His hands stroked up my behind to wrap around my waist, pulling me tighter against his arousal. His breath was hot on my ear as he kissed a hot path up my neck. "I wish to make love to you; I wish to join our bodies and minds in the manner of Moravians. If you tell me to stop, I will, but understand that I will likely die in the process."
I slid my fingers through his hair and licked his lips. I had no need to hesitate
He kissed me, his mouth taking possession in a way I had no objection to, scooping me up and carrying me to the mammoth bed, laying me down on cool satin sheets that rubbed erotically against my skin. He moaned as he followed me down on the bed, his hands and mouth stroking my breasts and belly until I was squirming with need.
"I'm sure foreplay is a very good thing, and I will be sure to appreciate it another time, but you know, I think right this moment I want something a little more substantial," I said, all without breathing. Christian was nibbling my belly, his hair trailing down my skin, leaving rivulets of fire behind. I squirmed against him as he looked down at the really personal part of me, then up to my face.
"Command me."
I blinked and squirmed a bit more. "What?"
"Tell me what you want me to do."
I made an exasperated noise. "This is your revenge, right? You want me to command you to make love to me? You want to hear the actual words?"
"I would know exactly what you want me to do, yes. I am yours. Tell me what you want of me."
I sighed. "Okay, fine, whatever. I command you to make love to me. There, are you happy now?"
"Make love to you how?"
I stopped stroking his arm and poked him in the shoulder. "Do I have to draw you a picture?"
He shook his head, causing his hair to feather out over my belly. I shivered and tried to will him up my body. "Just tell me what you want."
I rubbed my legs up alongside his legs, uncaring for the moment that the scars were plainly visible. "I want to feel you, all of you."
"Yes? Where?" he asked as he slid forward along my body until his mouth was level with my breasts. He paused to pay tribute to them. I arched my back and parted my legs wider, sliding them up his thighs.
"I want to feel you pressed against me."
He moved up until his mouth was on my collarbone. "And?"
His hands cupped my hips as he moved up higher, the hard length of him parting those delicate parts of me that I'd previously considered purely functional.
There was a delicious sort of stretching as my body accommodated his, and then he opened his mind to me, flooding me with the feelings of heat and tightness and overwhelming pleasure that he felt. I wrapped my legs around his hips as he started to move within me, kissing his neck and clutching at his back as every tiny little atom of my body joined with his in absolute ecstasy. I drowned in his pleasure and fed him my own, pushing us both higher as our bodies danced in a rhythm that left us both straining, moving to please ourselves, moving to please each other, pushing our bodies together harder and faster until I felt us bursting into a white blaze of rapture. I heard Christian sing my name just before his teeth pierced the flesh beneath my ear. I arched against him, still locked in our shared orgasm, driven past that point by the exultation he felt as he feasted on my blood. What should have been a forbidden, repulsive act was instead erotic, wild, carnal, and built within me a need I hardly dared put a name to.
His tongue was hot on my neck, pulling me back from the euphoria our joining had brought.
I lay trembling with wonderful little aftershocks, holding tightly to him, reveling in his ragged breath and heaving chest, warm and safe and for the first time in my life, truly at peace.
He lifted his head and looked down at me, his lips brushing a gentle salute on mine, his eyes burning red and gold and brown, more variations of color than I'd thought existed. Slowly, ever so slowly, his lips curled up in an extremely smug, thoroughly male smile.
I bit his shoulder as he rolled us over. "You bit me."
"You bit me, as well."
"But I didn't guzzle down your blood."
"I did not guzzle, I never guzzle. I sipped. Carefully. Worshipfully. Gratefully."
I looked up from where my cheek was pressed against Christian's heart. The bed might be the very height of comfort, but he was
He smiled one of his patented lazy smiles. "Like a woman who doesn't know the depth of her own passion."
"Beast," I said, settling back down on his chest.