Bite, My Love (13 page)

Enraptured, his expression borders frightening.

I did
that.

Made the
predator look like prey.

Daniel’s
cool breath on my neck does horrible things to me. Goose bumps
prickle my skin, and I wriggle, a deprived sob choking me. He
inhales. Drinking the scent of my arousal then exhales so hard his
body shakes, rubbing us together in such a way I moan.

‘
Calm, sweetling. I’m here.’

His nose
nudges aside my head, bearing my throat. Cool lips brush my skin,
feather light. This creature’s touch is delicate, for me, his
Bride. I sigh my satisfaction. Fangs. Sharp, deadly, rest on the
flimsy flesh at my throat, the steady pressure
tantalizing.

Blood
thunders in my veins.

Can he
hear it rushing?

The razor
sharp points slide into my skin. A harsh burning makes me wince. It
cools. My tense muscles relax, and I’m boneless with delicious
languor, a drugging sensation that’s warmth, safety, and affection.
He draws from me. Gathering a precious mouthful that brings us
closer. A long, wet swallow of the hot liquid pooling on his tongue
has my toes curling.

Daniel
groans. The profound sound of his delight rumbles through his body
and mine, causing the lovers beneath us to writhe and
moan.

My blood
spurts. It crawls warm down my neck and drips onto Ben’s shoulder.
Bright splashes on brilliant ivory.

Lee
croons, and her power fluxes, a hot flourish ebbing and flowing
like waves of a high tide. She laps at the blood drops on Ben’s
shoulder. Her lips peel back to reveal dainty fangs and feline eyes
flash, her lust growing desperate.

Ben
hisses, face savage in its magnificence. His body grinds with
maddening urgency.

Lee’s
legs lock around his hips, hands flailing above her head. Grasping.
Ben thrusts into her. Deliberate. Hard. Each lunge of his body has
hers quaking.

I hear a belt buckle. The
whooshing
sound of friction as
fabric slides against skin.

Daniel
crowds closer behind me. He no longer drinks, just holds me steady
with his mouth at my throat. Forearms flexing either side of me,
his hands grab the back of the sofa, caging me in.

My
fingers claw at the leather beside his. The rhythmic clenching
between my thighs deepens.

His body
glides into mine. He sinks. Descending deeper into the wet, closer
to the burning heat. Stilling, Daniel sucks in a breath.

My mouth
wrenches open in silent scream. I savour the feeling of unity. Just
perfection. Divinity. I want to hold him inside me and know nothing
else. Ever.

Groaning,
he moves.

Slowly.

The drag
of his flesh withdrawing from mine is exquisite.

He shoves
back in.

Heat
gushes over me. Waves of pleasure swell and crash inside me with
each thrust of his hips. I cling to sanity, grasping for something
as bliss tears me into pieces.

I’m
parched.

Starving.

I need
more of him inside me.

‘
More?’
Daniel sounds amused. He
leers at me in my mind. Smug I’m eager to destroy myself pursuing
more of what his body’s feeding mine.

‘
I want everything. Give me all of you.’

Daniel
pulls me higher, forcing me onto my toes. He wraps an arm around my
stomach to secure my waist. His skin is blissfully cool against
mine. He yanks me closer and slams forward.

Startled
little grunts of pleasure escape me as he thrusts deep and fast,
impaling me until I’m a bundle of nerves jumping and snapping
erratically. He finds a rhythm and pumps hard.

I grab
his wrist and stare at his veins. Why do I feel the need to bite
him? My teeth already mark his shoulder.

Helpless
to resist, I lick his wrist.

His
rhythm stalls.

Realising
what I mean to do, his thoughts push into my mind frantic,
frustrated, and excited beyond reason.

Gasping,
he presses his wrist to my lips.

I use the
last of my strength to keep us balanced. My arm’s the only thing
stopping us catapulting over the sofa and landing on Ben and Lee,
who are making delicious noises and radiating sexual
frenzy.

The urge
to taste him builds.

I bite
down hard. Metallic stickiness. Intoxicating. I wish to be full of
it, of Daniel. His essence floods my taste buds and nourishes my
soul. Pleasure builds. Devours even as it feeds sensations so
potent it might split me in two.

Daniel
growls and snarls behind me. Inarticulate sounds bubble from my
throat.

The ache
spreads.

I’m stretched to bursting yet I want
more.

Daniel
moves faster, hips rocking, thighs slamming into mine. The arm
wrapped around my middle squeezes. His fangs tear my skin, and
blood flows. He swallows. Holds me tighter. I blanch, no longer
sure I’ll survive what’s gathering beneath the surface of my skin,
bubbling so violently in my blood.

Our
hearts race to the pinnacle.

I crest
first.

Climax.

Lee’s
shriek of ecstasy, and Ben’s holler of possession are savage and
deafening.

Conscious thought is blasted out the side of my skull. Mine
comes pounding drums. It rolls over me like a strong wind through
an open field. Thunder and light submerge my senses. I scream. My
body clamping so hard on his I do myself damage. Relief surges.
Rattling bone, pounding muscle, and scorching skin. I quake.
I
vibrate
as if
I’m going to phase out of existence.

My
annihilation is complete when Daniel brushes his fingers over the
sensitive nub between my legs.

Demands, ‘
Again.’

The
explosion is flawless in its obliteration, sling -shoting me into
the universe to explore stars. I’m soaring somewhere bright and
wild. No. I am plummeting, tumbling wildly, about to shatter in the
blackness of oblivion.

Daniel
erupts inside me with a primal roar.

Out of
control, I let go, and the power of my wolf spirit explodes. Daniel
snatches her by throat, sucking her energy into his soul so it’s
part of him forever.

He
collapses onto my back. We float in the balmy aftermath of our
lovemaking. The sofa digs into my stomach, and his chest heaves as
he gulps air to speak.

I tense
when maudlin thoughts brush my mind. Fear crushes my chest then
abruptly the burden is gone, vanishing into whatever void it
emerged from.

Breathless, I manage an apprehensive
, ‘Daniel?’

His
answering chuckle is light-hearted.

That
suffocating fear wasn’t his? He’s not hiding something from me. Is
he? I must be imagining things. He ran, but came back, and we’re
together. He’s mine now.

Ears buzzing, I tremble. My body’s wrung out and ruined. Just
bloody
ruined.
Maybe I took more of a battering during that sharing of minds
than I realised. Next time, I’ll avoid connecting mind to mind with
more than one person. What a trip. Telepathy isn’t a Lycanthrope
trait, so it must be coming from the Vampire power infused in
Daniel’s blood.

I expect
to be able to connect with him because he’s my mate, but Vampires
too?

What
other cool things will I inherit because of being a Vampire Bride?
Dare I hope my life will be tied to Daniel’s so I can live as long
as him?

Spending
forever with him would mean everything to me.

“
Blimey,” Lee whispers.

Ben
kisses her stomach. She runs a hand through his dark locks,
watching him sleepily, always loving.

Lifting
my head weakly, damp tendrils of hair obscuring my vision, I
shakily offer my hand. She claps it, equally frail in the aftermath
of her lustful raging.

We hold
onto each other as our mates rain comforting kisses on our flesh,
soothing us, rewarding us for withstanding their passion so
diligently.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Daniel
scoops me to his chest and presses a kiss on my temple. I’m sweaty,
weak-kneed, and sighing sweetly.

Legs
unsteady he walks us to the armchair and sits. Rather his legs give
out and his cute butt hits the padded seat with a thump.

He keeps
me with him as he settles back. Eyes closing, his head lolls. By
feel alone he pulls my jeans up.

I wriggle
around on his lap to get comfortable.

Ben and
Lee look reluctant to stop touching each other. Ben tugs his shirt
over Lee’s head and wrestles on his trousers, leaving the fly
undone. He falls against her. His cheek rests on her lower stomach,
and a contented smile spreads across his face.

I nuzzle
Daniel’s throat. Kiss his dimpled chin. Does he think I’ve
forgotten our previous discussion? “Don’t,” kiss, “ever,” nip,
“do,” lick, “that again.”

I make a
loud kissing noise on the tender skin under his ear.

The
muscles in his face pull into that mocking smile. “Continue to
punish me then I’ll have no choice but to rebel.”

I flutter
my eyelashes and slide my pinkie over my mating mark scarring his
neck and shoulder. “Oh?”

He
shivers. “Cruel mistress.”

Ben’s
chest vibrates with repressed laughter.

Lee
scowls. “It’s not funny. Harmony’s right to be, um, mad?” She can’t
feign confidence in my discipline since I’m sucking on Daniel’s
earlobe. “He could’ve been seriously hurt or worse.” She shares my
cross look. “Neither of us has forgotten what we were talking about
before.”

Ben
grumbles, eyebrows plunging steeply. “Before I’m unfairly punished
tell me what the man has done to warrant such harsh,” his eyes roll
on the word, “treatment from his Bride, and caused such hostility
from my lady love. Hmm?”

Mollified, Lee drops her head onto the armrest and hands over
to me with a regal wave of the hand.

“
He crossed the boundary line to go see my Alpha.” The horror
of it has me remembering how cross I am. “We’re lucky he’s back
with four limbs and both eyes.”

“
Have you discovered why he did such a thing?” Ben is
thoughtful. “I admit the chances of a positive outcome from
Daniel’s actions are slim, but I’ve recently been told I should
give people – including those proven untrustworthy – the benefit of
the doubt.”

“
How magnanimous and brave,” Daniel quips.

“
I think of it as practical,” Ben replies. “Keeping friends
close and enemies closer.”

“
And your lover even closer than that,” Lee
murmurs.

Ben nips
at her stomach and his eyes twinkle.

“
I want you safe.” Daniel fiddles with a lock of my hair.
Running the length through his fingers, his thumb rubs
absentmindedly. “Can you understand that?”

I pull my
attention from the mischievous couple to my mate’s serious
demeanour. “Of course. I’d do anything for you, so I understand
perfectly.” I tilt my head to appreciate at his strong jaw line in
the dim firelight. “Sweet as it is to know you care, what does that
have to do with why you went to see Daddy? I’m perfectly safe here.
Going back is dangerous.”

Daniel
studies me. “You perceive your home as more dangerous than a Castle
filled with my kind?”

“
Daddy wants me to mate his Beta and solidify Pack security.”
I worry my lip. How much should I confess? I’ve been harassing him
about accepting our mating so brazenly, telling him I want freedom
from the Pack and that our relationship can give me said freedom
now seems wrong. Self-centred. “Sy is the Beta, and I’m sure
whatever you had to say would have fallen on deaf ears. I’m
struggling to understand how you’re still here in one
piece.”

“
It would take half your pack to render my speed and strength
ineffectual. I went to talk not fight. Your Alpha knew
this.”

“
And?”

“
And nothing. You are safe because your Alpha believes I’ve
developed an obsession with you. Don’t pout at me. He was eager to
dismiss a bond can exist between our species.”

“
Why won’t you tell me what happened?”

Daniel
purses his lips. Flashes a wicked smile. “Nagging is unattractive
you know.”

“
Nagging.
Listen closely you
bloodsucking-”

“
Sorry to interrupt what I’m sure would’ve become a
fascinatingly pointless argument, but what are our dinner plans?”
I
hear
Lee’s
stomach grumble. “I’m thirsty.”

“
Shall I call Afzal? He stayed in town and planned to go
hunting. What would you like? He’ll happily enthral you someone to
drink.” Ben strokes her cheek. “I have no idea how pregnancy will
affect your feeding habits.” He stills. Panic scuttles across his
face. “Are you in pain?”