Eternal Service

by Regina Morris

  “OK, I promise.” She shifted her legs so she now straddled him. Her sensual efforts told him that if he didn’t get her into the bedroom soon, that they would end up here on the couch, or even the floor.

  “Are you okay with me biting you while I love you?” Now sitting in this new position he felt her rubbing against his rock hard manhood.

  “Oh, yes. You can bite me.” She grasped his head in her hands and made direct eye contact. “Bite me!”

  Raymond growled and bared his fangs. His length strained against his pants in an effort to find freedom. “I will probably bite you multiple times. In multiple places,” he said breathlessly. “Are you okay with that?”

  She gave him a devilish grin. “I might even bite you.” She claimed his mouth and kissed him hard.

  Just what he wanted to hear! He lifted her effortlessly and carried her to her bedroom. He surprised her when he opened the door and revealed what he had spent the last couple of hours working on. Over fifty lit candles surrounded the room; soft music played in the background and rose petals lay on the bedspread. On the nightstand sat champagne chilling in a shiny new bucket. As she shrieked in delight, he carried her over and placed her gently on the bed. “Are you surprised?”

  “Oh my! I can’t believe all of this.” She took a good look around the room. “I can’t believe you cleaned up my room. Ug! This place was such a mess and you cleaned it. My bedroom looked worst than some of the places in Florida we visited.”

  His lips curled up in a smile, revealing his fangs. “Its’ okay, Alex. I wanted the room to look nice for us tonight.”

  “It does look good, but where is everything?”

  “Let’s focus on us tonight. Tomorrow you can peek in your closet and view the damage. I’ll tell you now, the mess is not pretty. I had to clean at vamp speed to get this room and the dinner done in time. You probably won’t want to be alone when you look inside the closet. It’s pretty gruesome.” He kissed her passionately on the mouth. She tasted sweet, like honey. His tongue dove into her mouth devouring her sweetness. He began to undress her. “I want to see more of you. I want to feel and caress more of your soft skin.”

  “Undress me. Please undress me … please.”

  He undid the tiny buttons down the front of her blouse. With each one, he kissed the skin revealed by his efforts. “You’re so beautiful. I’ll cherish you forever. Forever.” He kissed down the top of her bra and was delighted to discover a frontal opening. He had never seen one before. He freed her breasts from their confinement. “You are absolutely beautiful. So round. So pink. You’re perky for me, honey. So very perky.” He caressed one with his hand as he suckled the other with his mouth. She arched in response and her fingers slid down his muscular shoulders to his back. She tugged at his shirt and he halfway sat up and took it off. He settled back down and he eyed her neck. It had been so long for him, both sex and feeding from a vein. He wanted her much more naked before he drank though. Much more naked.

  He unzipped her skirt and tugged the garment down past her hips, past her knees, all the way to her ankles and off her body. She wore red panties. Hot, red panties. Silk. Red. He caressed her thigh and was about to remove the panties when he noticed they had no backing. He assumed they were meant to be this way, because damn, she looked so hot in them. He admired them momentarily and then slid his finger underneath the band on top and tugged them down as well.

  “You have too many clothes on,” she said.

  He removed his clothing and watched as her eyes grew wider and she bit on her lower lip. “Oh, my. You are so beautiful Raymond. So strong. So muscular. I want to feel you inside me.” He removed the last of his clothing and his erection sprung forward. His huge swollen sex throbbed for her touch.

  Raymond saw her reaction to his size, but it was her mental pattern that told him what she was thinking. He smiled seductively at her and kissed her as he brought her back onto the bed. He loved his ability to read minds. It came in so handy at times. He knew what she was thinking, knew what she wanted. And that was him inside her now.

  The last thing he wanted to do was to hurt her with his size during the most intimate of moments. She had confided that it had been a while for her, so he had to prepare her for him. Her hands slid down his back and her nails were digging into his backside. He gently touched her face and kissed her neck. He could smell her blood coursing through her veins and could hear her fast beating heart. She rolled her head to the side to make it easier for him to have access to her neck at the same time she spread her legs wide to welcome him in.

  He lay down on top of her and tested the weight of his body on hers. A growl escaped his throat and he felt her shudder beneath him. With his body flushed against hers, he could read her thoughts as anxiety filled her mind. He had pinned her down and, even with the erotic thoughts of her mind, he sensed her panic. He leaned into her ear, “I want to make love to you more than anything else in the world, but if you are having second thoughts, we can stop right here.”

  She turned to face him, “No. I don’t want to stop. I really am fine, it’s just that … I wasn’t expecting you to growl, that’s all.”

  He stroked her hair knowing her reaction was more than just his growl, “Would you rather be on top?”

  She rolled her neck to the side, “I want you exactly like this.” She stroked his back with her hand and pulled him closer. “The growl was sexy.”

  He leaned in and licked her vein on the side of her neck. Her breathing got more labored, her head tilted back and her back arched onto the bed. Raymond’s breathing grew shorter and quicker. His body tensed as he lowered himself to her vein.

  Alex grabbed his shoulders and pushed him away. “Wait … we … ah, do you have …”

  “What? I’m sorry. What’s wrong?” He couldn’t understand any of her mental images now since her mind was currently incoherent.

  “No, no. We need …”

  He lifted himself off her, but she held him in place. “No. You’re fine. But, do you have a condom?”

  He smiled, relief washing over him. “We don’t need one. I’m not a carrier of disease and besides, you’re not fertile right now.”

  He leaned in and stroked her neck once more with his tongue.

  She turned her head to look at him. “Wait. How do you know I’m not fertile?”

  “I had Sulie check days ago.”

  Her eyes widened. “Really?”

  “It’s what I asked her just before I took you home the night you met the team. I didn’t want to impregnate you.” He gently nudged her head back down on the pillow, and continued licking her neck to prepare her vein for his fangs, but sensed something odd from her mental patterns. He pulled away once again. “Honey, what’s wrong?”

  “You wouldn’t want to have children with me?”

  This was exactly why Raymond wanted to talk in the other room before they got to her bedroom and naked. Of course, this topic had not been discussed yet, and boy, it was a big topic. It definitely needed to be discussed since he was never letting her go. She belonged to him forever. He just hoped he’d be coherent in his current aroused state to even talk.

  “No, Alex. It’s not that.” He waited for her head to turn so he could face her. “It’d be wrong for me to contribute to a pregnancy when we hadn’t first discussed having children – especially if I could verify your condition ahead of time. I would see that as being irresponsible. That’s all.”

  “Oh,” she said, and then paused before asking, “Would you want to have another child one day?”

  He lifted himself up with his arms so he wouldn’t crush her beneath him. He gazed into her shining emerald eyes. “Alex, do you want to have my baby?” He could sense a maternal need in her from her mental patterns, but was it his baby she wanted? A vampire baby? Would a human ever want that?

  “One day, yes. Very much so.”

  He didn’t know how he deserved such a beautiful woman in his life. His heart swelled with love for her. “Th
en I absolutely want to have more children.”

  He laid her back on the bed as she tilted her head to the side and opened her legs so she could create a cradle for him. His tongue licked up the side of her neck and he felt her shudder beneath him. His breathing became short once again and his body tight. His length hardened for her. He smelled the blood which flowed in her veins just beneath the surface of her beautiful creamy skin. Type A+ positive, his favorite. Thick, rich, and delicious. His fangs ached in expectation. But not quite yet would he satisfy his needs. He was tempted, but wanted to savor the moment. He slid his finger through her wet folds and stroked her nub. She was so wet and close to coming already, her nerve endings there on fire.

  Kissing his way down her body his lips felt her warmth. She smelled of fragrant body wash mixed with her sweet passionate sweat. He paused at her breasts, and suckled one while his hand splayed across the other and rubbed its nipple. It pebbled at his touch. Her fingers were entwined in his hair and she let out a deep moan.

  All those years. He had forgotten what it felt like to hold a woman who truly wanted him to make love to her. To be desired, to have a woman touch you, to have a woman want you so desperately — it was pleasurable on such a base level. This time was different though. He was a fully transitioned vampire. He could hear her quickened heart beat, could feel the heat of her skin as she warmed him. He couldn’t believe that it had taken him this long to find Alex. She was all he wanted, all he needed.

  He continued his journey south so he could taste her. His length throbbed in expectation, and he wanted to dive into her slickened heat, but first to taste her precious honey almond arousal. His nostrils flared as he inhaled deeply. She lay wide open to him as he touched her auburn curls. Alex wasn’t scared or repulsed by what he was. She wasn’t afraid of his fangs and that they were inches from her delicate womanly parts. She was engorged and reddened, glistening with moisture for him. His tongue found her core and circled around her nub, causing her body to tighten and her back to arch. Raymond thought it was the most beautiful sight. Quickening his pace, he lapped up greedily what she offered. He listened to her panted breath and her love murmurs as she called out his name repeatedly. Her thought patterns were focused on just the pleasure her body enjoyed, and it heightened his desire for her. She exploded under him, flooding his mouth with her cream.

  A low guttural growl escaped his throat. Her body shook in the aftermath of her orgasm. She lay there catching her breath as Raymond kissed his way back up to her neck. Raymond lowered his head to her throat. The scent of her skin, and the blood just beneath, nearly sent him over the edge. His fangs tingled with pleasure as he gently scraped them across her skin and found her vein. He licked her neck once more, and then slowly inserted his fangs into her. His mouth filled with her warm, crimson, life–giving blood. It had been such a long time since he had bitten anyone. His inner vampire needed this, and the taste was perfection. He swallowed. His body warmed from the new blood in his body and from her body heat beneath him.

  Blood lust was fully upon him when her blood filled his mouth once more. He needed to be inside her. He wanted to pound her and explode within her. Quickly he sealed the two small puncture wounds on her neck. Her response was to arch her back and cry out. He licked her neck repeatedly until she was brought to the brim of a second climax.

  He slid his hardened shaft to the portal of heaven, teasing her in its path. He placed both of his hands on her thighs and held them. He pushed her legs further apart and slowly entered her body. Slowly at first to stretch her out, to prepare her body to accept him. She moaned and dug her nails into his back. She was tight and hugged his sex within her. He slowly slid himself in, inching his long length into her. He desperately wanted to plunge himself entirely within her, but could tell she had not had a lover in a while. She moaned and he tilted her hips slightly forward so he could sheathe himself all the way inside of her. She shifted her body, welcoming him in.

  Her slick body tightened around his manhood as he retreated and reseated himself deep within her. Her moans filled his ears as he repeated the movement. She was tight and muscular, and he quickly learned to appreciate the athletic build. Being within her was the most pleasure he had ever felt, and he wasn’t sure just how long he could last. Even without the blood lust, he would still have had a hard time controlling his urges. His urges needed to be reined in. As muscular as she was, she was only human.

  He retreated nearly his full–length, and drove into her slowly once again. He repeated the movement again and again until she lifted her knees higher and again arched her back. She exploded under him. By reading her thought patterns he would be able to read any signs of pain, so he allowed himself to drive into her. He felt nearly out of control as he read only pleasure from her mind. Each time his full–length pounded into her exploding body he read only pleasure from her.

  Her raspy voice cheered him on. Her body may be human, but her stamina allowed him to ride her hard. He pumped his length faster and faster into her muscular body, her hips in perfect time with his. His body tightened with imminent release.

  When his release came, he growled her name. The pleasure rippled through him as he filled her with his hot seed. His manhood spasmed over and over as he held her tightly. He closed his eyes and worked to catch his breath.

  He lifted his head to look into her eyes. His face had been pressed against her hair as he had come. She was out of breath and feeling weakened. “You okay?” he asked.

  Alex took a deep breath and nodded. “Yes.” With another deep breath she said, “I’m fine. You?”

  He nodded and gently kissed her pert little nose. “I love you, Alex.”

  Her hands gently massaged his back. “I love you too, Raymond.”

  He shifted his weight off her and rolled her on top of him with the two of them still connected. “You feel so good, Alex.” A ringlet of her hair and slid down and hung over her face. He stroked the hair and gently placed it behind her ear. “I’ll love you forever.”

  She nuzzled against his now warm body. “Your body temperature is warmer after you make love.” It wasn’t a question, more of a statement.

  “Yes. It won’t last. It's your body warmth and blood that warmed me. It will fade soon.”

  “I see it as my personal duty to keep your body warm.” She giggled.

  He had to laugh inside as he heard her giggle. Maybe there was such a thing as the giggle factor. “Alex, I’m going to make love to you all night.”

  CHAPTER FORTY–FIVE

  Alex called a morning meeting to go over the last minute details. The smaller of the two ballrooms at the hotel would serve for the Arrival Ceremony of the State Dinner; the larger ballroom was for the dinner itself. The perishable flowers would arrive tomorrow, but the tables in the large room were laid out and set with the best linens, silverware and china – all with the White House insignia. Video cameras were positioned within the rooms, the entryway of the building, the driveway to the building, and throughout the parking lots. Most guests would arrive by taxi, but there was a valet service for those who chose to drive themselves.

  The hotel preparations kept her busy throughout the day. Raymond wanted to spend more time with her, but her schedule wouldn’t allow for it. The vampires were not needed until the actual event, but the humans were busy checking all entry and exit points and every cubbyhole imaginable.

  The humans were already in place when the Colony gathered at the new venue at the Capital Hilton and did a practice run–through, simulating everyone’s roles. Sulie and Ben would be part of the kitchen and wait staff, so they would be busy in the kitchen and in the hall itself looking at table placements, exit doors, and any hiding places assassins could use to their advantage.

  Sulie also had one other task. The call from the lab had indicated the type of poison which had been used against Justice McCade. Thankfully, an antidote existed, and she had already administered the medicine to him this morning under a compelling. She had che
cked five other Justices and those who had been poisoned were also given the antidote. The remaining three would receive their spot–check physicals tonight if they attended the dinner.

  Mason would be representing the President. In an earlier meeting with Homeland Security, Dixon, Alex and Raymond, it was suggested the President remain behind because of the vampire threat. Held in a secure location, Daniel would be the President’s bodyguard tonight.

  Raymond would work the front desk. He stood in position at one of the security stations that visitors would have to pass to gain entry into the ballroom. Not only were the monitors working to ensure heat signatures from each guest, but Raymond would also be able to sense another predator in the room. An added benefit to his position was that he would help the Colony members enter with concealed weapons.

  Sterling would oversee the perimeter of the building and the grounds, which included the parking lot. He dressed in black so he would not be detected by the human team or any arriving guests. He would also run a check on random license plates as a precaution.

  William would be the eyes and ears of everyone. His position would be a remote location with video and audio feeds from both the vampire and human teams.

  Both Dixon and Alex, the only two humans who could eat human food, posed as guests for tonight’s event. Their reserved seats sat only one table over from the President — close enough to see him chew his food.

  Tonight’s com link units were ear buds. They sat low in the ear canal and were small enough to go virtually undetected. The entire team would be in constant communication with one other, with William in tonight’s command seat. The men had mini–cameras within their buttons, glass brims, or even on their neckties; Alex hid her camera in her corsage, and Sulie had hers hidden in her waitress cap. Each video was sent wireless to William, who kept an eye on what everyone else was seeing.

  Alex had been briefed about the dead forger and the four forged passes into the dinner. Of course, new passes were issued, as well as announcements of the change in venue. With the death of Verna at the White House a few days ago, there were still three deadly vampires on the loose. It was all going to come down in a few short hours. All she could do now was go home and get dressed.