Page 140 of The Firebrand
Rein staggered backward, releasing his strangling hold.
“You’re hurting me.”
He snarled, his fangs glistening, long and fearsome. “You’re mine. Submit.”
“Yes. Yours.” With her feet flat on the ground, a hand massaging her neck, she closed her eyes to aim an imaginary weapon again. This time a knife aimed at his jugular.
When blood spurted from the cut, Rein’s jaw slackened as if he were surprised.
Braelyn tracked the first drops of blood welling up on the gash, dripping down his chest, beading on a nipple. A soft gasp escaped her mouth. Unbidden, her feet moved to Rein. She flicked her tongue through the red fluid.
Hot. Spicy. Rein.
With lips wrapped around his nipple, she sucked. Still desiring the flavor that was Rein, she licked along the trail of blood to the gash. She drank. The liquid coursed down her throat, spreading like molten lava into her fingers, her arms, her breasts, and her sex. Desire radiated in hot pulses. She ached for his cock inside her, filling her with his seed, quenching this raging fire that his lifeblood created.
Braelyn cast smoldering, hooded eyes at Rein, her hand gliding down his chest, across the hills and valleys of his abs, to his groin, where she fisted the hard, solid flesh that was his shaft.
Rein looped an arm around her, raising her higher. She encircled his waist with her legs, guiding him to her feverish need. “Now. Fuck me, vampire. I submit.”
He drove his cock into her with such power that her ass slammed against the tree bark. Ignoring the pain, she rocked forward, forcing him deeper.
Again and again, he thrust.
“Yes,” she screamed, feeling his thick length slide in and out. “Like that. Harder. I want everything. No rules.” Her hands cradled his head as she exposed her neck, pulling him closer.
Rein bent and fed, fangs sinking into her willing flesh. He shuddered, the sucking noises heightening Braelyn’s desire, the pleasure increasing with each draw.
Rein slipped an arm between Braelyn and the tree, cushioning her. His lips stayed fastened to her as he fucked her mercilessly. When she collapsed against him, he withdrew his mouth, sealing the bite with his tongue, never stopping his onslaught into the fiery furnace between her legs.
“Please,” Braelyn cried out, “don’t stop.”
“Come for me, Brae.”
Forgetting to brace her back, he dug fingers into her hips while slamming forward. Backward.
The friction, the rhythm of Rein’s feral assault sent Braelyn to the edge. With his blood still coursing through her and knowledge that hers nourished him, she rocked harder and faster, meeting him stroke for stroke. She clawed his shoulders when the first wave rolled through her.
“Yes, Rein. Yes.”
With the all-consuming fire burning on and on, his greedy body pounded into Braelyn, chasing his own release. His mouth branded her hungry lips while he buried himself deep, one brutal surge before he exploded. Again. Rein shuddered, his seed continuing to spill. Only then was her own blaze quenched.
He pulled her into strong arms, holding tight until their breathing steadied. Kissing the top of her head, nuzzling her, he waited until both of their heartbeats settled.
When the rhythm slowed, Rein grabbed her arm, flipping her wrist. A blood-tipped dagger etched in flesh. His smile grew wider than she had ever seen. “The Clan Melius brand.”
Braelyn arched her eyebrows. “It’s like yours. How is that possible?”
Rein shrugged. “I don’t know. I’ve never heard of a human bonding with a vampire. But nothing is normal with you, Brae.”
“Does it mean…?”
“Yes. Never doubt my feelings for you. Over the cave entrance are the words,Joined by blood. Forever one.” Then he whispered, “Thank you.”
Still laboring from the aftershock that was Rein, Braelyn stroked his bicep. “I can’t take all the credit. Some thanks go to you.”
“I wasn’t thanking you for the great fuck. The really, really great fuck. The thanks was for the Bludhunt, for making me see I can trust myself.”
“I had no choice. I love you.” She angled her head to look into his calm blue eyes, no trace of red.
