Awe swept through her as she realized howmuchshe affected this powerful being. He’d entered hereprimed to kill, but now he appeared only half murderous.
Neither of them looked back at the others ashe turned and hurried her out of the room. Maggie ignored thestartled receptionists at the front desk when Aiden lifted her intohis arms and stalked toward the stairwell. To avoid tripping him orkicking him in the shins, Maggie wrapped her legs around hiswaist.
“What happened?” she asked as he pushedthrough the swinging doors and into the stairwell.
Instead of replying, he clasped the back ofher head and kissed her. Though his kiss was harsh and demanding,Maggie went limp against him and slid her arms around his neck. Hiserection rubbed tantalizingly against the junction of her thighswith every step he took up the stairs. She had no idea how heconcentrated on climbing when all she could think about was gettinghim naked, but he never missed a step.
Holding Maggie again calmed him more thanthe numerous blood bags he’d consumed before coming here. It hadtaken more blood than he typically required, but eventually he’dfelt in control enough to shower and return to her.
Part of his lack of control was because ofMaggie. They weren’t bonded yet. If they were, he could haveconnected mentally with her and her presence would have soothed himbefore he returned to her. If they were mated, he wouldn’t have tofear her fragile mortality.
Aiden shook as the reminder of her humanitycaused the unraveling within him to start again. Breaking the kiss,he turned to press her against the wall at the second-floor stairlanding. Kissing her neck, he pulled her hair back and sank hisfangs into the delicate column of her throat. Maggie gasped andrubbed his cock in a way that had him on the verge of taking herthere.
He’d made sure to learn the location ofevery camera in this hotel. The stairwells didn’t have any, andneither did the hallways. All the cameras were on the first floor.He could bury himself inside her here, no one would see, and shewouldn’t stop him.
His hands fell to the button on her jeansbefore he realized there might not be cameras, but anyone couldstumble across them at any time. Andnoone would see Maggieexposed in such a way.
Retracting his fangs, he pulled her awayfrom the wall and opened the door to the second-floor hall. Theirrooms weren’t on this floor, but he didn’t care.
Maggie nuzzled his neck as he listened tothe heartbeats behind each door they passed until he didn’t detectany behind one of the doors. Aiden grabbed the handle, jerked itdown, and shoved against the door. It gave way with an audiblecrack, and he had the laughable notion that they’d probably installhallway cameras after tonight.
“Aiden, this isn’t one of our rooms,” Maggiewhispered.
“It is now,” he said as he kicked the doorshut with his heel.
Setting his hands on her waist, he liftedher off him and placed her on the bed. Undoing the button on herjeans, he pulled them down her creamy thighs before tugging off hersneakers and tossing them aside. He removed his boots and jeansnext.
She glanced nervously at the closed door.“What if they find us?”
“They won’t.” He placed his hands on herknees, spreading them apart as he climbed onto the bed with her.She leaned back as he knelt between her legs. Grasping his shaft,he rubbed the head of it against her entrance and groaned. “You’reso wet for me.”
When he thrust forward, Maggie forgot allabout her nervousness over being discovered. All she could thinkabout was the sensation of him sliding in and out of her as heplanted his hands beside her head. In the muted light filteringthrough the window, his eyes shone red.
“Must see you.”
She didn’t know what he meant until hegrasped her shirt and tore it open. He gripped the front of her braand twisted it until the material gave way. Cool air rushed overher heated skin when he bared her to him. His lips skimmed back toreveal his glistening fangs as his gaze ran over her. A thrill ofapprehension went through her. He was more out of control thanshe’d realized.
“MyMaggie,” he breathed, his eyesfastening on her breasts. She grasped the bottom of his shirt andtugged it impatiently up; suddenly, she had to see him as badly ashe’d needed to see her.
He pulled his shirt the rest of the way offand tossed it aside before lowering himself to take one of hernipples into his mouth. He worked his tongue over the hardened budas he sank his fangs into her. Her hands entwined in his hair,drawing him closer while he consumed her blood.
A sense of loss filled her when he retractedhis fangs and leaned back to gaze down at her. A bead of her bloodglistened on his lips. Sliding her hand up, she gripped the back ofhis head and dragged him toward her.
She licked the blood away before sliding hertongue into his mouth. His arms cinched around her as he liftedher. Kneeling on the mattress, he braced his legs apart while heplunged her onto his shaft. Maggie’s legs locked around his waist,and she clung to him.
He nipped her ear and circled his hips in away that had his body rubbing her clit in all the right ways. Shecried out and her body bucked against his. “Do you like that?” hemurmured, and his fangs scraped her neck.
“Yes.” Her belly clenched as theirsweat-slicked bodies moved against each other.
“Would you like to taste my blood again?” heasked.
A need unlike anything she’d ever knownspeared her. “Yes.”
Her charcoal eyes were filled with longingwhen she leaned back to look at him. Releasing her hair, he liftedhis wrist to his mouth and bit deep. Maggie licked her lips whenshe saw his blood trickling from the two punctures.
When he brought his wrist to her mouth, sheseized it and drank deeply from him. She moaned as his blood filledher mouth. It was more delicious than the finest chocolate, shedecided as it slid down her throat.
“My Maggie,” he breathed as she drank fromhim.
