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“Clearly. You’re far too perfect to be real.” She shrugged.
“And it doesn’t worry you that you think I’m a figment of your imagination?”
“Meh.” A slow smile spread across her face and the spot behind my ribs warmed. “I’ve decided to roll with it. Hallucinations like you are way better than what my mother suffered. And besides—”
Before I could think through what she’d said, she swung her leg over my lap and straddled me.Holy shit.
“I’ve never wanted to kiss anyone the way I want you.” Her hands framed my face.
“Is that so?” Mine bracketed her hips like they’d been pulled there by magnets, like that was exactly where they belonged. “You might not like kissing me.”
Because I might not be able to keep control. I might be no better than that shittily-written vampire in her novel, cutting her soft lips with my exposed fangs, which I was currently fighting to keep sheathed.
“I highly doubt that,” she whispered, her gaze dropping to my mouth. “But even if I don’t, then I’ll know. And I’ve decided if I only have a few months, then I don’t want to miss out on a single thing.”
She kissed me.
Her lips were so fucking soft as she pressed them to mine.
In all my centuries of existence, I’d always been the hunter, the one who made the first move, and yet this delicate, beautifully curved, horribly-fragilehumanwoman was now the one making the move.
And I’d fuck it up if I didn’t get over my surprise.
I lifted a hand to the nape of her neck, tilted her head slightly andkissedher. She moaned, parting her lips, and I sank my tongue into the mouth I’d been dreaming of since I first saw her. The taste of her flooded me, consumed me, raced through my veins and awakened every nerve ending.
Taste. The demand roared through my head as I did just that, exploring every line of her mouth, coaxing her tongue to play with mine. Grace kissed me back with complete abandon, her hands sliding into my hair as she rocked forward on my lap and gasped at what she found there.
Yeah, it had taken nothing more but that first touch of her tongue and I was harder than the metal of the porch swing. I fuckingwantedher.
The need for her body wasn’t a suggestion of mine, or even a response of lust. No, it was primal, as though taking her was essential to my existence.
My hand flexed on her hip as I pulled her closer and angled her so she could feel me against her clit every time she rocked, the thin fabric of her pajama pants presenting a barrier in name only. Fuck, she was warm. The heat of her burned through me, incinerating what common sense I had when it came to her.
“Ajax,” she murmured against my lips.
Claim!
I kissed her harder, deeper, as her hands slid down my torso, exploring my body with touches that unraveled my control with an ease that would have terrified me if I’d stopped to think about it.
“Touch me,” she demanded, grabbing my hand and slipping it under the bulky fabric of her hooded sweatshirt.
Her skin was pure fucking satin, and I groaned as I moved my fingers up her ribcage. Every part of her was perfect, and God, thescentof her. That hint of citrus sweetened with her arousal.
I wanted to taste her, to slide my tongue between her soft thighs—
I yanked back, severing the kiss and slamming my mouth shut as my fangs punched down. My body was so on board with takingeverything.
And that wasn’t going to happen. Not tonight. Not ever. She was already fighting a fucking brain tumor. She didn’t need to add blood loss to that.
She stared at me with wonder, her eyes lust-glazed and her breasts rising and falling quickly with her breaths. “Good God, you can kiss.”
As gently as I could, I gripped her hips and shifted her off me. Her ass hit the swing and I moved as quickly as possible—which was pretty fucking quick—across the porch.
“Whoa.” She blinked. “You’re fast.”
“You don’t know the half of it,” I ground out, gripping the porch railing so hard the wood creaked under my hands.
“But I want to.” She stood, and I gritted my teeth. “Why are you over there? You can’t tell me you didn’t like that kiss. I feltexactlyhow much you enjoyed it.”
