Page 74 of A Vampire Bewitched
She redirected her question at him. “What the hell happened to his face?”
Nik opened his eyes to find Aiden grinning at him as he gave him a pat on the shoulder. “He looks a bit better now. You should’ve seen him when I found him.”
Emma used her free hand to push herself up into a sitting position, as Nik had a death grip on the other one, and he wasn’t going to be letting it go anytime soon. “That doesn’t answer my question, Aiden.”
“The arse tried to follow you into the sun. I finally had to tackle him before he managed to roast himself.” Smiling reassuringly at Emma, he glanced over at Nik. Then went back for a second look.
“In spite of your recent one man destruction show, you’re not looking so good, mate.”
“I’m okay,” Nik mumbled behind Emma’s hand.
Aside to Emma, Aiden whispered, “Do you think you feel up to giving him a drink, love?”
Nik’s big body swayed in the wind, but he managed to stutter, “I’m okay. I don’t need any…she’s been through enough…just need to rest.” Pure stubbornness was the only thing keeping him upright. Now that he’d saved his beloved female, his body was giving in to all of the trauma it’d been dealt recently.
Gently pulling her hand from his, Emma pushed her sleeve back and offered him her wrist. “Here. Drink. And don’t argue with me.”
Aiden grinned at her with approval. “You know, love, I’m beginning to develop quite a crush on you.”
Nik bared his teeth at his friend, but at her reproving look, he gently took her arm in his hands and sank his fangs into her sweet-smelling wrist. Closing his gritty eyes, he took a deep pull on her vein, groaning as her blood hit his tongue. A few swallows later, and he felt his burns start to heal.
Emma watched,fascinated, as the damaged areas began to fuse themselves together, new skin cells multiplying and creating fresh tissue at an amazing speed right before her eyes. Within a few heartbeats, he was nearly completely healed.
Holy shit. Her blood did that? If that’s how it affected his outsides, she couldn’t imagine how he felt on the inside.
No sooner had the thought drifted through her mind than Nik’s bright eyes flashed open and locked onto hers, the hunger in them so intense, she was momentarily taken aback.
Emma had never experienced anything as erotic as those smoldering blue eyes burning right through to her core.
She watched him as he fed, each pull a direct tug on her desire for him. Every needy moan made her breath hitch and her heart beat faster. Her breasts swelled, her nipples tightening into hard, little buds that begged for his touch, his tongue, even his bite. Her lips parted, her tongue sneaking out to wet her bottom lip.
She moaned softly as a rush of wetness drenched her panties, her belly clenching with need for him as her body responded to him of its own accord.
Chapter 42
Nik’s focus narrowed in on Emma, and a low, deep growl rumbled through his chest. The scent of her desire heated his blood, made his body harden. His cock swelled painfully as he watched her little pink tongue wet her lip, her body leaning closer to him of its own accord. He wanted to bite that lip as he came inside of her.
The sound of Aiden noisily clearing his throat barely kept him from ripping the clothes from her body and pushing himself into her hot, little body. With a displeased snarl, he reluctantly removed his fangs from her inner wrist. Holding her wide eyes with his, he licked the soft skin, healing his bite and the slashes from the attack. Taking her other arm, he did the same.
Aiden stuck his face in front of Nik’s, breaking the contact. “Hate to interrupt the moment, mate, but we have company.”
Nik’s head immediately whipped around, lips pulled back, fangs bared in warning, his body blocking Emma from this new danger.
Cedric, Lucian, and Duncan came jogging up to them, the shock on their faces explaining why they paid no mind of Nik’s show of aggression.
“Whit th' fuck was that?” Cedric’s deep voice thundered through the ravine. Blood covered the front of his shirt, as it did Duncan’s and Lucian’s.
Dropping down onto his haunches by Emma, Cedric looked at her beseechingly. “I'm so sorry, lass! I had no idea. I would've ne'er sent ye off on yer own had I known.”
He looked from Emma to the vampires. “Whit th' fuckin’ hellwerethose things?!”
Nik’s nostrils flared and his mouth flattened into a thin line. “What do you mean, ‘you wouldn’t have sent her off on her own’?”
Rising to his full height, he took up a protective stance in front of Emma. Aiden stepped up to stand at his right. His blood, already heated by the contact with Emma, boiled now with rage. Nik stared down the wolves as one by one, they each dropped their gaze and hung their heads.
Lucian and Duncan kept their heads down and took a step back, letting Cedric answer that one.
As heshould.
