A heavy feeling settled inside his womb, so foreign that he whined when Thorn’s fingers seemed to brush the head of the opening. The combination of Thorn sucking on his nipple and the finger’s touching him so deeply made his cock jerk and leak over Thorn. He groaned in complaint when the hot ball of need unraveled inside him.
“I don’t wanna come like this,” Ledger panted, perilously close to coming. “Fuck me,” he pleaded, then whined when the fingers slipped free of his body. It was all too much and yet not enough. Nothing was happening fast enough to quell his desire.
Teeth dragged over his nipple before releasing it to a loud mewl. “Shush, I got you Sweetling. I’ll give you everything you want.” Thorn cupped his hands under Ledger’s ass, squeezing gently, and before he could support himself, water splashed overthe rim of the tub as he hovered over the large shaft beneath him, poking skyward. “Everything you need, Sweetling.”
Tell him to shift!
Huh…
Shift. Tell him to shift, his squirrel shouted inside his head, making him blink repeatedly and shake his head. He tried to clear his lusty thoughts so he could understand why he was getting shouted at.
When it registered, Ledger groaned anew, heat coursing through him at what his animal side wanted. He couldn’t say why he wanted it too, now his animal had put the thought in his head, but he did.
“Can… c-can… fuckk…” his throat became dry as the head of Thorn’s shaft pressed against his asshole, sending riotous sensations flooding his blood stream. He’d experienced many things with Thorn during sex, but not this level of force. He couldn’t even comprehend the difference, just that he felt he was coming apart at the seams somehow. That he needed Thorn to sew him back together.
Fangs grazed over the hammering pulse as Ledger’s throat. “What do you need?”
His animal became more present in his mind. “Your winged side,” he gasped, shuddering as the teeth pierced his flesh once more.
Chapter Ten
Thorn
With the hunger clouding his thoughts, it took Thorn a moment to register what Ledger was asking for. He trembled as he pulled away, searching Ledger’s expression.
“You don’t know what you are asking for,” he murmured, struggling to remain in human form as a hunger stared back at him that matched his own.
Desperation came through their link at his denial. It poured over Thorn’s desire like gasoline, making it impossible to not react. “Sweetling—”
“Do it,” Ledger begged, fighting against Thorn’s hold to impale himself on his shaft.
He tried to swallow but his throat burned with the craving to give Ledger everything he was. Would it scare him? A part of Thorn felt conflicted at what his mate was asking for, what it could mean for them. It could change everything. Thorn knew what mating with a dhampir in his true form did to a female. It allowed her to conceive. For Ledger, he wasn’t sure. The logical part of his brain shouted at him that this should be a discussion had when the hunger to mate wasn’t clouding everything. Fighting past his need brought its own difficulty with Ledger begging him.
“Do it,” Ledger cried impatiently, struggling harder to get Thorn’s cock inside him.
Ledger, flushed and aroused, was a potent combination. But now, with how he begged and smelled, Thorn’s vampire soul craved that connection that only came when he was in his true form.
“Are you sure? There are so many things I haven’t explained,” he managed to ask past the hunger.
Was he going to do this without talking first?
“Yes. Yes. Yes,” Ledger chanted manically, withering in Thorn’s hold. “It won’t change what I want, I swear. Please give me what I want.” There, in his eyes, was his animal, and Thorn groaned as his resistance melted away and he answered his own question.
Unable and unwilling to deny Ledger anything, Thorn rose out of the water, and it streamed down his naked body as he held Ledger like he weighed nothing. He needed space and the bath, though large, would not allow for his wings to unfurl.
“Wraps your legs around my hips,” he demanded in a silky-smooth tone that got Ledger obeying immediately.
The eagerness its own aphrodisiac. Slippery skin rubbed over Thorn’s as Ledger hooked his legs over his hip bones and squeezed eagerly. Thorn’s cock sat under Ledger’s slick backside and rubbed enticingly over his flesh.
His teeth pressed into his lip as he stepped out of the tub, the enormity of what was about to happen rendering his legs a little less steady than he’d have liked. Water dripped unnoticed onto the marble floor and candles as Thorn watched Ledger for any sign of a freakout as the two distinct sides of him merged into one.
Thorn became a creature fiercer and more stunning than any other, whom nobody on the planet could compete with, dominate or control. Yet the man he carefully held in his arms, who wore nothing but a look of love, had done it with just a few words.
Thorn and his brothers kept the two parts of themselves separate, a necessity to prevent others from discovering their existence. Although he had revealed a part of himself to Ledger on that one occasion, there was a deeper piece of him that remained hidden. His human side was present through their first encounter. What Ledger was asking for, whether he knew it or not, was for Thorn to become one with his vampire side. Thorn had less control like this, yet the physical act of merging both parts of himself came naturally. Through it, Ledger clung tighter to him, stroking a hand over his shoulder blades to where his wings emerged.
Acceptance. Excitement. Love. They held Thorn’s soul as he became what many had feared—vampire.
The sunlight streaming through the window caught on the black feathers as Thorn’s wings unfurled in all their glory. He shook them for pleasure, enjoying the soft breeze rustling against them like a gentle caress. But more than that, he revelled in the exquisite joy coming from Ledger through their link, showing how much he loved them.
