Vampire Mate: BBW Paranormal Romance (20 page)

“
Charlotte...”
Lucas began in a warning tone.

“
They can drink blood,
but I'm sure there'll be something on the menu for us as well,”
Charlotte chattered on excitedly, skipping into Lucas's arms.
“Please, Lucas! Please!”

“
Fine,” Lucas
grumbled at last. “Now can we get home? I want...”

“
I know what you want,”
Charlotte whispered and Lucas growled lower.

Glenn walked them to the door,
and Charlene gave her sister another smothering hug before they left
the penthouse.

“
A blood bar, eh?”
She leaned against the door and arched a brow at Glenn.

He pulled her into his arms
and whispered, “You don't ever need to go to a blood bar to
feed. You will take my blood, every night.”

“
Take your blood?”
She bit her lower lip with a fang. “Aren't vamps only allowed
to drink from another when they are...”

“
Exactly,” Glenn
said with a wicked gleam in his eye. “You will take my blood,
and more...every night. You are my mate, Charlene.”

“
Every night?”

“
Every. Night.”

She gasped at that dark
promise of decadent, sinful pleasure. Glenn read the desire in her
eyes, in her softly quivering body and grabbed her, misting her
instantly to their bed.

Charlene blinked up at her
mate, seeing the moonlight dance on his dark hair and accentuating
his handsome features. Glenn was gorgeous, and he was great. And
not just in bed. He was that, and so much more. He was a great man,
a great Master vampire, a great mate. She saw how much his vampires
and Council members respected him. They had been willing to fight to
the death for him. They had fought, not out of fear, but out of
love.

She gazed deeply into his eyes
and whispered, “I am so proud to be your mate, Glenn. So
proud, and so happy. I love you.”

Glenn pressed his lips to her
forehead, breathing her in, marveling that she was here, in his arms,
in his bed, in his life. “I love you, Charlene. I...”
His voice cracked and dropped to a whisper. “I wouldn't know
what to do if...”
If I lost you.

She touched a finger to his
lips. “You will never lose me. And...you know.” She
kissed him softly. “You've always known what to do. You've
always done right. You have so much power, and you can do so much.
In fact, you
have
done so much. But...” She trailed
off.

“
Yes?”

“
I know there's lots
more you can do, and I want you to show them to me...slowly.”
She trailed her finger down his chest, and lower.

Glenn caught her hand
suddenly, his eyes turning black and dangerous. “With
pleasure, my love.”

Charlene could feel her senses
heightening, her vision sharpening with her first spike of arousal,
and she knew that her own eyes had become the same deep black as
Glenn's.

“
There are lots of
things I want to do with you, to you,” she hissed through her
lengthening fangs.

“
We have time.”
Glenn smiled. “Lots of time.”

As Glenn dipped his head,
lowing his mouth to her neck, Charlene turned her head, exposing her
neck to him. She cried out in intense pleasure as her mate took her
blood and her body.

With her powerful mate in her
arms, Charlene sighed as she gazed out the window and took in the
cityscape that was bathed in silvery moonlight.

Time was a funny thing.

She had gone through so much.
Yet, it felt like her life was only just beginning.

Had it been so long ago that
she was a demon? It was like a fading memory, a distant nightmare.

She had been a vampire for
just a few hours, and already it felt right. Like she had been a
vampire forever. Being with her mate, sharing a bond and a love that
was deeper and more powerful than blood.

It wasn't just a romantic
ideal. He was indeed the one, the one meant for her. And she was
his and his alone. They belonged together, to each other.

Wrapping herself around her
mate, Charlene signed in gratitude and bliss.

Every night sounded good to
her.

~ End ~

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