by Rena Marks
“Would you feel something for me if I kissed you? Would you feel the same feelings for me that I have for you or is it plain and simple lust for you?”
I whispered as his lips lowered to mine. “It’s lust, Julian.”
“I’ll take it,” he whispered back before his lips descended.
I kissed him thoroughly. I couldn’t help it. My head swirled as I felt dizziness begin.
“Let me love you, Anjelia.”
There was a dangerous element to the air. I wanted to throw caution to the wind and jump into bed with him.
“Yes,” I breathed.
“Are you sure?”
I nodded. At that moment, I was. I was done fighting this. I wrapped my hand around the back of his head and pulled his lips back to mine. I wanted to taste him, possess him. We kissed hungrily for long moments, our bodies pressed as closely as physically possible. He was all hardness, pressing against my softness. His lips broke from mine long enough to leave hot, lingering kisses down the side of my neck. Each one burned an imprint.
“We need to get to your house,” Julian murmured into my ear.
“Mm-hmm.”
He walked me around to the passenger side of my car and he got into the driver’s seat. We drove to my house and before I knew it, he was there, opening my door.
There was no more waiting. The moment my front door closed we were at each other. Clothes were flinging every which way. I was frantic to get his skin next to mine. When he was nude, I wondered what the hell had possessed me to try to hold out and waste three whole days.
His body was perfect, the cut of each muscle pronounced. I wanted to press my lips to each of the sexy cuts, run my tongue along the dips and valleys. I held his hand slightly away from me while I drank in the sight of him. He stood perfectly still while I looked him up and down. I wandered slowly around his body, letting my fingertips trail along him, over the curve of his buttocks, just because I couldn’t stand not to touch him.
When I stood behind him, I pressed my nude skin against his, spooning him. He shivered at the contact. I slowly peeled away and lowered myself to kneel behind him. Pressing a light kiss to the back of his knee, I let my breath blow as I rose slowly higher. I pressed another kiss to the swell of his buttock. His body was magnificent.
“Anjelia, come kiss me,” he commanded, his voice a deep husky vibration.
I obeyed. I crushed my mouth to his, and the kiss sent new spirals of ecstasy rolling through my body. Our tongues entwined, but I couldn’t get enough. While our mouths searched each other, he picked me up and took me into my bedroom. He lowered me to the bed and broke away from the kiss long enough to nuzzle my neck while his large hands explored the curves of my body.
And then, he was in me. My thighs wrapped around his hips and he buried his cock deep within me, filling my emptiness and making us one.
I couldn’t get enough of him. Each thrust made me clench my inner muscles, trying desperately to hold him in me as he withdrew. The first time he pulled out of my body, I actually whimpered. He paused mid-stroke and reassured me by pressing his mouth to mine.
I opened my mouth. I sought his tongue, and he obliged. My heart thundered in my chest. I felt his fangs.
The press of them cut my lip. Still, he pressed his mouth to mine, hungrily tasting, seeking and kissing. When he pulled back, his mouth was smeared with my blood. It was bright red against his pale skin. His eyes fluttered and his thick black lashes swept his cheek.
He plunged into me again, pausing long enough to say. “I’m sorry, I bled you. I can seal it for you.” His lashes swept downward again as he leaned closer to lick my bleeding lip.
He pulled out again and then leaned forward, licking my lip clean as he thrust his hips into me again. When he licked my lip, it nearly brought me to the edge of my climax. I felt it looming, near enough to grasp. The thought made me moan.
“They’re connected, aren’t they? Sex and blood?” I gasped.
He nodded. “Think about it,” he said. He plunged forcefully into me one last time, triggering my release. The orgasm ripped through me. My pussy gripped his cock within me, milking him.
His cum flowed into my body as he groaned into my neck. I felt the warmth of his breath as he exhaled onto my throat. At the end of his climax he opened his mouth to latch onto my neck.
I froze and knew he fought with himself not to bite. It took but a minute for him to calm and withdraw, then roll from me.
I relaxed in the crook of his arm. My lips felt bruised and swollen. He watched me with dark eyes.
“No more pretense?” he asked.
“But I’m not a human servant, right?”
“Not technically. Unless you’d like to donate blood?”
I shook my head.
“Then I would like to love you again.”
I smiled. “So soon?”
“Always.” He pressed against me, his cock swollen and hard.
A part of me was aware this seemed sudden. I had jumped into bed with him. Suddenly, I was completely ready to become a human servant. I couldn’t explain it fully myself. My inhibitions were gone, and it felt as though a switch was thrown and I was simply ready. It wasn’t me, I know. I was the one who lived by myself after my husband’s death. Celibate. I’d avoided Julian for years. But I guess when you’re ready you’re just ready.
We were making love the third time, close to dawn and I told him what I wanted. I drew his head down to my neck while we were thrusting and he whispered against my skin, sending shivers across my heated skin.
“You’re ready then, Anjelia? Ready to be mine for all of eternity?” So final. Forever. And I knew at that moment I loved him.
“Yes. Now. Do it.” Was the sultry voice even mine?
He bit. So this was the human servant marking, huh? Can’t say I was ready for it but it had damn better be worth it.
It was. After the sharp pain diminished, a new sensation was released. A steady, constant need to nurture, an overwhelming need, one that I recognized as me being helpless to overcome. After that, how do you describe pure bliss? There’s no possible way except for the joining of two souls. The feeling of unconditional love, love without jealousy, pure beauty. The knowledge that, if one dies, the other will follow.
It was the last thing I remembered as lights burst, exploding inside my head. I took a deep breath and let the darkness take over. When I awoke, I was alone. A single rose lay on my pillow next to me, with a note.
“Anjelia, my love. I did not want our first time clouded by my death at dawn. I returned to my coffin for the few hours it takes me to reawaken. I look forward to seeing you later today and kissing your sweet lips.”
It seemed odd that he would leave me while I was out like a light. Perhaps he suspected how I felt previously and decided to ease me into sleeping with him while he died.
Later that morning, I entered the gym. One thing about having vampire sex, it’s energizing. I felt like I could do everything at once. I started to unlock drawers and heard the front door chimes. Looking up, I nodded at several members entering for their workouts. It wasn’t long before the girls from Bang’s walked in.
“Hey, Leah, you working out with us?”
“Yeah, let me set the answering machine.”
The three of them were already on the equipment when I joined them. I straddled a bench and awoke some slightly sore muscles, remembering how I’d straddled Julian at one point last night.
Anna watched me, a smile on her face.
“What?” I muttered. My suspicious level rose.
“Little sore?”
“Little,” I grumbled.
Their grins were full on, now.
“Oh, come on. You have to tell us,” Nicki said.
“I don’t kiss and tell!”
“Every girl kisses and tells. What makes it work is the guys don’t know about it,” Lily said.
“Okay. We’ll say the ‘sisterhood, never-tell-lest-we-die solemn oath’,” Nicki sa
id.
All three girls smacked their foreheads, then lips, then each other’s hands. They turned and looked at me expectantly.
I rolled my eyes at Nicki. “To think, you’re the smart one of the group. You’re all a bunch of loons. But I’ll tell you a little bit. What do you want to know?”
“Was he good?”
“Do you doubt it?”
“How many times?”
“At least three and that was because I was tired.”
“You going for it again?”
“As long as I can.”
“Kinky?”
“Any way I want it.”
The girls had dreamy expressions on their faces. Until Lily spoke. “Danielle’s not going to like it.”
I must have looked concerned, because Anna spoke quickly.
“Danielle is still in punishment. Who’s worried about it? Hopefully she’ll learn her lesson and be a better person when she gets out.”
“What is she being punished for?” I asked.
“She was disrespectful the day you found out we were vampires. Julian was keeping it under wraps to woo you. She let it out purposely, although she claimed otherwise. She was hoping it’d scare you away,” she shrugged. “Let’s work out and when the sun goes down, we can take you shopping. Now that you’re the boss’s girlfriend, you have to dress the part.”
I smiled. I loved to shop but I just didn’t have that kind of money. I was not using Julian’s accounts, not now that I was sleeping with him. I’d feel paid. No, I would simply bow out at the last minute.
“By the way, how did you know I'd gotten together with Julian?” I asked. “I never mentioned his name.”
“We watched you doing the bump and grind in the parking lot.”
Anna. She was such a delicate flower.
Chapter Six
Hours later, the girls returned with another vamp. She was lovely, just as pale, and dressed in Bang’s gear. Dainty with straight black hair and upturned Asian eyes. She was rail thin and gave the impression that one needed to protect her. It was a totally incongruous feeling since she was so much stronger than me.
“This is Gigi. She’ll watch the place while we go shop.”
“Thanks, guys but…” I frantically tried to think of something. Nothing would come to mind.
“We have money,” Anna taunted. She held up a credit card. I narrowed my eyes and read the name on it. It was Julian’s.
“I can’t use his card!”
“Why not, my sweet?”
I whirled to face Julian who sneaked up behind me. “I can’t let you pay for my clothes.”
“It makes no difference to me, Anjelia. Lily—”
“Yes, boss?”
“Where did you get all the outfits needed to be employed at Bang’s?”
“You.”
“Nicki?”
“You.”
“Anna?”
“You.”
He turned to me. “You will need new things, Anjelia. The girls can show you what to buy. Think of your new wardrobe as a uniform, if you will.”
I sighed.
He continued. “If you don’t go shopping, I will be forced to pick things for you. Now that I would enjoy. However, you didn’t seem to care for the last outfit I bought. I believe you referred to yourself as Cher?”
His sense of humor made me smile. Besides, there was always the threat of dressing me vampy.
“Perhaps I should shop for myself,” I conceded.
One of the girls cheered. I nodded.
“I’m glad to see you came to your senses, my sweet. Now, come kiss me goodbye. I must return to work.”
I pressed a dutiful kiss to his lips and he whispered seductively, “Be sure you buy nighttime things. In red. For me.”
I kissed him again, this time inserting my tongue into his mouth, tasting him thoroughly.
By ten o’clock, I was yawning. Most of the shops closed. A few were still open, which was smart considering the ungodly amount of money we were spending. Lily had been given specific instructions and was following them exactly. I needed formals, cocktail dresses, casual wear. She’d even insisted I buy new workout clothes. I drew the line at negligees and slinky undies, though. Not that I was a prude but I was beginning to discover that vampire taste was different from human. Besides, I was getting tired.
We got back into the car and Anna was speaking.
“Now what shall we do? All the shops are closed. Do you want to go to Bang's and party?” She turned toward me as she asked the question.
“I am not a vampire. I sleep at night.”
“Oh, please. Everyone knows you’re coffin-bait.”
“What is that supposed to mean?” I asked suspiciously.
She just grinned. “Benefits to being coffin-bait? You don’t need as much sleep as you used to. You can replace it.”
“With what?”
“Sex.”
“What?”
“You can replace sleep with sex. It’ll re-energize you, like you slept a few hours. We can take you back to Julian or you can do one of us.”
I like to think of myself as a young, modern woman. But that just made my mouth drop. I knew about the replacement thing, since Julian had already given me a taste, but I thought it was just between Julian and me.
“There are some things that girlfriends just don’t do for each other,” I responded, quite tactfully I thought.
Anna looked directly at me, puzzled. “Are you serious?”
I looked at her, just as puzzled. “Are you?”
Nicki laughed hard. “This is priceless. Anjelia, have you only been with men?”
I nodded.
“We’re not like that. I mean, we like men. But we don’t have rules like humans do. It’s not a big deal to us. Now, Anna does prefer women but she doesn’t limit herself.”
Anna nodded.
“I don’t want to be with a woman,” I said.
Nicki stopped laughing. “I know. It’s okay. How about Johnny? Do you want him? We are often with him, though he prefers Lily all by herself. She just won’t give him the time of day unless it’s just for fun with all of us.”
I looked over at Lily. She looked uncomfortable. “I don’t think Julian would like it if Leah messed around with Johnny.”
“Are you jealous, Lily?” Nicki asked with wide eyes. “Are you finally getting possessive over Johnny?”
I knew Nicki was teasing her, because Julian takes the possessive cake. He'd rip Johnny to shreds if I even appeared interested. Lily missed the tease and answered anyway.
“Are you kidding? That man’s head would swell. Let’s drive back to Bang’s and show Julian some of your stuff. All this sex talk, I might have a quickie with Johnny.”
We drove back and took my packages upstairs to Julian’s office. I sat on the couch with my feet propped up.
He was looking through them.
“I knew it. I knew you would not buy negligees.” He produced his own bag and shook out the slinky, filmy stuff.
My mouth dropped. “I couldn't with the girls watching my every move. When did you get those?”
“Now. I had them delivered and everything is complete. Would you care to try these on?”
“Nope.” I rose from the sofa. “I’d like to go home, Julian. I’m tired.”
I blinked and suddenly he was in front of me. I hated when vampires used that warp speed. He lightly traced the circles under my eyes. I had been up most of last night with him.
“Come here,” he said, his voice all sultry and husky at once. I stepped closer to him and he gathered me in his arms. “Do you wish to sleep by yourself tonight?”
“You’re working.”
“I can leave early. I would like to leave early tonight. I’d like to hold you while you sleep.”
I smiled ruefully. “That may be all I do tonight. I’m really exhausted.”
He nodded. “I’m getting someone to take over, my sweet. I’m looking forward to hours of just ho
lding you.”
“If I open my eyes and you’re staring at me, I may scream,” I tried to tease.
“I’ve made you scream before,” he said seductively and kissed my fang marks. I knew fang marks could be healed, sealed shut with a vampire’s saliva but I suspected it was a macho thing to have his marks showing on my neck.
We drove to my house in my car. I had a glimpse of Anna and Johnny on the dance floor before we left. I wondered who would be getting lucky or if they all would.
Julian placed my packages on the sofa. I jumped into a hot shower and he picked which negligee I’d sleep in. He didn’t bring anything. He was waiting for me afterward, sitting nude and pale and beautiful in my bed. He opened his arms to me and we got comfortable. I told him I loved him. I fell asleep as soon as my eyes closed.
I awoke predawn. Just in time for me to make love to Julian before the sun hit and he unwillingly “slept” for a few hours. He would need to feed too. What better time than during sex? Without being able to mesmerize me, a bite hurts. What makes it worth it is the bone-tingling orgasm you get with the one you love. I would be ravenous afterward. My body would crave food, lots of human food, to make up for the blood loss while I supported both my body and his.
I stretched languorously. It tightened the negligee across my breasts. Julian's gaze was glued to my chest. I smiled, knowing my nipples hardened at his look.
“Are you hungry?” I asked.
“In more ways than one,” he answered.
“Would you like to satisfy both of those needs before dawn?”
“With you, always.” His lips found mine and hovered directly above them. It would be a teasing day.
I could easily tease back. I curled my fingers into the back of his hair, turned my head and pulled his face into my throat. He inhaled deeply as if he couldn’t resist the flow of rich, warm blood running just under my skin. As though he could smell it, even sense it somehow. I knew I could drive him to lose control. It was a powerful feeling.
He nudged my thighs apart. I wrapped my legs around his waist. The thin fabric of my negligee is all that separated his hard, throbbing flesh from my hot, wet softness.
He pressed his erection against my opening but couldn’t enter with my trapped negligee. I tried to reach down to lift the material but he caught my hand and brought it back up. I groaned. He was so much better at the teasing than I was.
