Page 23 of A Bond Beyond Blood

“Yeah.”He smirked.“Oh.”Then in one quick motion, I was tossed onto my back on my childhood bed, his hand cradling my head and his knee between my legs.I gasped but he swallowed the sound with another kiss, deeper and harder this time.Each stroke of his tongue stoked the fire he’d ignited in my veins.He pressed his knee against my center and I moaned again, but this time he didn’t pull back.The hand not gripping my head reached between us and tugged my nightshirt up, then slipped beneath it to cup my breast.I arched my back and he broke the kiss, dragging his teeth along my jaw, then he licked down the line of my pulse and I shuddered with a mix of fear and need.

“Vinny...”I stopped myself, unsure of what I wanted.To tell him to stop—or beg him to keep going.

His mouth found my breast and closed around it, sucking on my nipple until it ached from the pressure, then he released me and circled the pert tip with his tongue before moving to the other breast and doing the same.

He could bite me now, drink from me without asking, and I’d be unable to do a damn thing about it.I whimpered, because I wanted that more than I should.

We were crossing a line.A dangerous, but inevitable line.

I moaned his name and arched my back as his mouth continued traveling over my breasts.

“Tell me to stop,” he murmured against my flesh.“If you want to,” he said, voice tight with need, “tell me to stop.”

I shook my head, shuddering as he scraped his teeth over the sensitive tip of my nipple.“I won’t.”The words were barley whispered but his lips ticked up on one side and pride shone in his dark eyes.

The hand gripping the base of my head moved to my throat; his fingers stretched around my neck and his thumb rested against my pulse.Locking me in place with that firm grip, he kissed a trail down my belly.I moaned as he licked and nipped at my skin, and he made an approving sound that twisted my belly into knots.As his openmouthed kisses continued south, his hand moved up to cup my chin, then he brought two fingers to my mouth and pushed them inside.I closed my lips around them and sucked.

He hissed, then murmured my name like a prayer as he pressed his nose against my panties.“I can’t tell you how fucking overwhelming it is to smell this sweet cunt all the time and never get to taste it.”

I moaned around his fingers, bucking my hips as he licked me through the thin barrier of lace.His words should have shocked me, embarrassed me with their crudeness.

Instead, they fueled my desire.

God, I wanted this man.So fucking badly Iachedfor him.

He pulled his fingers from my mouth and stretched out on top of me, his elbows positioned on either side of my head.With the weight of his body stretched out over mine, his hard length pressed against my center to create a throb that made my breath stutter in my throat.I opened my legs and rocked my hips to feel more of him and his body went rigid.

When I looked up into his eyes, they were ringed with crimson as they searched mine, something that looked a lot like uncertainty creasing his brow.

I reached up and cupped his face.“What’s wrong?”

He ran his tongue along the inside of his bottom lip as he deliberated with himself silently.After a long moment, he finally said, “I won’t bite you.”

“I know.”

“But you should know that I want to.”

I nodded, biting back a smile.“I do.”

“Your words have power, Jacqueline.”

My brow furrowed as I waited for him to continue.

“Remember that.”He pulled my earlobe into his mouth and sucked hard, eliciting a whimper from my lips, then pulled back to look at me.“The sounds you make...”He shook his head.“So fucking sexy, Jacqueline.”He brought his mouth back to my ear and said, “I want them all.”He licked the shell of my ear slowly.“Every moan, every scream.”His teeth grazed the sensitive place beneath my ear and I shivered.“When you come apart on my tongue, I want them to hear your screams in all five boroughs.Do you understand me?”

I moaned, writhing in anticipation, desperate for him to make good on his threat.

“Be a good girl and don’t hold back.”

I gasped as he moved lightning-fast to kneel at the foot of the bed.In a blink, I was yanked to the edge by my ankles and stripped of my thong, then propped up with my knees bent over his shoulders...his head between my thighs.

“Jesus,” I whispered breathlessly.For the first time, I didn’t curse his vampiric speed.“That was hot.”My pussy throbbed, desperate and waiting for his assault.

With a satisfied smirk, he licked me slowly and my hips bucked in response, but Vinny growled, his fingers digging into the meat of my ass.“Hold still,” he said, his breath teasing my flesh.

I fisted my hands into the pink comforter beneath me and tried my hardest to obey.

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