by Becca Van
She opened her mouth, and air rushed into her lungs, filling her with blessed relief and energy. She called on her last reserves and hurled electricity at him. He screamed with pain, but she didn’t stop. She kept gathering the molecules in front of her and pulling them into her in a never-ending cycle. She could feel the energy draining from her and knew she only had moments before it dissipated. She gave one last burst and shot the bastard with bolts of electricity from one hand and a fireball from the other.
He yelled in agony, and then he disappeared into thin air. Angelina slid down the door and landed on her ass with a thud. She tried to get to her hands and knees to move away from the entrance, but she couldn’t move. She closed her eyes and succumbed to the blackness pulling her down.
* * * *
Lucan felt his angel enter his mind as he slid his fangs into the young woman’s vein. He felt her revulsion and jealousy as she withdrew and he growled with frustration against the female’s neck. He hadn’t thought to block his mind from his mate while he was feeding, and now he had some ground to make up with her.
He finished up, closed the wound, and floated into the air. Tension increased within him the closer he got to his home. He felt an urgency to get to Angelina. He was less than a mile away when she screamed inside his head.
Using his preternatural speed, he was at the front door seconds later. He brushed against Angelina’s mind, but it felt like she was sleeping. He wondered if he had imagined her cry for help, but he dematerialized his body into minute dust molecules and slipped through a crack in the front door.
He saw her slumped against the front door, and he reformed his body. She was alive, thank God. He could hear her heart beating steadily in her chest. He bent down and lifted her in his arms. Just as he placed her on the sofa, her eyelids fluttered open.
He delved into her brain and saw what had happened. He was full of rage by the time he had extracted her recent memories. He checked her wrist and was pleased to see it was already healing, and then he sat down beside her and pulled her onto his lap.
“Are you all right, angel?” he whispered against her ear.
“Yes. Oh God, Lucan, I was so scared,” she replied with a sob.
“Ah, baby, I’m sorry we left you alone. We should have known better,” he said, anguished.
“It wasn’t your fault. You didn’t know Vlad would call Trey away.”
“I’m so proud of you, Angelina. You fought so hard. Even though you were scared, you kept your wits about you. You just saved your own life, baby,” Lucan said. “But you shouldn’t have had to.”
“He was crazy, Lucan. He wants his kind to rule over the humans,” she whispered.
“He definitely sounds like he has plans of grandeur,” Lucan said and pulled her in tighter to his body when she began to cry.
“I thought I was going to be safe when I closed the secret panel and locked him in. It didn’t work, Lucan. Somehow he was able to appear in front of me.”
“Shit, it looks like the dark warlocks have learned to apparate. We thought only the white warlocks and witches had that skill. It seems we were wrong.”
“What does that mean?”
“It means he can disappear and reappear elsewhere with a thought,” Lucan explained.
“So he could come back at any time?”
“Yes, but we will never leave you alone again, baby. I promise. I’m so sorry you had to defend yourself. Are you sure you’re okay?” he asked and looked down at her.
“Yes, I’m just really tired. It’s like I feel…almost drained of energy,” she explained.
“I don’t doubt it, baby. You used a lot of energy keeping that bastard at bay. You need to feed, Angelina. I can feel your hunger, and it will help get your energy back.”
“No,” she replied emphatically and tried to get off his lap
“Angel, I know you were upset because you saw me feeding from a female. Please, just listen to me before you pass judgment,” Lucan said, and he held her to prevent her rising.
She looked at him with wary eyes, but she held her tongue.
“We don’t give or get any pleasure when we drink from the humans. You have nothing to be jealous of, baby, I promise. It’s just another bodily function to us. The only time we get any pleasure is when we feed from you.”
“Truly?”
“Yes, angel, truly,” he replied and felt her relax against him once more. “You’re going to have to learn to delve more deeply into our minds, baby. If you had done so, you wouldn’t have gotten jealous and you would have realized what I just told you was fact.”
“Look, I’m sorry, but this is all still so new to me. I forget that we are linked and can read each other’s thoughts. I’ll try not to jump to conclusions again, but you are going to have to be patient with me. Now, I don’t think water was such a good idea as a shield. That bastard was able to manipulate it and constricted my whole body. Luckily I worked out how to shoot electricity and a fireball at him with my mind, instead of my hands. What do you suggest I use instead?”
“We’ll work that out tomorrow, baby. For now you’re too tired,” he replied and gave her a hug and kissed her head.
“Trey’s back,” he stated a brief moment before his brother materialized before their eyes.
“Fuck, honey. Are you okay? God, as soon as I heard you screaming I left Vlad. I don’t think he’s very happy with me. He didn’t get to talk to me. I’d only just arrived,” Trey explained.
Lucan handed Angelina over to Trey and watched his brother wrap their mate in his arms. He knew just how his sibling felt. He had wanted to hold her and never let her go again.
“You’re hungry,” Trey stated. “Come on upstairs and let us take care of you, Angelina.”
“You can see to your mate’s needs in a little while,” Vlad said as he strode into the room.
Lucan sighed. He was getting too complacent. He hadn’t even felt his friend approaching.
“I’m glad to see you safe and well, Angelina,” Vlad said to his mate.
“Me, too,” she replied.
“It seems all the warlocks and witches practicing the dark arts are trying to get to our mates. Not just a select few. They become obsessed with living an eternal life,” Vlad explained. “We are going to have to more than vigilant. We are also going to need to organize regular meetings with others of our kind. It is imperative we keep our women safe. We will also begin sharing any new skills we have acquired and practice them regularly. Do you agree?”
“Yeah, we can’t go on this way,” Lucan replied. “The warlock who tried to get to Angelina knew how to apparate.”
“Shit, that’s the last thing we need,” Vlad spat out.
“Yeah, we know. Maybe we could learn to do the same from the white witches and warlocks. At least then they won’t be the only ones with that skill and it could help us get out of trouble when the need arises,” Lucan suggested.
“Good idea. I’ll see what I can do to arrange it. Go and feed your mate. I’ll let you know when the first meeting is called,” Vlad said and then dissolved into tiny particles and left the room.
Chapter Fifteen
“What are you doing?” Angelina asked Trey when he scooped her up into his arms.
“We are going upstairs to feed you, honey,” he replied.
She didn’t protest as he sped up the stairs and carried her into his room. She rested her head on his shoulder and let out a weary sigh. He lowered her feet to the floor and held her waist, making sure she was steady, and then began to remove her clothes. Lucan entered the room and started on her jeans while Trey worked on the buttons on her shirt. Once she was naked, he lifted her and placed her in the middle of the mattress.
Trey practically tore his clothes from his body in his haste to touch his mate and reaffirm his love for her. He needed the physical contact with her now that he knew she was safe. Her hunger was beating at him, which seemed to build his own to a higher level. He leaned over and her and kissed he
r. The kiss was so hot and wild it was a wonder they didn’t set the bed on fire. He delved into her mouth deeply with his tongue and groaned as she responded just as hungrily.
She reached up, grabbed a handful of his hair, and held him to her. He glided his tongue along hers and growled in response to her whimper. He explored every inch of her mouth, caressing the inside of her cheeks, the roof of her mouth, over her teeth, and back to dance his tongue with hers.
He was in the edge of her mind and felt her undisciplined need. He slowed the kiss and then licked and nibbled across her jaw and cheek until he came to her ear. He traced the rim of her ear’s shell with his tongue and licked behind her ear. She mewled at the carnality of the act and shivered beneath the hand he had placed on her abdomen. He caressed his way up over her warm, silky skin and cupped her breast in his hand. He weighed it with his palm and began to knead her soft mound. He licked his way down the side of her neck and inhaled the scent of her blood, which was stronger now that she was aroused. His gums itched, and his fangs exploded into his mouth in preparation of tasting her. He ignored the yearning to bite his mate and taste her essence. Their loving needed to last.
He lifted his head as Lucan got onto the bed and then took their mate’s mouth with a rapacious need that matched his own. Trey nibbled and nipped his way down her chest until he reached her breast. He held the heavy globe of flesh up and suckled on her nipple. His woman arched up and cried out into his brother’s mouth as he laved her turgid peak with the tip of his tongue. He moved to the other breast and gave it the same treatment. He was about to lick his way down to her pussy, but hesitated on a groan when Angelina clasped his hard, aching cock in her hand.
The light touches she gave him as she explored his throbbing erection were driving him insane. He covered her hand with his and showed her how to stroke him. He tightened his hand around hers and pumped their hands up and down his length a few times. That was all he could stand. He gently took her wrist and pulled her hand away from his body. He was in danger of coming too soon. His brother groaned, and Trey saw she was giving him the same treatment.
“Angel, you have to stop,” Lucan panted. “It’ll be over too soon if you continue.”
Trey began to kiss his way down over her torso and belly, until he came to the apex of her thighs. He smoothed his hands up her legs to part them. His cock throbbed and his balls ached, because he could smell her musky feminine scent. He began to salivate, the need to taste her sweet cream a yearning he couldn’t ignore. He shifted his body farther down the bed until he was lying between her splayed thighs, his shoulder wedged between them, giving him the access he wanted.
He stared as the soft, pink, wet folds of her sex and then began to lower his head. He licked over her cunt, gathering all her juices and swallowing them down. Never had he loved or craved a woman the way he did Angelina.
“I love you, honey,” Trey whispered into her mind.
“I love you, too, Trey,” she replied with a sob.
Trey glided his tongue up and down the delicate labia of her pussy, making sure the tip of his tongue grazed lightly over her clit. He slid it back down, sucked more of her cream into his mouth, and continued on to lick her ass. He was connected with her mind the whole time, and even though she was hesitant about what he was doing, she still wanted him to continue. Once her initial hesitation was gone and as her pleasure increased, she began to buck her hips up, giving him better access. He moved his mouth and tongue back up to her cunt and flicked his tongue over her clit as he began to penetrate her ass with a finger. She cried out with excitement, and he didn’t know if he could last much longer without being buried in her cunt.
He looked up at Lucan, and judging by the pained expression on his brother’s face, he was in the same boat. He flipped Angelina over onto her stomach and helped her into a kneeling position. He pulled her farther down the bed, giving Lucan room to maneuver near her head while he grasped the base of his cock and aimed for her pussy. He groaned with relief as her body’s tight, wet heat closed around him. Once he was buried up to his balls, he held still and waited for Lucan to get in position. His brother projected a mental image of Angelina sucking his cock, and she reached up to pull Lucan’s cock to her mouth.
Trey’s cock jerked inside her as she wrapped her lips around Lucan. She was so fucking sexy that just looking at her turned him on. He watched as she began to bob her head up and down Lucan’s length and pump him with her hand. He couldn’t stay still any longer.
Trey clasped her hips with his hands and pulled back until the tip of his cock was all that remained inside her. He thrust back in and moaned at the exquisite friction his movement created. Angelina mewled around his brother’s dick as he repeated the action. He wanted to pound in and out of her fast and hard, but he also wanted to go slow to savor the experience of making love to their mate. He kept up a slow, steady pace as she sucked off Lucan.
The pleasure inside her escalated, and he picked up the pace of his pumping hips. He licked his finger, making sure it was coated with his saliva, and then massaged over the pucker of her ass. She opened up to him, and he didn’t hesitate to penetrate her anus. When he had her stretched, he added another finger and began to fuck her rosette in countermotion to his cock. He knew she was getting close to climaxing because her breath panted in and out of her mouth faster and she was keening, though Lucan’s hard rod muffled the sound.
He wrapped an arm around her hips and tilted them up even more. He growled as he sank deeper into her wet depths, until he could feel his cock butting against her womb. His hips and fingers thrust into her harder and faster, and he was rewarded when her internal walls rippled around him. He watched as she pleasured his brother with her mouth, and the slurping sounds she made only seemed to enhance his own passion.
He changed his motion from long and deep glides into short, sharp digs, making sure the head of his cock massaged over the sweet spot inside her. She drew a growl from Trey’s throat when she tightened around him, and he knew she was on the precipice. He didn’t try to stop the urge which came over him. He covered her body with his and sank his fangs into the side of her neck.
She screamed as her cunt clamped down on his dick and contracted around him over and over again. His balls drew up tight, and he surged into her deeply and froze. He roared into her neck as he shot spurt after spurt of cum deep into her body. She’d milked his balls until they were empty.
Trey slowly withdrew his cock from her pussy and collapsed onto the bed. His limbs were shaking with weakness and satiation. No woman had ever done that to him before. He looked up just in time to see Lucan withdraw his cock from her mouth and pick her up.
* * * *
Lucan was an aching mass of need. He picked his angel up from the bed. When she wrapped her arms and legs around him, he lifted her slightly and then brought her down onto his hard, aching cock. He groaned when his balls connected with her buttocks and held still, giving her time to adjust to his penetration. She leaned forward and began to kiss him with wild hunger. He held her hips and began to lift her up and down on his hard rod. He groaned along with his mate at the slide and glide of flesh on flesh. It didn’t take much for him to hover on the edge of his release, but he was determined to see to her pleasure first. As her fangs slipped into the flesh at his neck, his balls drew up, and he knew he was a goner. He licked over the side of her throat and penetrated her skin.
He had never felt anything like it. They were connected to each other, mind, body, and soul, as they fed together. They were joined more fully and deeply than ever before. She screamed just before he yelled. She clamped down on his cock and released, only to repeat the action over and over again. His balls drew up, and then he shot load after load of semen into her cunt.
When the last ripple faded, he collapsed onto the floor, taking his angel with him. He stopped her from feeding, and she automatically closed the wound. He did the same to her. When she was done, he handed her back to Trey.
His brother sat on the edge of the bed, tilted his neck, and commanded her to drink. It was such an erotic sight that Lucan felt his just-satiated cock twitch with interest. His angel made the sexiest noises as she fed from Trey. Once she had finished, Trey carried her into the en suite bathroom. Lucan knew the rest of the night would be spent loving their woman. He followed them into the shower and helped Trey wash Angelina.
“I love you, baby,” he whispered into her ear.
“I love you, too,” she replied.
Epilogue
Angelina followed her mates into the opulent mansion. She couldn’t believe the luxury surrounding her. It had been a month since George Kite had attacked her, and this was the first meeting Vlad had called.
The room was full of tall, handsome men and only a few women. She was really nervous about being in a room full of vampires and bit her tongue when a nervous giggle tried to surface. She kept forgetting she was a vampire, too.
Lucan and Trey led her to a sofa, and she sat in between them. She felt more secure when she was between the loves of her life. She had spent the last month perfecting her battling skills and powers and was growing more confident with her abilities every day. She gripped their hands and fidgeted nervously, because she could see the curiosity in the eyes of some of the men when they looked at her.
She jumped when Vlad appeared in the middle of the room from out of nowhere. He had such a confident presence about him that all eyes turned to him.
“I have learned the complexities of how to apparate from the white witches. I will show you all how it is done before the night is over. We have much to plan and discuss. Please make yourselves comfortable.”