And she’d come to him! He’d been certain she wouldn’t, but here was the proof that she was lying awake thinking of him too.
He deepened the kiss as his fingers skimmed up her hips until he was lifting her shirt. Though he couldn’t feel most of her scars, the ridges of a few pressed against his fingers. One day, he’d learn why she bore them, but like her coming to him tonight, it was something she must choose to do.
He could only keep showing her she could rely on and trust him. With time, he hoped that would be enough to get her to open up to him more.
Instead, as he traced the scars he could feel, he marveled at the strength of a woman who could bear such scars and still be as sure of herself and her purpose as Brie. Judging by those scars, she had every reason to be scared of the world, but she showed no fear as she charged into it and did what she believed was right.
She amazed him in every way possible.
As he pushed the shirt higher, she broke the kiss and lifted her arms for him to pull it off. When her eyes met his, a hint of red shone in her ochre depths.
He doubted she knew it was there, but he inwardly smiled over it. He rattled her control as much she did his.
It was good to know he wasn’t alone in this incessant, uncontrollable hunger for her. And he didn’t care if she bit him. He would welcome it. He’d never considered having a vampire feed from him before, but he craved knowing what it would be like to experience that connection withher.
Even if she wasn’t thinking about them being possible mates, it was becoming a more relentless possibility inhismind. If she was his mate, he would have to become a vampire.
He’d never considered the possibility of that before, but it didn’t repulse him like it would have before he met Ronan and the Alliance. Before he watched his two best friends become vampires and fall helplessly in love with their mates. It was impossible to be revolted by a love and unity like that.
Now, things were different, and he wouldn’t turn away from joining with her if she was his mate. But that was a discussion and a possibility for another time. Right now, she was all that mattered as he pulled the shirt over her head and tossed it aside.
She was exquisite, and she knew it as she kept her hands over her head. Her breasts were pushed up toward him, and her hip stuck enticingly out as she gave him a sultry smile. He drank her in as she lowered her hands to his waist.
When she tugged at his sweatpants, pushing them down over his hips and toward his thighs, he jerked them the rest of the way down. He stepped out of them and kicked them aside before grazing his knuckles down her belly.
As Asher traced the curves of her body with reverence, Brie locked her knees to keep from falling, tipped her head back, and closed her eyes. He had a way of worshiping her that she’d never experienced before, and she relished his fingers as they traced every dip and hollow of her body.
They found every sweet spot, and when she responded to him with a sigh or moan, he explored her more there as he took the time to learn what she liked best. She’d never been with a man who put her needs before their own, and shelovedit.
Most of her past encounters were all wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am situations. Except, in all fairness, she was more about the wham-bam part of it than they were. She was always the first to leave when she was done with them, and she liked it that way… until now.
As she was losing herself to him, a small piece of rational thought remained. “Cabo and Zina,” she whispered.
When his eyes met hers, the steely edge in them sent a spiral of desire through her belly. She bit her lip as she resisted arching her hips toward him.
“You’ll have to be quiet and not wake them,” he told her.
Before she could respond, he stepped into her, and she forgot all about her protest. Besides, she couldn’t deny the possibility of getting caught was a little thrilling.
Asher didn’t want anyone else seeing how beautiful she was; she washisafter all, but he was beyond going somewhere else, beyond anything more than being inside her. If Cabo or Zina woke, he would hear them coming and move. He told himself this, but he doubted he’d be aware of anything other than her.
Take her somewhere else!He grasped her ass and lifted her. When she locked her legs around his waist, her wetness slid over the rigid length of his shaft as it teased him with promises of ecstasy.
“I can’t get pregnant,” she whispered.
It was something she should have considered during their first encounter, but she hadn’t been prepared for it. She was barely more prepared now. However, she didn’t think it was the greatest of ideas to increase her chances of getting pregnant.
“Understood,” he replied.
Bending his head, he took her nipple into his mouth. Her fingers entwined in his hair as she pulled him closer to let him know how much she enjoyed that.
Grasping his shaft, Asher slid the head of his dick across her wet entrance before using it to tease her clit. She wiggled against him and thrust her hips forward as she sought to take him inside her.
He grinned at her desperation though he was as eager to be inside her. Because she loved to torment him, he would have gladly continued to tease her, but if he kept this up, he was going to come before he ever got the chance to be inside her again.
When Asher’s cock entered her, Brie dug her fingers into his neck and buried her mouth against his throat. The beat of his pulse, thumping against her lips, created a burst of hunger as he sank deep inside.
With all rational thought gone, her lips skimmed back and her fangs extended. She was so thirsty, and she only sought alittletaste to sate her appetite.
