loved feeling you come on my tongue.”

Who cared how I looked? I just wanted him to do it again. My hands fought the restraints to attempt communication since my vocal chords were numb from orgasm. Jake moved from my grasp before I could grab hold.

“I’ll be right back. Something I need to do.” The heat of his body left me, and the bed shifted as his weight lifted from the mattress.

Where was he going? What was he doing? Why wasn’t he fucking me? Was he getting a toy? The questions kept coming, and my body was humming with anticipation.

I felt a flush of arousal flood from me. I couldn’t close my legs to get relief. I sat there and panted.
Please let him be getting ready to thrust inside me
. I couldn’t wait any longer. But I did. And each second that passed, my anticipation grew, and when I finally heard a noise, I was sure anything he did would send me over the edge again. Anything except what he really did.

I heard the curtains.

“What are you doing? What was that noise?”

“What do you think it was?”

“Um…it sounded like curtains, and we’re in a first floor hotel room.” I tried pulling against my restraints but the damn things held.

“You don’t think it would be a little exciting if someone happened to be walking by and saw this voluptuous, redheaded goddess sprawled on a bed? Like those college kids that were hanging out in the parking lot. They could walk by.” My pulse skyrocketed. It was totally from fear. I wasn’t aroused. I
wasn’t
.

“Jake, close the curtains.”

“But you are so gorgeous in the moonlight. I can see the tiny shadows from all your goose bumps.” His hands trailed down as my body started to shake. “You are panting. Your beautiful nipples are so hard they are begging for my attention.”

I ached everywhere he talked about. His words were a caress to match his hands as he touched me. I was on fire.

“These sexy hips. The thighs I want to take a bite out of.”

He sighed, and I felt his teeth graze my legs.
Oh
. That wasn’t bad at all. He wouldn’t bite me when there was a chance someone would see, but I could imagine the picture we made. Would someone call the cops? Would they stay and watch? Would they touch themselves while looking through the cold glass window?

“I can feel you getting hotter. You like the thought of someone watching us? They could not help but stop. They want to see what I have. They might look, but they can’t touch. You are mine. This is mine.” His hands grabbed my hips, and he thrust inside me.

I called his name. No other words were needed now. He could take me wherever he wanted. He was my mate, my man, my Alpha. My world narrowed to our connection. I was so hot. I couldn’t move. I could only take what he’d give me, and at that moment, I wanted whatever he was giving me. I was his, and this was right.

I fell over the edge a second before him and I felt myself spasm around his cock, that pulsing rod of steel, as he shot himself into me. I was whole.

We stayed connected as he unlocked the wrist restraints, and he only pulled from my body when he had to reach my ankles. The loss of his heat sent the cool temperature of the room inside me. Getting rid of that blindfold was my first thought. I started to reach for the knot behind my head.

“I’m really glad you’re okay with public mating. My Family will expect to watch our first coupling once you are changed.”

“
What
?” I ripped the satiny material in half to break my vision free. My eyes adjusted to the dimness in the room to find him chuckling and the curtains still closed. I was going to beat him. As soon as my legs worked again.

“You were just screwing with me?”

“About the people watching us through the window, or my Family watching us have sex?”

“Please, dear gods, let you say both.”

He cuddled up next to me still chuckling. I wouldn’t go to sleep until he assured me that public fornication was not a vampiric necessity, but after he told me to take a joke a few dozen more times, I allowed myself to fall asleep wondering what I would have done if he had tried to take me with an audience. I knew I wouldn’t have minded as much as I thought I would.

A secret grin crossed my face as he spooned in behind me. Who knew I had a little exhibitionist inside me? Learn something new every day.

Chapter Fourteen

An alarm from my phone echoed in the room. I had it set to a foghorn. The ominous sound was fitting for why we were waking up at eleven at night.

Resting during the day and waking up at night. I already felt a bit more vampiric. Vampires didn’t fry under the sunlight, contrary to popular belief, but they did tend to be night owls by nature. From what I understand, it’s a performance issue. Having the cooler temperatures increases their strength, stamina and all the flashy-dazzling-eye things they could do. Kind of the opposite of solar-powered.

I realized that we would be chatting up my new Family while they were at the top of their game. I still wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

Jake and I got up and dressed. I was brushing my teeth in the bathroom as he dismantled the cuffs and ankle restraints.

“Are we taking those with us?”

“What do you think we are going to restrain you with?” He dangled the cuff from the strap and waggled it in front of his face before he continued packing. He didn’t act like anything about using a sex toy during my turning with his Family was weird.

“We can’t use those.” That came out more freaked out and much less authoritative than I had planned.

“Of course we can use them. They worked perfectly. I know you were trying to break free, and you were completely under my control.” His eyebrows bumped up and down.

“We had sex with those. I can’t use them around your Family.”

“You have also sucked my dick. We used your mouth during sex. Are you taking a vow of silence?”

I flipped him the bird. He just smiled again. I watched as his teeth lengthened and the front of his pants strained to contain what was growing beneath the zipper. So snarky banter worked as foreplay with hybrids? Hell, I might just fit in.

My body began responding as his was. I knew he didn’t have any underwear on beneath those pants. I had ripped the boxer briefs to shreds before he tied me to the damn bed.

“We don’t have time, do we?”

“Sorry, Amber. We have to go.”

“I really have to wear the bondage toys while your Family snacks on me?”

He just grabbed my hand and pulled me along.

The drive wasn’t a long one. Turns out our living quarters weren’t too terribly far apart in distance. In class level, though, we lived on different planets.

I lived with my dad, his beta and a few other key members of the Pack in a small apartment building. We had the whole freestanding unit to ourselves that allowed for six two-bedroom apartments. Not bad, but as I swallowed against my dry throat, I realized we didn’t know what we were missing. Daddy and I got bitten by the wrong supernatural being if all vamps lived like my new mate did.

“You look impressed.” What Jake meant was that I couldn’t close my mouth and the stupid was taking over my body.

“You do not live here.” I was not going to be comfortable in a place that probably had maids just to vacuum the curtains.

“Yes,
we
do.” His hand tucked under my jaw, and he helped me close my mouth.

“There is no way you clean the baseboards in that place without an entire crew.”

He just laughed. I was surprised at how lighthearted he could be. He held my hand as a butler—an honest to goodness butler—opened the front door. I watched the man in the doorway sniff the air. His eyes bulged from his head. I guess he wasn’t a human butler.

“Protector! Why are you holding hands with…with…”

“Peter, I’d like to introduce you to my mate, Amber. She is the reason the meeting was called, and we will talk to all of you in the conservatory.”

“The Matheo has no notice of this. You curse us all.” Then Peter turned and walked away.

“I thought you said this was going to go smoothly. I don’t know about you, but that does not look like how things start when they are going to go smoothly to me.”

He put our bags by the door. That was my next clue. You have the butler take your bags or put them by the stairway, if you are confident. You don’t leave them at your easiest escape. My third clue came about thirty seconds later when a chandelier-shaking bellow came from my left.

Jake resembled his father. Both had silvery-gray eyes. Both had strikingly sharp features and prominent noses. Both had serious power, too.

I could always sense the strength and power of other supernatural beings, no matter how hard I tried to ignore it and pretend I was normal. Even when Jake was across the football field, giving the world a reason to redefine water sports, he’d pulled me in. I felt smacked in the chest by the wave of strength in this room. The majority of it was emanating from Jake and Mr. Meyers. They were two hot coals among dim embers.
Wow.

“How could you bring the reason for your mother’s death among us? You bring her to our home—and you bring her as your mate?”

Jake stepped in front of me and placed my hand on his lower back before releasing me. I kept my hand there. He wanted assurance I was okay, while protecting me if need be. His body was tight, and his back twitched under my fingers. I could feel that his wolf was as agitated as mine—we were both ready for action. Our beasts were ready to take over when what looked to be inevitable began.

“Father, Matheo, you told me you wished for me to find love as you did.
No matter where love comes from, it should be cherished
. Your words, Father. Yours. My wolf found his mate. And I agree.”

The Matheo’s power ebbed. “You’ve shifted?”

“Yes. And Amber was the only reason I did not do so on campus among dozens of humans. She has helped me control a part of me I never knew existed, and awoken a part of me I thought lay dormant.”

I felt a little rush of
aww
at his speech. That was quickly wiped away when Vampire Barbie made it to the party.

“And they had dirty monkey-sex all over the place.”

“Shelly!” Jake shouted her name as a growl rumbled up through my chest.

I stepped back as the Matheo’s power pushed against me. He was trying to dazzle me.
Great
. Another way I could piss him off.

“You will not growl at my daughter like a beast ever again. You will leave here. You will walk back through that door and never return. You will not bring your threat upon this home.”

Should I play dumb or should I pretend to be dazzled?
All the wondering was for nothing. Shelly was helping again.

“She can’t be dazzled. Some freaky wolf defect. I think it’s worth looking into. Maybe we can dissect her if you are bent on her destruction.”

At least that slowed down his rage for a second. “You are immune?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Were you before you mated with my son?” He made it sound like we were chewing on fetuses.

“Yes, sir. All my life. Well, all my wolfy life. Never met a vampire before my change.”

“And yet now you and my son come here to ask for help to become one.”

I nodded. He pulled his emotions into check. I wasn’t sure if he was trying to be decent to me or if he could tell that Jake was on the edge of his control.

I could—Jake’s skin was rippling beneath my fingers. I dug my nails into his back, because I knew the pain should help him gain control. A lot of the wolf crowd was into BDSM, and that was the main reason why. Pain was one of the best weapons we had to help with control.

“Father, I think it important that we conduct a Family meeting.”

“She stays here. I will hear a Family meeting, and there will be a vote, but she stays here.”

“I won’t leave her.”

“
She’s
not
a part of my Family! She destroyed my Family!”

“Amber is my mate. She is part of
my
Family. And if I am to remain part of yours, she is to remain mine.”

Lasers of hate shot out of the Matheo’s stare. Every bit was aimed my way. He turned from everyone else and walked away. A grand archway decorated with dark wood trim swallowed his form, and I found myself allowing the breath to come that I had been holding.

Jake stayed in front of me, and I left my hand on his back. He was still tense, but his wolf was under control. We stood there, unmoving, until the last of his rather large Family followed his father out of the room. Only then did he turn his attention toward me. He grabbed the hand I kept on him and kissed the inside of my palm. That and a squeeze was all I got before jumping into the deep end.