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She swiped at the tears that leaked out despite her rapid blinks. “You know how that turned out, but I told myself at least I was trying. So, I kept trying…right up until I saw you at that altar. I wanted to leap into your arms, but I didn’t because I still believed everything everyone had told me about why it could never work, and now”-a wild wave-“I know it was allbullshit. Mom isn’t going to kill herself if I date a vampire, you’re not going to force me to change into one, and Don isn’t going to kill you. Hell, he justhiredyou! So, I should be thinking about how my father’s trying to kill me, or how Don’s really my uncle, but all I can think is that I ripped my heart out-and yours!-fornothing, so I say again, how can you forgive me for that?” Her voice broke as she added, “I can’t.”
Bones had her in his arms before her next breath. Her tears left hot trails down his cheek as he pressed his face to hers, and her breaths were harsh, rapid puffs against his jaw.
“Easily,” he said, shushing her instant, ragged scoff. “That doesn’t mean our time apart wasn’t brutal on me, Kitten. It was, but I knew you acted out of love. I’ve made many mistakes in my life, yet I can’t say that about most of them. You can. That’s why forgiving you is easy. Your heart was in the right place, even if your actions weren’t.”
Her head dropped to his shoulder. “I don’t deserve you.”
A grim laugh escaped him. “Too right, but that’s because you deserve better than me. Still, I’m too selfish to step aside, so I need you to make me a promise.”
She looked up, confusion on her tear-stained features. “About what?”
He tilted her chin up. “That no matter the circumstances, you will never vanish on me again.”
Her breath shuddered out of her. “After everything that’s happened, would you even believe me if I did promise that?”
He caressed her face. “Yes. I would.”
She closed her eyes, another shudder wracking her. When she opened them, her gaze was no longer shimmering gray. Instead, it was pure vampire green.
“I promise,” she whispered, and pulled his head down to hers.
Salt flavored their kiss from her tears, but they soon dried as his mouth moved over hers with deepening intensity. Then, he picked her up, needing to feel her body flush against his. Her arms tightened as her feet left the ground, but he didn’t carry her upstairs to the bedroom. That was too far. He molded her against him while kissing her until she was breathing raggedly from passion instead of guilt-infused pain.
She lifted his shirt when she couldn’t reach enough of his skin through the holes left from the capsule’s prongs. Bones broke their kiss to pull it off. Her shirt was likewise tossed aside, and he unclipped her bra to fill his hands with her full, luscious breasts before he captured her mouth again.
Her moan was a rumble of pure need, and she ran her hands over him as if she’d die if she didn’t touch him. He felt the same, and her denims suffered for it as he ripped them in his impatience to remove them. Then, he savored her gasp as he pushed her knickers aside and slid his fingers into her hot, wet depths. Her soft flesh gripped him, quivering with every deep, knowing rub, until she was moving against his hand while tearing at his trousers until she’d rent them in two.
Her hands were delicious brands as she grabbed his cock and handled him with rough, rhythmic strokes. Pleasure built until he wanted to plunge inside her right then, but their last encounter had been too fast, and too limited. He wasn’t settling for only touching her this time. He needed to taste her, too.
He brought her to the floor with him. There, he tore off the remains of her denims and broke the thin straps on her knickers. She cradled his hips with her thighs and arched beneath him, but despite a torturously sensual graze that seared his cock, he pulled away. Her objection barely left her lips when his mouth closed over her nipple and a slow, deep suction made an entirely different sound escape her.
Her hands fisted in his hair before she twisted, trying to reach for him again. He pushed her back while he laved her other nipple before sucking it until a cry tore from her and her hips moved as if he were already inside her.
“Now, now,” she urged while trying to pull him up to her.
“Not yet,” he murmured, and trailed his mouth lower.
Her stomach was warm satin, and her scent was heady perfume as his mouth teased the crisp curls that crowned her center. He moved lower, groaning with primal lust as he tasted her honeyed depths. Those hot, silky petals slicked with more nectar as he teased them, and when he plunged his tongue deep within her, she arched as if someone had yanked on her spine. He needed to feel that again, so he did it faster, and her thundering heartbeat competed with her rising cries. Still, it wasn’t enough. He pulled her thighs tighter around him while he twisted his tongue faster, deeper, until he was lost in her scent, her taste, her screams, and the blood singing through her veins.
His shoulders were striped with red welts from her nails when she came, and he savored every spasm before sliding his mouth up her stomach in a reverse of the pathway he’d taken before. A fine sheen of sweat beaded her skin, and she was trembling from her climax, but the look in her eyes set him on fire. She looked as if she were about to devour him, and he had never wanted to be consumed more.
“I want to make you scream like I just did,” she swore before slanting her mouth over his. After a blistering kiss, she twisted away and tried to take his cock in her mouth, but he pushed her back against the floor.
“I want this more,” he growled, and yanked her thighs around his hips. Then, he filled her with a long, hard stroke that seared his flesh while it burned away his last coherent thought. He wasn’t a man or a vampire anymore. He was only raw, pulsating need, and she was everything else.
He didn’t regain control until his climax crashed through him with enough force to crack his spine. Then, he shifted until he was no longer pressing Cat against the floor, but holding her next to him. Her sweat painted both of their bodies, her hair was a tangled mess, and her heart beat like a trapped hummingbird within her chest. What had felt like mere minutes to him must have been longer, judging by the state of her.
A glance at the clock on the nearby wall made his eyes widen. Not minutes at all, then.Hours.
She dropped her head against his chest with a gasping laugh. “Finally got that scream out of you, but I amwayahead on the orgasm tally, and I don’t have energy to catch you up.”
He laughed as well, and dropped a kiss onto her shoulder. “Yes, well. There’s always later tonight.”
He felt her smile against his skin, and warmth of a different kind suffused him. God, he’d forgotten how happiness could make him feel like a light had been turned on from the inside, filling every part of him with a golden glow.
“Let’s get you off this floor, Kitten,” he said, and finally carried her up the stairs into the bedroom.
She pushed the covers aside when he deposited her onto the bed, but he knew she’d be cocooned in them soon enough. He was actually looking forward to waking up chilled and coverless because it meant that he’d be waking up next to her.
