Closing the door on the fridge, Aiden’s dickstiffened as he stalked toward her. Then his gaze fell on the whitegauze covering her arms from her wrists to her armpits. A red hazeclouded his vision when he saw the pink of her blood staining thosebandages.
“What the fuck happened?” he demanded as hetenderly clasped her wrists and drew them forward to inspect herarms. Carefully, he unraveled a bandage to reveal her raw fleshbefore removing the other to reveal the same torn flesh. “Who didthis to you?”
His fangs slurred his words, and his handsshook as they held her.
“I did it,” Maggie said.
“Why?” Aiden demanded.
“Ever since we’ve parted, my skin has felttoo tight or like it’swrongsomehow. I don’t know how toexplain it.”
“You’re part vampire,” he murmured. “Yourbody craved mine.”
“It still does,” she replied with a sultrysmile.
Lifting her, he set her on the table anddrew her hips toward the edge before spreading her legs apart andstepping between them.
“I’m going to cherish you every one of ourdays together,” he murmured as he sank into her.
“I have no doubt,” she sighed as she turnedher head to offer him her vein. He didn’t refuse it.
• • •
Every muscle in her body ached, her bonesfelt like someone had taken a sledgehammer to them, but thediscomfort was receding. Maggie blinked as she woke from the agonycomprising her world for what seemed like forever, but shesuspected it might be the same night.
She remembered being with Aiden in thekitchen, remembered the feeling of him inside her as he drank fromher and the intensity of the orgasm rocking her even as her bodyweakened. He’d pressed his bleeding wrist to her mouth afterwardand carried her in here to place her on the bed while she consumedhis blood.
Fresh hunger surged through her as sherecalled the delicious taste of it. Once, as a child, she’d gone toa fair and eaten cotton candy and fried dough. It was the first andonly times she’d ever had either, but she still recalled howdelicious they’d been. Aiden’s blood was better than both thosethings combined.
Her stomach rumbled as her gums tingled.Curious, Maggie prodded a canine with her tongue and jerked when itlengthened into a fang. Then, she prodded it again and almostlaughed when the fang extended further. She’d never experiencedsuch a thing before, yet somehow, it felt right.
Aiden’s hand rested on her shoulder. Rollingover, she discovered him lying beside her on the bed, his headpropped on his hand as he stared at her. Uneasiness etched his faceand radiated from his ruby-colored eyes. Against the white of thesheets and bedspread, the black and red hue of his skin was starklypronounced. The colors had deepened and once more covered hisentire body. If she hadn’t woken, if something had gone wrong withher change, the rampage he would have gone on would have made KingKong cower.
“Maggie,” he breathed.
“That’s me,” she murmured and smiled athim.
Rising, she ignored the twinges in her bodyas she kissed him. She rested her hands on his chest and pushed himback on the bed to straddle his waist. Particles of air caressedher flesh, and she realized her body felt electrified in a wayshe’d never experienced before.
She’d touched him often since meeting him,yet she felt like this was the first time she’d trulyexperiencedhim as her fingers memorized his muscles. Theclove scent of his blood was different, sweeter somehow, and sherealized it was because of her blood within him. His blood musthave altered her scent too.
Her fangs retracted when she bent to lickthe salty flesh of his chest. Hardening against her, his shaftbrushed her belly and then her breasts while she worked her waydown to his stomach. Her tongue dipped into his belly button as hishand ran over her hair.
When she traveled lower, her nipples brushedover his cock before her hand encircled it. She ran her tongue overthe head of his shaft as she took him into her mouth. She lickedand sucked him as he guided her over him with a hand on the back ofher head. A thrill of power went through her when his hips rose andfell in rhythm to her motions.
Releasing him, she made her way back up hisbody. Grasping his shaft, she guided it inside her and moaned asevery cell in her body came alive in a way she’d never experienced.It was as if her cells lacked something before, but now they werefull and letting her experience all the things she’d missed.
“Oh,” she breathed when she felt the pulseof blood in Aiden’s cock as she rode him.
Aiden ravenously watched as Maggie’s headfell back and her body arched forward. He’d never seen anything soglorious as her as she ran her hands between her breasts and criedout when she caressed her pert nipples.
“It’s all so….” Her gaze fell on him, and aflash of red ran through her eyes.
Aiden growled with his need to completetheir bond and have her drink his blood. Her smile revealed herfangs as she lowered herself toward him. “It’s all so what?” hedemanded.
“Soright,” she whispered and ran hertongue over his throat.
His fingers tore into the sheets when herfangs scraped his skin. “You have to feed.”
