Blake's Pursuit (Scanguards Vampires, #11)(84)
Blake removed the ring from the box and slipped it on her finger, tossing the box aside. Then he pulled her to him and captured her lips for a tender, but altogether too brief, kiss. Resting his forehead against hers, he said, “I’m not done yet. There’s another question I need to ask you.”
Her mind immediately went back to her conversation with Delilah and Nina. She knew what was on Blake’s mind.
“The answer to that question is yes.”
He moved his head back, looking at her. “How could you know what I wanted to ask you?”
She smiled, and ran her fingers through his hair. “Every time you sink your fangs into me, I sense it. Besides, your friends told me enough to know what a vampire who asks a woman to marry him, truly craves.”
“And that doesn’t frighten you?”
“I love your bite.”
“But the bond is more than just a bite. You’ll drink my blood, too. And then there’s the telepathic bond.”
“Telepathic bond?” Neither Delilah nor Nina had mentioned anything about that.
“Yes, a way for the bonded couple to communicate without speaking.”
She smiled. “Doesn’t every couple in love communicate without speaking?”
He chuckled. “Oh, I’m sure some of them do. But this is different. It’s like hearing the other person’s thoughts. You wouldn’t be able to hide much from me at all. Nor I from you. We wouldn’t have any secrets from each other.”
Lilo leaned into him. “I’d like that.”
“A bond is forever. Only death will sever it.”
She kissed a path along his jaw to his ear, then down his neck. “Forever sounds good.”
“I wouldn’t be able to tolerate bottled blood any longer. You’d have to let me feed from you every day.”
She moved to the other side of his neck, planting kisses along his pulsing vein. “Only if you make love to me every day.”
A moan rolled over his lips. “I have no problem with that. But we should make sure you get on the pill for a while.”
She lifted her head and looked at him. “Why?”
“I won’t be sterile anymore once you complete your first menstrual cycle after the bonding. And as much as I’d like to feel your belly grow with my child, I want you to myself for a while first.”
His words made her heart expand even more. “You’ll make a wonderful father.”
He laughed, and she suddenly found herself on her back with Blake hovering over her. “I’ll make an even better husband and lover. How about I start right now?”
“I’m up for that.” She reached down between his legs. “And apparently so are you.”
He tugged at her nightgown, shoving it higher. “Now: I can either rip this flimsy thing to shreds and buy you a new one, or you could lift your arms and take it off. What’s it gonna be, baby?”
She shivered at the thought of his first suggestion and met his eyes, her lips parting.
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Blake shuddered when he looked into Lilo’s face, realizing what she’d chosen. Heat spread in his body and shot into his fully erect cock.
“You’re one naughty girl, but who am I to deny you anything?” He willed the fingers of his right hand to turn into claws. “So you want it wild?”
Her chest heaved, and her hard nipples pressed against the thin fabric. She licked her lips, making him moan in response.
“I want you, the man and the vampire,” she said, arching toward him.
In response, he sliced through her nightgown, cutting it off her body, while letting the back of his claws slide against her smooth skin. When she shivered, satisfaction filled him. Lilo would make the perfect mate.
“I love you, Lilo,” he murmured against her lips, and drove his cock into her welcoming *, before he took her lips and kissed her.
Just as in the previous days and nights he’d spent with her, he found his rhythm and the perfect angle to give Lilo the pleasure she craved. With every thrust of his erection, his pelvic bone rubbed against her clit, teasing moans and sighs from Lilo’s lips. Moans he now captured with his mouth.
To see what he could give her filled him with pride, and that feeling made his cock swell even more and his balls begin to burn with the need for release. But today would be different from the other times they’d made love. Today they would truly join and become one.
Breathing hard, he released her lips and looked at her. He would never get enough of what he saw: a woman on the verge of ecstasy. When her eyes met his, he smiled at her and slowed his strokes.
“It’s time,” he murmured, and she nodded.
Again he let his fingers turn into claws. With one of them he sliced into his shoulder. Blood dripped from it.
“Drink from me, Lilo,” he demanded and lowered himself to bring his shoulder to her lips.
When her lips touched his skin and her tongue licked up the blood, he shuddered. His hips began to pump, driving his cock hard into her.
“More!” he cried out.
She laid her mouth over the incision and sucked.
“Oh God, yes!” This was what he’d been craving ever since he’d met her: that she’d drink his blood and take him into her, accepting him fully.
Thrusting in a steady rhythm now, he lowered his face to her neck. His fangs were already extended, and when he rubbed them against her skin, a jolt went through him. He pierced her skin a second later and drove his sharp canines into Lilo’s flesh.