“You mean for him to start flaying me alive?”He shook his head and told her any harm.“I don’t understand.I know what harm means, but not the way that you’re saying it.”He picked up her hand and showed her the nail she’d just painted.
“If he would break a nail, muss up your hair, anything at all that causes you distress, I will tear him apart.I can too.Once he touches a hair on your head, he will be dead, the same as if he were to break a nail.And as far as him getting to you to harm you in that heinous of ways, there will be no hole deep enough, no cave thick enough for him to hide from me.I promise you this with the love that I already have for you.”She looked into his face and saw it there.The anger that would accompany him trying to harm her.She saw his beast, his monster too.“I would never harm you, Kimber.Never again.”
“I want to see him.Your other half.”He didn’t move when she asked him that.“Are you afraid to show me?I need to know what I’m going to be seeing in David if he comes around.”
“My monster won’t look like David’s.I’ll show you, but he’ll have the appearance of something more grotesque because of what he’s done to himself.”She asked if he meant killing.“Yes.The more he kills, the more monstrous he gets.He’ll be darker, his eyes will be redder than mine when I’m angry.Not to say that I couldn’t win a fight between us because I’m more powerful.But he’s more ofa monster than I’ll ever be.”
“You could lose to him then.I mean, he’s had more practice killing than you have, so he’s going to be better at it.”He told her it would never come to that.“I worry now.What if he takes you on and you’re not mean enough to kill him?What happens to you if he can get the better of you?”
“I die.”She didn’t like how final that sounded and told him so.“I don’t know what else to tell you.If he does get the better of me, I want you to go to Brew and swear an alliance with him.He’ll protect you from then on.”
He stood up then, and she watched him.As he shook his whole body, she noticed the changes in him.His body elongated.As did his nails.As he grew bigger before her, she could see other changes as well.He became gaunt, and his skin darkened.Before, he was at least six foot five inches.Now he was over that and more.He looked to be towering over her at least as much as two more feet.Standing up, she touched her fingers to his face.
“You’re cold.”He slurred his words, his fangs reaching well below his lower lip, and told her that he was a monster.“I don’t see that.I know that you could be, but I think you’re beautiful.”
“Beautiful?I would have thought that you’d be terrified of him.”She told him that he’d not hurt her, and she believed him.“I’m going to shift back now.Be careful of him.”
When he was just Rance again, she could still see bits of the monster he’d been.She still wasn’t afraid of him, but she wasn’t going to trust David when he became his monster.She had a feeling that Rance had told her just enough about the man that she’d be afraid but not enough that she’d know the real him.She was terrified either way, but at least she had an idea what to expect.
They stood together, and all she could think about was that she was his mate.And that someday, perhaps not as far off as she’d thought, they’d be in love.Having sex with the big vampire was scary, but she found herself ready for that as well.
“What are you thinking about?”She told him.Not sure if she could lie to him either, but she told him she’d been thinking about sex.“I’ll be careful with you.I know that you’re not a virgin, but you’ve never had sex like we’ll have.I’ll bite you too.And feed from you.If you’d like, you can feed from me as well.”
“I think I’d like that too.”She shivered at the thought of him sinking his fangs into her skin.“Would you like to make love to me now?I’m not sure I’m ready for biting you yet, but I am ready for us to be a couple.”
“You have to be sure.Because once I take you, there is no turning back between the two of us.”Her body felt warmed by his hands when they were on her shoulders.“Tell me what you want, Kimber, and I’ll give you everything and then some.”
“I want you.”He growled low in the back of his throat as he took her mouth.Wrapping her arms up and over his shoulders, she surrendered her all to him.As soon as he lifted his head, she looked deep into his eyes.There was something there that she’d never seen on a man before.Complete adoration.He really did love her, and she thought for sure that she might well love him too.“Rance, I love you.Very much so.”
“Turn around.”She did so with his help and felt his hands on her breasts.“I’m going to take your clothing off one piece at a time and see the wonders that I’ve dreamed about.”
He unbuttoned her blouse and left it hanging on her shoulders.As he put his hands on her waist, she leaned back against him and closed her eyes.His hands were warm, and she knew that he was making her skin warmer still.As he bent her neck, sliding it to the side, she felt his fangs scrape ever so gently across her pulse.When he licked the area there, she could feel her heart pounding and her need for him ramp up.Even before he bit her in her throat, she knew that she was going to come and come hard.However, nothing could have prepared her for the way that she fought with blindness for several moments, and suddenly everything went black when he drew hard on her throat.
~*~
Rance hadn’t meant to render her unconscious, but holding her limp form in his hands gave him such a thrill that he lifted her up higher even as he sealed the wounds at her throat.Picking her up in hisarms, he took them both to the bedroom he’d been using, the master suite, and laid her gently onto the bed.She never stirred for several moments, but he wasn’t worried.He could hear her heart beating steadily, and her breathing was normal.When she looked at him, he felt such love pour over him that he thought that he could die right now and never would he have been a happier man.
“I’m sorry.”He asked her for what.“I passed out from just you taking my blood.It was epic, don’t get me wrong, but I didn’t mean for that to happen.”
“Neither did I, but I loved it.”He grinned at her.“You came so nicely that it made your blood all the more spicy for me.I’d love to do that again, but maybe not right now.Now I want to make love to you.”
“I’d very much like that too.”He got on the bed with her, and she sat up.“I should just remove my clothing now, don’t you think?”
“Whatever you wish to do.I’m going to watch you remove them, too.”He helped her stand next to the bed and helped steady her.Once she was standing upright, he let her go to watch her take off her blouse.It had blood on it, but that wouldn’t last all that long.As soon as it was in the sunlight, it would disappear.He told her that.“So nothing that we get blood on will be ruined; however, I’m not going to be responsible for your clothing should you take too long in taking them off.”
She teased him in taking them off.Once she had her blouse off, she unhooked her belt and took it from the loops quickly.Dropping it to the floor with the blouse, he leaned back on the bed and watched her do away with the rest of her clothing.Her pants were next, along with her shoes and socks.When she stood before him in just her bra and pantie set, he sat up to pull her closer to him.
“This is more beautiful than I thought it would be.”She put her hands on his shoulders as he licked his way from her navel to her breasts.Taking off the bra, he dropped it to the floor and suckled on each of her pert nipples back and forth.She was to die for, and if he didn’t get inside of her soon, he was going to have to take matters into his own hands.Ripping off her panties, he tossed them across the room and near the pile of the rest of her clothing.
“That feels so good.”He cupped her ass in his hands and brought her closer.When her breasts were at his mouth, he fed from them both at the same time by pushing them up and together.“I need to come again, Rance.Please?”
“Yes, my love, soon.”He slid his hands down from her ass to her pussy.It was wet and hot, the smell of it so strong that when he inhaled deeply, he was sure he was taking a part of her inside of him.“You smell of flowers and roses.Of the sweetest nectar I’ve ever smelled.I can’t wait to taste you here.”
“Oh yes, that’s what I want.You to eat me.”He lifted her up with his magic and had her pussy right at his mouth.Licking it gently, he was rewarded with copious amounts of cream that he wanted more of.Burying his mouth over her pussy and clit, he bit down on her gently and heard her scream out his name.It was everything that he hoped it would be.
Guiding her to the bed, he laid her out for him.She was gloriously naked, and he couldn’t have been happier.Situating himself on the bed so that he was between her legs, he leaned down and took her into his mouth again.Even as he laid down between her thighs, he drank deeply of her, never letting a drop of her cream miss his mouth.It was better than blood; it filled his cells so well.He thought that he might never feed again so long as he could have her like this.He ate at her pussy for as long as he could.She said, nay begged him for more.
“I’m going to fuck you, and when I do, I’m going to bite you.”Yes, she screamed out, begging once again for him to take her.“I would love for you to drink from me.I’ll open my chest over my heart and feed you until you’re all mine.”
