Blood Hunger (An Adult Paranormal Romance) (Deathless Night Series #1)

by L. E. Wilson

  Releasing the nipple he’d been sucking, he nipped it with his teeth before leaning back slightly to look at her bare chest, breathing hard. Her breasts were small, tipped with pale, pink nipples. But they were full and perfectly formed, or they would have been if not for the small chunk missing from the lower part of her left breast.

  Nik had a sudden urge to kill those things all over again.

  “What’s wrong?” Emma’s breathless inquiry quickly diverted his attention back to her.

  Kissing the hollow of missing flesh, he pulled her away from the rock and lowered her down his body, kissing and licking his way up until her legs straddled his hips again. Her lips were soft and swollen under his as he kissed her, and he thrust his tongue into her sweet mouth over and over until she was kissing him back just as urgently. As her arms tightened around his neck, her hands fisted in his hair, holding him to her. Dropping down to his knees, he lowered her down to the soft grass, settling his weight on top of her.

  Stopping was not an option anymore.

  Emma clung to him desperately, her breathing ragged as he completely dominated her. As he lowered himself down to her, she automatically opened her legs and raised her hips up to meet him. She rubbed herself up and down his swollen member, and Nik responded in kind, burying his face between her neck and shoulder, gripping her hip with one large hand to hold her where he wanted her.

  He couldn’t fight the drive to take her anymore. With lightning speed, he sat up and undid her jeans. Her shoes and pants were off of her before she realized what was happening, and as he gazed down at her, Nik suddenly became very still.

  She watched him worriedly as his vampire eyes traveled the length of her, taking in every detail, every scar, of her body. Grabbing the sides of what remained of her shirt, she tried to pull it together to cover herself.

  Kneeling over her, still fully dressed, Nik looked his fill, snarling at her and holding her wrists when she tried to hide the sight of her perfect form from him. He would not be denied this. He wanted to see her. All of her. At his leisure. The darkness did not deter him in the least.

  And…Ah…She was even lovelierthan he’d imagined.

  Her pale skin was creamy and smooth, light freckles covering her nose and shoulders, contrasting deliciously with his natural tan as he laid his palm between her luscious breasts, over her heart. Her scars were discolored, ragged areas from the attack she’d endured. The ones on her front similar to the ones he’d already seen. But the healed battle wounds covering her body only made her more beautiful to him.

  Her hips, though slight, were still full and feminine. Her legs and arms were toned and strong, her stomach subtly curving down to the soft, red curls that covered her sweet pussy. He wanted to bury his nose in those curls. Nuzzle down into them, spread her open with his tongue, and taste her until she came in his mouth.

  But that would have to wait.

  Yanking his shirt over his head, he threw it to the side, pausing a second as Emma’s eyes eagerly devoured the sight of him. His chest and stomach rippled with muscle as he moved over her. Strong shoulders led down to muscular biceps and forearms. Even his hands were large and masculine.

  ***

  When he moved to undo his jeans, all rational thought completely left Emma’s head. Gracefully rising to his feet, he quickly divested himself of his boots and jeans, never taking his eyes from her.

  Too soon, he was lowering himself back down to the grass. Nudging her legs open with his knee, he moved over her, sliding his throbbing cock up through her slick folds and back down again, spreading her moisture to prepare her for him.

  Emma stopped breathing as she felt his broad head nudging at her opening. She hadn’t had time to see much, but from the quick look she’d gotten, she didn’t know how he was possibly going to fit. He was huge!

  Anxiety started to rear up inside of her, but then Nik was kissing her, thrusting his tongue into her mouth as he rolled his hips, sliding himself back and forth over her sensitive nub. Her entire being suddenly re-focused on that spot and the feelings he was evoking. In no time at all, she was raising her hips to meet him, hands squeezing his biceps as she felt the tension tightening in her belly again.

  ***

  As Nik felt the nervous tension leave her body, he gathered her wrists in one hand and held them over her head. Sliding his other hand under her plump ass, he held her hips still as his cock slid down her wet folds to her entrance. With one powerful thrust, he entered her, crying out against her mouth at the feel of her slick tightness taking his entire length. He heard her wince sharply and stopped, barely holding himself there as she adjusted to the size of him. Kissing her softly, his entire body trembled with the effort it took him not to pound into her, but he held himself still, waiting for her.

  “You’re so tight. Are you ok?” he rasped.

  ***

  Emma had never felt so completely possessed by someone. The massive, swollen length of him invading her so suddenly had shocked her at first, stretching her to her limits. But now she could feel him pulsing slightly inside of her, and her body was responding to the delicious feeling.

  “I think so.” She cautiously moved her hips a bit to test it, sliding Nik just slightly in and out of her, her breath catching at the feel of him moving inside of her. As he fought to hold still, she felt his whole body tremble even harder, his hand squeezing her ass as his head fell to her shoulder on a loud groan.

  “I can’t stay still much longer, sweetheart,” he hissed in her ear. She moved again underneath him. “Emma! I have to fuck you, I…Ah!”

  “Yes. It’s ok, I’m ok.” She moved her hips again, moaning softly as she encouraged him.

  Taking his arm out from under her, he lowered her ass down to the grass and slid his hand under her leg, lifting it onto his shoulder, opening her up even more for him. Letting go of her wrists, he propped himself up with a hand on each side of her shoulders, then slid himself nearly all the way out before slamming back into her with a hoarse cry. “You feel so good…” He slid out again slowly, thrusting back in hard. Lowering his head, he nipped at her nipples as she arched her back, then he could take it no more.

  Pulling his arm out from under her leg, he braced himself on his forearms, holding her under him tightly as he gained speed. Taking her mouth with his, he swallowed her cries as he pounded into her, hard.

  Emma clutched helplessly at Nik’s shoulders as he possessed her. The position he had her in rubbed her in all the right places. Each hard, fast thrust going so deep inside of her she could feel him touching her womb. Waves of delicious sensation flowed through her, and she threw her head back, breaking off their kiss with a cry.

  Taking her head between his hands, Nik held her there, as with a loud snarl, he struck again. As she felt his fangs pierce her skin, the tension in her belly rose to unbearable heights, hovering there on the brink, until, with a strong pull on her vein, she crashed over the edge.

  ***

  Nik growled against her neck as her body bucked underneath him. The sounds of her cries and the feel of her snug warmth surrounding his cock as her blood ran down his throat almost too much for him to bear.

  Lifting his head from her throat, he slid his arms under her, holding her immobile as he slammed into her almost violently, until, with a hoarse cry, he shoved himself impossibly deeper and exploded inside of her. Spurting hotly into her over and over so hard, his entire body convulsed along with his pulsing cock. He’d never come so hard before.

  And as he slowly came down, he knew. He was never going to be the same again.

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Emma lay limply as Nik continued to slide slowly in and out of her, catching his breath. So that’s really what all of the fuss is about. She’d never quite understood the big deal about sex…until Nik had invaded her shower. And now this. His tongue lapped at her neck and breasts, healing her wounds and cleaning off the last of the blood. Her head swam and her limbs felt limp and lifeless. She couldn’t
move if she wanted to. And she didn’t want to.

  “Emma?” She heard Nik’s husky voice say her name from far away, but couldn’t get her throat to work to respond.

  “Emma!” Louder this time.

  She tried again to answer him. “Hmmm?”

  “Open your mouth, sweetheart.”

  He was giving orders again, but she did as he asked. As soon as her lips parted, she felt the warm skin of his wrist against them, and the sweetest taste dripped onto her tongue. She swallowed automatically, and then started sucking in earnest at the delicious liquid. Raising her hands, she held his wrist to her mouth as she drank greedily.

  ***

  Nik nearly wept with relief when her eyes popped open a few seconds later. His heart had completely stopped when she’d lain there so still and pale, past memories of Eliana mixing with the present, threatening to overtake his sanity. But then he’d seen her chest move slightly as she breathed, and noticed the small smile on her face.

  Without hesitation, he’d done what he’d swore he’d never do. There was no other choice. Or so he told himself. Lifting his wrist to his mouth, he’d bitten through the skin, opening his vein for her to drink.

  Now, fascinated, he watched her taking his blood, every swallow binding them irrevocably together forever. He should be freaking out. He should be running in the opposite direction as fast as his vampiric speed could take him. But he did neither of those things. Instead, he reveled in the peacefulness that came over him as he watched her take his lifeblood, amazed.

  Nothing had ever felt so right in all of the lifetimes he’d lived.

  Pride swelled in his chest as he looked at his female. She was so lovely, and fierce, and witty…and stubborn. A dark cloud overtook his features, his emotions leaping around as fast as his thoughts. He should never have let her coerce him into feeding from her. This wasn’t what he wanted her life to be.

  But it was done.

  Much as he didn’t want to, they needed to move. She tightened her grip with a sound of protest as he pulled his wrist away. “Enough, sweetheart.” He licked the punctures to close them, and then dropped a kiss on her adorable nose. “We need to go.”

  ***

  Emma felt a rush of cool air over her bare skin as he carefully pulled out of her and sat back on his heels. She licked her lips. Whoa. She’d just drank his blood. And it wasn’t icky at all! It was like the most exquisite wine, much better than the crap she bought at the grocery store.

  Warm and succulent, she could feel it working its way through her system, and she was suddenly wide-awake. Wide-awake, full of energy…and horny as hell. Again.

  Her hungry eyes locked on the perfect specimen of a male kneeling so casually naked between her legs.

  His cock hardened again as she bit her lip, drawing her eyes there, and she smiled with delight.

  Nik suppressed a smile and told her in a stern voice. “Don’t be eyeballing me like that, woman. We need to get out of here, before more of these things show up.” He chuckled softly as her eyes widened in comprehension and she looked around, suddenly remembering where they were.

  Clutching her shirt closed across front of her, she sat up so swiftly they almost knocked heads.

  Nik took her by the shoulders to steady her. Leaning down, he whispered in her ear, “As soon as we’re done here though, I’m going to take you home and fuck you until there’s not a single inch of you I haven’t tasted and we’re both too raw to move.”

  He laughed again as her face flamed.

  She smacked at his chest. “Stop it! Get off of me, you big oaf!”

  “I will. Just let me do this…” Reaching over, he grabbed his shirt, wadding it up so the bloody part wasn’t showing. Using the clean side, he reached between her legs and wiped her off thoroughly, ignoring her embarrassed swatting at him.

  When she was as clean as he could get her, he pulled her hands away from her face where she had finally hidden, and kissed her hard.

  As he rose to his feet and stretched, completely unabashed by his nakedness, Emma kept her head down and pulled her panties and jeans on. Sliding her feet into her shoes, she crossed her arms over her chest and looked around for her bra, finally finding it ten feet away, completely ripped in half. She stared at the ruined undergarment, at a loss as to what she was going to wear.

  Taking the ripped ends of her bloody shirt, she tried to tie it together over her breasts, but they were too short and it wouldn’t stay tied.

  Hmmmm.

  Right as she was about to resign herself to walking back holding her shirt together, a clean piece of black cotton appeared in front of her face.

  “Here you go.”

  With a mumbled “Thank you”, she turned her back to him and yanked off her ruined clothes, wiping off any lingering blood on her skin as best she could, before pulling on his shirt. It nearly swallowed her whole, but it was clean and warm, and it covered her. Rolling the sleeves up and tying up the bottom to shorten it, she turned around to find Nik already dressed in a matching clean shirt, his jeans, and combat boots. She gave him a questioning look.

  His eyes glowed with male satisfaction at the sight of her in his clothing. “I always carry extra clothes when I travel. Us vampires tend to get bloody.”

  An unexpected surge of jealousy rose in her before she remembered that he only drank bagged blood. At least before she came around. He must be talking about fighting.

  Right?

  “I get into a lot of fights.” He answered the questions going through her mind before she could ask them. She didn’t need to. The connection between them from sharing blood was already growing.

  “Of course.” She answered blithely. Holding out her bloody, ruined clothes, she asked, “What should I do with these?”

  Nik took them from her and shoved them in a pocket of his pack. “We’ll burn them, later.” Scanning the area for anything they may have forgotten, he asked, “You ready to go, Em?”

  Looking anywhere but at him, she answered, “Yeah. Let’s go.” He cocked his head at her behavior, but didn’t press the issue.

  With a last, longing look at her bare breasts filling out his shirt, he took her hand and led the way out of the carnage.

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Emma didn’t like this. She didn’t like this at all.

  They’d been walking through the darkness in a circular route that would take them back around to the cavern where Aiden waited, both lost in their own thoughts.

  Emma had tried to take advantage of the lack of conversation to try to sort out her feelings about what had happened. She knew she’d instigated it all, and she was glad that Nik had finally given in. She was. And it wasn’t that she wasn’t attracted to him, or that she didn’t want to be with him. She did.

  But, forever? The implication of that boggled her mind. Forever was a very, very, long time for regular humans. For a vampire and his mate? She had a hard time wrapping her head around it.

  She’d been so worried about him not feeding from her, and therefore causing his own death, that she hadn’t thought much past that.

  Well, she had thought about it…just not that seriously.

  She wondered, did he even want to be with her? Really? He’d certainly fought hard enough to prevent it. Now that she’d finally convinced him to feed, and the bond had been completed (and then some!), she’d expected him to be all, like, miserable and angry at her for goading him into it.

  Sooo not the case.

  In fact, his behavior was just the opposite. As she watched him swagger along amongst the trees in front of her, he seemed to be back to his old self. The cocky, carefree vampire she’d met at the bar, what seemed a lifetime ago. Maybe, now that the pressure was off and the deed was done, he was just feeling relieved because he didn’t have to fight it anymore?

  Or, had this all been his idea from the very start?

  Was that it? And was she really so gullible? Sadly, she had to admit; the answer was a most probable yes. She was. She
was no match for the charm of an obscenely handsome vampire who’d had six hundred years of practice seducing women.

  After living that long, she imagined life would get rather boring. Could she really blame him for finding ways to amuse himself?

  Damn right, she could. She was not here for his amusement.

  But, he wouldn’t really have made all of that up, would he? And what about Aiden? He couldn’t have been faking all of that concern for his friend; no one was that good an actor. But, then again, he was a little…off. Had it really all been nothing but a big act the two of them had conjured up to amuse themselves?

  Emma glared at the broad, muscular width of his back in front of her. Had he been tricking her this entire time just to get her to sleep with him? Making it seem like it was her idea? The more she thought about it, the more convinced she became that he’d been playing with her all along.

  Bastard.

  ***

  Nik found it impossible to keep walking with such sharp daggers being stabbed into his back. He could feel her roiling emotions ever since they’d left the clearing, and was trying to let her work out…whatever it was she was trying to work out. However, he couldn’t ignore the downright hate he felt being levered at him now. He stopped walking.

  “What’s up, Em?” he asked casually as he turned around to face her, hands low on his narrow hips.

  Even though she’d been glaring right at him, she was so caught up in her thoughts, his abrupt halt took her by surprise. Raising her hands in front of her to prevent crashing into him, she pushed off his hard wall of a chest with a satisfying “thump” and took a few steps back, crossing her arms in front of her defensively. “Why don’t you tell me?”