Blake's Pursuit

by Tina Folsom

  She wore a skimpy lace thong today, hiding nothing from his hungry view. Like a tiger, he stalked toward her. And as if she knew what he wanted, she slid onto the bed on her hands and knees, her enticing ass pointed at him. His mouth went dry, and he lost the ability to speak. He couldn’t even tell her how sexy she looked, because his brain wasn’t working anymore. All blood had rushed to his cock, bringing him to bursting point.

  He stepped behind her, reached for her thong and wordlessly ripped it from her. She didn’t even flinch, showed no sign that she was objecting to his rough treatment. Even when he gripped her hips with both hands and brought one knee to rest on the mattress while remaining standing behind her, she didn’t try to get away. She was offering herself to him despite everything she’d seen: his sharp fangs, his glaring eyes, and his deadly claws.

  “Don’t make me wait,” she murmured now, looking over her shoulder.

  The way she gazed at him, with passion and desire in her eyes, nearly undid him. He thrust forward and plunged into her moist heat, seating himself in her pussy. She was everything he remembered and more. And this time everything was different. This time he knew he didn’t have to hide his desires, didn’t need to hold back, because Lilo understood him now.

  Savoring every second, he withdrew in slow motion, pulling himself entirely from her sheath. He took a breath to collect his strength, before he drove back into her, this time gentler, trying to take his time. He didn’t want this to end too quickly. Because being inside of Lilo, feeling her interior muscles clamp around him as if she didn’t want to let him go, chased away the horror he’d been through earlier when the silver had started eating him alive.

  “I need you, Lilo.”

  Never before had he needed anybody like he needed her. That he gave her power over him by admitting this, he didn’t care.

  He slowed his thrusts and moved back and forth with more tenderness now. He let go of one hip and ran his hand along her shapely ass, caressing her, reveling in the softness of her skin. Her blond locks fell over her back and shoulders, whipping back and forth, side to side, with every thrust he delivered.

  But taking her like this wasn’t enough anymore. He needed a deeper connection with her, to look into her eyes when they both came. To know that she saw him, the vampire.

  Blake eased himself from her tight channel and turned her onto her back. She gazed up at him with passion-clouded eyes. Her chest was heaving, her heart hammering so loud his vampire senses had no trouble picking up the sound. A thin sheen of perspiration covered her entire body, making her even more beautiful. A long lock curled around her hard nipple as if caressing it. He reached for it and freed the little rosebud, letting his finger slide over it.

  A strangled moan broke from her throat, and she arched off the mattress. “Please,” she begged, putting her hands on his hips and pulling him down to her, until he was hovering over her center. She reached for his cock then and stroked the hard length.

  He clenched his jaw. “Lilo, oh God, you’re killing me.”

  She smiled up at him, mischief in her eyes now. “I didn’t realize a vampire would be so sensitive.”

  He nudged his cockhead at her moist entrance. “Everything we feel is amplified.” He plunged back into her, watching with satisfaction how all the air rushed from her lungs, sending moans bouncing off his bedroom walls.

  He kept his tempo slow, wanting to prolong their lovemaking, because this time he wanted to show Lilo how perfect things could be between them. Their bodies moved in sync as if they’d done this a hundred times, perfectly attuned to each other. Lilo’s pelvis tilted toward him whenever he dove deeper, inviting him into her delicious pussy. Her ankles crossed over his butt to hold him close to her, and he loved the feeling of her heels digging into him, just like her fingernails dug into his back.

  “I want you to see me,” he said, locking eyes with her.

  There was understanding in them. She knew what he wanted to do.

  “Yes, Blake, my love.”

  The word sank deep into him and filled him with an unknown sense of pride. He wanted to howl, instead he opened his mouth and peeled his lips back from his gums, while he willed his fangs to lengthen until they were fully extended.

  She stared at them, while he continued to move in and out of her, slow and steady, to show her that he was in control.

  Lilo lifted her hand, her face a mask of fascination.

  When he realized what she was about to do, he pulled his head back a few inches. “Are you sure you want to touch them?”

  “Yes, please.” She brought her hand closer, and he ceased his movements.

  “You should know something first.”

  She cast him a curious look.

  “Fangs are a vampire’s most erogenous zone. By touching me there, you’re going to make me come very quickly.”

  She smiled. “Then we’ll just have to have seconds later.”

  “I like the way you think.”

  Lilo moved her finger closer, and he remained entirely motionless. The pad of her finger brushed his lower lip, before she ran it over his teeth, sliding back until she reached his fang. At the contact, a jolt went through him, and he thrust his cock deep into her, moaning out loud.

  Her finger slipped off his fang, but got caught at his tip. He felt it pierce her skin.

  “Oh!” she let out on a stunned exhale.

  The scent of blood rose into his nostrils, and made his entire body stiffen. “Fuck, Lilo!” He knew it had been a bad idea to let her touch him there. Because he now couldn’t resist anymore. His tongue lapped out and licked the drop of blood off the pad of her finger, closing the tiny incision instantly.

  As the blood moved past his taste buds on the back of his tongue and then down his throat, he growled. Automatically, his hips began to move in a tempo he had no control over. Hard and fast, he began to fuck her, to drive his relentless cock in and out of her, while he tried to hold on to the last vestiges of his control.

  Beneath him, Lilo moaned despite the rough treatment he was dealing her. She slid her hand onto his nape and pulled him to her, pressing her lips to his, even though his fangs were fully extended. Was she not afraid that he’d hurt her?

  He tried to pull back, but already, she’d dipped her tongue between his lips and was running it along his teeth. When the smooth surface of her warm tongue connected with one of his fangs, he gave himself over to the pleasure Lilo was granting him and didn’t fight it any longer.

  His balls tightened, and hot semen shot through the length of his cock, exploding from the tip. But it didn’t slow his thrusts. He continued to plunge into her until, finally, he felt her shudder beneath him, her interior muscles gripping him like a tight fist and squeezing him.

  He retracted his fangs and took over the kiss, pouring his soul into it, until they were both breathless.

  30

  Blake rolled onto his back and immediately pulled Lilo halfway onto his body, loving the feeling of her weight on him, one leg draped over his groin, one hand on his chest, while her head rested on his shoulder. For a few moments, all he could do was catch his breath. Lilo, too, was breathing hard.

  He pressed a kiss on the top of her head. “I can’t even tell you what it means to me to have you in my bed.”

  She lifted her head and looked at him.

  “To know you’ve accepted me for what I am.” He locked eyes with her. “To feel you lick my fangs. I never dared hope for this much.”

  Lilo gently ran her finger over his lips. “I’ve never seen anything more erotic than when you showed me your fangs and let me touch them.”

  His heart thundered at the revelation. “You weren’t afraid.”

  “You said you wouldn’t hurt me.”

  “You trust me despite everything that happened.” He could hardly believe it. But he saw it in her eyes. Lilo had faith in him.

  He took hold of her finger and kissed it. “I’m sorry about pricking you with my fang.”

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nbsp; “It wasn’t your fault.” Lilo looked away. “Did you like it?”

  “Your blood?”

  She nodded.

  “How could I not? Lilo, you have no idea what it’s like. My sense of smell is so hypersensitive that even now I can smell your blood. And you know what that does to me?”

  She lifted her eyes back to meet his gaze. “What does it do?”

  He took her hand and guided it to his groin, where he placed it over his hardening cock. “That’s what it does.”

  Her chin dropped. “How can you already be hard again?”

  He chuckled. “Because of you. That tiny drop of blood that I licked off your finger is making me want more. That’s why the vampire inside me is preparing for it, for you. The vampire inside me wants to seduce you with sex until you allow him to bite you.”

  He knew he shouldn’t tell her this, but he was done hiding things from her. If he had any chance of winning her for good, he had to be honest about every aspect of himself. Winning her for good? The thought suddenly struck him. Did he truly want her in his life? When had he made that decision?

  When she didn’t respond, he slid his hand under her chin and looked deep into her eyes. “I would never force you. I want you to know that. But you should know that every time we make love, my desire to drink your blood will grow.”

  Understanding shone back in her eyes. “Is that why you think that Hannah let Ronny bite her?”

  He stroked his hand over her head and drew her against his chest. “You said they’d been dating for at least six months. No vampire, no matter how civilized and tame, will stay with a woman for that length of time without biting her. With or without her permission. Though I doubt Hannah would have denied him. She knew what a vampire’s bite entailed, before she ever met Ronny.”

  “Knew, how?”

  “Because I bit her.”

  Lilo shot up to a sitting position. “What?” Her eyes were wide with shock. “You and Hannah? You were lovers?”

  At her appalled look, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud. “Hannah and I?” He sat up and pulled Lilo to him, but she pushed him back. “Hannah and I were never lovers. We were never attracted to each other. Not for a single second.”

  She frowned, obviously not believing him. “Then why?”

  “You wouldn’t by any chance be jealous?”

  “Don’t be ridiculous!” she shot back.

  But he knew he’d hit a nerve, and that fact made his heart beat out of control. Lilo had a fierce streak of possessiveness in her that he hadn’t expected. But he had no time to revel in it, because first he needed to calm her down and assure her that the bite had had nothing to do with sex.

  “Hannah offered me her blood to save my life.”

  ~ ~ ~

  Still skeptical, she searched his eyes. Was he telling the truth? And why should it matter that Blake had bitten her best friend? It was none of her business.

  Oh please, just admit that you can’t stand the fact that he bit Hannah, but not you, the voice in her head said.

  “I had an accident.” Blake’s words pierced her thoughts.

  Slowly she nodded. “What happened?”

  He reached for her then and pulled her onto his lap, so she was straddling him, before she could protest. Well, maybe she hadn’t wanted to protest because she liked the fact that he sought a physical connection to her.

  Blake caressed her back gently. “Baby, there was never anything between me and Hannah, though she did save my life, just like you saved mine last night. And while I was very grateful to Hannah, I never touched her the way I can’t stop touching you.” He brushed his lips over hers in a feather-light kiss.

  Then he leaned back against the headboard.

  “I was in pursuit of a suspect one night close to sunrise. The road was wet, and I was driving too fast. There was no time to call for backup. I knew I had to catch him before he was gone for good. It was a winding road in a wooded area. I lost him behind a bend in the road. Or so I’d thought, until I realized he’d managed to pull onto a dirt path to hide. When I saw the headlights in my rearview mirror, I knew he’d outsmarted me.”

  Her heart beating rapidly, she asked, “What did he do?”

  “He shot at me. The rear window shattered, but my seat and backrest were steel-plated. He couldn’t know that. But he realized very quickly that he couldn’t eliminate me by staying behind me, so he pulled to my side. His truck was bigger and heavier than my BMW. He rammed me. I did everything I could to keep control of the car, but behind the next bend there were road works. The truck managed to get past it. But my car flipped over and rolled down the hill, overturning several times.”

  She gasped. “Oh my God!”

  “I would have been okay even during daylight while I waited for help, because the windows in my car had a special UV-impenetrable coating. Something Thomas, one of our geniuses, invented. But the rear window was shattered. And at the angle the car landed, the rising sun would have fried me. I was at nature’s mercy.”

  Blake ran a hand through his hair, then placed it back on her back, and continued to stroke her.

  “Why didn’t you get out of the car and take shelter somewhere?”

  “I couldn’t move my legs. The front of the car had been crushed and the engine was practically sitting on my lap. I was bleeding. I tried to get free, but I wasn’t strong enough. My injuries were draining me of my strength, and while I ordinarily would have been able to push the collapsed engine parts off me and wedge free, in my injured state, I was powerless.”

  She felt tears brim in her eyes.

  “Had Hannah not been out walking her dog, I wouldn’t be here today. Frankenfurter found my car and alerted Hannah. When she found me, she tried to call 9-1-1, but she couldn’t get reception. My phone had the same problem. We couldn’t call anybody, and the sun was about to rise. I had no choice but to tell her the truth. I was as good as dead anyway.”

  “Don’t say that!”

  “It’s the truth. I had no way of knowing how Hannah would react.” He shook his head. And he’d been too weak to exercise any kind of mind control on Hannah to make her help him. “But all she said was How can I help? Imagine my surprise. She wasn’t afraid. In fact, she seemed excited.”

  Lilo had to chuckle involuntarily. “That’s Hannah. She’s game for any adventure. Always has been. She needs that excitement in her life. That constant rush of adrenaline.”

  Blake smiled back at her. “That was my luck. When I told her that I needed human blood to heal myself so I could gain enough strength to free my legs and escape from the car, she didn’t hesitate. I took only as much as I needed. Human blood directly from a living human’s vein is much more powerful than any bottled blood. But of course, I had no time to warn Hannah about the side effects. The sexual arousal. The fact that my bite was erotic, even though sex was the last thing on my mind.” He sighed. “With her blood, I was able to garner enough strength to free myself. But the sun was already rising, so Hannah took a blanket she found in my trunk and we were able to make it to an old shed she’d seen on her walk with Frankenfurter. We took shelter there.”

  “And Hannah, how did she take the bite?”

  “She was stunned, as was to be expected. And hooked, but that was something I didn’t realize for a while.”

  “Hooked? You mean she fell in love with you?”

  Blake stroked his knuckles over her cheek, a gesture that comforted her. “No. She was hooked on the bite. On the feeling it gave her. We talked while we were waiting for nightfall. I told her about Scanguards, about what I do. Who I am. And I told her I’d give her anything she wanted for saving my life.”

  “What did she want?”

  “Very little. She really is too good for this world. All she wanted was a job. See, she’d been fired the previous day. That’s why she’d been out all the way in the woods with Frankenfurter. To think about what she wanted to do with her life. It was fate that she was there.”

  “S
o you gave her a job.”

  Blake nodded. “I could have arranged pretty much any job she wanted in this town. Scanguards has lots of connections. But she didn’t want to work for any human company. She wanted to work for vampires. I don’t think Ronny was her first vampire boyfriend. I think she dated several of the vampires she met as part of her job. I suspect that she was always chasing that high that she felt when I bit her.”

  He combed his fingers through her hair. “That’s why I feel responsible for her and will do anything to save her. Not only because she saved my life, but because I’m the one who thrust her into the world of vampires. Everything that happened to her happened because I introduced her to this life instead of wiping her memory of the accident and how she saved me.”

  “Why didn’t you wipe her memory?”

  “She begged me not to. She wanted to remember everything.” Blake caressed her face gently, and warmth spread inside her. “And you? Do you want to remember, now that you know what danger you could be in just by knowing?”

  The decision was an easy one. “I want to remember everything. Every little detail.” She shifted on his lap, lifting herself onto her knees and readjusting her core to align with his cock. “I want to make more memories. Will you help me with that?”

  He brushed his lips to hers, smiling. “I thought you’d never ask.”

  31

  Lilo lowered herself onto his cock and took him inside her. He didn’t think he would ever get enough of that. Like a cocoon, her warmth and wetness engulfed him, instantly making everything else disappear in the background.

  Nibbling on her upper lip, Blake thrust his hips up, seating himself even deeper in her. She gasped in delight and threw her head back, thus exposing her vulnerable throat. Temptation charged through him. But he wouldn’t act on it. Lilo hadn’t made the decision yet whether to grant him the pleasure of biting her. And he wouldn’t rush her into it, because if he did, she would only resent him for it.