She closed her eyes and tilted her neck back, submerging her head under the water. Lucian’s fingers laced through her hair, massaging at the scalp, the luxurious scent of argan oil teased her nose and she moaned quietly as she allowed herself to relax. Her hands dropped to her sides and the tension left her body as he continued to care for her.
After lightly rubbing in another divinely scented product into the ends of her hair, his hands began to roam with the gentlest of touches. When his hands moved around to her chest, she audibly cursed when he ghosted his touch over her sensitive breasts. She was used to them feeling heavy, she had lived with her large breasts ever since puberty, but never had they ached like this before. She needed to be touched there, she wasn’t certain she’d survive if Lucian intended on teasing her like this all night.
“Please, Lucian.”
“Soon,” he whispered closely in her ear from behind.
The thick rod of steal pressed up against her ass, let her know he was just as affected and she rolled her hips back against him on instinct. The low gasp that teased her earlobe made her smile. She loved getting a reaction out of him.
He slowly turned her around to face him and began rinsing her hair once more. Her nipples stood hard in anticipation as she held her breath, waiting for when she would have some relief. He had said ‘soon’, but how soon was ‘soon’?
She cried out as his teeth grazed one aching peak. The slight tinge of pain, causing her no end of pleasure. The thrill of knowing what he was, how he could easily pierce her skin and drink from her should he so choose, gave her a head rush of danger. She realised at that moment she wanted to know what it would feel like to be devoured by him.
“Look at me, Katherine,” he commanded and she eagerly obeyed, the sight before her more erotic than she could’ve imagined.
His tongue lazily lapped against her nipple before swirling it in a circular motion, all the while his eyes looked at her hungrily. His hand lightly cupped her breasts and began to gently massage them while he alternated between playing with her nipple with his tongue, his teeth, and his hands. As he suckled one hard and pinched the other, she almost shattered into an orgasm that danced torturously out of reach. Katherine threw her head back and closed her eyes moaning in both delight and heavy need.
Quickly, she was spun around once again, this time her back pressed up against the cold tile, making her gasp.
“I said look at me,” Lucian hissed, his eyes were black and the rumble of authority in his voice teased at her senses, willing her to comply.
“Yes,” she replied breathlessly, as he abruptly withdrew his hands from her breasts. She felt the loss of his touch immediately but when he dropped to his knees and hitched one of her legs over his shoulder, desire flooded her.
“You will watch me while I taste your sweet cunt, Katherine,” he ordered her with a low growl, “watch me enjoy wringing out every last drop of your pleasure.”
His eyes remained on hers as he slowly ran the tip of his tongue over her centre, making her moan loudly. She couldn’t have looked away from him if she had tried, watching Lucian on his knees in front of her, hell-bent on giving her pleasure was the only sight she wanted to see. He lapped at her again and slowly circled his tongue around her clit, causing a mirrored, phantom sensation to tease both her breasts. It was almost like she could feel his tongue there too. Her body tensed as she felt her pleasure climbing with every slick stroke of his tongue against her sensitive spot. The steady, building friction combined with the hungry groan of Lucian’s enjoyment, made her tremble as she reached the precipice of her mounting climax.
When he suckled on her little nub, her orgasm struck her with force.
“God, yes.”
Her eyes stung from staring into the darkness of his demanding gaze but the joy and relief that she felt at being submerged in his darkness while pleasure poured through her, was like nothing she had ever felt before. She cried out as he stopped suckling her abruptly, she was about to protest when he sunk lower on his knees and pierced her hot, wet channel with his demanding tongue.
“Lucian!” His name was torn from her as another orgasm blasted through her, stronger than the last but already she was craving more. She needed to be filled by him, consumed and overridden by him completely.
“Fuck,” Lucian cursed, dropping his gaze and his head down, hiding his expression.
“Yes, Lucian, please. Fuck me. I need you to take me,” Katherine pleaded her hands gripping at his shoulders as she tried to encourage him to stand up. She wanted him to stand and to pound into her with everything that he had, while he cursed and grunted out his pleasure.
“Katherine, please. You don’t know what being with you like this does to me, you make me lose control over my instincts,” he said harshly, his shoulders heaving with each laboured breath.
“I don’t want your control, Lucian. I want you, all of you,” she pleaded, only to suck in a gasp as he lifted his head and fixed her with a look that hungered for more than just her passion.
“All of me, even this?” Lucian snarled, his sharp fangs had elongated and gleamed dangerously.
She knew she should feel afraid. He was capable of causing her endless pain or killing her in a heartbeat, yet the sight of his fierce and true nature only amplified her desire, her insides shaking with need. His eyes closed and he suddenly gripped her ass in both his hands, pulling her into him. He inhaled and moaned loudly into the steam-filled space.
“So ripe,” he breathed against her core, nuzzling and teasing her with his mouth and the promise of his teeth upon her.
“Lucian, taste me,” Katherine ordered quietly.
“Darling, please,” he began, only to be silenced by Katherine’s fingers tugging at his hair, pulling his head back.
“I said, taste me,” she growled, the power of being able to command such a dangerous being was a thrill like no other.
A moment of silence hung between them while they stared at each other in a wordless battle of wills. Lucian’s eyes flicked to the inside of her thigh where it still rested over his broad shoulder, before returning to her face. The suggestion made her body ache with need. She hadn’t thought about him biting her there, but now she wanted nothing else.
“Don’t make me repeat myself, Lord Nightingale.”
Her cry of pained surprise cut through the silence as he struck. The sharp stab of his fangs as they pierced her tender flesh felt hot and dizzying. The strong pull on her vein and Lucian’s guttural moan of ecstasy that followed, made her knees buckle. His hand gripped the outside of her thigh, securing her to his ravenous mouth, while the other hand splayed across her hips, pinning her to the wall. His eyes shot up to hers and the unbridled pleasure she saw within the black depths made her groan as another orgasm built.
Lucian’s hand dipped down lower and with his thumb, he urgently began to strum on her clit. Each little swallow his mouth made as he drank from her seemed to pulse in time with her pounding desire. With one long, hard final pull at her vein, her climax rolled over her in blinding waves of hot pleasure.
“Lucian, yes!”
His teeth retracted and he quickly sealed her wound with a smear of his own blood, the tingle it caused making her slump against the wall as another orgasm ghosted its way through her. Lucian stood and cupped her face tenderly.
“I’m sorry my beautiful darling, I took too much, I-”
“Don’t you dare apologise for that. That was incredible,” Katherine whispered, her eyes shuttering closed for a brief moment while she came down from her euphoria. A week ago, if someone had dared to suggest she would enjoy being bitten and fed upon by a creature of the night, she would have questioned their sanity. Now? She was already wishing that she could experience the sweet, luxurious release again. Maybe not right away, but she definitely wanted Lucian to sink his teeth into her again. The fresh memory of the raw hunger and ecstasy that she had seen in his eyes made her tremble with hot shivers of anticipation.
“Come, let me take you to bed,” Lucian turned off the shower and gathered her into his arms.
Katherine found she didn’t have the energy to protest. She didn’t think she’d give him an argument if he wanted to carry her everywhere from here on out. As the softness of the mattress hit her back she murmured out a protest. She wanted more. She wanted to see him lose control but everything felt a little slow and hazy now and the bed was so comfortable.
“Hush darling. Sleep now,” Lucian’s voice was still laced with regret and she frowned.
“Don’t go, stay.”
“Whatever you want, darling.”
“Hold me,” she said lazily, her voice sounding far off even to her own ears. “Do vampires snuggle?”
“This one does, for you,” Lucian replied as the warmth and firmness of his body came to envelop her in a safe cocoon, the blankets could’ve been the softest satin and they would’ve been dull in comparison to the feeling of his skin against hers.
Katherine remembered sighing and the moment her beaming smile relaxed from her face, right before she dropped into the abyss of exhausted slumber.
Chapter Sixteen
Lucian
Strength pulsed heavily in his veins. Her blood was a powerful and intoxicating rush to his senses.
O negative. Lucian cursed.
It had been so long since he had tasted the forbidden nectar. As soon as blood types had been identified and a name given to the blood, it had been banned by the elders. It was illegal to harvest from O negative donors. The blood being both medically invaluable to humans and addictively sought after by vampires. Rare and luxuriously smooth, full of complexities, and capable of flexing its effect to suit the mood of the drinker. Lucian had been in the throes of passion when he had tasted it and the amplification of his pleasure had become euphoric. Drinking from Katherine had been divine. He already wanted another taste.
But he shouldn’t. It was illegal. If it was discovered that he had drunk from her she would be taken from him and placed under strict protection. Humans with O negative blood were on a watch list from birth, they had protective charms and spells cast upon them to shield them from being identified by vampires. The fact that no-one or nothing had intervened to prevent Lucian from getting close to Katherine, let alone tasting her, made him believe she had somehow slipped under the radar.
A shiver of fear for her swept through him. There were those who would drain her for their own pleasure or would keep her locked away and bleed her regularly to sell her blood to the highest bidder on the black market. She didn’t deserve such a fate, none did. She needed to be protected. But the thought of reporting her to the authorities made his chest twist in pain.
He didn’t want her taken from him. And that is most assuredly what would happen. The council of elders would keep them apart. Now that Lucian had tasted her, he would be considered a threat. He could easily covet her and keep her locked up for his own personal gain. Regardless of his own intentions to protect and cherish her, the council would seek to mitigate the risk by removing her from his care. And then what would happen to her? Lucian would have no means of helping her pursue her dreams, no way of showing her how important and capable she was. She might fall into the same routine of being exploited by her father time and time again.
Lucian ground his teeth in anger. They wouldn’t take her from him. He would keep her existence a secret and would protect her, even from himself.
He looked down at her quiet sleeping form, sprawled out on the bed beside him. Her damp hair tangled around her head in a messy halo, her mouth slightly open. She looked so at peace and unguarded, a rare moment for his beautiful, fierce darling, and he loved her entirely.
He vowed silently to never again drink from Katherine and to protect her from all those who might seek to. She would live her life untethered and he would nurture her confidence so she might achieve all that she dreamed of.
He hoped that she might trust him enough to allow herself to love him someday.
He prayed he had the willpower to resist tasting her again.
With renewed determination, Lucian silently slid from the bed. He had a new responsibility to attend to for the next seventy years or so. Katherine’s happiness was his focus now and he would be its guardian until her final breath.
Lucian quickly pulled on his clothes that had been discarded on the bathroom floor and crept quietly out of his master suite. It was still the middle of the night, so he contemplated stepping out to fetch Katherine some dinner, he didn’t keep any human food in his apartment. He never had any need to, he never had any human guests. But the thought of now being parted from her filled him with anxiety. If something were to happen to her while he was not there to protect her, he would never forgive himself.
He pulled out his phone and quickly placed an order from a nearby restaurant. He knew the chef catered to shifters and wouldn’t think it strange that he ordered the steak to be delivered raw. Lucian would cook it for Katherine himself. That way she could sleep for as long as she needed and he could prepare it exactly how she liked.
His phone buzzed with an incoming message.
It was from Benson Pines.
Benson: Daxton is meeting with some woman. They seem to be deep in discussion about something. Want me to move in closer?
Lucian frowned at the screen. Whether Katherine’s father repaid his debt was inconsequential to him now, but he found he was curious as to what the man was up to. He had so far squandered his time, rather than pursuing the means to free his daughter from the contract, if he were about to come up with the money to repay his debt, then Katherine would be free to leave. Lucian’s pulse quickened. He wasn’t certain he had done enough to ensure that she would want to stay with him regardless of the contract.
Lucian: Only if you can remain inconspicuous. See what you can uncover.
Benson: Consider it done. I’ll be in touch.
“There you are,” Katherine’s voice called out from the landing above.
Lucian looked up to see her leaning over the glass bannister, utterly naked. His mouth went dry and he set his phone down upon the kitchen side.
“I didn’t wish to disturb you. I have ordered you some dinner, it should arrive soon,” he replied, unable to take his eyes off her as she sauntered her way down the stairs towards him.
She nodded her understanding and continued to prowl towards him.
“Whatever shall we do while we wait?” She smiled, her eyes lighting with mischief.
Lucian could think of a hundred different ways in which he could be busy in the meantime as she wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her warm body against his. His cock stirred as she kissed him slowly, lightly caressing his tongue with the tip of hers.
“Whatever shall I snack on until then?” She teased before nibbling on his lower lip.
Before he had a chance to answer her, she ran her hands down over his stomach and dropped to her knees in front of him.
“Katherine, you don’t-”
“I wanted to do this earlier but as much as I hate to admit it, you got the better of me,” she looked up at him with eyes that sparkled like tigers eye and his thoughts of stopping her, left him.
She had admitted weakness to him. She wasn’t trying to be tough, she was being honest and the trust that showed warmed him deeply. He nodded slowly and swallowed past the anticipation that was lodged in his throat. His fingers flexed at his side while she unbuttoned him and slid the material down just enough to release his straining cock.
The moment her hand grasped him, his breath hitched. Heavens, her hand felt good around him, warm and firm, and when she slid her hand down and back up, her fingers brushing the tip of him. Lucian shuddered. He watched as she stroked him, her eyes focused on his length as she worked. Her delicate fingers danced a magical rhythm over him and when she tentatively licked the drop that had beaded at the head, his hips bucked on their own accord.
She looked up at him and smiled wickedly before
she opened her mouth and wrapped her lips around him.
Fuck.
Lucian’s head threw back and he gasped as she sucked on him lightly before dipping her head down to take more of him into her hot, wet mouth. She slid her lips back and forth on him, her hand gripping him tightly as she moaned around his thick cock. Lucian gripped the edge of the kitchen counter and closed his eyes as the building sensation began to grow low down in his stomach. He hissed out loud when she abruptly whipped her mouth away from him.
“Look at me, Lucian,” she purred, “watch me. I want to see your face when you come.”
His eyes snapped open and bored into hers as she licked her lips and ran her tongue up from the base of his shaft to the wet tip. His cock bobbed in response. He wanted her to command his pleasure, but his hand moved on its own accord and wrapped around the back of her head. His body shook from the effort it took not to thrust himself past her lips.
Katherine chuckled and smiled a knowing smile.
“Hands back where they were, Lucian,” she commanded. “I want to see how long you’re able to keep that tight control of yours.”
Lucian found himself unable to resist the challenge and gripped the edge of the kitchen counter once again. His breathing ragged.
“As you wish, Katherine,” he replied, his voice barely more than a deep rumble.
She licked up the length of him again and he hummed his approval. She was right. Watching her pleasure him was addictive. As she teased him with soft sucks and kisses his need grew. He knew what it felt like when she wrapped her hot mouth around him and he yearned for it now. He sucked in a breath when she slowly gave him what he craved and slipped his thick head past her lips and into her mouth. When she slid him in further and his cock stroked along the back of her throat, his eyes widened.
The knowing look in Katherine’s eyes told him she had been waiting for his reaction to this and she was pleased with what she found. When she slid his length out and sucked him back down her throat again, he groaned loudly into the room. When she moaned in response he cursed.
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