Chapter Thirteen
Claudia reached out and took both of Ana’s hands in her own. It was truly fascinating to watch. I have never, since that day, seen anything like it. Claudia closed her eyes, and I felt the energy swirling, but it was different this time. It was soothing and warm.
A sigh of relief escaped Ana’s lips. “Thank you. I feel much better already.”
Excerpt from Roman Draksel’s blog
Tempest couldn’t recall ever feeling this worn out. The ceremony had taken a lot out of her. They’d only done something like this two other times, and never on this scale. With the others, she’d been exhausted but nothing compared to what she felt now. She couldn’t believe how difficult it was to simply open her eyes. Last time, it only took her a few hours of sleep to get her energy back. She wondered how long she’d been asleep. Honestly, she couldn’t even recall getting back to the house. She remembered Aiden watching the ceremony. For some reason, it had given her a secret thrill to have him there. She also remembered the girls being healed before things got a little fuzzy.
When she tried to pull her hand down to rub her eyes, it wouldn’t budge. The other one wouldn’t move either. Her eyes shot open as alarms went off in her head. Her hands and feet were tied to bed posts. This was not her bed. She tried to reach out with her mind to untie herself, but she was too exhausted.
“Good morning,” Aiden greeted in an overly cheerful voice. He was sitting on a chair at the foot of the bed with his bare feet propped up on the footboard and his hands clasped behind his head. He was only wearing a pair of jeans with the top button undone. “How did you sleep?”
“Where am I?” she demanded weakly.
“My bed,” he answered in a slightly rough voice. His eyes had darkened some.
“What did you do to me?” Her voice sounded slurred. She wondered why she wasn’t panicking. She was tied to a bed and probably drugged but not at all afraid. If she was being honest with herself, she wasn’t even really mad.
“I kidnapped you and fed off your energy so you wouldn’t be able to untie yourself when you came to,” he admitted with no guilt. In fact, he looked down right proud of himself.
“Let me go, Aiden,” she demanded with as much authority as a woman tied to a bed could manage.
He stood and crawled onto the bed, settling his weight between her legs. “That, luv, is something I can’t do.” He stared down at her and placed both hands on her cheeks.
As she stared back at him, the energy poured into her body. He was feeding her. Her strength came back in a rush. She reached out her mind and first untied her legs and then her arms. When she was free, she pushed Aiden onto his back and kissed him.
She was straddling him, and he had the strangest sensation of their life forces joining in some way. He’d fed from her and pushed the energy back into her, something he’d never tried before. Honestly, it wouldn’t have worked with a human, so he hadn’t had many opportunities to try it. The tiny threads of energy were tangled up. He felt her arousal as intensely as his own.
“Oh, God!” he groaned when she pulled back slightly. “Tempest, you’re going to kill me.”
She gave him a smile that was pure sex. “You aren’t getting off that easy, vampire.”
He gladly let her explore his body. Never in all his days had he been with a woman this bold. Tempest ran her hands down his bare chest and along the muscles of his arms as she moved his hands above his head. He was so entranced with her exploration of his body, he didn’t notice she was using her mind to move the ropes on the bed. When he tried to reach out to touch her, he realized his arms were bound.
Without warning the door to the room slammed against the wall.
“Aiden?” His cousin, Justin, sounded shocked to see him. That made sense since Aiden had been kicked out of this house after the unfortunate incident.
He hadn’t been able to come up with a better place to take Tempest. Certainly a hotel would have been a bad idea. He supposed it might not be his presence so much as the circumstances that seemed to shock his overly prudish cousin. Justin wore gray sweat pants and a white tank top, a sure sign he’d been on his way to workout. His brown hair was styled neatly even though Aiden knew he’d wash it after he worked out. Aiden was always amazed at how uptight Justin could look in sweat pants.
“Aiden’s here?” It was his cousin Drew, the biggest pain in the ass in the family, wearing nothing but boxer shorts. When Drew saw him, he grinned. “Do you need any help?” He had his cell phone in his hand and lifted it to snap a picture, but Justin snatched it out of his hand.
Aiden swore and wondered why everyone was out of bed so early. It was shortly after six in the morning. When he’d stayed here, no one had been up at this hour.
Tempest laughed at his irritation.
“This is not at all funny, witch,” he growled but found himself smiling.
“It’s really your own fault.” she told him.
“How is this my fault? People should learn to knock.” He sounded pouty, but he didn’t care. He had a sexy woman straddling him while he was tied to a bed. Visiting with his cousins was the last thing on his mind.
“You do know the door has a lock,” she pointed out helpfully.
Justin looked annoyed, which was pretty much the way he always looked. “Why would we knock? You were kicked out months ago. I heard suspicious noises coming from this room so I came to check it out.”
Drew added. “I heard sex noises, and I wanted to watch.”
“Could you give us some privacy?” Aiden ground out.
“Why are you here?” Justin asked, completely ignoring his request.
Aiden shrugged as much as he could while tied to a bed. “It was close, and I needed a place to take her.”
“He drained me and kidnapped me.” Tempest added helpfully.
“Technically, I kidnapped you first,” Aiden pointed out.
“You really need to work on your technique,” Justin told him, looking amused. Aiden didn’t recall ever seeing Justin amused.
“Looks more like she kidnapped you,” Drew pointed out from the chair at the foot of the bed. “Don’t let us disturb you.”
“Can we have a few minutes?” Aiden asked.
“You had better need more than a few minutes,” Tempest grumbled.
“Tempest?” Aiden asked patiently.
“Yes, Aiden?”
“Do you think you could take them out of the room?”
She smiled sweetly. “Of course.” She looked over her shoulder at his cousins. “Please leave.”
Justin nodded. “We do need to talk, but it can wait until later.” He took one last look at Tempest and shook his head. “Damn! You look really familiar, but I can’t place your face.” Shaking his head, he turned and walked out of the room.
Drew never could take a hint, or sense danger, so he continued to sit on the chair by the bed. “I won’t get in the way. I prefer to watch, anyway. She’s a little skinny, but she has a nice ass, Aiden. Would you mind if I get my phone back from Justin and make a video?”
“Last warning, Drew,” Aiden said cheerfully.
Drew laughed, but it didn’t last long. Tempest reached out her mind and pushed the energy through the room. The chair Drew was sitting on crashed backward and slid across the floor and out of the room. Aiden heard the door slam shut and the lock click.
“Now, where was I?” she asked.
“On top of me?” he suggested helpfully.
“Is it always like this?” she asked as she rocked her hips back and forth “When you feed on energy is there always this overpowering arousal? It’s like an aphrodisiac.”
He lifted his hips slightly and groaned. “So, you’re aroused?” he asked, unable to hide how much that pleased him.
“More than I’ve ever been,” she admitted with no shame.
“It’s never been like this for me before,” he admitted. “Are you gonna untie me so I can help you with your arousal?”
She gave him a slow sedu
ctive smile and shook her head. “I like you right where you are.” Her hips ground against him again “From the feel of things, you like it quite a bit yourself.”
Aiden closed his eyes and moaned. He’d played bondage games before, but he’d never been the one tied to the bed. He had to admit he kind of liked it.
Tempest reached down and unzipped his pants.
Aiden opened his eyes to watch her as she stood by the bed to remove her own clothes. He sucked in a breath at the sight of her standing there naked. Her breasts weren’t big, but they were perky and her pink nipples were erect. He wanted nothing more than to take one of those nipples into his mouth. She smiled and pulled her hair forward to cover her breasts.
“Tease,” he complained.
“Poor baby,” she crooned as she struggled to pull his pants down over his hips.
“If you’d untied me, I could have given you a hand with those,” he reminded her as he shook the ropes on his wrists.
The little witch laughed at him, sending a wave of energy pulsating through the air. “I don’t think so.”
He gave a husky laugh. “I guess I’ll have to lay here and let you do all the work.”
“You poor abused man,” she teased as she continued undressing him. When he was completely naked, she took a moment to study him.
She’d seen Aiden naked before, so it was no surprise how hot he was. His legs were muscular, and she’d always had a thing for men with toned calves. His thick cock twitched when she licked her lips. She’d never seen a real man with six-pack abs before Aiden. His chest was broad and muscular with very little hair. Muscles corded his arms. She’d been so flustered when she’d seen him naked before that she hadn’t taken the time to study his body art. On his right bicep, he had an armband tattoo with some intricate knot pattern met a tree of life. On the left side he had a tattoo with a serpent like dragon started at his shoulder and wove around his arm, stopping a couple of inches above his elbow. When she got to his face, she noticed Aiden’s smug grin. He still hadn’t shaved, and he now had the beginnings of a scruffy beard. “Like what you see?” His tone was cocky.
She shrugged. “I’ve seen it before.”
Her answer made him laugh. “Did you like it?”
He looked surprised when her cheeks flushed a little. “Yes, I liked it quite a bit.”
His smug grin faded when she pushed her hair back over her shoulders.
“Like what you see?” she asked.
He looked down at his erection. “I think it’s painfully obvious how much I like what I see.”
She climbed back onto the bed and straddled him again. He groaned and lifted his hips to grind into her. She leaned down and kissed him. She’d been fighting her desire for him for days, and now, she just wanted to give in to it.
When Aiden had envisioned his perfect mate, she’d been sweet and demure. Now he realized what a fool he’d been. This woman would never be described using either of those words, and she made him hotter than he’d ever been.
She pulled her mouth away from his and kissed her way down his body. She seemed to revel in his body, arousing him even more. When her mouth covered his cock, he lifted his hips up off the bed. “Christ Tempest! You need to stop or I won’t last.”
She laughed with him still in her mouth, and he nearly whimpered.
When she was done laughing at his predicament, she lifted her head and smiled at him like a siren. Her mouth was still close to him. “What’s wrong, vampire?”
“Untie me and I’ll show you, witch.”
“I don’t think so,” she purred and straddled him again. It took her some time to guide him into her. She was too tight. It had been too long for her, and he could tell it wasn’t exactly comfortable, but it also didn’t appear uncomfortable. She moved slowly at first, as she stretched to accommodate him.
Nothing in his life had ever felt as incredible as her body wrapped around him. The energy from her body hummed around his cock. It vibrated through him. “You feel unbelievable.” he murmured.
“It feels like you have a vibrator in your dick,” she said in awe.
Aiden laughed. He couldn’t help it. When she picked up the pace, he couldn’t laugh, couldn’t speak, and couldn’t even come up with a coherent thought.
She was making the sexiest little noises as she moved against him. Aiden lifted his hips off the bed to get as far inside her as possible. It was the most incredible thing he’d ever experienced. She was hot, wet, and completely wild. The little sounds she was making kept getting louder and louder.
When she finally climaxed around him, it sent him over the edge.
She screamed and collapsed on top of him, laughing softly.
“What’s so funny?” he asked, grinning like an idiot.
“Did you happen to notice the bed posts?”
He looked down at his hands, which were gripping her hips, with bed posts dangling from the ropes on his wrists. If he’d had the energy, he would have laughed, too. Instead, he drifted off to sleep, completely sated, with a naked witch sleeping on top of him.
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