Eternal Service (37 page)

“Alex, I never made love to a single one of them.”

Alex remembered Sulie’s exact words. “She said you had.”

“I used those women, Alex. I felt filthy while with them, but I had to feed. And yes, I did have sex with them. But, I never made love to them.” His hand still rested on hers. Now it gently caressed her soft skin. “Not like how I want to make love with you tonight.”

Alex fought back a tear. This wonderful man, someone that she had been waiting for all of her life, wanted her. The butterflies returned and mentally she could feel the conscious decision as the pieces fell into place. Her career was on the bench this game. Love was the star player, and love was up to bat. She was never one to move this quickly, but it felt so right. It was a leap, but she was taking it with Raymond, so she knew she’d be all right. She licked her lips slowly and then bit down on her lower lip. In a deep husky voice, she said, “I’m done with my dinner. May I be excused?”

“Absolutely. But, I hope you saved room for dessert.” He eyed her hungrily as they both stood from the table. Her heart raced. The distance between them disappeared as she wrapped her arms around his neck and he picked her up so she would straddle his waist. She kissed him hard and he leaned her against the wall of the dining room. He thrust his tongue in her mouth and tasted her as his hands tore into her clothes. Her fingers wrapped in his hair as she moaned into his mouth.

Raymond kissed her cheek and then Alex felt him move over to her neck. She noticed his eyes were pitching black and his fangs were fully extended. He kissed her neck. Using his tongue to find her vein, he licked the length of the vein up into her hairline. She felt the lick all the way through her. Her body was eager for his touch and she caught her breath. “My bedroom is down the hallway.”

Raymond whispered in her ear, the sound of which was dark and husky. His voice drove her crazy.

“Alex. I know what you want. I want it too. But first, we need to talk.”

Raymond sat down on the couch with Alex in his lap. She kissed his forehead and along his temple as her hand traveled south. “Alex. We need to talk.”

“Don’t stop.” She ripped open his shirt and dove her hands in to touch his bare chest.

He wanted to give in to the temptation, but what he had to say was important. Her mental patterns felt strong, which made concentrating difficult for him. “Everything with Wilma was based on a lie. I need you to understand some things before I take you into that bedroom.”

“You want to talk? If I’m not naked and writhing under you in the next 15 seconds I’m going to scream.” She leaned in to kiss him, but he turned his head to stop her.

“You’re not going to have a human man in your bed, Alex. … Look at me.” He touched her hand as it made its way down his chest to his abs, stopping it mid–path. “You’re going to have a vampire. I’m bigger and stronger than a human man. I don’t want to hurt you.”

“You won’t hurt me.” She peered into his eyes, which he knew had changed already to a deep black. “I’m going to have you in my bed and I know exactly who and what you are.” She freed her hand from his and allowed it to continue its journey south.

Raymond groaned as he tried to stay in control. “I’m a lot stronger than a human man. I don’t want to crush you when I hold you. I don’t want to hurt you as I lay on top of you. As a human you are so frail to me. Promise me you will tell me if I hurt you in any way.”

She stopped undressing him. “You slept with humans before, Raymond. Did you hurt any of those women?”

“No. But, I kept as much distance between me and the prostitutes as physically possible. I want to hold you close.”

“OK, I promise.” She shifted her legs so she now straddled him. Her sensual efforts told him that if he didn’t get her into the bedroom soon, that they would end up here on the couch, or even the floor.

“Are you okay with me biting you while I love you?” Now sitting in this new position he felt her rubbing against his rock hard manhood.

“Oh, yes. You can bite me.” She grasped his head in her hands and made direct eye contact. “Bite me!”

Raymond growled and bared his fangs. His length strained against his pants in an effort to find freedom. “I will probably bite you multiple times. In multiple places,” he said breathlessly. “Are you okay with that?”

She gave him a devilish grin. “I might even bite you.” She claimed his mouth and kissed him hard.

Just what he wanted to hear! He lifted her effortlessly and carried her to her bedroom. He surprised her when he opened the door and revealed what he had spent the last couple of hours working on. Over fifty lit candles surrounded the room; soft music played in the background and rose petals lay on the bedspread. On the nightstand sat champagne chilling in a shiny new bucket. As she shrieked in delight, he carried her over and placed her gently on the bed. “Are you surprised?”

“Oh my! I can’t believe all of this.” She took a good look around the room. “I can’t believe you cleaned up my room. Ug! This place was such a mess and you cleaned it. My bedroom looked worst than some of the places in Florida we visited.”

His lips curled up in a smile, revealing his fangs. “Its’ okay, Alex. I wanted the room to look nice for us tonight.”

“It does look good, but where is everything?”

“Let’s focus on us tonight. Tomorrow you can peek in your closet and view the damage. I’ll tell you now, the mess is not pretty. I had to clean at vamp speed to get this room and the dinner done in time. You probably won’t want to be alone when you look inside the closet. It’s pretty gruesome.” He kissed her passionately on the mouth. She tasted sweet, like honey. His tongue dove into her mouth devouring her sweetness. He began to undress her. “I want to see more of you. I want to feel and caress more of your soft skin.”

“Undress me. Please undress me … please.”

He undid the tiny buttons down the front of her blouse. With each one, he kissed the skin revealed by his efforts. “You’re so beautiful. I’ll cherish you forever. Forever.” He kissed down the top of her bra and was delighted to discover a frontal opening. He had never seen one before. He freed her breasts from their confinement. “You are absolutely beautiful. So round. So pink. You’re perky for me, honey. So very perky.” He caressed one with his hand as he suckled the other with his mouth. She arched in response and her fingers slid down his muscular shoulders to his back. She tugged at his shirt and he halfway sat up and took it off. He settled back down and he eyed her neck. It had been so long for him, both sex and feeding from a vein. He wanted her much more naked before he drank though. Much more naked.

He unzipped her skirt and tugged the garment down past her hips, past her knees, all the way to her ankles and off her body. She wore red panties. Hot, red panties. Silk. Red. He caressed her thigh and was about to remove the panties when he noticed they had no backing. He assumed they were meant to be this way, because damn, she looked so hot in them. He admired them momentarily and then slid his finger underneath the band on top and tugged them down as well.

“You have too many clothes on,” she said.

He removed his clothing and watched as her eyes grew wider and she bit on her lower lip. “Oh, my. You are so beautiful Raymond. So strong. So muscular. I want to feel you inside me.” He removed the last of his clothing and his erection sprung forward. His huge swollen sex throbbed for her touch.

Raymond saw her reaction to his size, but it was her mental pattern that told him what she was thinking. He smiled seductively at her and kissed her as he brought her back onto the bed. He loved his ability to read minds. It came in so handy at times. He knew what she was thinking, knew what she wanted. And that was him inside her now.

The last thing he wanted to do was to hurt her with his size during the most intimate of moments. She had confided that it had been a while for her, so he had to prepare her for him. Her hands slid down his back and her nails were digging into his backside. He gently touched her face and kissed her neck. He could smell her blood coursing through her veins and could hear her fast beating heart. She rolled her head to the side to make it easier for him to have access to her neck at the same time she spread her legs wide to welcome him in.

He lay down on top of her and tested the weight of his body on hers. A growl escaped his throat and he felt her shudder beneath him. With his body flushed against hers, he could read her thoughts as anxiety filled her mind. He had pinned her down and, even with the erotic thoughts of her mind, he sensed her panic. He leaned into her ear, “I want to make love to you more than anything else in the world, but if you are having second thoughts, we can stop right here.”

She turned to face him, “No. I don’t want to stop. I really am fine, it’s just that … I wasn’t expecting you to growl, that’s all.”

He stroked her hair knowing her reaction was more than just his growl, “Would you rather be on top?”

She rolled her neck to the side, “I want you exactly like this.” She stroked his back with her hand and pulled him closer. “The growl was sexy.”

He leaned in and licked her vein on the side of her neck. Her breathing got more labored, her head tilted back and her back arched onto the bed. Raymond’s breathing grew shorter and quicker. His body tensed as he lowered himself to her vein.

Alex grabbed his shoulders and pushed him away. “Wait … we … ah, do you have …”

“What? I’m sorry. What’s wrong?” He couldn’t understand any of her mental images now since her mind was currently incoherent.

“No, no. We need …”

He lifted himself off her, but she held him in place. “No. You’re fine. But, do you have a condom?”

He smiled, relief washing over him. “We don’t need one. I’m not a carrier of disease and besides, you’re not fertile right now.”

He leaned in and stroked her neck once more with his tongue.

She turned her head to look at him. “Wait. How do you know I’m not fertile?”

“I had Sulie check days ago.”

Her eyes widened. “Really?”

“It’s what I asked her just before I took you home the night you met the team. I didn’t want to impregnate you.” He gently nudged her head back down on the pillow, and continued licking her neck to prepare her vein for his fangs, but sensed something odd from her mental patterns. He pulled away once again. “Honey, what’s wrong?”

“You wouldn’t want to have children with me?”

This was exactly why Raymond wanted to talk in the other room before they got to her bedroom and naked. Of course, this topic had not been discussed yet, and boy, it was a big topic. It definitely needed to be discussed since he was never letting her go. She belonged to him forever. He just hoped he’d be coherent in his current aroused state to even talk.

“No, Alex. It’s not that.” He waited for her head to turn so he could face her. “It’d be wrong for me to contribute to a pregnancy when we hadn’t first discussed having children – especially if I could verify your condition ahead of time. I would see that as being irresponsible. That’s all.”

“Oh,” she said, and then paused before asking, “Would you want to have another child one day?”

He lifted himself up with his arms so he wouldn’t crush her beneath him. He gazed into her shining emerald eyes. “Alex, do you want to have my baby?” He could sense a maternal need in her from her mental patterns, but was it his baby she wanted? A vampire baby? Would a human ever want that?

“One day, yes. Very much so.”

He didn’t know how he deserved such a beautiful woman in his life. His heart swelled with love for her. “Then I absolutely want to have more children.”

He laid her back on the bed as she tilted her head to the side and opened her legs so she could create a cradle for him. His tongue licked up the side of her neck and he felt her shudder beneath him. His breathing became short once again and his body tight. His length hardened for her. He smelled the blood which flowed in her veins just beneath the surface of her beautiful creamy skin. Type A+ positive, his favorite. Thick, rich, and delicious. His fangs ached in expectation. But not quite yet would he satisfy his needs. He was tempted, but wanted to savor the moment. He slid his finger through her wet folds and stroked her nub. She was so wet and close to coming already, her nerve endings there on fire.

Kissing his way down her body his lips felt her warmth. She smelled of fragrant body wash mixed with her sweet passionate sweat. He paused at her breasts, and suckled one while his hand splayed across the other and rubbed its nipple. It pebbled at his touch. Her fingers were entwined in his hair and she let out a deep moan.

All those years. He had forgotten what it felt like to hold a woman who truly wanted him to make love to her. To be desired, to have a woman touch you, to have a woman want you so desperately — it was pleasurable on such a base level. This time was different though. He was a fully transitioned vampire. He could hear her quickened heart beat, could feel the heat of her skin as she warmed him. He couldn’t believe that it had taken him this long to find Alex. She was all he wanted, all he needed.

He continued his journey south so he could taste her. His length throbbed in expectation, and he wanted to dive into her slickened heat, but first to taste her precious honey almond arousal. His nostrils flared as he inhaled deeply. She lay wide open to him as he touched her auburn curls. Alex wasn’t scared or repulsed by what he was. She wasn’t afraid of his fangs and that they were inches from her delicate womanly parts. She was engorged and reddened, glistening with moisture for him. His tongue found her core and circled around her nub, causing her body to tighten and her back to arch. Raymond thought it was the most beautiful sight. Quickening his pace, he lapped up greedily what she offered. He listened to her panted breath and her love murmurs as she called out his name repeatedly. Her thought patterns were focused on just the pleasure her body enjoyed, and it heightened his desire for her. She exploded under him, flooding his mouth with her cream.