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He gently moved her panties to the side and stared at her for what felt like forever. Her cheeks heated in embarrassment, and she tried to close her knees together, but he growled, causing her to freeze and let her knees fall apart again.

Taking a deeper inhale, he reached out and dragged the tip of his index finger down her slit. She sucked in a breath. She was soaking wet for him, so when he ran two fingers over her sensitive bundle of nerves, her back arched and she moaned, her hands reaching out to grasp the covers. She was so sensitive.

The room fell away. Nothing mattered. Nothing existed. Not the fact that her life had been turned upside down, that she was in a school filled with Vasirian, or that her stepbrother still pursued her… none of it mattered. Her mind was lost to the pleasure Lukas brought upon her body.

She never felt anything like it before. The sounds her body made as he rubbed his fingers over her at a faster pace aroused every nerve ending in her body.

Blaire closed her eyes tightly and tried to stifle her moans by biting into her lower lip again, but it was no use. If she tried to silence herself, Lukas increased the pressure. She allowed herself to relax, giving in to the pleasure his touch brought her, her lip slipping from its bondage as once again a breathless moan filled the air without restraint.

Lukas’s breathing became ragged, and his composure slipped.

He didn’t stop, but he slowed down, moving his finger in languid strokes over her swollen folds as he raked his teeth over the thigh that didn’t have bruising. Kissing her skin, he moved his tongue over her warmed flesh before sucking gently, not enough to mark her, but enough to cause her legs to tremble.

Blaire didn’t mind if he did leave behind evidence of his lust—a mark she would proudly wear, a bruise she welcomed.

Lukas kissed over the spot on her thigh where he had been sucking as he worked his fingers further down, not yet breaching the entrance. The way he played her body, teasing her, was agony. Her heart played a staccato rhythm she wasn’t sure would ever calm, but she should have known.

As he ran his tongue up her inner thigh toward her warm center, his fangs grazed her skin. She gasped, her fear spiking and her thighs tensing up.

Lukas sank his teeth into her flesh at the same time as he slipped two fingers completely into her body in one quick thrust. She cried out as she fell over the edge of the orgasmic abyss she had been teetering on for so long. All the while, he drank from her greedily.

“Lukas…” she whispered as she came down from her high, as he continued to take from her. And then everything went dark.

Blaire suddenly woke, bolting upright in her bed, panting heavily and completely covered in sweat. She held onto her head as it spun, a sharp cramp in her stomach.

Confused, she glanced over at Lukas, who lay with his back to her in the same position as when they went to bed. Did she have another dream? Did she seriously just have another sex dream where Lukas bit her this time? She couldn’t wrap her mind around her conflicting impressions. She didn’t want to be bitten, but it felt so good. It felt too real to be a dream.

Shaking her head quickly, another wave of dizziness moved over her. She threw the covers down and examined her thigh.

Huh. No bite marks, blood… not even a hickey. But she felt so dizzy it made no sense it hadn’t been real. But she had gone two days without any real nutrition. She hadn’t eaten a lot since before they went to the movies, except for the couple of fries she managed to choke down at the diner and the junk food she shared with Lukas that evening. She heard an echo of her mother in her mind, “M&M’s aren’t a meal, Blaire.”

Between that, and the intensity of the dream, she shouldn’t be surprised she felt disoriented and dizzy. She shifted, and realized her panties were damp beneath her shorts. Glancing over at Lukas’s bare back, she blushed. He had been so perfect with his slow torture of her body. She wanted so much more. A shame it wasn’t real. She always woke feeling disappointed the fantasy world didn’t line up with reality.

She slowly climbed out of bed and stumbled to the bathroom, only to discover that once again her cycle had come. Changing her panties, she bagged them for laundering later, and cleaned up the mess before returning to her bed and crawling under the covers, feeling way too dizzy and barely able to stay awake.

23

ANEMIA

Lukas returned from breakfast to find Blaire still asleep. A faint scent of blood wafted in the air and his stomach clenched.

“Blaire?” he called to her as he stepped further into the room.

A groan came from under the covers, and Lukas moved to sit on the edge of her bed. When he placed a hand on the lump of covers, she groaned again. She sounded like she was in pain.

“Tell me what’s going on.”

“My stomach hurts.”

“Did you eat too much chocolate?” He didn’t think she ate more than usual when they had snacks yesterday afternoon, but he didn’t know how a human’s body worked entirely. He knew she liked to eat a lot. She was always snacking on something. Maybe having too much of the same thing made her sick.

“No.” Another groan. “Cramps.”

The smell of blood wasn’t severe, but it was enough to make him concerned.

“Are you bleeding?”

The lump on the bed tensed.