Page 81 of Into The Light

“That was so strange,” I said, examining the cut on my hand. I hadn’t bled since before I’d turned. “It stings.”

“Here.” Mark pushed the swim trunks into my arms. “As requested, plain black, very ‘Aideny’ swim trunks with no pink and no animals. Put them on and take your lady for a swim. I’m taking a nap. Hoisting that axe around earlier took a lot out of me.”

I chuckled. “Thanks, Mark.”

“And be careful.” He shot us a look. “He’s fragile now, Emilia. Don’t let him do anything stupid.”

She nodded and smiled. “I won’t.”

Mark yawned and sauntered back into the house.

“I’m going to go put my suit on,” she said, but I caught her by the arm as she turned to walk in.

“Why?” I asked, raising an eyebrow. “I’m only going to take it off.”

The pink flush moved to her cheeks, and it made me smile to see it again. I had been in agony not seeing her face or feeling her touch while I’d been locked in the basement this last month.

She glanced over her shoulder to make sure Mark had gone in, then pulled her pink sundress up over her head. I watched with my heart racing as she undid the clasp of her bra and released the breasts that I wanted to take in my mouth again. My cock hardened against my pants when she stepped out of her underwear and stood naked before me.

“Your turn,” she said, arching an eyebrow before diving into the pool.

I threw the shorts to the ground and ripped my shirt up over my head. Hopping on one foot and then the other, I pulled off my pants and jumped in after her. She squealed when the water from my entrance splashed in her face. Giving her no time to recover, I pulled her into my arms and crushed my lips down onto hers. Her body responded by wrapping around mine, and I moaned from the feeling her touch evoked in me. It set my skin on fire and I wondered now if she felt the same way when I touched her.

It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy her touch before, God knows it was the most incredible feeling in the world. But this... this feeling was one I didn’t even realize was possible. I didn’t know her touch could feel any better, and yet now, as a human, I felt every nerve in my body come to life beneath her fingertips. With no desire for her blood dulling my senses, it allowed the rest to spring to life. The need she conjured in me built until I could no longer stand it. I pushed her up against the pool, turning her from me and pressing my lips into the back of her neck. For a moment I waited for my fangs to spring forth, but when they didn’t come, I let my tongue trace its way along the length of her neck.

Glad she’d told me she was on birth control and we no longer needed condoms, I pressed her legs apart and grabbed my throbbing cock, plunging it up into her without warning. She cried out, and I wrapped my arms around her and drew her into me while I moved inside of her. Colors exploded in my mind as the intensity of my feelings for her reached impossible heights. Grabbing her breasts, I continued my desperate assault on her body, my need for her increasing with each thrust. The hot sun beat down on my shoulders and only amplified the heat engulfing me from the inside. If my human life ended tomorrow, in this moment I knew it was all worth it, if only for this one day. I felt her body shudder as she whimpered out her sweet sounds, and my own release crashed through me and exploded out of me in a guttural moan. I held her close while my body trembled, the last of the waves subsiding while I held her still in my arms.

“Emilia, I love you,” I whispered into her ear. Her quick panting breaths slowed as she inhaled one deep one and pulled out of my embrace, turning to wrap her arms around my neck. Her answer was a kiss, long and slow, filled with passion and love, flooding me with emotions so strong I felt likely to crumble beneath their weight.

“And I love you,” she whispered back between soft kisses. “Was it as good?”

“No,” I said, and her eyes snapped open. “It was so much better. So, so much better.”

A sweet smile pulled up her lips. “It was?”

“You have no idea.” I blew out a puff of air.

“Oh, I think I do.” She giggled and pecked my nose.

“I feel so alive, Emilia. For the first time, I get it. I understand why you wouldn’t give this up and I’m so glad you didn’t. All these centuries I thought I was living, but just these last few hours with you have shown me just how much I’ve been missing. I can’t wait to see where this life of ours takes us.”

“There’s nothing stopping us now,” she said, tipping her head and getting a devious glint in her eyes. “I know what I want to do next.”

“Oh yeah? What’s that?”

“Bora Bora.”

I nodded as my smile grew. “Then Bora Bora it is.”

She squealed and hopped into my arms. It drew a laugh from me while I closed my arms around her and spun her around in the water.

“I’ll have Mark arrange everything,” I said.

She pursed her lips and then they slid into a frown. “We’re going to need to start doing these things ourselves. Soon Mark will be gone.”

The thought of him not handing me my paper when I awoke caused a knot to tighten in my stomach. After all these years together, I couldn’t imagine not having him ridicule my outfits and scold me for being too uptight. I was going to miss him more than I’d realized.

“I need to call my brother,” I said, knowing that my hiatus from my family needed to come to an end so I could ensure they would take care of changing Mark. “My brother Lothaire will change him for me.”