by Danica Avet
Ruby gasped, forgetting her embarrassment as his fangs sank into her femoral artery. Twin pinpricks of ecstasy burned through her body, and she was floating on a bubble of pure pleasure. Her already arousal-soaked body became even wetter and more swollen with every draw of his mouth on her. Ruby’s stomach clenched, her inner muscles beginning to tense as she prepared to orgasm once more.
Lucian lifted his mouth from her thigh, his pupils dilated, leaving only a rim of red around the black. “Not yet,” he snarled, and before she could take a breath, Lucian was cupping her behind her knees, spreading her legs even wider, his shaft poised at her entrance.
“Ruby Blue, you’re mine,” he vowed, his eyes locked on hers, a droplet of her blood beaded on his bottom lip.
With that said, he began feeding his massive cock into her engorged flesh. The friction of his shaft pressing into her, stretching her swollen folds and tightened muscles, drove her insane. Ruby wanted to move, to squirm and wiggle, but Lucian kept strict control over the depth of his penetration with the firm grip on the back of her knees. He eased inside slowly, working himself into her hot depths inch by inch, but purposely not filling her before pulling out and repeating the process.
“God, you’re so tight.” He gritted his teeth as he gave his hips a little swivel on the inward stroke.
“Luc,” Ruby moaned, her eyes squeezed shut, her arms moving restlessly on the duvet, bunching the material in her fists. “Please, please, oh, please,” she begged, her body beginning to glisten with perspiration.
Lucian’s body also began to sweat, but he remained true to his slow rhythm, filling her body with his, never giving her his full length until her body was so slick with arousal he glided in and out more easily. Then, he began to plunge into her, faster, harder.
Ruby moaned loudly, running her hands down her breasts which bounced with Lucian’s every thrust. She coasted her hands down her body until she could touch his hips, where she dug her nails in, encouraging him to ride her harder, moaning “more” with every stab of his cock.
Lucian leaned forward, planting his fists on either side of Ruby’s shoulders, towering over her, forcing her hips into a higher position, changing the angle of his thrusts. His cock glided over just the right spot and Ruby’s round eyes met his in shock, pleasure, and mind-numbing need.
When Ruby came, it was with a scream that nearly broke glass, her inner muscles clamping around Lucian’s shaft as he continued fucking her mindless. He pounded into her, their bodies sliding together with their sweat, his balls slapping against her ass. His eyes were aglow with a red so bright Ruby felt as though she was being scorched by the sun from the inside out.
“Ruby,” he panted, his hips churning against hers faster and faster, deeper and deeper until he was touching her womb. “You’re mine,” he growled in her ear right before he bit her neck. “Say it, Ruby,” he demanded harshly, partnering his words with a particularly deep thrust that had her thrashing her head as another wave of ecstasy rose in her.
Ruby bit her lip, holding the words back. If she said them, he’d hold her to it. He was already saying her inability to get a read on him was because her own powers were sure he was her mate. If she caved because he was good in bed, she’d belong to him completely.
He slid home and circled his hips, using the tip of his erection at her womb to make her eyes cross. “Say it, Ruby,” he panted, his body slick with sweat as he denied his own climax for her vow.
His chest abraded her sensitive nipples, his hair trailed over her sensitized flesh, she was spread out for him like a Thanksgiving dinner and she was trying to pretend she didn’t belong to him? He moved his hips in a very slow counterclockwise circle, making her eyes roll back in her head.
“I’m yours, dammit. Oh, God, I’m yours!” she shouted. For now, her soul added.
He growled, pulled out and slammed inside again. Almost instantly, his orgasm rippled through his body like fire as he came with a roar. When she felt the first pulse of his seed splash inside her, he plunged his teeth in her neck again. His hips kept pumping, hard and fast with no finesse, no smooth seduction. Ruby lost her grip on reality, joining him in climax once more.
Chapter Seventeen
Lucian wasn’t conscious of anything but the feel of Ruby in his arms. She was technically squashed between him and the mattress with his arms flopped over her, but he was touching her and that was all that mattered. His breathing was choppy, but Lucian took great pride in hearing the sobbing, shuddering breaths of his woman beneath him.
He nuzzled the skin behind her ear, purring. “Mmm,” he moaned, throwing himself off Ruby, pulling her into the crook of his arm.
With his eyes closed and the sounds of their breathing slowly returning to normal, Lucian could see the possibility of her being his mate become more of a when than an if. She was an amazing bed partner, she had fire, and their children would be powerful. It would be a good match, he thought with a grunt. He just needed to attempt the bond. Attempting a bond was only possible if the female accepted the male’s blood during sex. If the mating was true, they would connect both spiritually and physically.
“We shouldn’t have done that,” Ruby said, bursting his bubble.
Lucian had known she wouldn’t give in without a fight, but damn, she hadn’t even waited for the afterglow to fade, he thought grouchily. “Yes, we should,” he instantly contradicted her, his face bunching into a frown.
She punched him in the ribs. Damn, she packed a good wallop. “We haven’t resolved anything, Lucian! We just had sex, and now you think everything’s all better. Well, it isn’t!”
Lucian kept his eyes closed and his arm clamped around her. She was squirming and pressing her breasts against his side. Those pretty, bright pink nipples were still hard and rubbed his ribs just right. Lucian’s eyebrow quirked and a smile crossed his face. Gods, she’d felt like Heaven. Wet, hot, and so tight he’d almost come the instant his cock breached her entrance.
Just thinking about how good they fit together made him hard again and he could tell Ruby noticed because her breath was getting all ragged again.
“Lucian,” she said pleadingly, drawing his name out. “We have to talk about our problems.”
“Don’t want to talk anymore,” he grumbled, one of his hands slipping down her silky back to the curve of her round ass. He filled his hand with one cheek, squeezing gently. “Mmm,” he purred. “I like.” He gave her ass a little sharp spank, wondering how she’d react.
Her face screwed up in an uncertain frown, as though unsure if she liked it or not. He spanked her other cheek, another sharp slap. Her eyes closed and she bit her lip.
As though in retaliation, she reached down and grabbed his growing cock. Lucian felt his eyes widen and his cock go from half-mast to hard as a rock in an instant. She began stroking him, her eyes challenging him.
He smiled wickedly. “Oh, baby, you just don’t know what you’re doing,” Lucian boasted, slapping her ass again.
Ruby’s breath caught in her throat and she squeezed his cock gently, making his breath catch. “We’ll see,” she said.
Lucian got to his knees, sitting back on his heels. He felt pretty confident he could make her come before he did. He’d had two orgasms in the last hour. She, however, was already on the edge. The scent of her arousal perfumed the air again.
“Kneel,” Lucian commanded, his cock thrust at her.
Ruby rolled to her hands and knees, crawling towards him. She came up, giving him a sweet, hot kiss before kissing her way down his torso.
Lucian swallowed hard when she lapped at his nipples. She swirled her tongue and used her teeth like she couldn’t wait to get her mouth on his body. When her lips began sliding down his stomach and he felt her breath on the head of his cock, Lucian was beginning to think he’d been overconfident. She stopped at the bird-shaped birthmark on his hip, the one all men of his mother’s line carried somewhere on their bodies, her tongue laving the strawberry colored skin.
Ruby moved her body so she was perpendicular to him. Now Lucian had a perfect view of her hovering over his cock and access to her slit. He was so turned on he was already beaded up with pre-cum.
Ruby’s hand grabbed him at the base and slid up, squeezing gently. Her tongue swiped at the pearl of seed and Lucian almost jumped out of his skin. “Not nice,” he said, reaching over to slip his fingers through her drenched curls.
Ruby reacted as though she’d been struck by lightning. Her hips bucked up and her hand tightened on him. Lucian felt pretty smug, his fingers finding and flicking over her clit, but that was before she slipped the head of his cock in her mouth.
“Yes,” he hissed, his hips thrusting upwards.
Her mouth was just as hot and wet as her drenched folds. He found her entrance and probed it with one finger, feeling how swollen she was, dripping with arousal and his seed. Lucian wanted to be in her mouth and core at once. He wanted to fill her up with his seed.
“Suck me,” he commanded, thrusting one finger in her in a slow, pumping motion.
Ruby’s lips wrapped around just the head of his cock and she suckled, her tongue swirling over the tip while her hand stroked up and down. Lucian’s eyes crossed.
“More,” he growled. “Take all of it.” She did, her mouth gliding down his length until he touched the back of her throat. Lucian’s eyes rolled to the back of his head at the sensation of her mouth encasing him so well.
She paused, taking time to lap at the head like a cat with cream. He continued thrusting one finger into her wetness. Lucian nearly came when she began rubbing her tongue along the underside of his shaft.
Ruby must’ve felt his body tense because she released him from her mouth, her hand moving to his balls, rolling them around her palm. Lucian threw his head back, his chest heaving for air.
“No,” she breathed as her hand moved back to the base of his cock. She rubbed her cheek against the length, making him look at her.
Seeing her strong face rubbing against his cock like a cat and, more importantly, knowing she was excited by giving him pleasure turned Lucian on like nothing else. Doing his best to appear unaffected, which was difficult considering he was seeping pre-cum, he quirked an eyebrow at Ruby.
“I want this inside me,” she rasped, her tongue working the tip and threw her hips back so his finger slid deeper in her slippery heat.
Lucian grinned so broadly his face hurt. Before she could blink, he switched positions. With her ass pointed skyward, he gripped her hips firmly and plunged into her slick channel.
Ruby screamed, her hips bucking back against him. “Oh, Luc,” she sobbed. “It feels so good.”
Lucian growled in agreement and proceeded to pound into her, giving them the rough ride they both craved. Her body was so tight and slick he was on the verge of coming before he was ready. He slammed into her all the way to the hilt, slow and hard, his hands gripping her hips strongly.
His eyesight was starting to darken with his impending orgasm, and he hadn’t even driven Ruby as crazy as he wanted to. Lucian needed to slow them down a bit, show his life companion he was capable of more than just animalistic couplings.
He sat back on his heels, tugging Ruby into a seated position so her back was supported by his chest with her knees on either side of his. He slid even deeper and her cries became higher pitched. She wrapped her warms around his neck, arching her back.
Lucian growled rocking into her, nudging her cervix. He used one hand to gently pluck at her nipples, which were so flushed and hard they felt like velvet diamonds, and slid his other hand between her legs to stroke her clit.
“No,” she moaned, the back of her head resting against his shoulder. She tried to squirm away from his fingers, which rubbed over her engorged clit in time with their gliding lovemaking. “No.” She shook her head. “It’s too much,” she panted, turning her head to the side, her teeth grazing his neck. “Lucian. Oh, God, oh!”
Lucian felt her teeth at his throat and went mindless, thrusting his hips up while pulling her down with his hand. She bit his neck again and didn’t let go, her hoarse cries smothered against his skin. The mating instinct took over.
Lucian grabbed the arm wrapped around his neck, guiding her wrist to his mouth, biting into it just as his orgasm crashed over him. Ruby was a split second behind him, her inner muscles squeezing him like a fist, milking the seed from his cock as she fed him with her blood. He continued stroking her clit, feeling another climax about to roll through her and was rewarded with her sharp inhale against his neck and the dull pain of her flat, human teeth piercing his skin.
The first spill of his blood into her mouth mated them. When she drew on him while he drew on her, it bound them forever. Lucian felt the mating connection take on a different personality as he could feel his own cock inside her and knew she could sense how good she felt around it.
They were irrevocably bound and Lucian was content because it meant she was his forever. Everything else could be sorted out.
Chapter Eighteen
When Ruby woke up the next morning, she was sore, yet felt so renewed, it should’ve been illegal. She frowned at the picture windows across the room. If she remembered right, most of the stuff they’d done last night was illegal by obscure Louisiana laws. If they were in the wrong, though, she’d happily go to prison. She’d been just as insatiable as Lucian after she decided their talk could wait.
Ruby wasn’t sure how many times they joined throughout the night. She’d never felt such an encompassing need for anything or anyone in her entire life and it both scared and intrigued her. Would this feeling last throughout eternity? It was definitely something they need to explore before either of them made a firm commitment, she decided.
The room was shadowy. Some sort of tint on the windows blocked out the sunlight while still allowing the room a view of outside. Lucian’s arm was draped over her waist, and he had her plastered to his side like a favorite stuffed animal.
Ruby grinned to herself. Lucian wasn’t an insecure man by any stretch of the imagination. The things he must’ve experienced in his lifetime had shaped him into a hard vampire, though he was damned good at pleasure. Thinking about how he probably got his practice caused jealousy to rear its head and Ruby forced herself to think of something else.
There were so many things they needed to discuss. She couldn’t let him distract her. He would wake up and want loving. Ruby bit her lip. She wouldn’t mind a little morning loving herself, but they needed to talk before they went any further. She wasn’t going to be anyone’s property.
“You’re growling,” a husky voice said just above her ear.
Ruby shot him a dark look, trying not to be distracted by the shadowy beard on his jaw or his heavy-lidded green eyes. His hair was tousled, draping over his shoulder like an exotic pet. There was a new expression on his face this morning.
He looked at her with lust, yes, but she saw the beginnings of affection in the depths. An answering warmth blossomed in her chest and she could’ve kicked herself. She doubted most women of the Veil fell in love with the first Veilerian they had sex with, but she seemed to be on the verge of doing so.
Lucian pressed a gentle kiss to her forehead, his hair sweeping forward to drape over their faces like a curtain. He rested his forehead against hers, their eyes meeting. Ruby wanted to look away, but couldn’t. His eyes were glowing, a vibrant green that stole her breath.
“We can’t change what happened last night, and I wouldn’t even if I could,” he said, his eyes delving into hers, piercing her soul. “You are my mate. Last night proved I am yours by Chieftain Lore.”
Ruby held her breath, waiting for the words. If he told her he cared for her, then they could work something out.
Lucian sm
iled, his eyes filled with devilry as he touched the side of his neck, drawing her gaze to the perfect outline of teeth in the skin. Ruby gasped in shock. “I did that?” she asked hoarsely.
Lucian nodded proudly. “We are mated, my little Chieftain, and furthermore, you completed the bond by drinking from me. Our lives are intertwined forever,” he informed her, brushing his mouth over hers.
“What do you mean intertwined forever?” she asked suspiciously, avoiding his mouth.
He pouted at her refusal to kiss him and Ruby refrained from sighing over how adorable he looked. “It means from now on we belong to each other. We’re connected. We’ll be able to feel each other no matter how far apart we are. Not that we’ll ever be apart. Once things are settled with Council, you’ll move in here.” He smiled at her charmingly and all she wanted to do was punch him in the face.
Ruby gaped at him, feeling as if she’d plunged into a frigid lake. The cold feeling traveled from the top of her head to the soles of her feet before traveling back up again like a current. He was happy he’d let her complete a bond without explaining it to her first? Ruby wasn’t sure if she was angry at him or herself.
She forced herself to be calm and rational, which wasn’t difficult because for the first time around him, she was thinking with the hard, cold logic of a warrior. He’d done it on purpose, she realized. He’d used her own attraction against him to tie her to him for eternity. That one word echoed around her head, bouncing around like a pinball. She didn’t know a damn thing about him, nor did he know anything about her, and they were now bound together forever.
“Ruby?” he asked her, leaning back slightly to get a better look at her face. Something must’ve shown because his happiness was replaced by wariness. “You’re not about to go off again, are you?”
She glared at him, for once not feeling the heat of anger. Instead, she was deep in a cold fury. Before, she’d had to force herself to act cold towards him. Now, she wasn’t sure she’d ever allow him another intimacy.