He looked so volatile and feral, yet hedidn’t try to tear free of his bonds. He didn’t move beneath her,allowing her to adjust to his size and waiting to see what shewould do. His barely restrained control was evident in the harshlines of his face, yet he put her needs ahead of his, something noone had done for her since her parents died.
She bent to kiss his chin. He tensed whenher nipples came into contact with his chest, and she lifted herhips so he slid a little out of her before she lowered herself downagain. She moaned as the rigid length of him completely filled heronce more.
Leaning back, she gazed down at him. A thinlayer of sweat glistened across his body. All his muscles stood outstarkly, and a vein pulsed in his forehead. She’d never seen anyoneso magnificent. He deserved better than her and all of her manyinadequacies, but he was hers and she was never going to let himgo.
The exquisite friction of him sliding in andout of her as she began to move faster became all she could thinkabout. Her fingers trailed down his chest as she traced over hismuscles there, learning every dip and hollow, how he reacted to hertouch, and what pleased him. With other men she hadn’t bothered tolearn what they enjoyed, she’d simply wanted to ease her need, butshe couldn’t get enough of exploring David and studying hisreactions to her.
When she looked at him again, his eyes werelatched onto her breasts as they moved and swayed before him. Shetook hold of them and circled her thumbs over her nipples. His lipsskimmed back to reveal his fangs, but he didn’t try to strike andsink them into her. She pinched her nipples as he’d asked her to doearlier, and his hips rose off the bed. She gasped when themovement drove him deeper into her.
Resting her hands on his shoulders, shepushed back on him, grinding her hips against his. His heels duginto the bed to lift his hips again. He thrust hard into her, andshe cried out in ecstasy. A coiling tension built within her,spiraling higher and higher as he plunged deeper and deeper untilit felt as if he touched a piece of her soul.
Screwing had always been pleasurable enoughbefore, but it had never been anything like this. Shehadtoconnect with David, to have him within her, possessing her. And shewanted more. Her eyes fell to the vein in his throat, pulsing withevery rapid beat of his heart. Her fangs lengthened, saliva fillingher mouth as thirst seared her veins.
“Do it, Mia.”
As before, she was helpless to disobey hiscommands. With lightning speed, she sank her fangs deep into hisvein. The hot wash of his blood slid down her throat, and shemewled as joy scorched her. Her hands resting against his chestkept her from pressing her body fully against his—she still didn’ttrust herself to have so much skin contact with him—but the heat ofhim warmed her skin as his blood filled her in ways she’d neverbeen filled before.
Her body rose and fell faster as his mindopened to hers, and his undeniable bliss engulfed her. Theoverwhelming sensations caused her head to spin and her body toache in the most wondrous of ways.
David’s body arched beneath hers as shedrained his blood in greedy pulls, and her body rocked against his.His arms jerked involuntarily against the binds. The wooden beamscracked as the cotton fabric shredded and fell around him. Hemanaged to keep himself from seizing her waist by slamming hishands onto the headboard. The wood splintered beneath his palmswhile he held onto it. Her movements became more demanding as hefelt her nearing the brink.
She retracted her fangs from his neck androse to ride him faster. He hungrily drank in the wanton way herbody moved over his as her hands ran over her breasts, cupping themand rolling them within her palms. Her head fell back and she criedout as her muscles gripped his shaft.
The force of her climax was his undoing. Hedrove his heels into the bed as he buried himself deeper into herand found his release as her body hungrily pulled his semen fromhim. More wood splintered beneath his hands, but he managed tomaintain his hold on the bed as her muscles continued to contractaround his cock.
Delicious shivers rolled through Mia as sheslumped against his chest. She’d just experienced the mostmind-blowing orgasm of her life.
Most times, she’d found a form ofdistraction in sex. A few times she’d stared at the ceiling andpondered what to do for the rest of the day, but what had justtranspired between her and David had been beyond simple sex.
What they’d shared was something far deeperand more intimate than anything she’d ever known before. Somethingwithin her had shifted and changed when they’d joined together.Something was still shifting and changing as his blood flowedwithin her. She already wanted more of him, more of his taste andfeel, more ofeverything.
Even now, her body continued to grip at hisshaft while she felt the ongoing pulse of his release deep withinher. His blood blending with hers warmed her almost as much as hisbody did. She nestled against him, inhaling his woodsy scent andthe scent of their joining as it mingled in the air.
Protected, safe, cherished. For the firsttime since her parents died, that was exactly how she felt. She’dcome home in his arms. She’d been so lost, but now she’d foundexactly where she was always supposed to be. Tears pricked hereyes. His lips nuzzled the top of her head as her fingers dug intohis solid chest.
The heat of him, the feel of his skinagainst hers, wrapped her within a warm cocoon, trapping her there.Her chest constricted and her breath hitched as her haze ofeuphoria slipped away. The sensation of skin against skin wokesomething more in her, something she’d somehow managed to bury fora bit.
His woodsy scent faded away as her memoriesthrust her back to another time and another place. The vile aromasof body odor, fear, blood, and death encompassed her as she foundherself chained to a wall once more. The bed was no longer beneathher. Instead, she felt the cold of the concrete floor she’d slepton for an unknown period of time before they’d moved her to thewarehouse.
Her bones dug into that floor. No matter howshe moved, she couldn’t escape the cold permeating her flesh. Shedidn’t cry; she was too tired and too weak for tears as thevampires drained her of her blood over and over again. Their handswere on her, their laughter in her ears….
She shoved herself away, reeling as thememories threatened to bury her.
CHAPTER 10
David slipped out of her as she swung herleg away from him and scooted to the other side of the bed. Closingher eyes, she battled against the waves of panic threatening tochoke her as her breath came in rattling hitches.
One, two, three, four, open your eyes andlook at the floor.
Her gaze focused on the rug, on theirclothes lying scattered across it as she tried to bury the laughterand cold once more. She clasped her head in her hands and focusedon her bra as her body instinctively rocked forward and back.
“Easy, Mia,” David said. He didn’t darerelease his hold on the headboard to comfort her. “I’m not going totouch you.”
Mia inhaled a ragged breath and nearlychoked on the lump of tears clogging her throat. What they’d justshared had been beyond anything she’d ever experienced before inher life, and now she was a freaking mess all over again.
“What iswrongwith me?” she cried.“Why are you so understanding when I’m so broken?”
Her shoulders heaved as she turnedtear-filled eyes to him. David’s fingers dug into the wood at theshattered look on her face. “You’re not broken,” he assuredher.
