Minutes ago, his body had been waging warwith itself, but she gave him peace. Having done nothing to deserveher, he would do everything he could to keep her.
He nipped at her lip again and swallowedanother drop of her blood. Releasing her bottom lip, he kissed hisway over her skin and down to her throat. Maggie braced herself forthe brief pinprick his bite brought with it, but he still didn’tstrike. Instead, he ran his tongue over her vein before grippingthe bottom edge of her sweater and lifting it to reveal herstomach.
He stroked her flesh in a slow, teasingmanner from the bottom of her bra to her jeans and back again. Herskin came alive where he caressed, and every part of her screamedfor him to ease her torment as he sucked on her throat, but stilldidn’t bite.
When Aiden pushed her sweater higher, shelifted her arms for him, and he pulled it over her head. Her lacyblack bra revealed more of her flesh than it hid as her nippleswere visible through the material. He circled one of his fingersaround her dusky areola and growled when her nipple stiffenedbeneath his ministrations. Her breast was slightly larger than hishand when he cupped it and bent to flick his tongue over herhardened nipple.
Maggie’s eyes had adjusted enough to themuted light filtering around the drapes for her to watch him as heteased her. One of his fangs scraped her breast before he liftedhis head to gaze down at her. She could see the outline of hisfangs against his lips as he undid the clasp at the front of herbra.
He inhaled sharply when her breasts spilledfree. His fingers skimmed her shoulders when he pulled the strapsof her bra back and slid it off her. She had no doubt he’d sleptwith many women over the years, yet he gazed at her as if she wereAphrodite come to life. Maybe he made every woman feel like that,but she didn’t think so. Whatever this was between them, she sensedit was unusual.
“So lovely,” he murmured before cupping herbreasts in his hands and bending to kiss one nipple before turningto the other.
A growing wetness spread between Maggie’sthighs; her head fell back as he ran his tongue over her breast.His fangs scratched her skin before he sank them into her, justabove her nipple. Arching her back, she thrust her breast deeperinto his mouth as the brief pain of his bite faded and ecstasy roseto replace it.
Releasing his bite on her, Aiden rose,yanked his sweater off, and tossed it aside. Her heavy-lidded eyesopened to watch as he stroked her belly before lowering his hand tothe button of her jeans. He slid the button free and pulled thezipper down.
Maggie traced the dips and ridges of hisabdomen. His skin rippled beneath her touch as she learned hisbody, memorizing every detail of him. When she cupped his erectionthrough his jeans, he pushed his hips into her grasp and plantedhis hands on the dresser next to her as she stroked him.
Releasing him, she undid the button andzipper of his jeans and slid them down his hips a little. Withoutany underwear to hold it back, his erection sprang free to standproudly out from his body. Unable to resist, she took it into herhand. Hard and hot, she marveled at the size of him and grew wetterwith her need to have him inside her. She stroked his shaft beforetracing the supple skin on the head of his cock and the thick veinrunning up the side of it.
He seized her wrist, halting her movements.Maggie froze, she didn’t know if she’d somehow pushed thissupernatural being too far. Tension radiated from him, his vastaura of power rippled across her skin. Then, he closed her fingersmore firmly around his shaft and guided her hand over him.
“Fuck,” he groaned.
After another stroke, Aiden pulled her handaway from him before he came in her palm. He bent to lift one ofher feet and pulled her sneaker off. He let it fall before removingthe other one. Her hips rose off the dresser when he tugged herjeans and underwear down her thighs.
The excitement building within Maggie becamea tumult she could barely contain as he tossed aside her jeans andstepped closer again. His body warmed hers as he trailed hisfingers up her inner thighs, his eyes following every move hemade.
Aiden discovered two freckles marring thecreamy perfection of the skin on her inner thigh. Those freckleslooked to be spaced about fang width apart, beckoning him to biteher there. Between her legs, her neatly trimmed auburn hair didnothing to hide the fact she was already wet with her want forhim.
Lowering himself between her legs, he placeda kiss against the two freckles before sinking his fangs into them.Maggie’s legs slid over his shoulders and drew him closer.
“Aiden,” she breathed as he drank deeperfrom her thigh than he had from her breast.
Releasing his bite, he kissed and licked hisway up her thigh to the juncture between her legs. Maggie’s headfell back when his tongue flicking over her clit sent a current ofecstasy through her. She gripped the edge of the bureau as he slida finger in to stroke her in an unrelenting motion that matched thedemands of his tongue.
Her hips rose and fell, matching his pace asevery nerve ending in her body came alive. Then, her body cameapart, and she cried out as an orgasm rocked her. She’d experiencedorgasms before, but she’d nevertrulyexperienced one thatmade her toes curl, her nerve endings sing with pleasure, and herentire body bow before going limp.
Aiden rose over Maggie, his control frayingas he tugged impatiently at his jeans. She’d calmed him before, butnow the taste of her blood and her release on his tongue werepushing him to the brink of madness. He had to be inside her,possessing her.
He kicked his sneakers off, yanked his jeansdown his legs, and threw them aside before stepping between herlegs again. She smiled lazily as she reached for him. Aidencaptured her wrists before she could touch him and pinned them tothe mirror behind her head. Maggie’s eyes widened, but she didn’tthrash against him or tell him to stop.
She couldn’t touch him; touching was not forhim, not during sex. It didn’t matter this was Maggie, that she wasfar different and more important than anyone else he’d been with,he’d waited too long. His darker inclinations had clamored to lifewithin him and were moving beyond his control.
He kept her wrists pinned as he held hergaze and pressed the head of his shaft against her wet center.Then, he drove forward until her wet heat enveloped him. Sheatheddeep inside her, all his malevolent impulses vanished as heexperienced the tranquility she gave him.
“You feel so good,” he said and lowered hishead to rest it on her breast. She was incredibly wet and ready forhim, but the tightness of her muscles gripping his cock made himrealize, if he moved too fast with her, he would hurt her.
A feeling of completion stole through Maggieas she adjusted to the size of him inside her. Needing to touchhim, she jerked against his restraining hold.
His hands briefly clamped on her wrists asold habits surged to the forefront. However, this was not somestranger he didn’t want to touch or be touched by. This wasMagdalene. When he released her, she lowered her hands tocup his face. He turned his lips into one of her palms and shecupped his cheek.
“My Magdalene,” he murmured as she ran herfingers over his cheekbones.
It had been years since he’d been touchedwith care during sex. Even before his maturation he’d stoppedwanting affection from his partners. When he’d been in high school,he hadn’t offered promises of future calls to the girls he sleptwith. Once he started having sex, he’d avoided dating anyone fromhis school because there would be too many complications, and he’dknown none of them was his mate.
As he’d gotten older, there had been lesscontact between him and his partners. Some women touched him tohold onto him, and he’d handled them when he had to, but there hadbeen no caring in those caresses, only necessity. Over the past sixmonths, the contact had become rarer.
