His eyes immediately found her.
Hers zeroed in on him while she blinked against the sudden light, soft as it was.
Looking out from the darkness around her, her eyes seemed impossibly bright.A toasted-golden sun.They were shot wide.Her hair was free of its plaits, loose in waves as wild as she was.The points of her fangs dragged along her plump bottom lip, slowly, drawing his gaze.Then again.Sharp, white tips scraping against soft, cherry skin, her breaths still coming in rough pants.
She looked and smelled likehunger.A woman as beautiful and provocative as this one had probably never suffered hunger a day in her life.
She also smelled like … his eyes jumped to where she sat at the edge of the bed, just as her thighs spread wide for him.
Though her long skirt covered most of her legs, he could scent her.Her arousal smelled like …like coming home.
The thought arrived before he could stop it.It was stupid enough to shake him from the influence she too easily wielded over him.He steeled himself against her.Pretended not to smell her wetness in the air.It was a flower’s nectar.
And he wanted to feast.
He growled at his rogue thoughts.At himself.
“Are you finally ready to feed?”
His eyes followed the movement of her throat as she swallowed.Her neck was a long, smooth, soft column of tanned skin, perfect for him to sink his fangs into.
His dick stirred again.Careful not to reveal that he was doing it because he needed to carve out distance between them, he took half a casual step back.
“Feed from you, you mean?”she said.
Her voice was raspy with need.No, it washusky, for fuck’s sake.
His eyes bored into hers.“Yes.”He willed her to say the same.
When she only licked her lips, he asked, “Well?Do you want to keep going hungry, or do you want to give in to the inevitable?”Fuck, what all did he mean by that?He refused to examine it.“It’s only a matter of time till you cave.”
She swallowed again.Licked her lips another time, a fang catching on her tongue.
“I don’t cave,” she said.
“Neither do I.”
“We’ll see about that.”
“I guess we’ll see about all of it.”
When she glowered at him, he glared right back.When her nostrils flared, so did his.
And when her arousal further scented the cold air, he feared his did too.
Chapter34
Just … Him
The scent of his arousal filled my nostrils—then it was all I could smell.
Hewas all I could smell.All I could sense.All I wanted to feel.
My hunger—so profound, so all-consuming—shifted from desire for his blood to a desire forhim.Just … him.
I growled, feeling more like a savage creature than I had since waking in my underwater tomb.
I shouldn’t be feeling anything for him but loathing.My body couldnotbe betraying me like this!
