I ran my hands up and down her body, reassuring myself that she was okay. I shoved her shirt up, cupping her breasts over her bra, and kissed her again. When Cassie’s hands moved to my ass, I pushed them away.
“Keep your hands against the wall,” I ordered, pressing them on either side of her hips.
Cassie’s eyes widened and I watched in fascination as her fangs appeared from between her lips. My mouth fused to hers, my fingers found the snap of Cassie’s pants, pulling down the zipper and shoving her pants off her hips. Then I dropped to my knees, dragging the fabric downward as I went. When I reached for her panties, Cassie tapped on my head.
“What are you doing?”
I landed a quick smack on her mound, then gave her pussy a little squeeze. “I told you to keep your hands on the wall.”
Against my hand I felt the flood of arousal my words elicited. I practically tore her underwear off her body, then freed her legs from her pants and tapped on her ankles in a silent command to spread her legs.
“I didn’t know you had a dominant side,” Cassie teased. “I like it.”
I didn’t recognize this side of myself. I was acting on instinct, and instinct that told me to claim her as mine.
My fingers gripped her thighs hard enough to bruise as I lowered my head to give her seam a long, slow lick. Cassie kept her hands on the wall as instructed, though I saw that her fingers had lengthened into sharp points, telling me that her vampire was close to the surface. I continued licking her up and down, exploring her folds with my tongue until she was rolling her hips off the wall, encouraging me to give her more.
I loved this feeling. Loved giving her pleasure. Loved tasting her cream on my lips and knowing it was all for me.
Releasing her leg, I slid two fingers inside her opening, giving her a few pumps as I waited for her inner muscles to relax. As soon as they did, I added a third finger and began fucking her hard with my fingers while I circled her clit with my tongue.
“Fuck. Mate. That feels so good. I’m close.”
The words sounded like they were ripped from Cassie’s throat. But it wasn’t enough. I needed to possess her. Needed to know that she was here with me, that she was okay, that she was mine. So I did something I’d never done in my life – I trailed the fingers of my free hand in between her ass cheeks. When I inserted the tip of one finger into her back opening Cassie completely came apart.
“That’s right, come for me.”
I watched from beneath my eyelashes as she detonated, violently shaking against the wall, her hips punching forward as her head rolled from side to side.
“Ruby. Mate.”
Then she was coming so hard the words died in her throat. I continued to tease her with my fingers while I sucked her clit into my mouth, biting down softly. That set off another round of shaking. Cassie made a sound deep in her chest, part moan, part growl, and it was so primal I almost came on the spot.
When I’d finally wrung as much pleasure from her body as I could, I slowly moved my hands away from her and sat back on my heels. It took at least thirty seconds before she garnered the strength to open her eyes and look down at me. She looked almost shellshocked.
“Well, if I wasn’t already in love with you, that would have done it,” she joked weakly.
Her legs seemed to give out, and she slid down the wall, sitting in front of me with her knees pulled up to her chest and her breath coming in rapid bursts.
“You love me?” I asked, feeling the strangest sense of elation.
“Isn’t it obvious?”
“Not to me. I didn’t know you had feelings for me. I thought you were just following your vampire’s instincts.”
Cassie took both my hands in hers and stared me dead in the eye. “I love you Ruby. Not because my vamp recognizes you as her mate, but because the human side of me is head over heels for you. There will never be another woman for me as long as I live.”
My mouth dropped open at her sweet declaration. I licked my lips, took a deep breath and spoke my truth. “I love you too.”
This time when we kissed it was less frantic, more sweet, a confirmation of our declarations of love.
“I, uh, I’d like to reciprocate, but I really need to do some work,” Cassie said regretfully. “Lois will have my ass if I don’t file my report in the next hour.”
“Go ahead and work,” I said, popping to my feet and giving her a hand up. “I’m in the middle of a really good book right now. I’m going to chill out for a while and read, then I’ll grill us some chicken for dinner. After dinner, you can have me for dessert. How does that sound?”
Cassie’s smile lit up her face. “That sounds great.”
We were all on edge for the next few weeks, but whoever was behind the attacks on women’s soccer players, they were laying low. The feds hadn’t gotten any more information from the wolf who’d tried to shoot us in Centralia, and despite diligent searching on the Dark Web, Wanda and the other agents werecoming up blank on any leads. The only thing we knew for sure was that only the U.S. team was being targeted. None of the other teams had reported any issues.
