Page 32 of Royal Bite
“I’ve waited for the day to belong to someone. Have someone who would want me. I know that I may not be what you want in a mate, but I promise I will try my hardest to be that woman for you.”
Had no one wanted this woman?
Had she been abandoned?
Had someone hurt her? Hegna’s grip tightened slightly at the thought. Whoever had laid a finger on her would die on her order.
“And me? Am I the person you would want to belong to? A vampire?”
“Yes. I’ve dreamed of this day. I have been interested in vampires since I can remember. You have been someone I fantasized about meeting for years. About six months ago, you may not remember, but you sort of saved my life.”
Hegna inhaled sharply. She had saved Stormey’s life? If that was the case, she would have remembered. Stormey was not a woman to be forgotten.
“You must be mistaken.” Hegna couldn’t stop touching Stormey. She slid her hand along her jawline and up to her hair. Her dark strands were soft to touch. Her fingers easily glided through them.
Stormey leaned into her touch. “It was in Wichita. There was a rogue vampire attack—”
“There was a human woman who had been cornered and trapped. It was Nezera’s bow that struck the rogues down…”
“Allowing me to run free to the hotel I worked at.”
Hegna remembered that night. The rogues had been a pain in her side. She was already having to deal with the increased lycan complaints, then the rogues decided to come out in force. It was one trip that she and her captain had taken. It had been just the fight she had been looking for. She briefly remembered a curvy female racing across the street and into a building. She had hoped the rogues hadn’t attempted to turn her. Humans sometimes did not survive the change.
Hegna didn’t want to admit it, but there was a chance that fate was working. What were the odds that she had gone to Wichita to fight? That trip honestly hadn’t called for the warden to go and personally handle something her warriors could have done.
But something had drawn her to the city.
“And here you are,” Hegna breathed. She took in the woman with all of her sensual curves kneeling before her, and her chest rumbled with a growl. Lust and desire for her filled Hegna. She wanted her.
“Here I am.”
“And you want to please me?” Hegna murmured.
Stormey nodded, her eyes darkening. Hegna flashed her fangs, and if she didn’t know any better, the scent of Stormey’s arousal intensified. She took Stormey by her chin and turned her face away, assessing both sides of her neck.
“Have you ever been bitten before?”
Another growl rippled from her at the thought of someone sinking their fangs into her woman’s neck. She didn’t see any evidence that Stormey’s skin had been pierced. Vampires had the ability to control their donors and put them in a trance. They could even erase the memory of the act.
“No. I’ve never been bitten before,” Stormey replied. Her breathing was growing faster, her breasts rising and falling.
Hegna licked her lips. She wanted to remove the damn dress so she could have access to them.
She reached for her tunic and pulled it over her head. This was a dangerous game she was playing. In the back of her mind, a voice screamed to send the human away. She had promised herself that she would not find herself like Lethia and Velika, mated.
But then something else was telling her to taste what was hers.
What harm would it do to taste her?
It had been a few days since she’d taken a lover.
Hegna’s body was heating up, and the ache behind her eyes was lessening. But no amount of pain was going to keep her from Stormey’s lush body. Small hands landed on the edge of Hegna’s pants. Stormey had raised herself on her knees and began undoing the buttons of her pants.
Hegna’s pussy grew slick with need. There was something about this woman before her on her knees that had her ready to explode. Hegna tugged off her bra, leaving her upper half bare. Her nipples were pebbled into little buds. The air kissed her nipples, and they grew even harder.
Stormey guided her pants down and helped her out of them. Hegna kicked them off to the side while trying to control her breathing. Stormey paused and took her in. Hegna fought to keep from puffing her chest out and posing. She knew what she looked like. One did not become a warrior for the king and not be in the best physical shape they could be in. She was naturally toned, but with her training, her muscles were more defined, and she had little fat on her.
Stormey reached for her tiny panties and slid them down her legs, tossing them aside. There, she was finally naked in front of Stormey. Her human’s gaze roamed her body, pausing at her breasts which weren’t large, but they definitely could feel a woman’s hands. She continued on and stopped at her mons.
