Page 34 of To Crave Darkly
Her hand was still against my mouth, her finger flat against my lips. The taste of her skin against my lips had my arousal skyrocketing. I touched the tip of my tongue to her knuckle and her breath hitched.
“Jasper.” My name was a breathy moan. I could hear the frantic beat of her heart, feel her rapid pulse against my tongue as I wrapped it around her finger before pulling it into the warm heat of my mouth. I dragged the tip of my fang over the pad of her finger and a shiver of desire went racing through me and had my bloodlust creeping to the surface with a desperate need to be satisfied.
I really should stop. I was breaking my own rules by getting close to her. I was supposed to protect her not fuck her. But the way that she looked at me, her plump bottom lip caught between her teeth and the short, sharp breaths she was taking was sending all my blood rushing to my cock. I was fucking hard and I couldn’t stop myself even if I wanted to.
As I pulled her finger from my mouth Lori deliberately pushed her finger onto the sharp point of my fang.
Fuuuuck.The full flavour of her blood flooded my senses. The flavour of it exploded in my mouth and my eyes rolled back in my head with the pure, euphoric taste of her.
I nearly came on the spot.
I released her finger from my mouth with a pop.
“You’re a bad girl, Lori.”
A devilish grin spread across her beautiful face. “What are you going to do about it?”
She squeezed her finger causing the blood to pool on the tip again. She was tempting me and it was fucking working. A growl rumbled in my chest as the beast crept to the surface. I knew my eyes were now black. I needed to step away before I did something I’d regret. But when it came to her, I was like an addict. I needed to taste her.
Just. One. More. Time.
My gaze homed in on the little drop of blood teasing me on the end of her finger.
Didn’t she know how much danger she was in? I was going to devour her, and she didn’t even look worried.
My hands flew to her waist and I pulled her into my lap. She yelped in surprise before groaning delectably as her weight settled over my hard cock. Those little mewls were the most fucking gorgeous sounds I’d ever heard. I wanted to hear those moans as I buried myself in her over and over again.
“You sure you want to do this again?” I growled like the beast I was. “I nearly killed you the last time.”
“Yes,” she replied breathlessly. “I trust you.”
She took her bloody finger and stuck it in her mouth, licking it clean. Her cheeks hollowed as she sucked her finger and fuck me if that wasn’t the sexiest thing I’d ever seen. I pictured those lips tight around my cock as she looked up at me from down on her knees.
As soon as she released her finger from her mouth, I gripped her chin and forced her mouth wide open. I swallowed her gasp as I pushed my tongue deep inside. I thrust it to the back of her mouth, determined to get every last drop of her delicious blood. She moaned as I claimed her mouth, her hands running into my hair, pulling the strands painfully.
A cough sounded in the distance, and we both froze immediately. Lori pulled back, her hands moving to my shoulders, and her chest rose heavily. Her eyes were bright with desire and her lips were swollen with my kiss.
That certainly intensified quickly. Part of me was glad we were interrupted. I didn’t want to have to think about wiping the Pit’s surveillance footage.
A blush crept up her neck, turning her face an enticing shade of pink. I moved my hand from her chin down her throat. I enjoyed the way her pulse beat wildly under my hand. It was beating like that for me, and the beast in me purred like a satisfied kitty. She looked deliciously dishevelled and I had the sudden urge to tell Levi to fuck off.
I was in some dangerous territory here if the beast was enjoying her too. The beast never bowed down to anyone, not even me, but here he was, flat on his back offering his tummy up for a tickle. What the fuck did that mean? I took a deep breath and then resolutely took hold of my desire. Gripping her hips I slid her off my lap, and we stood together. Her hands were still on my shoulders and I could see she was reluctant to let me go. But I needed space. I needed to think, and I couldn’t do that with her so close to me. I deliberately walked away from her and over to Levi.
“Levi, thank you for coming.”
He raised his eyebrows at me. “Well you’re certainly looking better than when I last saw you.”
Cheeky fucker. If Lori wasn’t here, I’d be tempted to punch him in his smart mouth.
Wait, no I wouldn’t. Crap, the beast though Levi was intruding. This was not good. The beast was getting attached; was he staking a claim? I looked over at Lori and a warm glow pulsed through me. The desire to be close to her again, even just to touch her skin or breathe the same air as her, was overwhelming.
Mine.
The single word growled from the back of my mind with such force and conviction that my stomach dropped and my heart clenched painfully. The beast reallywasstaking a claim, the eternal kind. He was claiming her as his mate.
Fucking hell, this just got complicated. No wonder I had an incessant need to protect her or that I allowed her to get under my skin. I wanted to. Or at least subconsciously the beast had let her make a mark. No wonder he was fucking purring.
I absent-mindedly rubbed my chest feeling torn for the first time in my life. Up until this moment the only thing I wanted was to finally feel at peace but now, as I stared at Lori, was there a possibility that I could want something more?
