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His sensual mouth curved, pressing a mischievous dimple into his left cheek. “What I intend to have,mon amour, is you. I want to see you make love to me with your eyes sparkling in the sun.”
The visual, together with the husky purr thickening his accent, made her belly quiver in delicious ways. “Oh, you think you can have that, do you?”
He leaned in to press a kiss to the sensitive spot beneath the corner of her jaw, which made other parts of her quiver as well. “I know I can.”
Her mouth went dry with heat. “I don’t know, lover. You may need to practice.”
Avec plaisir, he agreed.Meet me upstairs.He blurred away with their passed out guest.
Her senses already reeling, Cassidy kicked the dainty sandals off her feet before jogging after him.
A set of double-doors opened into Dominique’s private sanctuary at the top of the stairs. Unlike the rest of the house, this bedroom was ponderous and dark. Gone were the airy pastels and desert-southwest accents she favored. Rich woods and deep-blue fabrics predominated here. Curving over the entire room was a vaulted ceiling, which, at first glance, appeared to be open to the sky at dusk or dawn, but was, in fact, a delicate mural, exquisitely illuminated by recessed lighting. Beneath this vista, they had spent countless nights in the ornate, king-size bed, making love, laughing, plotting, and dreaming.
There was no mistaking which of these was on the agenda now. Having deposited their houseguest in a spare bedroom, Dominique had already pulled back the brocade spread, shed his clothes, and crawled in amidst the pillows. His sinuous body gleamed against the indigo sheets. The dark pools of his eyes were riveted on her.
Cassidy forced herself to slow down. She removed each item of clothing with tantalizing movements until she heard her vampire lover growl with impatience. But he didn’t move, not until she came to him, and even then, he let her take the lead. Obediently, he lay back as she directed, allowing her hands to do as they wished. When she finally joined her body to his, he groaned with unreserved enthusiasm.
More than their conscious minds merged now. Physical sensations echoed between them, blurring their edges further. It still threatened to overwhelm them, this feeling of simultaneously taking and being taken. Which is why, at this point in their lovemaking, if they didn’t want it to be over in seconds, they always paused to refocus on only one of them, usually Cassidy.
Sitting up, Dominique undid the tie on top of her head and ran his fingers through her hair as the coil dropped halfway down her bare back. Then he kissed her, slow and deep, filling her with the cool, earthy taste of him. She moved at a leisurely pace, riding him, riding the edge, drawing out the pleasure until she could hold it no more. When she threw back her head with a hoarse cry, his teeth nipped her jaw.
Her body still shuddered when he rolled her onto her back with a possessive growl and let his own need take over. As he did, a familiar spiral of crystalized light pulsed into existence around them. It moved in tandem with him, twisting up and out with increasing urgency, disappearing into the sky mural. This was how Cassidy saw the beast slipping out of Dominique’s control. This was his true vampire soul, the insatiable hunger for blood and life.
It was this that got the mortal lovers of vampires killed.
Beneath her hands, Dominique’s shoulders tightened into something leaner and harder than mere muscle. Beneath her ear, his teeth grazed her skin. She let her spirit unfurl around him and spread out into the spiral, giving herself to a fresh wave of cresting ecstasy.
“J’t’aime,Dominique,” she whispered, and backed up the words with thoughts and feelings.I love you. All of you. Always.
For a singular moment, at the height of his climax, his alter ego’s alien presence rippled through her like a touch from the grave. It withdrew as suddenly as it appeared, sated by her love. Also, she was too much a part of him to register as a separate entity.
They sprawled in a spent heap in the middle of the bed. She stroked the back of his head where it lay against her shoulder. The mingled aromas of sex, winter ice, and spring growth saturated the air. When her breathing calmed, he propped himself up and playfully bumped his nose against hers before finding her mouth for a tender kiss.
In the next room, Jackson moaned.
Peering over Dominique’s virtual shoulder, Cassidy saw Jackson was dreaming. Or rather, he was taking the experiences flowing out of their unguarded minds and making them his own in vivid, breathtaking color. “Good God.”
“Intéressant.”
Cassidy screwed her eyes shut as though that could block anything out.
Dominique throttled down his connection with Jackson’s psyche. “It seems we have set him free, even if only in his dreams.”
“That is so way more than I wanted to know.”
He rolled his forehead against hers with a wistful sigh.I know.
The small frisson of regret in his mind made her catch her breath.No. You can’t be serious.
He pulled her into his arms in mute apology for thinking about what he had, however briefly.
You…you would have been okay if…if we had…and…and…wow.She couldn’t even finish the thought.
I don’t know,he admitted. But the fact remained: he yearned for a human child—with her, or, failing that,fromher. If he couldn’t be the biological father, then the oblivious man in the next room was, after this evening at least, the only one worthy of that honor.Nothing but a fanciful dream.
Cassidy released the breath she had been holding.Oh, Dominique. You know if I could give you such a gift, I would, but not like this.
I know.He kissed the top of her head.Forgive me. That would have been one miracle too many tonight.
