by Becca Van
But that wasn’t the reason she had accepted any of this. She just knew deep down that no other man or men would ever compare to them. Her heart was already engaged and she couldn’t understand how after knowing them for such a short time, but sometimes fate stepped in and she wasn’t about to question it.
They were right for her, and no matter how much she abhorred the thought of drinking blood to sustain her life, she would do anything just to be with them.
Callie began to wonder if she’d lost her marbles, and for a moment the thought that they were compelling her in some way crept into her mind, but she quickly pushed that away. Not once in the time she had spent with them had she felt like she was out of control, like they were willing her to think a certain way or do something she didn’t want to.
Vlad and Dex had integrity and morals even if they had to drink blood from humans to live. She knew they wouldn’t deliberately take a life without it being imperative. But the fact that they wanted her to be with them awed her, because they were very handsome and very powerful men. They could have their pick of any woman they wanted, but they had chosen her. A normal human woman with nothing to offer them but her heart and body, and Callie just hoped that that would be enough.
She couldn’t stand the thought of being connected to them only to have them find out how boring and ordinary she was and decide they no longer wanted her. But then she remembered that they had told her she would be theirs for eternity. The pain in her chest dissipated, and she felt a little lighter now that she’d remembered those words.
She just hoped she wouldn’t disgrace herself and get sick after drinking blood. That would be a humiliation in itself, throwing up in front of her intended mates. Callie let that thought drift from her mind. Since she had no control over how she was going to react, she figured it wasn’t worth worrying over until she got to that bridge. She turned off the shower, squeezed the excessive moisture from her hair, and stepped out onto the bathmat. Just as she was reaching for the towel on the vanity, a quake ripped up her spine and all of a sudden she felt cold to the bones. She even saw the white stream of vapor escaping from her mouth as she exhaled, and the feeling of malevolence washed over every inch of her. She grabbed the towel and even though she felt clumsy, her fingers fumbling with the fabric, she was able to wrap it around her body. The door to the bathroom burst open and Dex literally streaked over the floor without his feet seemingly moving and was beside her a moment later. He wrapped his arms around her and placed a finger over her lips when she would have spoken.
Since their gazes were locked, Callie couldn’t but help to notice the way his pupils dilated quickly until there was no longer any of his iris showing. They were so dark and menacing she shuddered with fear, and when she looked up again his eyes looked like the whites were bleeding with red. She tried to step back, but Dex tightened his hold on her and shook his head. He leaned down until his lips were touching the rim of her ear, but when he spoke she knew she wasn’t hearing him with her auditory sense. She heard him speaking to her in her mind. She actually felt him pushing his mind into hers. At first it hurt her head, causing it to ache, but then the pain was gone and she heard his voice.
“Don’t be scared of me, Callie. I’m angry, yes, but not at you.”
“What…” Callie was too surprised to complete her sentence and stared into his eyes once more when he straightened up.
“Someone is outside and trying to breach our perimeter protection. Didn’t you feel the change in the air?”
Callie nodded. “I felt like evil was stalking me and it got really cold in here.”
“Don’t worry, honey. Vlad has gone to head off whoever is trying to get in.”
“I’ve put you both in danger, haven’t I?”
“No, sweet one, we’re the ones who have put you in danger.”
“How is any of this possible?”
“What?” Dex asked.
“How is it than we can communicate with each other?”
“Vlad and I have always had this skill but neither of us wanted to scare you by doing so. We’ve been on the edge of your mind but I pushed in further so we could speak in this way. It will be much easier when we have exchanged blood. I won’t have to push into your head. I’m sorry for hurting you, sweet one, but I didn’t want you speaking out loud in case whoever out there has preternatural hearing.”
“Thanks. I think.” Callie rubbed her forehead and shivered. The air in the bathroom was really cold, and she was standing there wrapped in a towel with her wet hair and wet body. She’d never felt a cold so deep before and knew it had to do with whoever or whatever was trying to get inside.
Dex must have felt her shiver because he drew her closer to the vanity and without releasing his hold on her he grabbed another towel and began to gently rub her hair dry. Callie clutched at the towel tucked in over her breast and stood still while he helped her. All of a sudden the coldness dissipated, and then the air in the room shifted and shimmered and Vlad appeared in front of her.
“Are you all right, baby?”
Callie nodded.
Vlad looked at Dex. “It was one of Pike’s human cronies. I was able to find him with Zoe’s revealing spell and dealt with the problem.”
The words dealt with the problem echoed through her mind, and she had a pretty good idea what he meant but wasn’t game to ask, but the words formed on her tongue and slipped out before she could censor herself.
“Did you kill him?” Callie gulped and then shook her head before holding her hand up. “Please don’t answer that. I really don’t want to know.”
Vlad cupped her face and brought her gaze to his. “No, I didn’t kill him, baby. All I did was chant the revealing spell, and once I had him in my sight I put a tracking spell on him. I’ll be able to follow him whenever I want to.”
“Won’t that…wizard guy be able to tell he’s been…tampered with?”
“Maybe.” Vlad shrugged. “It doesn’t really matter, Callie. All that matters is that we can find this bastard and deal with him so he can’t hurt anyone else.”
“He’s already hurt someone?” Callie asked, and although she didn’t really want to hear the answer she held her breath in anticipation of the reply. Dread was already churning in her stomach and she placed her hand on her belly, hoping to quell the roiling nausea.
Dex nodded. “Friends of ours, Lucan and Trey Drierge, found their mate, Angelina. He sent in one of the lesser wizards before showing up himself and they tried to kidnap her. She was hurt really bad, and if the Drierge brothers hadn’t changed her she would have died.”
Callie covered her mouth with her hand with shock. The thought of someone trying to kill an innocent woman for nefarious gain was sickening, and then terror permeated her soul because she knew that that bastard wouldn’t give up until he had her in his clutches.
Vlad removed her hand from her mouth and pulled her into his arms. “Try not to worry, baby, we’ll do everything we can to keep you safe.”
Callie drew in a ragged breath and rested her forehead on his chest. Some of the fear ripping through her body dissipated when she heard determination ringing in his voice, and she knew without a doubt she had to go through with the change and learn everything she could, every skill and power possible from Vlad and Dexter so she could have a hand in keeping herself safe, too.
She straightened her spine and shoulders and met each of their gazes. “Let’s do this.”
Callie walked from the bathroom on weak, trembling legs and toward the bed. She’d never been naked in front of any man before tonight and still wasn’t comfortable being bare in front of them, but she inhaled deeply and removed the towel from around her body. She heard indrawn breaths from behind her, but she didn’t want to look into their eyes to see what they thought of their body, not quite yet anyway. She didn’t think there was anything sexy about the way she was put together, but she hoped they didn’t find her repugnant.
She climbed up onto the bed, and after sho
ring up her defenses to hide her reaction when she met their eyes, she turned over onto her back and looked at each of them.
Vlad looked like he was about to pounce. The muscles in his body looked taut, and the heat in his blue orbs should have set her body on fire. In a way it did. Her areolae puckered and her nipples hardened and began to throb. She shifted her gaze to Dex’s green one and her heartbeat sped up and she started panting. She clenched her fists and tried to will the heat she could feel creeping into her cheeks away, but it was impossible.
“I have never seen a sexier, more beautiful woman in my life.” Vlad’s breath left his mouth in a noisy gust.
“Fucking stunning,” Dex growled, and then he moved so fast he was a blur.
The bed dipped on one side of her and near her feet. When she blinked, both men were on the massive bed with her.
Dex cupped her cheek and slowly lowered his head. “Just relax for us, sweet one. We are going to make you feel so good.” His lips brushed across hers, once, twice, and then he was devouring her. The embers which had been simmering inside her flamed hotter and brighter, but she knew there was so much more to come.
When hands landed on her shins and began to caress up and down, it felt like the fire was consuming her, and she didn’t know if she would survive it. Surely she would come out of this with her skin singed?
All thought fled when those hand pried her legs wide apart and a tongue traced up the inside of her thigh. A sob escaped her mouth and she was glad it was muffled by Dex’s mouth because she didn’t want to sound too needy.
The only warning she got was hot breath puffing onto her mound and then a warm damp tongue swiped through her folds from top to bottom and back again. The cry that escaped her mouth was loud in the room because Dex had released her mouth and was now nibbling down the side of her neck, over her collarbone, and down her chest.
Dex licked across the top of her nipple, and then he sucked it into his mouth, drawing on the needy tip as if it was the greatest pleasure in the world. The mattress between her legs shifted, and then Vlad wrapped his arms around her thighs, spreading her even wider as he sucked and laved over every fold. She mewled when his tongue stiffened and pushed up inside her. The slide of his moist tongue so sensual and carnal she wanted to feel that sensation forever.
Then she felt Vlad rimming her hole with the tip of a large, thick finger, and her nerve endings came to life like never before. She bucked her hips up, not sure if it was because she wanted that finger inside her or because she wanted to feel so much more even if she felt like she’d never felt like this in her life.
Her breath hitched in her throat and then gushed through her teeth and open lips as he began to push that digit inside of her. She coughed and then inhaled sharply when his finger kept going and going and going. Inch by excruciating inch that digit forged its way up inside her and then his tongue flicked over the engorged pearl hidden at the top of her slit.
The internal muscles inside rippled and cream dripped from her hole. She gasped as he growled, and the vibration of his voice rolling along his tongue and onto her clit sent her up and up into the atmosphere. Her mouth opened on a scream that caught in her throat as wave after wave of rapture washed over and through her. Her pussy clenched and released in a cycle of never ending euphoria, and she swore she saw stars in front of her closed eyelids. Her whole body quaked and quivered, and it wasn’t until she floated back down from the stars as her muscles stopped clutching and trembling, and she opened her eyes that she realized Vlad had moved up over her frame. His heat-filled stare sent her body simmering once more, and she was shocked she could react that way after such a mind-blowing orgasm.
“I want you, baby. So much,” he rasped.
Callie wasn’t sure if she blinked and if her eyes stayed closed for longer than she thought because when she opened them Vlad was naked. Her breath stuttered as she took in his wide, muscular shoulders, hard muscled pecs and torso, ripped abs, and his slim hips. She gulped when she saw his long, thick cock and well-endowed balls hanging between his legs. The tip of his dick looked red and angry with a pearl of translucent fluid glistening in the small eye, and it was so close to her mound she swore she could feel the heat coming off of it. As she stared at his erection it twitched and bobbed like a tuning fork, and she had the weirdest urge to giggle. If it wasn’t for Vlad cupping her cheek and leaning forward to kiss her she may have made a fool out of herself and done just that.
She was amazed that she wasn’t turned off by the taste of her own cream on his lips and tongue, but what astounded her even more was the fact it was making her even hotter. The combined taste of him and her was addicting, and she opened her mouth wide as he swept the interior with his tongue.
Vlad continued kissing her as he eased the weight of his body onto hers, and she savored having his flesh pressed against hers. He was so hard and hot she could spend the rest of her life with his body against hers. She felt the tip of his cock kiss her entrance, and just as she wriggled and arched up, he removed his mouth from hers and moved back. He sat between her thighs and as she reached for him Dex took both her hands in his and pinned them to the mattress above her head.
“I can’t have your hands on me right now, baby.” Vlad panted between each word. “I’m so triggered that if you touch me I’ll go off like a rocket.”
“I need you. Please, Vlad?” Callie didn’t care right now that she sounded desperate and needy because she was. She’d never felt such hunger in her life and hoped that he would be able to take the ache throbbing down deep inside of her away.
“You feel it, too, don’t you, Callie?” Vlad asked but she couldn’t answer because she was too busy trying not to scream out with pleasure as the tip of his cock pushed into and through her tight flesh.
His hands locked onto her hips, and she fumbled with shaking hands as she reached down and held onto his forearms to anchor herself to the bed. She felt like she was going to float away if she didn’t hold onto him. He rocked his hips back and forth, gaining depth with each press forward, and all Callie could do was stare into those mesmerizing heat-filled blue eyes and breathe.
Vlad took his time with her, gently advancing and retreating until his entire length was embedded deep. She inhaled raggedly when she felt his hot hard cock pulse inside of her, and then he was kissing her like there was no tomorrow. He nipped, licked, and sucked, his tongue twirling around and sliding along hers, and even though she was with him every step of the way, she couldn’t get enough of him. Callie wanted to crawl under his skin and stay there forever.
His mouth lifted from hers as he drew his cock back out to the tip and then he shoved back in. She whimpered and mewled as the hot, wet friction lit up every internal nerve ending.
“So damn good, baby.” Vlad panted as he withdrew and pressed forward again. “So hot, wet, and tight.”
Callie groaned, her eyes closing as liquid heat traversed her veins, making her blood feel thick and her muscles weak with lust.
“Open your eyes, Callie,” Vlad ordered, and she found herself obeying. “Good girl. Keep them open for me. I need to see you, baby.”
And then he picked up the pace. Withdrawing and surging forward, faster and deeper until she felt like even the hair on her head was feeling the pleasure coursing through her.
Dex leaned down and took a nipple into his mouth, his teeth scraping over the aching tip before suckling on it with strong draws. She gasped and groaned and dug her nails into Vlad’s skin, only aware of what she was doing on a visceral level, without any real conscious thought.
The heat inside began to burn out of control, and as she watched him she saw his fangs drop in his mouth. Her heart stuttered but not from fear. Never that. Although she probably should have been running, to her he’d never looked sexier.
Her internal muscles rippled, and tension began to build, making her belly jump and her legs shake. She dug her nails deeper, and then as if she was watching in slow motion, Dex moved back and Vlad c
overed her body with his. His hands pushed beneath her hips to her buttocks, and he kneaded the globes of flesh as he pulled her into him tighter. His hips were now pistoning back and forth, gliding his cock in and out of her wet cunt. He licked the artery on the side of her neck and everything in her tightened with anticipation. And then she screamed as she careened over the edge.
The muscles in her pussy clenched and released, grabbed and let go over and over as she flew up through the stratosphere and out into space. Just as the euphoria began to wane, white-hot pain pierced her neck for a second or two, and then she was thrown back up into nirvana.
And then she felt like she was floating in a dream. Her body was in a continual orgasm that didn’t seem to let up, and although she knew she was sitting up on Vlad’s lap with his cock still pulsing inside her buried deep, she could also feel her mouth sucking on the skin of his chest. She heard Vlad’s muffled shout as if from a great distance, but even the sound of his voice couldn’t pull her from her dream state.
A coppery, metallic taste filled her mouth, but it wasn’t abhorrent but spicy and sexy like pure Vlad. Twice more she felt that white-hot searing pain that sent her pussy into another round of euphoric paroxysms, and still she continued to lick and suck on Vlad’s chest. Her body grew heavy and so weak she was struggling to keep her head up, and when she blinked she was lying on the bed, the pillow beneath her head, and Vlad was lying beside her, hugging her tight, with his body wrapped around hers.
She had no idea when he withdrawn his body from hers. Not that it really mattered. All that mattered was how phenomenal she felt. Her body felt like one big supine pile of pulp, and she didn’t think she would ever be able to move again.