Page 42 of Cooper’s Passion

He leaned in. “You’re not strong enough. If you can’t beat me, you can’t beat him.”

“Oh, I can beat you.”

The challenge in her eyes was clear. He braced himself for the next countermeasure. Instead of pulling away from him, she leaned in closer. A moment later, her hands were on his pants, and she was opening the button and lowering the zipper.

“Fuck!” This time he was the one who cursed. “That’s playing dirty.”

When she shoved his pants down and pulled his boxer briefs away from his body, he knew he’d lost. His cock was already readying itself for her touch, and there was nothing he could do to prevent it, except for letting go of her shoulders and pushing her away from him. By now his cock was out of its confines and hard as a crowbar.

Anita smirked. “Looks like I won.”

“That’s not a win!” He ran a hand over his head. “Damn it, Anita! Don’t you get it? I don’t want you to be in danger. I want to protect you.”

“No, you want to control me! You want to tell me what to do! And I’m not gonna let you do that!”

He let out a sigh, dropping his shoulders. He wished he could tell her the truth of what kind of creature she was up against, that the killer was a vampire, but he couldn’t.

“Anita, I know you probably won’t believe me, because I barely believe it myself, but I have feelings for you.” He raised his eyes to meet hers. “I’m falling hard and fast. For you. Or why do you think I offered you to stay with me? I’ve never done that before. I’ve never had a woman live with me, or even just stay with me temporarily. But you… damn it, when we met, I realized immediately that I have no defenses against you. You just get under my skin. You might think I’m crazy, because we don’t really know each other, but when I’m with you, I just want to have more of you.” He shook his head, looking away to the deserted street beyond the windshield. “I’m not trying to control you. I’m trying to protect you, because I couldn’t live with myself if I let anybody hurt you.”

Suddenly there wasn’t a sound inside the car other than the sound of two people breathing.

When she didn’t move and didn’t say anything for a few very long seconds, he said, “Now you’ll probably want to move into a hotel, because I sound like an obsessed stalker.”

What had come over him to make this kind of confession? He’d made everything worse now. Independent women like Anita didn’t like possessive men. But vampires and vampire hybrids were inherently possessive when they found their mates. And he knew he’d found his. But he’d screwed it up.

All of a sudden, he felt a warm hand on his thigh. He turned his head and looked into Anita’s flushed face. Her anger was gone. Her lips were soft and inviting, her jaw relaxed. She leaned closer, their faces only inches from one another.

“You have feelings for me?”

He nodded. “I thought it was obvious. It’s not like I can hide that.”

Her hand on his thigh was moving until it made contact with his cock. The contact made him jolt. Slowly, she wrapped her hand around his erection. He closed his eyes, the sensation so intense that his fangs itched to descend. When he opened his eyes again, Anita dropped her head into his lap.

“Fuck!” he hissed, just as her breath blew against his sensitive skin and her lips wrapped around the tip of his shaft, imprisoning him in her warm mouth.

“Baby, you don’t have to—”

But she’d already taken him as deep as she could. He let out an uncontrolled moan and pressed his head back against the headrest. He hadn’t expected this, not after their fight, and certainly not in the car. After all, they weren’t teenagers who had no other place to go. But fuck, if he didn’t find it electrifying that Anita was blowing him in the car. And this was no mechanical blow job. The way she licked her tongue along his cock, and sucked him with such skill, was more than just a little arousing. He wished he could move a little to shove his pants farther down, but there was no space. He was wedged in and at Anita’s mercy.

Her soft moans bounced against his hard flesh, sending shudders down his spine. Cooper put his hands around her head, gently pulling her back and making her slow down, knowing he would come in a few seconds if she continued with this pace.

“Baby, ease off a little, or I’ll spill.”

She raised her head until only the tip of his erection was still captured between her red lips, and looked up at him from under her lashes. He’d never seen a more tantalizing sight.

“Fuck, you’re beautiful,” he murmured and caressed her face. “If you were wearing a skirt, I’d lift you onto my lap right now and fuck you until we’re both delirious.”

She locked eyes with him, and slid back down on his erection as if to thank him for his words. Her sucking motion felt more intense now, and with every descent and every withdrawal he edged closer to his climax. But he still possessed a few thin threads of his self-control. He didn’t want to presume that she would let him come in her mouth, and he didn’t want to be selfish, so he pulled her up.

“Didn’t you like it?” she whispered, her lips looking swollen and even more kissable than before.

“I loved it, every single second. I’ve never felt anything better than your lips around my cock.” He pressed his lips to hers and kissed her passionately, dancing with her tongue, exploring the wet cave that had been home to his cock only a few seconds earlier. He brushed one hand over her torso, caressing her breasts through her top, pleased to be greeted by hard nipples. How he loved an aroused woman in his arms. He released her lips and pressed his forehead to hers, breathing hard.

“While I still have a few working brain cells, I think we should go home, so I can rip your clothes off you and sink my cock into you.”

Anita sounded just as breathless. “I’m not done sucking you.”

“We’re only a couple of minutes from the house.”

She looked outside, then back at him. “There’s not a lot of traffic.” She glanced down at his cock, which still stood upright as firmly as a flagpole.

“No, there isn’t.” His heartbeat accelerated again, guessing what she was implying. “And I know the route in my sleep.”

Cooper put the car back in drive and pressed down the gas pedal, merging onto the empty street. Anita lowered her head back to his lap and took him back into her mouth, sucking him, while she gripped him tightly around the root.