Read Awakened (A Fairy Tales Novel) Online
Authors: Melanie Walker
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Ezek sent Briar and Fangs back to Ontario and placed them safely in the hotel room. The
Hellgates
are used only in emergencies and Ezek had to be with them as they traveled the three hour trip back to Ontario, and like the night before they made it in the nick of time. Ezek made sure they were settled and created a
hellgate
portal in the room so he could get back to Seattle.
"Why didn’t we use one of those things in the first place?" Fangs asked after her father left. Not a whole lot was beyond his mind of possibilities but he felt a little jealous knowing that demons could travel similarly to the ways Vamps flash. Not a big deal but being able to shift from place to place wasn’t as cool now that the demons could kind of do the same. At least a Vampires way of shifting was faster.
"Only the Arch and Leaders can, the rest of us do it the old fashioned way." Briar said as she pulled the sheets back from the bed and crawled in. "Fangs..." She asked in a small voice as if what was on her mind took a lot of courage and strength to say. It gutted him to hear that tone in her voice.
He looked at her in response. "Yeah." He was making a nice little bed on the reclining chair next to a small table and lamp at the end of the bed.
"I know... I know that... I know it would be extremely inappropriate for me to ask but..." She said nothing more and the nasty bastard inside of him wanted to hear something along the line of
fuck me
and he almost cursed out loud for the thought.
"What is it Bri." His voice was deep and husky and had an inner cringe at the sound.
She was still silent and he stood from the chair and sat beside her on the bed. "There is nothing you can’t say to me Bri, I don’t have any secrets with you remember?" He meant to reassure her but in hindsight he knew why she flinched.
"I didn’t mean that the way it sounded. I understand your secrets now all too well. I just meant you know my thoughts and feelings courtesy of my Vampire cocktail so there is nothing you should fear from me." He squatted at the side of the bed and cupped her cheek in his palm, his thumb gently stroking over the scars she despised. He wished he could heal them for her, but he knew that the scars she wore on her skin, were nothing more than a physical vision of what scarred her on the inside.
"I’m scared to sleep but I’m exhausted and I know he can’t take me if you are holding on to me, physical touch would ground me safely in my sleep." She took a deep breath after the run on request that damn near landed him on his ass. He wanted to hold her, fuck yes he did but he took the man’s way out and not the pirates way.
" Briar he can’t touch you, not while my blood is in your veins. If he even senses that I have fed you which I doubt he can, he wouldn’t dare fuck with me or my seethe. No demon would."
The look of absolute give-me-a-break he had on his face was sexy as hell. He was the Big Bad that all creatures were scared of and he was at the bed beside her. "How do you know?"
She wanted to believe him he could see it in her big eyes but she wasn’t about to go for it just yet.
He lay back on the bed, above the covers and did the only natural thing he could and pulled her into his arms using his mind to shut off the lights as the room plunged into darkness courtesy of the retractable panels over the windows. He felt her relax against his chest and allowed himself this one small moment where the world was outside and she was in his arms, safe because he was there to protect her. "I know because I claimed you tonight."
He felt her tense in his arms and slammed his eyes shut and hoped she would stay there, just a little longer. "We needed you to heal and I knew that by giving you my blood by all Vampire rights you would become mine just like the rest of my seethe. Blood of my blood sort of thing but not as cult as it sounds. By drinking from me you have my protection, my seethes and my allies. Fil can’t come close to the power inside of me regardless the power backing me up. Your father knows it and so does every damn demon out there. No offense Princess but in strength and numbers Vampires are the superior being. Hell my blood is strong enough that he shouldn’t even be able to remember what you look like let alone track you, but stranger things have happened and we take no chances right?" He asked and kissed the top of her head in reassurance before leaning forward to make sure she agreed.
"And when this is over and you leave again, what then? Will I still be yours?"
Always
.
"Because I claimed you without your consent you can reject me at any time, though I would wait till this is over." God even saying those words killed him. He wanted her to accept him even though it was the absolute worst thing they could do.
"How long will it last?" She rested her head back against his chest and had he been a breather he'd have sighed right then, but he just stroked his hand up and down her side.
"A few days but I would like to keep feeding you while we work together. You can drink without permission and reject it when we have the knife." God he was weak because those words made him want to cry. Box of Kleenex and sad songs type of tears. Christ he was so going to grow some balls, he so was.
"Ok." She said on a yawn and it wasn’t very long until he thought she was asleep. Shifting to get from underneath her and into the shower where he could wash her scent from his body and relieve the erection that had been a throbbing nuisance since he fed her.
As he shifted from the bed she jackknifed up and caught his wrist. "Wait... please Kuyper." And those three words sealed his fucking fate. Never in all the time had he known her had she called him by his birth name. It was lame and he knew it but the sound of it on her lips was a kick in the gut. "Please I know he can’t get me but I feel safe with you here."
He didn’t hesitate or think about telling her no. She asked and he caved and kicked off his shoes. He was about to climb back on top of the covers when she flipped the blankets and sheet back and scooted to the side making room for him. The smell of night blooming roses was a wave of pleasure in his nose and he gritted his teeth and climbed in beside her. Keeping his eyes from focusing on the simple tank top and boy shorts panties she was we Bring, he slid in close as she tossed the covers over him and laid back down on her side and curled into the pillow.
They were both silent, neither one moving as they lay in the dark side by side. Bri readjusted her pillow a few times then pulled the blankets higher and sighed peacefully. Then again with the same routine to sigh again, this time only not as softly by the third round Fangs scooted closer and caught her arm on the stuff and fluff workout she was giving the pillow and pulled her across his chest.
In a moment so thick with sexual tension that you would need a surgeon to sever the tie, their eyes locked and for half a second he thought fuck it, he was going to kiss her. But she nuzzled her head against his chest and wrapped her arm around his waist.
“Fangs…” she asked moments later when he thought she was asleep.
“Yeah.” He whispered, desperate to know if she wanted…what he wanted.
“Why didn’t you ever try… or ask to feed off me?” She wasn’t looking at him and he was glad. She would have seen his desire had she looked at him, seen that he always wanted to.
“It wasn’t without discipline.”
“Did you ever want to?” She asked and lifted her gaze to his. He slammed his eyes shut and tried to seem relaxed even though he was as electrified as a livewire.
He was silent, not sure how to answer a question like that. Did he want to? Every damned night. Why he didn’t? She had been a human in his eyes and one taste would never have been enough…too much could have killed her. Finally he settled on what he knew, always knew deep down inside. “You knew what I was and never asked. I never feed without consent.”
“Did you want to?” She asked again, her voice hitching. He could feel her heartbeat against his ribs, could hear it like an echo in the room.
“Yes Bri I wanted to.” There was no point in lying to her, with his blood in her system she would have known.
Bri did what he didn’t think she would have done in a million years. She rolled her weight until her thighs straddled him and she sat upon his groin shifting slightly. His body reacted on its own and his hips shifted up to meet her body as he groaned. There was no hiding the hard on that she was sitting upon. This was his blood in her system and nothing more. He didn’t know if he believed it or not but he was definitely going with it.
“You want it still right?” She asked rocking against him forcing another ragged groan from his lips.
“To the point of distraction.” He propped himself on his elbows and looked at her, cupping her neck in his hand pulling her toward him until their foreheads rested against one another. “You don’t want this though Bri.”
He watched her wrestle with what he said. “Don’t I?” She asked huskily and rocked harder against him, her fingers sliding down his chest slowly dancing towards the waist of his jeans.
Like a snake in the grass he snapped and rolled them both, trapping Bri beneath him clasping her wrists in his hands and pulling them over her head. He thrust his hips against the aching moist center of her, her scent a roar to his senses. With his free hand he lifted the tight cotton of her tank top up and over her head, releasing her hands only long enough to free her of the top.
He looked at her body like a dying man looks for forgiveness. He worshiped her with his eyes, desperate to feel every inch of her royal skin, skin he knew was softer than satin. He burned for Bri, ached in every sense of the word for the chance to touch her. Touching her now he could see the eager want in her eyes.
“Touch me Fangs.” She wasn’t struggling in his hold, she was desperate for him to touch her, to drive into her with all the aggression he had rushing madly through his veins. “This can be casual, we can be casual.”
He had the single minded intent to possess her. He dropped his mouth to her skin, peppering kisses along her side, his lips brushing frantically along the barely there bruises he had seen on her skin only hours before.
When she let out a staggering moan Fangs thrust against her again, dropping his hand to his jeans and working the fastened jeans apart with the speed of all his Sire years. With his teeth he drew on the hardened nipple before him, slipping his cock free she gasped as the heat of his rigid flesh touched her thigh, the wetness at the tip coating her flesh.
Fangs slid her panties to the side and slipped his knuckle through her secret flesh. Feeling her wet, knowing it wasn’t what he was doing to her body but what he was doing to her, he paused and struggled because the monster inside told him to take and the man told him to worship.