“Dane, please, you-you need to stop this before you regret it later. Y-you’re not thinking clearly and I can’t take having my emotions toyed with anymore. It hurts too much, damn it.”
“Can’t. I want you with me always.” He nuzzled her neck as his fingers reached for her breast, kneading it gently through her sweater.
“I don’t believe you.” She shuddered as heat flared between them.
“I’m tired of denying what I want.” His gaze gleamed with a hunger so powerful it dazed her.
“Y-you only want me right now because I’m in heat.”
“I’ve always wanted you. I’ll admit your heat makes me aggressive in my need to claim you. But whether you are in heat or not doesn’t change what I feel for you in here.” He placed her hand against his chest.
“I don’t get the sudden change of heart,” she said suspiciously.
“I was wrong to fight my instincts.”
“We need to stop. I’m not some freaking biology experiment. I have feelings.” His drives were not a reason for them to be together. Not when he was so adamant about his vows. She wasn’t about to get sucked back in only to discover his desire to mate her was brought on by her fertility cycle.
“There will be no stopping me from claiming you this time.” He dipped forward to kiss her lips.
“Don’t!” She tried to shove him back.
“Please don’t push me away.” He caressed her cheek. His tenderness seemed out of place with his display of aggression a few minutes before.
“I’m afraid to trust you again. You hurt me.” She gazed at him warily.
“I know. I’m sorry.”
“What about your vow to never bite a human? Can you live with the guilt?”
“You’ll be my one exception if you still want this life with me,” he offered.
“Are you saying you’ll stop if I say no to you?” She raised her eyebrow. Not sure she bought it.
“If you say no then I’ll stop even if it kills me.” He watched her expression carefully.
“You swear you’re not going to change your mind and regret this?” She slowly slipped her arms around his neck, staring into his eyes. God, she’d kill him if he backpedaled on her again.
“Is that a yes?”
“It depends.” Jenny had been through a lot with him with little or no say until now.
“I swear this is what I want. No tricks.”
“I’ve wanted to be yours since the moment we first met, Dane Voss. Nothing’s changed for me.” She smiled.
Reclaiming her lips, he let that sweet, tantalizing taste of the woman he wanted consume him. “Take off your clothes,” he demanded, reaching for the button on her jeans.
“I can do it.” She stopped him. “But you’ll have to let me up first.”
He lifted off her and pulled his shirt over his head before standing up to remove his pants. She began taking off her clothes but then froze.
“What’s wrong?” Dane paused.
“Um—I just remembered something.”
“What?”
“My period started. It wasn’t supposed to but all the stress brought it on early.” Her cheeks flushed a rosy pink.
Now it made sense to him why her scent was driving him so crazy—she was bleeding. He reached for her wrists and drew her up to face him. “Lift your arms for me.”
“What?” She gave him a bewildered look. “Didn’t you hear what I said? I’m bleeding.”
“I heard you. It doesn’t matter. I can handle it.”
“Okay.” She raised her arms. “Are you sure about this?”
“I’m sure. But the real question is do you trust me?” He lifted her chin to stare into his eyes.
“I do,” she whispered, uncertainty clear in her voice.
“I won’t hurt you, I promise.” His lips pressed against her, gently covering her mouth. His tongue traced the soft fullness, becoming more aggressive with each passing sweep. He unfastened her bra and cupped both breasts, teasing her taut nipples. She let out a soft moan of pleasure.
“Dane, I…” she panted.
“Shh…” He ran his tongue along the column of her throat until he reached the soft swells of her breasts, causing her to shudder with each firm tug. He released her nipple and laid her down on the bed. “Let me help you take these off.”
He reached for the zipper on her jeans. She bit her bottom lip and he could tell by her reaction that she was nervous. But he was too aroused to take it any slower. He yanked them off and tore her panties free.
“Hey, those were brand new,” she gasped.
“I don’t care.” He pushed her legs apart and softly groaned with pleasure. His nostrils flared, filled with her tantalizing scent that made his mouth water. He couldn’t wait to taste her there but she slammed her legs shut.
“Dane! I can’t, not when I’m bleeding. It’s—it’s too weird.”
He was going to lose his mind. He didn’t care that she was bleeding. Blood didn’t bother him. He was a fucking vampire, for Christ’s sake. “Jenny—there is no need to be shy with me.” He caressed her legs, trying to get her to relax. “Please open up for me.”
“No.” She shook her head.
“Please…” He could hear the strain in his voice.
“All right, but don’t bite me down there. I’m not into pain,” she warned.
“It will not hurt, I swear to you.” He knew there was no way for her to understand that pain was not something he wished for her.
“How do you know?” She trembled.
“Did I hurt you the last time we did this?” he asked her.
“Well no. But I wasn’t bleeding at the time and you didn’t bite me either.”
“Trust me.” He pushed her legs apart.
“I’m nervous.”
“Relax.” He held her legs open as he rubbed them gently, hoping to ease her nerves, but it wasn’t working. “I’m going to remove this.” He snatched the string hanging between her legs. She gasped when he yanked it free and threw it away. “Let me taste you now.”
He was going to make her his tonight. He still couldn’t believe it.
Jenny nodded, closing her eyes. His warm breath tickled her skin, causing her to shiver just before he buried his tongue deep inside her core.
“Oh god,” she cried out from the instant pleasure jolting straight to her brain.
He withdrew his tongue. “Your taste is like heaven.” He spread her labia and zeroed in on her swollen clit, sucking on it relentlessly. It was a raw act of possession.
He gripped her bottom, lifting her to his mouth and tunneling his tongue more deeply inside her. He growled against her flesh, sending vibrations straight to the exact spot that brought her pleasure. She rolled her hips, caught up in the ecstasy of his mouth fucking her as he speared her with his tongue over and over again.
It didn’t matter that she was on her period anymore because she was too far gone to care. In fact, it felt even better because of it. In her haze of desire, she barely noticed when the sharp points of his fangs pierced her inner folds.
He groaned loudly as her muscles locked down and a brutal climax ripped through her. Her pussy clenched around his tongue and she found herself trying to buck against his mouth. He held her firmly to him and continued to suck deeply.
“Oh…Dane…oh god!” she moaned, gripping his hair, writhing with pleasure so intense it was almost too much.
He didn’t let up. She cried out again on the wave of a second orgasm seizing her pussy. He held her to his seeking lips, sucking and plunging as she jerked against him, caught in a haze of erotic bliss so powerful she didn’t want it to end. Suddenly he tore away, leaving her vaginal walls twitching, and flipped her over.
“Why did you stop?”
“I need to be inside you.” He lifted her until she was on her knees and then pushed her legs farther apart. She lifted her hips higher, aching to be filled by him.
“Hurry,” she moaned in desperation, feeling the rippled planes of his chest and abdomen resting against her. She lowered her cheek to the mattress and moaned when he slowly rubbed the crown between her drenched folds. Her insides were swollen, heightening the sensation. She pushed back, wanting the tip to enter her. “Please don’t torture me, Dane, take me.”
He surged forward, entering her channel. His dick pulsated, heightening her pleasure. He snarled in her ear, “I’ll try to be gentle but you feel so good, which is going to make it difficult to maintain control.”
She sucked in air when he surged forward, deeper, while her pussy continued to contract around him. When he was fully seated inside her, he withdrew slowly and rushed forward again, hitting her G-spot. Jenny moaned into the bedding. He braced his arms on either side of her. Hot breath tickled the side of her neck and part of her wondered if he was going to bite her again. But he didn’t. Instead, he withdrew once more and rocked his hips forward. The erotic sensation of his cock pistoning into her hard and fast touched off another orgasm.
He grabbed her around the waist and pulled her flush against his chest in an upright position as his dick thrust upward. Her pussy squeezed him with each drive of his hips, almost as if it mourned his loss. He massaged both her breasts. She gasped in surprise as he began playing with her nipples, pinching the swollen peaks while he continued to fuck her. The sensation brought her closer to the edge yet again.
Her feelings had grown even stronger for this male. There was something different about the way he made love to her. It was more possessive, no resistance, no hesitation and she fell perilously close to falling in love with him. He kissed the side of her neck and she wondered if he was going to bite her now.
A slight pinching sensation followed by unimaginable pleasure spread through her core as his fangs pierced her skin. She screamed his name, lost in the carnal drive of his claiming. She ground her hips against the length of his steel-hard shaft as her sex continued to spasm and twitch around him.
He made a harsh noise, continuing to suck on her neck. His body convulsed and shook as he pumped his release deep inside her heat. He finally withdrew his fangs, kissing and licking the puncture wounds.
“I can’t believe I ever fought this.” His voice was wonderfully hoarse and husky.
He drew her down on the bed with him when they both finally stilled.
“You’re not going to want to drink from humans now, are you?” Jenny panted.
“It’s only your blood I desire.” He squeezed her hips.
“Well, that’s a relief.”
“Did I hurt you?” He slowly continued to move inside her, still buried deep inside her channel.
“No, I’m good.”
“Are you sure?”
She nodded, so sated her limbs felt like jelly after a really great massage. He kneaded her breasts and groaned against her ear.
“I could take you over and over again. Your heat is driving me crazy.”
“Is it my heat or the fact that I’m bleeding?”
“Both,” he rasped.
“Mm, I’m not sure I can come…” She sucked in air as his finger slid into her velvet folds, tapping on her clit with each thrust of his hips.
“You’ll come again.” He sucked on her earlobe as he drove forward.
“Oh god!” she said, surprised she was still so aroused after the amazing round of orgasms he’d already given her.
Dane flipped Jenny onto her back, putting her legs over his shoulders for deeper penetration. She let out a moan, surrendering to the raw sensation of her sex squeezing his thick flesh. His lovemaking was all-consuming and she was swept away, body and soul. He released her legs and his hands immediately went to her breasts to hold them while he suckled each nipple.
“Your blood is so sweet,” he murmured, penetrating the soft flesh around her areola.
“Dane!” She climaxed again.
He continued to drink, wrenching his hips against her until his body succumbed to her clenching heat. They both finally stilled and his large frame slumped against her.
He withdrew his fangs and lifted up. “I’m sorry. I know you’re still human and don’t have the same stamina that I possess. But I couldn’t help it.”
“I’m not complaining.” She gave him a quick peck on his lips.
The expression on his face suddenly became serious. “You’re giving up a lot for me. I would give anything to be human for you…”
“Shh. Don’t spoil this moment.” She put a finger to his lips. “You promised.”
“I can’t help it. I never wanted this life for myself and to allow you to suffer it with me seems selfish,” he said.
“You promised not to do this again.”
“I know. I’m sorry.” He caressed her cheek.
“Please don’t talk like that anymore.” She wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly.
“We’ll be together always. I swear to you that will never change,” he whispered.
“I’m relieved you are who you are. Otherwise we never would’ve met. Besides, I believe it’s a small price to pay to be with you.”
The man I love.
“I love you, Jenny Harlon.” He cupped her cheeks.
“I love you too.” She rubbed her thumb across his lips. “You have no idea how much.” She tried not to cry.
Too late…