Diamond (Rare Gems Series) (7 page)

He was burning up
, and she could feel his heat. Diamond had to shift back to help him, but was afraid to leave him. She reached for Blair. He would help her.

Come to my room quickly.
Thad is sick and I’m worried about him.
Diamond heard him running to her and when the door burst open, he was standing there
. He’s ill. He came in here to piss me off and you let him, knowing he was this sick.

Blair picked him up and put him on her bed.
She didn’t care right now where he was so long as he was put somewhere she could help him. Diamond went to the bathroom and shifted. This time it was much easier on her, and quicker. She pulled on the first things she could find and went back to her room. Blair was taking off his pants, having already pulled off his shoes and socks.

“
He’s burning up.” Blair nodded at her. “I need you to find my bag please, the one that I have down in the kitchen.”

While
he was gone, Diamond tore Thad’s shirt and realized how much weight he’d lost…a great deal more than what was healthy. When Blair returned, she pulled out what she could and dumped the rest on the floor. Setting him up with an IV turned out to be harder than she’d thought it would be because she was shaking so hard. When a hand lay across her hand, she looked up at her grandmother.

“
Take a deep breath and steady yourself. The way you’re going right now, you’re going to harm him more than help him. Breathe, Diamond, he needs you.” Nodding, Diamond closed her eyes and listened to her grandmother’s soothing voice. “That’s it, just in and out like you know how to do.”

As calmness settled over her
, Diamond looked down at his arm. The veins were sunken and his skin dry. He’d been ill for more than a day, she’d bet, and looked at Blair when he came into the room. She asked him what he knew.

“
He said he had food poisoning and that he’d been in the hospital. He didn’t say how long, but I would think for a few days.” Blair handed her a strip of tape before she’d asked for it. “I think he looks worse now than when he was in my office.”

“
I think him pissing me off took its toll on him. I didn’t even realize how sick he was until he pissed me off.” She glanced up at Blair. “You told him to do that knowing how sick he was? What if I had hurt him or, worse yet, killed him?”

“
You’re right. It was a chance I was willing to take to get you better. I was also hoping that as your mate you’d not be able to harm him.” Blair picked up her things as she hung an IV bag from her canopy as he continued. “He gave me a book.”

“
Good for you. Now will you please get out? I have things to take care of in here and you’re too much male for my wolf. She wants to hurt you right now for harming what she thinks of as hers.”

“
And what do you think of him?” Diamond didn’t answer him because she wasn’t sure what she thought. The man had rejected her, and not only that but had shamed her as well. “Diamond?”

“
He’s going to get better. Then I’m sending him on his way. Thad Galloway no more wants me than I do him.”
Lie,
her wolf snarled at her. “Now please see if you can get some supplies from your clinic for me. I’ll need whatever you can put your hands on in the form of antibiotics for a human.”

He nodded and left her sitting on the edge of the bed.
Diamond looked down at Thad and wondered if he’d die. It was just about what she deserved for taking on a human mate. When Thad started to toss and turn, she moved over him, pressing him down with her body, and he stilled.

Every
time she started to move off the bed, he’d moan and start to toss off the covers. Diamond finally gave up and lay down beside him, holding him in her arms throughout the night. And just as the sun was blazing over the room, Thad’s fever broke and she fell asleep, holding him to her.

Chapter 7

Thad woke
feeling heavy and hot. He tried to move away from the source of heat, but every time he was inches away, he’d be pulled back quickly and held tighter. Using what very little strength he had, he looked down at the inferno in his arms.

Diamond was
lying with her head over his chest and both her arms wrapped tightly around him. Even her leg was over his, her weight making it so that he couldn’t move even if he wanted to. She turned her head over so that he could see her face when she spoke.

“
Shhhh, you’ll be fine in a few hours. Just rest, I’ve got you.” When her leg moved up his thigh and over his groin, his cock jerked hard, and that’s when he realized he was naked.

“
Diamond, you have to move off me. I don’t have the energy to take you right now.” She moaned again and then nipped at his nipple. Blair thought he was going to explode when he felt her warm breath over him. “Baby, you’re making me hard as stone and as needy as hell.”

A burst of giggles had him shifted on the bed so
that she was over him rather than beside him. When she sat up slightly, he could see she was still a little asleep and he was not only awake right now but fully aroused and in pain. Dawning of what was going on came to her quickly.

“
You’re awake.” He nodded and rocked upward. “You should be asleep for a few more days. I was going to leave you here after I took a nap.”

“
I don’t want you to leave me just yet.” He pulled her up higher over his body and moved again into her heat. “Did you take off my clothes?”

“
You were sweating and had soaked them through.” She moved over him now so that her legs were on both sides of him and her hands on his chest. “You seem to be much better now. Perhaps I should leave you to rest.”

Grabbing her hips
, he held her over him and rocked up again. There was no way he was going to willingly let her get out of the bed. Running his hands up her back and just under her tee–shirt, he touched warm, almost hot skin. This time he moaned.

“
No.” When she rolled her hips over him, he rolled her to her back with him cradled between her legs. “Do you have any idea what I want to do to you right now? I want to show you so much. But all I can think of is drinking from you, then pounding deep inside of you.”

“
I don’t think you have the energy for that just yet.” All Thad could think about was that she’d not told him no. He lifted slightly from her body and lifted her shirt. He nearly whimpered when he realized that she had no bra on and he could taste her as long as he wanted. Leaning down to her pert nipple, he bit her just enough for a small pain but nothing like he wanted to do.

His body was weak, yes
, but he was gaining strength by leaps and bounds now. When she curled her fingers into his hair, he nipped harder on her nipple and felt her rock up into him. He had to taste her.

The journey down her torso was amazing.
There were so many places to bite her and to lick her that he nearly forgot where he’d been headed. By the time he got to her navel, he was ready to beg her to ride him but her scent, now that he was close enough to smell her, was driving him insane. Sitting up between her legs, he looked down at what she was wearing.

A pair of his boxer briefs
, if he wasn’t mistaken. They were his favorites too. Dark blue silk stuck to her skin where her pussy was because she was so wet. Sliding his hand up the leg of them, he watched her face for any signs she wasn’t ready for him.

“
You’re very wet for me.” Diamond nodded. “I’d love to punish you for not asking permission from me to wear them, but right now all I can think of is that you’re making it very easy for me to get what I want.”

“
What do you want?” He had a feeling she was asking more than what he wanted right now but wanted to play before she was mad again. Because Thad just realized he was very close to wanting it all.

“
I want to do all kinds of things to you. Do you know what I mean when I say I’m a player?” She shook her head and he danced his fingers up near the apex of her thighs and stopped. “I’m a Dom, a dominant over you sexually. I want you to submit to me in all things.”

“
You want to hurt me.” He heard the breathlessness of her voice and was willing to bet she wanted this too. “I don’t like pain.”

“
You will. From me.” Thad slid his fingers into her pussy as he continued to watch her face. “I will reward you greatly if you do what I say. Right now all I can think about is letting you come as much as you want so I can have my fill, but I won’t let you do that very often. I want you to obey me.”

“
You don’t want me. You said…you called me a thing.” Diamond moved her hips in a way that he was no longer deep inside of her but just at her clit. If she moved again, he’d have to start again and he wasn’t ready for that.

He pinched her clit hard.
When she cried out, he did it again and again until she was riding his fingers rather than pulling away. Thad wanted to prove to her that she was his and leaned over her, still holding her clit and bit her nipple.

“
Come for me now, slave.” Her body bowed up, and she grabbed his arms as she screamed out her release. It was violent in its intensity and he loved every minute of it. When he commanded her to come again, she dug her nails deep into his forearms as she rode his fingers like he wanted her to ride his mouth. Moving down her body, he tore his boxers from her and dove into her wet heat.

Christ
, she tasted better than she smelled. Thad slid his fingers into her and was rewarded with copious amounts of cream that he had a hard time keeping up with. He lapped hard at her pussy, drinking as much as he could before he slid another finger deep and scissored them to stretch her for him.

Thad knew he was close.
Reaching down to stroke his cock, he realized that he had no protection for her and had a sudden thought of her large with his child. Never had thoughts of anyone having his baby occurred to him until that moment. Then he remembered what the book had said about her having to be in heat. Thad wanted her to be in heat now so he could fill her with his child. Biting her clit again and sucking hard, she came in his mouth and he realized how much more he wanted.

Sitting up
, he reluctantly left her body. Diamond moaned at him, and he wanted to go back and give her what she wanted. She sat up and looked at him as he stroked his thick, hard cock.

“
Spread your legs wider for me. I want to watch your pretty pussy ready for me.” She opened her legs wider, and he pinched her thigh. “When I tell you to do something, I need you to repeat it back to me and say ‘Yes, master.’” She looked angry, and he was sure he was going to have to tell her again when she finally spoke.

“
I’ll spread wide for you as you wish, master.” He nearly came all over her when she dropped her eyes. Then she looked up at him and he was suddenly afraid. “If you fuck me now it will be as mates. There will be no way you can leave me now or I you. Is that what you want?”

He did. He had an idea that they were well beyond that anyway
, but she wanted him to say it. It would be the last time he would allow her to ask him questions like this so long as they were in the bedroom. Thad remembered the part in the book about mates bonding and tried to remember the wording of it. He smiled when he remembered as he moved his cock at her entrance.

“
You’re my mate in all things. I take unto me all that you are and give you all that I am. I will protect you with my life, honor you in all things, and respect you more than any being could. I take you as my mate.” Thad moved his cock into her slowly with each sentence. By the time he was seated as far as he could go, she had wrapped her legs around him and held him to her.

“
You must bite me when we come. Break skin and…. Oh Christ, yes that feels so good.” He moved again, this time harder and deeper. “When we come, please mark me. Bite me, Thad, please.”

He
’d never been a biter much, but he found he wanted to bite her. Sweat poured down his spine as he held himself still inside of her. He wanted her to look at him, but he wouldn’t tell her. It was her job to ask him what he wanted.

When she raised her eyes to look at him
, he kissed her hard, putting all his pent-up sexual need into it. Diamond gave as well as she got, and he nearly cried out when she bit his lower lip and then suckled it into her warm mouth.

“
Come.” Her body responded to his command like he’d hoped. Better than he hoped if he was honest. When she licked along his throat to his shoulder, he did the same to her, following the same path until he felt her nip at his muscle there. When she whispered through his mind, he started moving in and out of her until she was taking him as deep as he could go.

I
’m so close right now that when you sink your teeth into me and draw on my blood, I’m going to come like I’ve never come before.
He nipped none too gently at her shoulder as she continued.
Bite me and drink from me. I want to feel you come now.

Thad
’s climax exploded over him, making him not just see stars but to feel them detonate over every part of him as he sank his teeth into her flesh. The moment her blood touched his tongue, he tore his mouth from her and threw back his head. This climax made him see pinpoints of light everywhere as his body seemed to explode another release out of him.

Diamond pulled h
im to her and jerked his head back. He felt her tongue again as it moved down his throat to his shoulder. When she bit him, Thad came again, this one so hard and fast that it made his vision blur and his mind scream for him to hang on. His last thoughts as he fell atop her were that he was never going to survive sleeping with her.

~~~

Diamond was sitting in the kitchen having a cup of tea when Sapphire walked in. She didn’t speak to her until she had her own cup and a piece of toast. The two of them had always been very close, but she had a feeling that she was mad at her for some reason.

“
You were willing to leave us all behind instead of doing the right thing.” Diamond nodded but didn’t look at her. “Do you have any idea how worried you made all of us because you were too selfish to let us help you?”

“
I know what I was doing and the fact that you let me do it was more appreciated than I can ever tell you.” Sapphire snorted, and Diamond looked up at her. “I think I killed him.”

Sapphire stared at her for several seconds before she threw back her head and laughed. It sounded so good that
Diamond joined her. When Sapphire reached for her hand, Diamond curled her into hers and held it tightly.

“
Don’t do that again, please. I don’t know what I would do without you.” Diamond nodded and felt Thad stir in her bed and looked up at the ceiling. “You and him have mated and bonded then, I take it?”

“
We have. I’m not sure whether or not we’ll make it, but for now we’re going okay.” Diamond didn’t mention the things he said in his sleep, because she wasn’t sure what they had meant. “He was really sick when he came here. I think he was willing to die in order to make me shift.”

“
Blair said the same thing after he helped you get him into bed. He also said you were going to take away that stupid promise you made him give you. I really wish you would. It would have been so much easier if you hadn’t made him hold back.” Diamond didn’t say anything. She wasn’t going to give him back the promise. If this thing with Thad didn’t work out, she wanted an option. And the less her sister knew the better about that.

“
He’s up.” They both heard the water through the pipes, and Diamond went to the refrigerator. Her grandmother wasn’t home, having gone to the grocery store, so she decided to make him something to eat. She started to pull out the bacon and other breakfast items, knowing that Thad was going to be starved when he came down. She flushed when she thought of him in her bed and the things he’d done to her. Also, she wanted to look up some things on the computer about this Dom/sub thing he’d told her about. Sapphire pulled out the flour to make what Diamond hoped was biscuits. By the time Blair came into the kitchen they were well on their way to having everything ready. Thad walked in a few minutes later.

“
Hello.” He pulled her into his arms and kissed her. She was wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him closer to her when she heard someone clear their throat. Diamond looked at Blair.

“
For as much as it makes me happy that you’ve found your mate and all, Sapphire and I have work to do.” Blair moved to the newly installed coffee machine and started it up as he continued. “I’m assuming you’re going back now, Thad. Can’t say that I’ll be sad to see you go, but we need to figure out what do to with your relationship with my sister.”

“
I’m not leaving.” Everyone turned to look at Thad. “I may have to go back for a few days now and then, but I’m not leaving her, nor will I take her from her family. I have a feeling it would never work anyway.”

He took the platter of bacon and ham from her and put it on the table.
Thad smiled at her as he gave her a quick kiss on the mouth and sat down. No one moved as Thad continued.