“Please,” she murmured, needing release as her mind whirled from the combined assault on her senses. As if in unison, both men chuckled with decidedly male satisfaction.
Adrian reached around and skimmed his hand along the trim triangle of dark auburn curls. Dipped down and found her clit. She shook as he applied pressure while John raised his head from her breasts.
John brushed a kiss across her lips and whispered, “Touch me, Eliza.”
She grabbed hold of his ramrod stiff cock and stroked her hand up and down the length of it as John licked at her mouth, tracing the edge of it, and then danced out his tongue to meet hers.
Her insides throbbed under the assault of the two men making love to her. Swelled and moistened to accept their adoring touches and possession.
Adrian buried his head against the side of her neck and the graze of his fangs had her trembling as desire spiraled ever upward. He finally moved, withdrawing his hips and then plowing forward, taking her ever higher. His movements in sync with John’s as they strove to please.
She broke away from John, almost unable to breathe from the sensations overwhelming her.
He seemed to understand and shifted to the other side of her neck. With a quick love bite, he then licked and sucked that spot while Adrian did the same on the other side.
Eliza’s knees weakened as the desire inside her reached its zenith. Still she stroked John, wanting to satisfy him as he was her. Moved her hips against Adrian’s cock, writhing to bring him to release as well.
Dark circles danced before her eyes as the passion consumed her, and then John jerked against her and moaned. The heat of his release spilled across her belly and John pulled her tight, pumped his dick all along that wetness to savor the last bits of his release.
From behind her, Adrian stilled for a moment, sensing that they would soon be joining John in ecstasy. In that moment of peace, Adrian grazed a line from the edge of her shoulder to her neck with his fangs. Heat arced along the path of the scratch, but as she braced for his bite and the completion that she knew would follow, he surprised her with the very human kiss of his mouth along the side of her neck.
“Adrian?” She reached up and held his head to her, offering herself up to him, but he shook his head.
“You’re free now, but tell me you’ll stay. Tell me you’re mine,” he almost pleaded.
But Eliza couldn’t with John standing in front of her, until her ex said, “I think I knew your heart even before you did.”
Tears came at the care shining in John’s eyes and the gentle way he ran the pads of his fingers along her cheek in a gesture of goodbye.
“I never meant to hurt you, John.” She smoothed her hand along the center of his chest, but he stepped away and nodded.
“I know,” he said without recrimination.
John’s gaze skipped over her head to Adrian. “Thank you for arranging this last time, my friend.” Then he shot her one last look and said, “Be happy, Eliza.”
He rushed from the room, leaving just her and Adrian, still joined together. His cock slowly softening within her. His arms wrapped around her waist, holding her close.
“I think I like him,” Adrian said, dropping another kiss against the sensitive skin at the side of her neck. Emotion made her throat thick and her words came out harsh with tears. “He’s one of the good guys.” Adrian pulled out of her and gently urged her to face him. He tipped her head up with gentle pressure on her chin and his gut tightened at the tears washing down her cheeks. He cradled her face in his hands and swiped at them, hating to see her cry.
“Tell me those are tears of joy, a chuisle.”
“Am I your love, Adrian?” she pressed, her emotions clearly in a jangle.
“I think I’ve loved you from the first moment I set eyes on you, Eliza,” he confessed, tired of hiding what had been in his heart for so long.
The hint of a smile blossomed at one side of her mouth and then grew until it reached up into her rich emerald eyes. “And I, you, although it took me a long time to realize it.”
Relief filled him and he eased his hands to her shoulders, drew her close again, the embrace one of comfort this time. “Will you stay, Eliza? Will you be mine?”
“Always,” she replied, inched up on tiptoe and kissed him, repeating the word after each kiss.
He laughed and swept her up into his arms, walked with her to the bathroom. “I’ve had this fantasy, a chuisle,” he began as he let her slide down his body until she was standing before him.
He left her side only long enough to start filling the tub, determined not to waste another moment with her. Laying his hands at her waist, he inched them upward until he was cradling her breasts. Tenderly he stroked his thumbs across her berry-ripe nipples, smiling as they puckered. He bent, kissed each tip before suckling one while caressing the other.
“Is that part of your fantasy?” Eliza said with a satisfied sigh and tangled her fingers in his hair to hold him close.
“Mmm,” he replied, before gently nibbling one tip and feeling her shudder and laugh sexily.
“Well this is part of mine.” With a tender push against his shoulder, she urged him onto the edge of the spa tub and stepped between his spread-eagled legs. Kissing and biting her way down his body, she kneeled before him and encircled his dick with her hands. Stroked his hardness and leaned forward, kissed the tip of it much as he had her nipples. Gently she licked and nipped all around the sensitive head, and it was all Adrian could do not to urge her to the tiled floor and take her, so renewed was his need.
Body trembling, he held fast, allowing her to pleasure him with her mouth. Bringing him to the edge at the sight of her so eagerly going down on him, her auburn curls brushing along his thighs as she moved on him.
His body grew hot, but so did the room from the heat of the water almost filling the tub behind him. He reached over and shut off the faucet, then dipped his hands to her shoulders to urge her upward and keep her from unmanning him with her mouth.
“I love you,” he said and twined his fingers with hers.
“And I you,” she replied and raked her free hand through his hair, pushing it away from his face. “Come with me.” He playfully swung her hand and stepped into the tub, tugged her to follow him into the warmth of the water.
She straddled his hips, laid her hands on his shoulders as she sank down onto him, the warmth of her vagina replacing the heat of the water. Her skin smooth and slick when she leaned forward, laid her head against his. She turned her face and kissed him, making love to him with her mouth and tongue.
He roamed his hands all over her body with lazy strokes and slow touches, kindling the embers of passion until they were both trembling and each breath they took was as one. It was only then that Eliza finally rocked her hips upward and her breath caught in her throat. With an almost violent grind downward, they came, calling out each other’s names. Falling into lovers’ arms finally welcoming them home.
They rested in the bath, legs and arms wrapped around each other, still intimately joined, until the water grew chilly.
With a surge of vamp power, Adrian rose with her and grabbed some towels. They dried each other with a combination of strokes that teased and pleasured. Then he picked her up again and carried her to his bed where he lay her down. He joined her in the center, bundling her tight to him.
“Why didn’t you tell me it was you that night?” he wondered aloud while he stroked his hands up and down her back in a gentling caress.
“I was afraid of what you’d think. Of admitting what I felt for you,” Eliza confessed, the comfort of his arms and love in his gaze erasing all of her earlier doubts.
“I’m sorry I was so dense. That it took me so long to tell you that I loved you,” Adrian said and bent his head to nuzzle her nose with his. He brushed a kiss along her lips.
Eliza opened her mouth and accepted the glide of his mouth and tongue. He paused for a moment to say, “I will love you forever.”
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bsp; She sighed with joy and tangled her fingers in his hair. Held his head away to meet his gaze. “Forever is a long time, Adrian, but I’m sure. Are you?”
His blue-grey eyes brightened and a wide smile erupted on his lips. “A chuisle. It took me two hundred years to stop being stupid. I intend on spending the next two hundred or more making up for it.”
Grinning, she shook her head playfully and kissed him. Gave herself over to his loving, totally on board with what he planned for their next two hundred or more years together.
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The Vampire’s Consort
Copyright © 2012 by Caridad Piñeiro
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Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
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