Page 123 of A Trial By Blood

Only making it a short distance before everything went black.

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I was being jostled. I tried to open my eyes but couldn’t.

“Stay with me, petal. Stay with me.”

Ronan.

He was here.

I stopped fighting.

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Ronan

I lifted Rose from the car and carried her into my warehouse, running through the living room and taking two steps at a time to my bed. Thankfully, she hadn’t hit the tree at too fast a speed or she’d be in a lot worse shape.

I needed to tend to her wounds. She needed to feed. The bleeding had slowed at least, but a couple of the slices were deep. And one look at them told me they weren’t from the accident. The cuts were from demons, and they’d gotten close enough to use their claws on her.

Laying her on the bed, I tore off my shirt and lay beside her limp body. I was covered in her blood, and the sight sent my rage higher. Demons had followed her, and if I’d been a minute later, I could have lost her.

Biting my wrist, I pressed it to her mouth. Blood trickled past her lips and onto her tongue. Instinct immediately kicked in, and she sealed her lips around the wound, sucking greedily. When she hadn’t answered her phone, I’d been worried and tracked her, right to fucking Oldwood forest.

“That’s it, petal. Feed.” She moaned, her hands lifting to hold my wrist to her lips. I felt every pull behind my ribs. I brushed her hair back from her precious face, taking in the jagged slice down one of her cheeks, and fury filled me all over again. “Don’t ever do that to me again,” I rasped, my voice so rough and full of emotion that I sounded like someone else. It would never happen again. I wouldn’t let it. Task or not, Rose was done. I didn’t give a fuck about her coven. She was all that mattered.

Her eyes snapped open, completely black. She couldn’t talk, but deep in those black-as-night eyes it was all there, her need, her hunger, her longing.

“I know, my heart. I’m here now.” She whimpered, and the scent of her arousal drifted over me. My body responded immediately. One of her hands left my wrist, and she took the other and pushed it between her restless thighs. “I’ve got you. I’ll take the pain away.”

Her legs fell wide, and I pressed my fingers to her hot, slick flesh. Her hips immediately rolled.

“Lie still, petal. Let me take care of you.” Doing this for her, giving her everything she needed, soothed the monster inside me. I kissed my way along her jaw while she drank from my wrist, and as I slid a finger inside her, I licked along the deep slice to her cheek, then made my way lower, kissing her blood-streaked skin to the gash across her stomach, to start the healing process.

She whimpered, groaned, and rocked her hips faster against my hand. Her grip on my wrist tightened, and she groaned against my skin as her pussy clamped down on my fingers repeatedly, coming for me instantly, her juices gushing out, making my mouth water.

Rose didn’t release my wrist, she kept drinking, her hips still rocking. “Again?”

She nodded, and I slipped in another finger and took her faster this time, following the cues of her straining body, cues I already knew so well. She was desperate to come again, so as I took her with my fingers, I worked her stiff little clit with my thumb.

My beautiful mate bowed against the mattress and, unlatching from my wrist, cried out as she came a second time. Panting, she grabbed my wrist again and dragged her tongue over it to seal the bite. I rose over her, and she blinked up at me, whimpering, still hungry, still needy. “More,” she said, sounding lost.

I brushed her hair away from her face. “Take from me, my heart. Whatever you want, it’s yours.”

Pushing at my shoulder, she moved over me as I fell to my back. Her fangs were extended, and I shivered as she nuzzled my throat. I tilted my head, and she struck, biting deep. My hips lifted off the bed when she sucked hard, and I cupped the back of her head, stroking her as she ground down on me, hot and slick against my blood-covered stomach.

After several more deep pulls, she licked me there as well, sealing her bite, and kissed her way down my chest, her hands moving restlessly over my abdominals, fumbling with the button of my trousers. Hands shaking, I helped her and lifted my hips as she pulled them down enough to free my erection.

I expected her to move back up, to take me inside her. Instead, she dragged her nails down my thighs and sucked the head of my cock into her mouth. With a shout, my hips lifted again. She suckled my cock like she’d suckled from my throat, and I couldn’t stop my hips from twisting beneath her, fighting not to push deeper into her eager mouth.

“Oh god. Rose, you’re killing me.” I gathered her hair back so I could see her face, and she looked up at me with those beautiful black eyes as she sucked me deeper into her mouth. I knew what she wanted. “Do it, petal. Take.”

Her fangs flashed before she bit down on my shaft. I roared as she withdrew them from my rigid flesh and sucked greedily again, drinking from my pulsing cock so engorged with blood that it gushed into her mouth. My eyes glazed over, there was no holding back now. I came in hard spurts, my seed mixing with my blood as she drank me down.

I collapsed on the bed, and she lapped at me a final time, making me jolt, sealing her bite, then crawled up over me, curling into my side. She pressed her nose to my skin and held on as if I was the only thing stopping her from drifting away.

“Rose?”