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His dominance pressed into me, and I was tempted to let mine free of its safe. I didn’t, though. I wanted to win this without resorting to using Julian’s power. That felt like the bigger victory.
“No gift is purely selfless. Even if it’s just the nice feeling that accompanies giving a gift, the giver still gets something from it.”
“Feeling warm and fuzzy because you did something nice is totally different than using a gift to gain an advantage with an enemy.”
Julian smiled at me. A full, radiant smile. “On that, we will have to agree to disagree, mate.”
A feral growl that I had no idea my throat was capable of producing passed my lips. “Donotcall me that, Julian. You haven’t earned that right. Not yet at least.”
His smile grew even brighter. “Of course. I’d expect nothing less. Now, as for your final concern.” He leveled a sultry stare at me and pushed my head to the wall, exposing more of my neck.
My mind went blank as his tongue traced up my jugular. My vision tunneled as fireworks of pleasure exploded throughout my body. “I haven’t allowed you to reciprocate yet because I knew that once you began touching me, I wouldn’t allow you to stop.”
“And the problem with that is?” I eked out between explosions of light and pleasure.
His growls turned to purrs against me. “That once we’re together, once I’m inside of you, I’ll want to drink from you. And I won’t do that ahead of the marking stage. I must do this by the book, or I fear the bond won’t take. If it doesn’t, then you’d be fair game for Titus at the incursion. I won’t risk that, Eden.”
My body hummed with renewed desire. Not just because pushing each other’s buttons turned me on. This was a deeper sort of desire rooted not only in the physical.
“Eden, I can’t hold out much longer.” Julian’s words were muffled as he licked and sucked at my jugular. “May I feed from you?”
I shivered beneath him.
“Only if I may feed from you.”
Julian pulled back, eyes wild with desire. In one fluid motion he’d ripped off his tuxedo jacket and unfastened the French cuffs. He held his wrist out to me. “I’ve waited for you to say that.”
My mouth flooded with saliva, fangs bursting from my gums as another feral growl tore itself from my throat.
I cradled his wrist in both hands before sinking my fangs in deep. Julian’s blood filled my mouth, hot, sweet, spicy, and somehow familiar. It slid down smooth as liquid silk and I greedily sucked for more.
At some point, Julian’s groans of pleasure turned to groans of frustration. I tilted my head and let him have access to my neck. He wasted no time, piercing the flesh with expert precision and letting his venom flow into me before taking his first sip.
I hadn’t been so thoughtful. In fact, I’d probably ripped through a few tendons, my mind was onlyfocused on drinking him in.
Drinking, groaning, and writhing against each other, I’d hate to think of one of his server vamps stepping through the panel and seeing the debauchery about to go down.
I tore myself away from Julian’s wrist, sated with blood, but wanting his body. Julian still sucked at my neck and that was just fine by me. I could rip his shirt off with him on my neck and sending rivers of ecstasy through me just fine. I shredded the back of his shirt, once again leaving it in ribbons around his arms as I dragged my nails up and down his smooth, hard back. My hands explored the chiseled muscles of his obliques as I worked my way down his sides and to the front of his trousers.
I ran a hand up the front of his pants and, holy Bloody Mary mix, he really was huge!
I did some quick Starbucks math and he was atleastas long as a reusable cup.
Not as wide, thank God.
What the hell would I have done with that?
Julian pulled away from my neck. “Eden, if you keep rubbing up and down my cock like that, I’m going to take you against this wall.” The thread-like veins by his eyes and temples were red and angry, like he was in the throes of bloodlust as well. But beyond that, beyond the blackened eyes and the room practically seething with dominance, clear as day on Julian’s face was how much he wanted me.
Me.
I stretched up and kissed him, right on the end of his nose as I gave his cock a squeeze. “Then you’d better mark me because I have no plans of stopping.”
Twenty-Nine
In a flash,Julian was clear across the room, shredded shirt still hanging from his arms.
This time, it wasn’t my fault. I hadn’t pushed him away.
