Page 44 of Unhallowed Murder
His lips sealed around the bite. Every suck pulled at her clit as well as the side of her neck. He didn’t fuck her while he drank, but his cock pulsed with her blood. Her heat. Her lifeforce.
He took a lot, but she was a shapeshifter and she’d make more. When he finally withdrew his fangs, his cock pulled out, slammed home. Stopped. He licked the bite and she shuddered.
“Stop playing andfuckme, dammit.”
“So bossy.”
She was just about to flip them over so she could ride him, but he finally gave her what she wanted — rapid fire, faster than humanly-possible fucking. Hard, fast, and in just the right spot inside her.
Ronnie’s legs went limp, her arms no longer held her in place, and an orgasm swept over her like a tidal wave, inundating her with pleasure and bliss until she didn’t thinkshe could take anymore, but she knew she could — and would.
Josef drank from her three more times and gave her countless orgasms before she fell asleep, worn out as only her vampire could make her. Nothing mattered when she was in his arms. Even the dead left her alone.
Epilogue
Halloween fell on a Sunday this year, which should’ve meant Detective Veronica Woods had a day off before the festivities, but her city was in the middle of a gang war, and her team worked with the gang task force on the most publicized crimes. However, she sent everyone home at four o’clock. There wasn’t much more they could do until morning, anyway.
Abbott was throwing a huge Halloween bash at the Hamilton Place location of The Billiard Club. A private party, invitation only. Ronnie always did something with her girls on Halloween, and Josef had encouraged her to invite them.
Her vampire had also invited her team from work. This meant the people from three different parts of her life would be there, but she was surprisingly calm about it.
The couple had stayed in Josef’s room at the coterie house the night before, and now, the vampires and theirpartners were downstairs getting ready. Even Abbott and Spence, who’d be going as Batman and Robin.
Fawn helped spray red and blue onto Ronnie’s two ponytails, and then took her seat again at the long mirror. Ronnie and Josef were going as Harley Quinn and the Joker, Kendra was going as the new version of Wonder Woman, in a sexy black metallic-looking bodysuit, while Eric would be Superman.
And Fawn kicked ass as Enchantress.
The women did their own makeup, but offered pointers about eyeliner and contouring until all three looked perfect.
They slid into their costumes and walked into the downstairs living room together, arm-in-arm, laughing.
Ronnie’s heart skipped a few beats at Josef in his black pants and purple jacket, his hair slicked back, black eyeliner with charcoal shading around his eyes, and deep red lip dye. The silly mouth wasn’t drawn on, and Josefrockedthe look.
He’d fed from her and given her uncountable orgasms an hour before, and she wanted him again, but they’d mess their make-up all to hell and back if they… she almost didn’t care, but tonight was about their friends — his people and her people in the same room. Isn’t that what couples do? Merge groups of friends?
A side door opened, and Ronnie’s stomach turned over when Gavin and Queenie walked through. She didn’t much like Gavin, but avoiding him was impossible. Josef merely told her to trust her instincts, but assured her she was safe around him.
Gavin was supposed to be the Green Arrow, but he’d decided to be the street clothes version and not the costumed one, so he was wearing black leather pants and a black silk shirt, which was pretty much what he always wore. Queenie, however, was the Black Canary, with black leather short-shorts and bustier, and a cute little black leather bolero shrug — and sky-high heels, which was Queenie’s trademark. Ronnie had never seen her in anything less than four-inch heels, and tonight’s were even higher, but Queenie seemed perfectly natural in them.
Ronnie knew the instant the sun dipped below the horizon, because the vampires grew stronger. She rubbed her arms to smooth the goose bumps — she only got them when she was with a group of vampires, because the air always seemed electrified when they came into power. Most vampires didn’t awaken until the sun went down, but these were the uber-powerful, so they rose earlier.
Abbott stood, the perfect Batman to Spence’s Robin. “That’s our cue to leave. Gavin and Queenie are driving alone, but Spence and I are in the limo if anyone wants to ride with us. We’ll return to the mountain tonight, but we can swing by here to drop people off, first.”
Kendra, Eric, and Fawn rode with him, but Josef turned down the offer since they were acting as designated driver for some of Ronnie’s friends.
They picked three of her four friends up, one after another — Silk, Gamora, and Jessica Jones. Amy and her new husband were coming as Ant-man and Wasp, and were driving themselves.
Josef was protective over Ronnie’s friends, which was yet another reason she’d fallen head-over-heels in love with him. The spark at the beginning had been important, but she genuinelylikedbeing around him. They fit, the ancient general and the modern-day major crimes lieutenant.
Josef let everyone out under the portico before he parked the car, and Isaac gave Ronnie a hug when he saw her. She introduced him to her friends, and noted, “You’re Mr. Incredible, right?” At his nod, she added, “I can’t wait to see the rest of your little family.”
He chuckled. “Francisco had to be Elastiman to pull it off, but Cassie is Violet and Cam is Dash, so it worked.”
“Does this mean Mr. Incredible is taken?” Mandy asked when they stepped away from him.
“Sorry, but he has two boyfriends and a girlfriend, so yeah.”
Before getting involved with Josef, Ronnie hadn’t hugged anyone except her closest girlfriends, and she’d been intimidating enough that no one else tried. Well, except for Nathan, but no one intimidates him.
