Isensed Ajax’s intent a second before I felt his canines bite into my throat. A sharp gasp left me, followed by a groan as liquid fire blasted through my veins.
“Fires,” I hissed, losing myself to Ajax’s vampiric kiss. How the hell had I gone a decade without feeling this? Had I known, I would have made him bite me the first time I fucked him.
Ajax pulled back, his blue-black eyes alive with hunger. “Your blood has always been empowering. But this…” He trailed off and went for the opposite side of my neck, biting down and sending another blast of heat through my insides.
“Fuck,” I ground out, leaning into his touch and needing more. “This is making me so damn hard.”
Not that I hadn’t been hard already before he’d even begun.
Watching him handle Dakota had turned me on, which was all kinds of fucked up, but I’d enjoyed seeing him deliver her death sentence. I only wished he would have tortured her a bit.
However, that hadn’t been what he’d needed.
And I respected his choice in how he dealt with the situation.
Just like I respected his choice now as he claimed me with his bite. “Fires, I want you to do that to my cock,” I admitted on another groan. I knew it would hurt to feel his teeth sink into myhard flesh, but I was all for the pleasure that would follow. “It’ll probably make me come.”
Ajax growled, his mouth pulling away from my neck. “I’m not sucking your cock.”
“I didn’t ask you to suck, just bite,” I replied.
His gaze narrowed. “You want me to kneel.”
“I do,” I confided. “But only if you want to.”
“Always in control,” he returned, making me wince.
“Ajax—”
His mouth covered mine before I could finish my reply. Not that I really knew what to say. He was in charge; I was just voicing my desires. But I understood why he thought it was me seizing the reins.
Because that was what I did. What came naturally to me and my Phoenix.
Although, I was trying to submit to him. To let him master me and?—
Ajax jolted against me as the foundation below our feet shook. I tore my mouth away from his, my gaze instantly traveling the corridor of the dungeon.
“What the fuck was that?” I demanded, searching for whatever creature had caused that minor earthquake.
“I don’t—” Another tremble cut Ajax off, causing both of us to face opposite sides of the hallway. His back brushed mine, our aroused states instantly forgotten.
Something was coming, but the uneven vibrations made it difficult to tell which direction it was coming from.
“It’s several hours before curfew,” Ajax said, wariness in his voice. “There shouldn’t be any prisoners out at the moment.”
I grunted. “Unless the Hellhounds fucked something up. Garmr has been playing Warden in your absence.”
Ajax made a noise that said how he felt about that. Garmr wasn’t incompetent, but he managed too much in this realm,which often meant he had to delegate tasks to his Hellhound minions.
And those minions… were often incompetent.
“Fuck,” Ajax muttered. “Time to hunt.”
My lips curled. “Sounds like fun, actually.”
“Says the Commander,” Ajax drawled, his focus still on his side of the hallway while I guarded mine.
Only whatever was coming seemed to have disappeared.