God, he was making me even wetter. How was that possible?
Darius claimed my mouth, his tongue sliding between my lips as his cock thickened inside me, and I couldn’t help but imagine what it would feel like to have him take me like that, sliding into me from behind while Asher took me from the front, Emilio sucking my nipple, Liam running his tongue along the side of my neck, Ronan touching himself before me…
The image of all of my rebels together, naked, surrounding me and filling me up… I couldn’t hold out another minute. My body began to tremble with the force of the explosion building inside me.
“Darius,” I breathed. “I can’t wait. I’m too close… I…”
“Come for me, love,” he said. “Let yourself go.”
His liquid voice undid me, and I shattered, heat surging through my core, racing down my limbs, lighting up every nerve ending with an intensity I’d never felt before. It was so wild, so impossibly intense, I thought my blood would literally boil. My body began thrashing, and Darius pressed his full weight against me, shuddering as he came, both of us making the bed shake so hard I worried it would splinter and send us both crashing to the ground.
It was several long moments before I regained the power of speech, and when I finally did, my voice came out hoarse. “Is it always going to feel like that now?”
“Mostly,” Darius said. “Vampires are quite sensual, and we feel thingsveryacutely, especially for the first few years.” He laughed softly, nuzzling my ear. “As I recall, there were moments when even walking outside during a stiff breeze posed a distinct challenge. Emphasis on the wordstiff.”
“So you’re saying being a vampire comes with a constant, insatiable horniness?”
Darius laughed again. “That’s one way to put it, yes. But like all hunger, we learn to mediate it—when to indulge, when to refrain, when to spend several hours in an ice-cold bath.”
“How many hours of your life haveyouspent in cold baths?”
“Since I met you? More than I care to count, love.”
Goosebumps slid across my entire body at the thought. Being with him… Everything had felt sharper, deeper, more connected—the slide of his hot length inside me, the touch of his fingers, the mist of his breath on my nipples, the scent of him filling my senses, threatening to overwhelm me in the best possible way. I was already revving up again, a low throb pulsing between my thighs like a warning.
“I suppose you should consider yourself very lucky,” he said, trailing kisses across my jaw and lightly brushing my lips. “You’ve got five men practically banging down the door, waiting for a chance to touch you. All you need to do is ask.”
“Darius?” I breathed, the ache in my core deepening as he slid a hand across my belly. “You’re not helping.”
“Hmm. What would help?”
I strained against the straps again, the leather stretching, but not quite snapping. “Untie me. Please.”
“I’m sorry. I can’t do that just yet. But I think we can get rid of this for now…”
Darius finally removed my blindfold. I still couldn’t run my fingers through his hair or pull him into an embrace, but as he leaned close, I stared into his golden eyes, once again mesmerized by the kaleidoscope of colors glittering before me. He was so beautiful it almost hurt to look at him now.
Darius flashed his sexiest grin. “To answer your next question? Yes. I havealwaysbeen this devastatingly handsome.”
I rolled my eyes. “That’s not what I was going to say.”
“You were thinking it, though.”
“Maybe.” I tried to laugh, but it quickly turned into a yawn. The hawthorn was kicking in again, and my body was tired, desperate for rest and the blood that hadn’t yet arrived. As hard as I tried to stay conscious for this—for all of it—I was losing the battle.
I’d just about drifted under again when a sudden bolt of realization slammed into my skull, forcing my eyes open.
“Darius!” I gasped.
“Ahh, and there it is,” he said, touching the tip of my nose. His grin stretched wider now, his eyes dancing with pure joy. “The realization has finally dawned.”
“You said something about when you’d first turned! The whole stiff breeze thing?”
“Indeed, I did.”
“And earlier, you told me you remembered the thirst of a newborn vampire.” I reviewed our entire conversation in my mind, his words hitting me now as if he’d just spoken them. “And our time in the Bay, when I was still delivering imports to Black Ruby!”
“All of those moments, and so many more.”
