He expected her to pull away, but instead, she closed her eyes and continued to work him with her hand and mouth. Jack gave himself over to her and came with a low groan.
Charlie pulled away from Jack and smiled at him when he gazed at her from heavy-lidded, red eyes. She’d just given him some release, but he continued to stare at her like she was the prey he planned to devour, and she was more than willing to let it happen.
Her gaze fell to his neck. The beat of his heart sounded like a drumbeat in her ears, and before she could stop them, her fangs extended again. Saliva filled her mouth as the compulsion to taste him hit her.
Gripping her arms, Jack pulled her into his lap until she was straddling him. He grasped his erection and guided it to her entrance. He resisted the impulse to shout as her tight sheath enveloped him.
Settled fully onto him, Charlie held Jack’s eyes while she remained unmoving on top of him. Having him inside her not only sent shivers down her spine, but it also felt so right that she couldn’t move as she gazed into his reddened eyes. She barely knew this man who had literally fallen into her life, yet he’d somehow become a part of her.
Wrapping his hand around the back of her head, he pulled her toward him and kissed her as she rose and fell against him. The sensation of his shaft sliding in and out of her made her tremble as a feeling of rightness built within her.
When Jack bit her lip again and drew her blood into him, she pushed her hips against his. As he consumed more of her blood, the strength of it flooding his system healed him faster. When he released his bite on her lip, Charlie broke the kiss and leaned back. Jack slid his arms around her waist and flattened his palms in the small of her back as she rode him. He savored the beauty of her lithe body before bending his head to take one of her nipples into his mouth.
Charlie gasped when his fangs scraped her breast. Anticipation stole through her as she waited for him to bite, but he didn’t. She gripped the back of his head, pulling him closer.
“Please,” she whimpered. She needed to feel his fangs sinking into her flesh as they had earlier. “Please.”
Jack instinctively knew what she was pleading for, and unable to resist the allure of her blood, he sank his fangs into her. Her blood flooded his mouth as she cried out and her sheath clenched around him before he pulled out of her to come.
Small tremors continued to shake her as Jack released his bite on her. Feeling boneless, Charlie slumped against him and rested her head on his shoulder. She was still in his arms, still covered in the scent of him, but something was missing.
She craved somethingmore.
Then the tempting rush of his blood pumping through his veins filled her ears. Saliva filled her mouth. She couldn’t recall the last time she fed; after everything they’d been through and giving her blood to Jack, she was famished.
She wanted his blood with a desperation she’d never experienced before. But she realized it was more than hunger propelling her compulsion to feed on him; it was also a primal urge to be closer to him, to bind with him, and to… claim her mate.
The realization knocked the breath from her, and for a second, she couldn’t think beyond her compulsion to drink his blood. She was desperate to claim this man as hers, but how could she when they barely knew each other?
According to Jack, she would be binding herself to him for an eternity if they exchanged blood. They hadn’t been on a date, but killing together was probably a better way of getting to know a person than dinner and a movie.
After what Jack told her about the mate bond and the intensity of her yearning for him, she suspected it might already be too late for them. They’d stumbled into this with each other, and now she was fumbling for some control, but there was none.
The first few days after her change, she had some difficulty controlling her vampire nature, but nothing like this. How could she bind herself to someone she didn’t love and who didn’t love her?
Jack hadn’t mentioned love once throughout all of this, but he’d stood by her side and proven time and again she could rely on him. Chad would have tossed her aside and run screaming at the first hint of danger; Jack had been shot three times and still refused to release her as he swam to shore.
Love or not, Jack would stand by her side and support her for the rest of her life. The rational side of her, the one burned far too many times, screamed at her to use caution, but her instincts told her this was right.
Jack felt the sudden tension in her body and sensed the hunger emanating from her. He could practically feel the battle she waged within herself, and when she released a whimper of distress, he held her closer.
“It’s okay,” he whispered. “I’ll never push you into anything. I’m going to do everything in my power to make you happy every day for the rest of our lives together if you’ll let me. Maybe we don’t know each other well, but we’ll have plenty of time to get to know each other once we’re off this island, and Iamgetting you and Dylan out of here. If you want my blood, take it.”
Her fingers dug into his shoulder as her rapid inhalations tickled his neck. Jack held his breath while he willed her to bite him. Heneededto experience what it was like to have her feeding from him, but he didn’t move as he let her figure this out for herself.
The idea of tasting him had her blood thrumming with excitement. Maybe she could have just a little taste to ease this burning in her veins and sate her curiosity, but what would happen if she did?
She was so ravenous she didn’t care what the consequences were anymore.
When her lips touched his throat and her fangs scratched his flesh, he became rock hard again. Then her fangs pierced his flesh and sank into his vein. Excitement clamored through him when he scented his blood, and she released a sound somewhere between a moan and a sigh.
His blood was strengthening her, and the knowledge of that almost made him shout his joy, but he held it back as her joy vibrated against him. Adjusting her in his lap, he thrust into her. His head and heart pounded with the thrill of having his mate feeding on him while he claimed her body.Mine.
And he knew there would be no stopping the bond now; she was his, and she would be for eternity.
Charlie had only wanted a taste of Jack’s blood, but the second it hit her tongue, something unraveled in her and she cravedmore. She drank from him in deep pulls that eased her hunger as a new one flared to life again. Desire built within her as Jack gripped her hips and guided her against him.
Then she felt his fangs against her shoulder, and a second later they sank into her flesh. Charlie screamed against his throat when she felt their souls intertwining as surely as their bodies joined together. He was a part of her, she was a part of him, and there would never be any separating them again.
