Page 61 of Sold to the Dark Vampire Prince

Dani wrapped both hands around his shaft, working him in long strokes while she sucked his head. The pressure of his release came on faster than he’d ever felt. It was taking everything within him to hold back, wanting to draw out the pleasure of her lips and tongue until he couldn’t bear it for another second.

She hummed something in reply, her lips wrapped decadently around him as she did so, and just like that, the edge of his control crumbled.

“I’m going to come, Daniela,” he said roughly. He gathered her hair in a loose fist as sparks began to ricochet up the almost painful length of his shaft. “If you don’t want to swallow what I give you, you need to let me pull out now.”

She hummed again, and he let his head fall back, finishing down her throat in hot spurts.

When at last he grew too sensitive, Dani released him, licking her lips and catching a bit of his release that had dripped onto her chin.

“Stand,” he commanded roughly. When she did, he lifted her into his arms, and carried her to his adjoining bedroom with its four-poster bed.

He set her gently on her feet, then brushed her hair over one shoulder, softly kissing her neck.

“Hold onto the bedpost,” he murmured.

She did as he instructed, but craned her head back, seeking his lips, and he captured her mouth immediately.

“I need you again,” she whispered, a bit shakily. “If this is what blood addiction feels like, then I understand how people become lost in it so quickly.”

“We’ve only been together a few times.” He worked at the fastenings of her corset. “Blood addiction takes much longer to form.”

But an uneasy feeling had settled in his stomach. What he’d said was true enough for most people. But what if there was something about their bonding marks that sped up the process? Sera was trying to find a way to get the marks removed, but what if that left them both permanently suffering side effects?

There was a simple answer, of course. They could get mated. His pulse picked up at the thought of Dani as his mate, as his wife.

Except that would mean living in exile, leaving the sector and going into hiding with her sisters. Vampire-human matings were outlawed. Could he really doom Dani to a life living underground, constantly afraid of arrest and imprisonment?

He stared down into her depthless gray eyes, lips closing over hers again. Could he actually imagine living without her now?

He finished unhooking the back of her corset, pressing kisses to the curve of her spine as he exposed each inch of bare skin.

“Exquisite.”

Dani draped her arms around his neck and he lay her across the bed in her stockings, panties and heels. He prowled over her, kissing his way up her body. She arched her back as he tenderly kissed the fresh bite mark he’d left at her throat, moaning softly when he tugged at her nipples.

“I want very much to be inside you.” He slid down the bed, kissing a trail past her navel to her hip bone. “But for tonight, that will need to wait.” He slid a finger beneath the lace panel of her thong, tracing the narrow thatch of dark blonde hair it concealed.

Dani inhaled sharply, fisting the duvet. “Alexander, please.”

His lips skimmed her right hipbone, first kissing, then softly biting. “I shall never grow tired of hearing my name whispered on your lips, nor of the way your heartbeat grows very fast just before you find your pleasure. It’s intoxicating.”

“Yes,” she breathed when he bit her again. “Oh, Alexander. Please make me come.”

“You like it when I bite you there?”

“I should think that would be very obvious.”

He chuckled. Using his fangs, he neatly snipped one strap of her thong. Dani gasped when his fingers pushed into her sex. She squirmed on the bed, seeking friction, and he slid her calves across his back.

“I rather love these panties. I shall have to buy you a dozen pairs.”

“Seeing as you’re destroying them, it seems I’ll be going through them quite quickly.”

He kissed the inside of her other thigh. “I’m going to carry your panties in my pocket when we go down to dinner so that every male vampire who approaches you will know exactly who you belong to. That you are mine, and no one else’s.”

He scraped her hip with the edge of his fang. Her breathing grew very shallow. Alexander stroked deep inside her, seeking the sensitive spot high up in her sex. When she began to hold her breath, he bit through her panties on the other side, nipping her just enough to sting. He was rewarded by a gasp and an immediate rush of wetness over his fingers.

“Your fangs are still so long.” She whispered it, eyes dark. He could hear her heartbeat fluttering faster. “You just fed from me, and still, they’re so big. It’s arousing, seeing this version of you. I always knew you were a vampire, but… this isn’t the prince I normally see in media broadcasts.”