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As his mouth plunged down on mine again and his hands explored, I knew my answer. I wanted him as badly as he wanted me.

All the tension between us broke as I heard the zipper on his pants. He pressed his erection against my opening, finding me wet and eager for him. I'd expected him to thrust into me without restraint, but he held back until I bucked my hips up against him.

Chuckling in my ear, he pulled back just enough to keep himself out of reach and drive me wild. “I want you to realize how much you want me. How much you want this before I give it to you.”

I could have sworn, not sure I could bring myself to beg him, no matter how much I wanted it. Thankfully, he decided that he had proved his point already and soon thrust his hard cock into me. I met his desire and wrapped my legs around his body to try and bring him in deeper.

As he took me we continued to kiss and I ran my hands over his back and shoulders. It was frenzied and desperate and drew us closer and closer together. We hit our peak as one, moaning into each other and holding each other tight until he'd finished inside me.

Finally sated, we came down together, his head resting on my shoulder and our bodies still entwined.

For the first time in my life I understood the passion I could feel for another and how amazing it felt to let it out and satisfy it completely.

Chapter 21

Leandro

As I came back down, momentarily sated by Anais and the wonderful way our bodies fit together, I knew I could spend hours and hours in her company simply lavishing attention on her body and showing her what could be hers.

The reminder that this was nothing but a job to her, however, and I was nothing but a vampire she had to work with to get it done, stung and brought me back from that reality. I lifted up and off her, before helping her to her feet and making her decent again.

“You should keep practicing all that. I'm going to go back out there and see what I can learn. Rest if you need to after that.”

“And if I don't need to rest and want to help learn what we can?” she asked, her gaze on my face as if she could see through to my soul. I hoped she couldn't see how I truly felt and how much I wanted her. I didn't want to be asking her to fight like this or be putting her in danger, but I didn't know how else to complete the mission.

“Leave it at least a little while. I've got to talk to my uncle and let him know what we do so far. Even if we don't know exactly what Ludis is planning, it will help him to know that it will only be a problem in two days.”

“Then come meet you in the lounge?”

I nodded, knowing that would mean we would have to act as if we were even more involved again. If she came to the lounge again before sun up I would be expected to enjoy her and I didn't know how much more I could take of pretending when I wanted so much more.

A part of me didn't care. I wanted to make the most of it. To touch every inch of her and explore every piece until the memory of her was burned into my mind. That way, if I never saw her again I could remember her for the rest of forever.

The last, small part of me wanted to insist that I should keep her. That no one could ever give her what I could and she should stay with me and I should get her as addicted as possible so she never left, but I knew that I had to ignore that part. It wouldn't be love and wouldn't feel the same if I knew she was only still in my world because she found it difficult to leave. I couldn't hurt her like that.

To help clear my head and get my focus back to the task, I needed to put some distance between us.

Without another word, I straightened my clothes, grabbed my suit jacket to hide the creases and marks she'd made on my shirt and made my way out of the suite.

I knew that I was leaving her a little vulnerable, but I wouldn't be far away and I knew that if I went down a deck and onto the private deck for the wealthier members who had booked the suites that I would be able to hear if anything major did happen to her. I could stand just below the bedroom.

It was all the security I could offer her when I was a danger to her myself, and it would have to be enough.

For a few minutes I simply calmed myself down and tried to think of the best way to tell my uncle what was going on here. I didn't have as much information as I would have liked, but the hunter had certainly complicated the mission. She had also given me a way to earn Ludis's trust though and I needed to remember that.

So far, the information we knew had also come from Ludis bragging to her, a move I hadn't expected. It was almost as if he couldn't decide if she was a threat, so he was sizing her up and bigging himself up at the same time.

While I was potentially another vampire looking to make it big off him, I was possibly exactly the wrong sort of undercover to have gained the information I needed. Being more aloof was about the only element that might have been working for me, it appeared now.

I could continue to do so. It might even help my cause if Ludis thought I had plans of my own. He might begin to see me as a potential threat and either let his guard down, make a mistake, or try to show me up and reveal his intentions in an attempt to keep me in line.

All this time I had been trying to earn his trust when it appeared that I should have been trying to play off his insecurities instead. But I would figure out how to do that from now on. Now I knew it was how I could play this.

Thankfully, I had time. We had time. No matter how alone I felt, I needed to remind myself that Anais wanted to stop him as much as I did, even if she had different reasons. She had been as shafted by life as I had. Another reason I liked her as much as I did.

Taking another breath, I did my best to push my thoughts of Anais out of my head again and focused on the task at hand. I pulled out my phone and began messaging my uncle.

It took me several minutes to get my report worded the way I wanted, but I focused on just giving him the definite details I knew so far. Ludis was definitely up to something, was going to be making some kind of pick up or trade in two days and he believed that as soon as the trade was complete, he was going to be far more powerful.

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