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The sourness of the memory threatened to steal my glimmer of joy.
“My mother hated being pregnant. She always said strong, Vasyliev babies drained every ounce of blood and energy from her body until she resembled a corpse. Out of a sense of boyish need to impress my mother, I caught and slaughtered an Alpine Ibex—think an overgrown goat with insane horns.” I broke off with a rueful laugh. “It was nearly three times the size of me, but I dragged it’s carcass through the castle halls, smearing blood and dirt on her immaculate carpets, to present to her.”
“How old were you?” Jade choked, unable to hide the laughter in her voice.
“The years move differently for vampires. I may have been around eight,” I admitted. “For vampires, we age like warmbloods until we reach maturity, and our aging slows, becoming immortal.”
“It’s much the same for witches,” Jade said as she brushed her fingers over my wrist, gentle as a butterfly's wings. “But you didn’t finish. What happened next?”
I caught her fingers and lifted them to my mouth, nibbling harmlessly. “She bolted from the bed, her sickness and weariness long forgotten at what her half-witted son had done to her home. Then, she explained precisely why animal blood would do little to cure her sickness as she forced me to scrub every inch of the floors.”
Jade erupted in giggles, and I leaned down to capture the sound in my mouth.
As I lost myself in her taste, still sugary with the lingering sweetness of honey mead, I felt my emotions bubbling closer to surface until I feared I would crush her in my grip.
“Thisismore than just sex, Jade,” I insisted gravelly. “I would kill anyone who threatened you. If Trystan, my father,anyonedared to touch you, I would stop at nothing to punish them and bring you back to me.”
Her hands were suddenly framing my face and she forced me down to meet her hard stare. “We will not let it get to that, Alexei. We’re going to end this once and for all. With the staff, you will be free to return to New Orleans with me. Together, maybe we can build something new.”
She pressed her lips into mine as soft as a whisper, and it shattered my very soul.
Jade didn’t know my plans to overthrow my father, nor did she realize the brunt of my future should I fail. Trapped in Slovenia, betrothed to a distasteful vampire female. That future would be nothing compared to my punishment should my father defeat me.
“Surely, you must know—” I broke off, feeling as if I had dropped from a precipice to my impending doom. “Gods, you must know, Jade—”
Catching my words in her mouth, her kiss grew aggressive as she fought to surrender to fate’s hands, pulling the two of us together. In her hasty desire to consume me, her bottom lip caught on my fang, tearing the skin until a single drop of scarlet blood pooled against her mouth.
We froze, though her eyes glittered with resolve as she closed the distance between us, offering another part of her. Though I refused to bite her, I licked the bead of blood away, groaning at the delectable taste that filled me with a desire for more.
Frenzied, I dragged Jade towards the worktop bench, and with my forearm, knocked empty pots and tools the ground with a clang of shattered ceramic. Dirt streaked over my fine shirt, but I cared little as I spun her to face the bench, bending her over until her pert ass beckoned my hands for a closer feel.
Her jeans were unbuttoned and hanging loosely around her knees before she could lift her head from the wooden worktop. She sucked in a heady breath and angled her hips so I could remove her pretty, navy lace panties, leaving her bare. The warmth of the greenhouse kept out the winter chill, but her skin broke out in goosebumps as I reached a hand around waist, brushing my fingers past her sweater to cup her breasts.
Squeezing them together, I pinched her nipples through the material, and she let out a whining keen I felt through my entire body. My cock ached to be inside her, to finally have her the way I had dreamed, but first I would make her come around my fingers, readying her body for me.
When I released her pebbled nipples, she sagged against my chest, reaching her arms around my neck and turning her head for another kiss. Silvery eyes fluttered shut as I moaned against her lips, my tongue expertly stroking hers until she wiggled her bared ass against my trousers.
“Naughty,” I breathed against her cheek, savoring the hint of her blood still lingering on my palate.
“Only for you,” she responded with enough honesty to make my fangs snap possessively.
My greedy hands grasped at her body, one trailing down to her drenched core, while the other clasped her throat gently, returning her mouth to mine for another kiss. I teased and glided the tips of my fingers over her flesh until she mewled into my mouth.
Not relenting my conquest, I cupped her, nearly falling to my knees at the hot, pulsating desire coating my palm. I rubbed the roughness of my skin from her throbbing clit to her opening, massaging as I bit down on her ear lobe. “I want to fuck you just like this. Surrounded by our favorite plants, the smell of dirt and life surrounding us. Please let me take you like this, Jade.”
She nodded frantically, her eyes rolling backward as I made a grinding pass against her clit once more. “Yes,please fuck me. I need it too, Alexei.”
The hand wrapped around her throat dropped, searching for my zipper when we heard it.
Shattered glass and then a cacophony of laughter, not far from the greenhouse. I nearly cursed, my forehead falling to her shoulder as I reminded myself that hunting and killing a group of teenagers for trespassing in the middle of the night would not garner me any favors with my witch.
Jade snorted a laugh into the crown of my hair and reached past the arm bracketing her hips to pull up her jeans. I made a noise of protestation, but she turned and kissed my lips before pouting prettily. “Poor baby. Nearly a week without sex. How ever have you managed?”
A smirk played at my lips as I let her drag me back into the cold. The teenagers were running through the fields, towards the neighboring farm, and I exhaled a steaming breath. “It’s been incredibly challenging, if you must know. Thanks for asking.”
When she broke into another peal of laughter, I picked her up into my arms and ran us back to the car, all the while watching her face as she grimaced. As I settled her into the car, buckling her seatbelt, I licked a slow path from her neck to her ear until all the creases of her amusement faded to blistering need.
“One day soon, witch, you’ll finally be all mine,” I promised darkly, until it sounded vaguely like a threat. “And when that night comes, you better be prepared to stay in my bed until sunrise.”
