He didn’t pounce though. Instead, his handsclasped hold of her cheeks, and he emitted a groan as he held herwith a tenderness she’d never experienced from a man before.Especially not from a man who desired her as badly as Daviddid.
His eyes continued to hold hers when he benthis head and placed the gentlest of kisses against her lips. Thetears she’d been holding back spilled down her cheeks as somethingprimitive and true burst forth within her. She loved him. And thatlove burned hotter than the sun through her.
“Don’t cry,” he whispered against her lipsas he brushed away her tears with his thumb.
“I can’t help it,” she choked out. “I… Ilove you.”
His eyes sparkled as he gazed at her. “Ilove you too.”
More tears slid free as she wrapped her armsaround his neck. His hand clasped the back of her head before heclaimed her mouth. His tongue slid over her lips and then slippedinside to take possession of her mouth in a kiss that claimed heras his. She mewled in pleasure and wiggled over him as she soughtout his shaft. She wanted nothing more than to feel him inside ofher.
He held back from entering her while hisother hand cupped one of her breasts. The sensation of his warm,strong hand kneading her flesh nearly caused her to climax rightthen. It had been years since she’d felt someone else’s hands onher in such a way, and her long-deprived body begged for more ofhis touch.
She jerked in his grasp when his thumbrolled over her nipple before pinching it. He moved to fondle herother breast, his hips surging up so the rigid length of him rubbedteasingly over her clit, but he still didn’t sink himself intoher.
“Better than I ever dreamed,” he murmuredagainst her mouth while his hands moved steadily lower over herbody. His knuckles grazed her sides as he stroked her leisurely upand down.
Mia moaned when his fingers slid between herthighs. She pushed her hips forward, rubbing against him as hestroked her, but didn’t penetrate. Touch had been a thing of dreadfor so long that she hadn’t believed it possible for someone tomake her feel so courageous and aroused by it again, but Daviddid.
Her body begged for release from thisdelicious torment as he slipped a finger into her. Mia rose ontoher knees when he began to move his hand back and forth within her,rubbing her clit with each deliberate thrust of his palm.
His mouth fell to her breast at the sametime he slipped another finger within her. The sensations werealmost too much to bear as his fingers moved within her while histongue laved her nipple. Her head fell back as she rode hishand.
The scent of Mia’s arousal engulfed him,driving him to higher heights of passion, yet he couldn’t stopcaressing her, tasting her. He’d been denied too long; he neededmore of her flesh against him, beneath him, around him. Her wetheat enveloped him as her cries sounded in his ears.
His control frayed when her head fell back,and her hands rested on his shoulders. “I can’t…. I have to….”
Unable to get words out anymore, he pulledhis hand away from her and flipped her over on the bed. Mia’s eyesflew open when he drove himself into her. For a second, he wascompletely lost to the powder blue of her eyes. Her hand flattenedagainst his cheek as they gazed at each other before he pulled backand slid into her again.
Her hips rose to meet his as he buriedhimself inside her. The weight of his body and the sensation of hisskin on hers engulfed her until she couldn’t tell where he endedand she started. She was lost to him as they were joined together,and she welcomed it. Her fingers curled into his back, pulling himcloser. She didn’t consider panicking at having someone elsetouching her so completely. Instead, she couldn’t get enough offeeling him all over.
His muscles flexed and bunched beneath herhands. She reveled in his body moving over hers as he pushed hercloser and closer to the brink. She locked her legs around hiswaist as she rode out the storm of his body’s possession of hers.Turning her head, she bit into his neck and welcomed the hot washof his blood filling her mouth.
David locked his arm around Mia’s waist andlifted her against him as he drove relentlessly into her. His fangsthrobbed to feast on her, to finally know what it would be like totaste her. Unable to hold back anymore, he sank his fangs into hershoulder. Her fingers dug into his flesh, but she didn’t try topull away from him or tell him to stop as her potent, purebredblood filled him.
The rightness of her blood poured into hiscells as her power flooded him. Against his neck, Mia cried out asher body came undone beneath his. He thrust into her again and gavehimself over to the exquisite sensation of her sheath clenchingaround his cock. His body shuddered as his release poured into herwhile her blood continued to fill him. Never in his life had hetasted something as sweet or as strengthening as her.
Mia couldn’t get enough of the emotionsbattering her. She was swept away by the amount of love he had forher as the pathways between their minds opened, the bond betweenthem solidifying into something she felt she could almost reach outand touch.
Mated.She felt it all the way to thecenter of her soul, to the very core of her being. She suddenlyunderstood her parents’ intense bond. She’d always believed sheunderstood it before, but now shetrulydid. She belonged tohim, and he belonged to her.
David reveled in feeling her mind as itentwined with his, and they became joined for all eternity. Herlove spilled over him, warming him more than the sun on a hot Julyday. Leaning back, David lifted her off the bed. She kept her legsaround his waist as he cradled her against him. Her tears spilleddown to wet his skin, but he knew they were tears of joy as theemotion poured from her and into him.
David lost himself to her as she moved overhim again.
***
The sun was pouring through the glass windowand creeping toward the bed when Mia lifted her head from David’schest. She ran her fingers over his face before tracing the bridgeof his nose and the bump there. “How did you get this?”
He smiled at her as he caught her fingersand pressed a kiss against them. “When Jack and I were twelve wewere walking home from school after detention. A group of highschool kids started harassing us and we ended up getting into afight with them. There were five of them and just the two of us. Weboth ended up with broken noses, black eyes, and a whole lot ofscrapes and bruises, but we also inflicted enough damage on themthat they never bothered us again.”
She couldn’t help but chuckle over the pridein his voice and on his face. “So it was worth the hurt then?”
“It was.”
Turning from him, she finally took the timeto examine the small building. “Whose place is this?”
“Ours, for now,” David replied as he tracedthe delicate curve of her spine with his fingers. Now that he couldtouch her, he couldn’t get enough of feeling her silken skin andwarm body.
