EMBRY
Iwake entwined in the powerful arms of the sleeping dark lord. He keeps me held tightly against his chest. The sound of his rhythmic breathing fascinates me, calming my very soul. The vampire who’s given me his lifeblood many times, risked his life to find me and his career to be with me, if only in a casual but sexually gratifying way. Safe in every way possible it would seem.
No matter if I didn’t think he’d follow me back to the Mystic Forest after all Devora’s warnings of the past, or that he’d even be interested after all the chaos and unrest that I’ve caused. He followed me right back into the middle of the witches’ land, into the forbidden cavern to be with me. Held me and selflessly gave me his lifeblood when I so foolishly let myself wane.
The blood I drank thrums in my veins, racing with budding desire. I turn to wake him, but the dark sexy lord is more than awake, his dark eyes tinging with red, and pure sinful lust.
In one unexpected move, he rolls to be on top, caging me with his body, his arms on either side of me. His head lowers, and his mouth finds that sensitive flesh of my neck, kissing and nipping with his teeth until his fangs appear, gliding down thelength of my jugular and sending a wave of desire straight to my pussy as his hardness rubs against my mound.
His knee parts my thighs as his hands caress my breasts making them ache for far more than his touch. “So beautiful, love,” he whispers, taking first one tip and then the other between his warm lips, sending sprays of longing down the length of my spine. Never has it been like this for me. The foreplay not even needed, just always feral in our need for each other, our passion stoked by just even a look. My hips arch of their own accord seeking a release that I already so desperately need. “I want you, inside.”
Corvinus rubs his naked length against me, teasing me. “When I get you to Chicago, I’m going to take you to my club and teach you everything there is to know about anticipation. I’m going to make you beg.” I shift trying to get closer to his rod. “And when you think you can’t take anymore, I’m going to make you beg some more,” he growls, gathering wetness that leaks from my pussy before plunging right to the end of me.
This vampire fills me completely, sinking deep, leaving his kisses and bite marks all over my sensitive skin. The thought of being at his mercy in one of his clubs. Yeah, I’ve gotten all the 411 because Raven was more than happy to share the rumors of all his proclivities in the club. And those dark desires should scare me away, but instead they make my body thrum. A year with the dark-eyed lord in every sordid position that he demands. I want it all.
He slows his pace, excruciatingly slow when I want him to go faster and faster, giving me a smirk. Damn the dark-eyed devil all to hell. “Corvinus,” I moan.
“Tell me you want to play in my club, in my lower level, because I want to take you away from here tonight, tomorrow at the latest.” Fuck, with the powerful rod so deep inside, I wouldtell him anything right now but the way he’s looking at me, there’s something deep and primal in the mirrors of his soul.
“I’ll devour you, destroy you, and Embry I’ll never fucking let you go.”
I swallow through the emotion, my chest expanding with relief. I’m not the only one that’s feeling way more than a sexual connection here. “I’m not scared, vampire,” I whisper even though fear of getting hurt again causes my chest to ache.
Corvinus lets out a ferocious growl, plunging deep, thrusting right to the end of me with his powerful hips and thighs, hitting that special little button deep inside, time and time again until the climax building for so long explodes like shattered glass, sending white light behind my eyes as he sinks his fangs deep into the vein of my neck causing me to scream as he follows me over the edge.
He runsa finger lazily down my navel, twirling my navel ring with a finger. “I sent a message to Descallia and Romano letting them know that we’re fine. They’ve called an emergency meeting with the masters. I haven’t previously attended but given how involved I’ve been with this situation they’ve asked me to attend.
“They usually hold it in Rome, but I told them I’m heading back to Chicago in a few hours. There are far too many things that need to be dealt with quickly now that we’re as close to war with the witches as we’ve been in a long time. I need to get the dark lords convened, develop a strategy that they’ll approve for the warriors and then actively start putting a trustworthy team back together again.”
His eyes meet mine. I don’t have to say a word, because he says it for me. “This is where the conflict if any was always goingto occur.” He strokes my nape, gathering me to him. “I shouldn’t be in a relationship with you if your intent is to rejoin the warriors or special ops if we bring them back. It would be a huge impropriety, but I’m not losing you, Embry.”
“Okay,” I whisper on a gentle and trusting breath.
My heart beats wildly and I pray my heart’s not going to break again. His eyes meet mine. “We’re going back to Chicago, and while you work on trying to figure out the shadow books, I’ll deal with the warriors. In time, things will sort themselves out, okay?”
I nod. What am I supposed to say? I don’t want to give him up, but I sure as hell don’t want to give up being a warrior, that is if Overmaster Descallia can be persuaded to let me back on the team even after everything that has happened. “Sure, Chicago. We had a deal, right vampire?”
His dark black eyes meet mine with a gentleness that chokes me with emotion. “I told you once, I can read your thoughts as well as I can hear my own. We are connected in the universe, by some unknown force that so many vampires can use to communicate. Tell me what’s bothering you, love.”
I sigh. I made the mistake of not telling Lucas what I was feeling when I was feeling it and he was far less in tune to my feelings than Corvinus. We just didn’t connect on this level, like Gramma said, maybe we weren’t supposed to. “Gramma was a psychic. I’ve often thought I had the gift, but she confirmed it tonight along with everything that happened.”
He arches an eyebrow. “She was here again tonight and told you she wasn’t really alive?”
I sob on a breath because I really do want to tell him everything. “Something very close to that. She said I have the gift and that I was always meant to be the one to come back to the Mystic Forest and find the shadow books. I think what shemeant was to crack the code, to uncover the witches plan, and to safeguard the vampires.”
He kisses me tenderly on the lips. “That would not surprise me a bit. If your gramma was anything like you, she was fearless and from what I’ve heard about her she had a great love for our kind.”
I smile, trying to settle my nerves as I tell him the rest. “She was fearless. That is for sure. Gramma also told me something else, more disturbing.”
“I’m listening.”
“She said that Lucas was a good man in his day before the evil witches got to him and took his very soul away. That the witches will never stop until they destroy everything good in the world.
Gramma said that the witches put a spell on him, but that still even in that state he tried to protect me the best that he could.”
Corvinus is quiet, but his jaw tightens as I tell him what Gramma told me not that long ago. “I don’t think Lucas and I were ever meant to be. He was asked to protect me and he did, but Gramma’s right. He may have been attracted to me, but I was the one who pushed the relationship, asked for him to bring me into the vampire world, get me a job at Club Descallia.”
“That’s where you met Lucianna and Overmaster?” Corvinus asks.
