Page 65 of Marked By Moonlight
“Only if you promise to never put yourself in danger again. To never leave this house without an escort of either me, Emeric, or Rowena.”
My heart stutters in my chest. “That sounds an awful lot like a prison to me.”
He shakes his head as he nuzzles against my neck. “It’s the only way I can give you freedom while keeping you safe. Just until the marking ceremony.”
I frown, but then he kisses me on the neck again. And I want him so badly that I could very easily agree to any terms. Even keeping me locked up and only letting me free for sex and food.
“Fuck me, and we have a deal.” My eyes glisten with dirty thoughts. It’s only a couple of weeks until the full moon. I can make this promise to him easily enough.
His teeth rake over my neck like it’s as much of a struggle for him to accept my terms as it was for me to accept his. “It’s all I want to do—fuck you, explore every part of your body, claim you, but…” he chokes on his next words as I thrust my hips forward until I can feel his hard length against my lower stomach. “I don’t trust myself with you, not to hurt you. I need you to be at your full strength first.”
“You won’t hurt me.”
“And when I fuck you, it can’t be a part of some deal. It needs to be because we both want it.”
“We both want it,” I counter.
His eyes darken as he stares at me. “Nyx made a deal with the vampires. I don’t know what the exact deal is, but he’s powerful and dangerous, more than either of us even realize. He’s taken so much from me.” He shakes his head. “Never again.”
“Never again,” I agree.
“You don’t understand everything—you don’t know the implications if we don’t break the curse this time. And it’s more than being attacked by others trying to get us to break the curse faster. It’s so much more.” He places his forehead against mine in a desperate attempt for me to understand. “It’s so much more, and I want to tell you. I want to tell you fucking everything. But I don’t want to put that burden on you.”
I suck in a breath.
“I wish everything was different. That I could court you properly, that we could take our time, fall in love first. We don’t have that time.”
I capture his mouth with mine and then speak in his mind.“I promise.”
Everything changes after I speak those words. There’s a trust and hunger that wasn’t there before, for both of us.
He releases my wrists, and both of our hands grab onto each other at the same time. My hands grab onto his neck and tangle in his thick hair, holding him to me as if my life depends on it, while his hands grip my ass, holding me so tightly against his body that it’s hard for either of us to breathe.
“I need you,” he says, his face buried in my neck.
“Then have me.”
His eyes blaze with a golden light, shining brighter than I’ve ever seen his eyes before. Nothing else changes about him. No claws form. No sharpened teeth. No fur. No shifting, but I know his animal instincts have kicked in as much as his human desires have. And I know what he means about not being able to stop himself. This is my last chance to stop him.
I don’t want to stop him. Instead, I let out a soft whimper filled with need.
His hands clasp the front of my bra, shredding it open as easily as if it were paper. He doesn’t hesitate as his mouth captures one of my nipples, encasing it fully as his tongue licks around the sensitive bud.
I hold on harder to his head, barely keeping myself upright, knowing I’d topple over if the glass window wasn’t still behind me. He quickly moves to my other nipple as his hand cups my breast, and his thumb flicks its peak.
Heat courses through me in a way that it never has before. I’m flooded with blood and heat and emotion.
I must fuck him. I must have him. He’s mine.
The thoughts flicker through my head, coming so hard and fast that I can’t process anything but my need for him.
He slides down my body, and my shorts go with him as he kneels in front of me, staring hopelessly at the spot between my legs, dripping with warm desire.
He takes a deep breath, taking in my scent, and shudders as his eyes roll back in his head. “You smell better than anything I could ever imagine.”
“Taste me.” Before the words have even fully left my throat, his tongue is licking up my slit and locking on my clit.
The heat spreads faster through my body at every sweep of his tongue. Heat like I’ve never felt before. Heat that spreads like a wildfire through my body, flooding me to the point that I might pass out.
