Into Death's Arms (38 page)

       He smiled a wi
cked grin at me, “Was I teasing,
” he thrust forward. I gasped and tensed. It hurt
,
but not
like,
I was
expecting. It was more like being pinched. Yeah, pinched hard
,
in a place you don’t want to be pinched. He paused. He closed his eyes. The bright amber light increased around him for a moment. Just as
suddenly,
as it had come the pain was gone.
“Better,
” he asked. Damn if the
Vamp
hadn’t just healed me mid-coitus. Yeah, I wasn’t letting him go
,
ever. I wrapped my long legs around his body.

     “Oh, yeah
,”
I whispered. He
groaned and thrust again, filling me completely. God, I loved this
Vamp
ire
.
He sought my mouth again. I moaned into his mouth and twisted my pelvis trying to meet his thrusts. His tongue filled me, his sex filled me, I was utterly filled by Dayton.

 
This was perfect.

  
He was perfect.

  
Once
again,
his thoughts penetrated me I could feel his satisfaction flowing over me. I felt it blend with my own. We became one breathing, moving, feeling entity and I have to say this entity was ecstatic. Then for one blinding moment even our powers combined, the room sizzled like electricity, making our flesh more sensitive. His head reared back throwing that delightful hair across my skin. I came screaming beneath him, my body so overwhelmed by the sensation that I saw stars honest to God shiny stars. He roared. Thrusting once more and stilling above me as he too found paradise.

     The silent room was punctuated only with our sharp breaths. He looked down at me
again;
such wonder filled his eyes, my heart almost stopped within my chest. Dayton Tameron was something along the lines
of five centuries old but looking
down at me like this was his very first experience with anything good.
I could feel it pulsing around me through my mind.
I put my
hand to his cheek. “I love you,
” I said softly. He buried his head in my hair, crushing my smaller body against him.

         “Good I
couldn’t bear it if you didn’t,
” he said roughly against my neck.

    Dayton and I lay tangled together. My legs wrapped around his but most of our bodies lay side by side. We had been talking softly about nothing for quite some time. He sat up and leaned on one elbow looking down at me. His hair spread across the pillows and tickled my arm. “Why did you wait?”  Okay guess it was time for serious conversation.

     I pretended not to understand him. “Your secretar
y didn’t want me to disturb you,
” I shrugged.

     His lips pursed together. “That is not what I meant and you
know it.” He growled. “Tell me, trust me,
” He sighed as his hand skimmed across my flat belly. No fair cheating, I couldn’t think with him doing that let alone come up with a viable lie. I bit the bullet.

      “No one ever wanted me.” I turned to my side facing away from him.
He wouldn’t even want me if not for some mystical connection that made him need me.

     He gripped my hip hard and turned me back toward him. “I don’t believe that. You are beautiful.” It was hard to doubt him with his voice filled with conviction like that but maybe the Ao power that made us soul mates made him see me differently than other people.

     I shrugged again. “One boy tried to kiss me once. I broke his nose. After that no one tried again.”

      A slow smile spread
across his lips. “You know it’
s a good thing you had no lovers before me, it would
be difficult to explain all those bodies to the police,
” He growled.

      I laughed. How could I not?
He made me feel so damn special in a psycho killer kind of way but after
all,
he is a
Vamp
ire
.  Speaking of killers, “Did they ever figure out wh
o killed that girl at Deception,
” I asked.

     He blinked a couple of times probably due to my swift change of subject. “No but they found some kind of metal residue in the wounds so certainly not a
Vamp
unless he had some serious dental work.” He leaned down and kissed my hip. I rolled closer
to him. “You taste like heaven,
” He slid his tongue along the place he’d just kissed. 

  
“I’m going to take you again.” He growled as
his body hardened against me
.

      My eyes lit up. I wasn’t thinking
about killers anymore. “You are,
”
I asked. I scrunched up my nose. “I don’t think so.” I shook my head at him.

     He paused and looked up at me in confusion. I crawled forward. “I think it’s my turn to do the taking.” I growled lowly at him. I watched him
,
my eyes intent on where I was going to put my mouth. I licked my lips a slow glide across my pink mouth. He watched me
,
the predator made prey.
I crawled to his hips and lowered my mouth so he could feel my hot breath on his
body. “Yes, definitely my turn,” I whispered allowing my hot breath to caress him.

   
He moaned. I licked his broad head. His eyes widened and he fell back on the bed. He reached for me. I pulled away. “Hands down,” I demanded. He took a deep breath and fisted the sheets on either side of him. I flicked my tongue across him.

       He gnashed his teeth. “Wh
o was complaining about teasing,
” he asked roughly.

     
I made an
innocent
face at him. “I have no idea what
you’re
talking about.” I
lapped his entire length. His fangs lengthened. “Is that normal? Do your fangs always do that when you’re aroused?” I asked making little designs on his shaft with my tongue. He
nodded;
he seemed to be having trouble with speech.
Like I had,
I liked that. “Do you want me to take you into my mouth?” I allowed my lips to brush against him. Again, with the nodding, I laughed and took him into my mouth slowly. That way I could savor the feel of his smooth hard skin as he slid along my tongue. I closed my mouth tightly around him and sucked hard. His torso lifted off the bed. He rent the sheets to ribbons with his claws.
Control much?
I asked mentally as my mouth was deliciously full. He punished me for my insolence. Even though in this position it was anatomically impossible, I felt his hot mouth on my sex. I felt his tongue flick my clit hard.

  
I had to reevaluate my stance on
Vamp
ire
mind control it wasn’t always such a bad thing. I moaned around his thick length. I jerked back and sucked in his length again.
Stop that I’m taking you remember?
I hissed as I worked his body slowly increasing in
rhythm,
as I grew accustomed to his size in my throat. He moaned. His hands reached for me again. This time I let him. He laid a hand on either side of my head forcing me to look up at his face. He lifted his head showing me those beautiful amber eyes. The moment our eyes touched, he came violently. The room lit up with light, white Ao light filled the room, touching and warming everything in its path. He fell back against the pillows pulling me up the length of his body.

     “I know you feel it is your duty to kill me Macyn but good God what a way to go.” He whispered in my ear. I laughed, I felt powerful
. I
t wasn’t the kind of power one associates with being an Ao it was the power of being a woman. I liked this new feeling.
I fell asleep reveling in my power over this gorgeous and terrifying
Vamp
ire
.

      I woke screaming and not in a good way. Dayton’s hands shot out to steady me. “Laurna…” I whimpered.

    Dayton’s expression froze for a moment then hardened. “Donovan says she is dying we must go immediately.” He threw back the comforter and was out of the bed before I’d finished registering what he’d said. He threw a shirt at me as he pulled up his pants. I punched my arms through the
armholes
and tried to button the buttons with fingers that just weren’t working. Dayton buttoned his own shirt quickly; his hands were steady while he worked.

    
Then he crossed the room put his arms around me and we were standing in my front yard.  I didn’t have time to be impressed with his means of travel. Laurna lay across Donovan’s lap. Blood flowed from four large claw marks through her stomach
. I felt dizzy. “Get her inside,
” Dayton ordered. Donovan looked up.

   
His
eyes were black all pupil and
empty like his soul had fled or died.
He stood and carried my best friend
’
s limp form toward the house. The house itself was a mess.

   
Shifters
obviously, Laith was gone his blood however still stained the walls. My brother
,
those bastards had taken my brother and they had killed my soul’s sister. I felt my power
growing;
it whipped
through the house like my rage
in my mind. “Put her on the bed,
” Dayton was still talking to Donovan. I followed numbly. Donovan did what he was told like a wooden puppet. “Macyn,” Dayton said. I watched Laurna’s body
sink into the comforter. “Macyn,
” he snapped. I looked up at him. “I think we can heal her.” He said. He thought? Wasn’t he a fucking AoLi? Wait she wasn’t already dead. I nodded, trying to figure out why he wasn’t making with the healing already. “I don’t have the power by myself but together…” he shrugged. “It will leave us both weakened for a time.”

        “So get on with it,
” I growled. He nodded.

         He reached out toward Laurna with one hand. He took my hand with the other. “I trust you to watch over us
,
Donovan.” He said softly. He began to glow. White light spilled from his eyes, his fingertips, and low on his belly where the tree of life sat. Donovan’s eyes widened but to his credit he nodded once pulled a very scar
y
looking knife from his jacket and moved to the doorway. No one was getting past that big bastard.
I watched the power soak into Laurna watched as her breaths became less shallow.

      
Dizziness assaulted me as blood ceased to flow from those claw marks.  I never got to see the wounds close. I passed out before the healing was done.

    
I woke in my own bed to the sound of men screaming at one another
.
“Damn it Caden she’s too w
orn out for this shit right now,
” Dayton yelled.
I could hear him
as he worked
himself into a fury. I heard scuffling in the hallway. They were fighting. I hoped it hadn’t gotten to bladed weapons yet.

     “She’s my fucking daughter
,
Vampire;
you don’t get to tell me what she’s too worn out for
. M
ove out of the way or I’m going to finish this betw
een us once and for fucking all,
” my dad’s voice reverberated through the house.
I heard something big hit the hallway wall.

    
I wondered briefly if hiding under the covers until they went away was an option but I knew that tone. My father was seriously going to kill Dayton if I didn’t get my ass up.
I didn’t want them killing each other. I didn’t even want them fighting each other. I wanted peace
,
how that for an oxymoron the AoD who want
s peace?

   
I slid from the bed and took a moment as the world kind of slid off kilter for a moment. I got my balance
back
and drew a deep breath. “Would you two kindly stop fucking screaming while my head feels like I’ve got very industrious miners goin
g to work on my cerebral cortex,” I screamed my voice was rough and cracked halfway through the sentence
. I was gratified when they shut up.

  
Until
they,
both burst into my room Dayton through a patch of dar
kness and dad through the door. The door actually flew off the hinges and hit the far wall.

     Dayton’s eyes were worried as he rushed toward me.
His mouth was bleeding a little and his shirt was torn.
“You should not be standing yet my love.” He swept me into his arms and tried to put me back into bed. I was being stubborn and wasn’t going to let go of his neck.