Satisfaction

by Marie Rochelle

  For the past several days, her mind had been filled with thoughts of Jace. She couldn’t get him out of her head. The one kiss they shared on her couch, the pleasure from it was so pure and explosive, nothing like she had ever felt before.

  He was a vampire, and she was his mate. How was any of this possible? Was that why her body still ached for the heat of his touch? She was amazed at how she was filled with a sense of completeness any time they were in the same room. She was drawn to a height of passion she had never known before by Jace’s mouth.

  Jace didn’t know she had wanted to submit to the burning passion that had captivated her, but she was scared of the unknown. Why couldn’t he have just agreed to give her what they both wanted?

  Closing her eyes, Ashlynn allowed the soothing sound of the song take over her limbs, and she tried to push Jace away. He had gotten to her in such a very short period of time, and it wasn’t right. She wasn’t meant to be with someone for the rest of her life.

  The thought of being married to anyone for two days scared the shit out of her. So, how in the hell could she accept being with him for eternity? It just wasn’t a part of her makeup.

  “You look so beautiful doing that,” a voice said behind her.

  Her eyes flew open as Ashlynn twirled around, gasping as she found Jace standing there behind her. She hadn’t expected to see him again since she had been finding ways to avoid him every time he came to visit her. His blue eyes pierced the distance between them, and she tried to relax as he held her gaze.

  “Thank you,” she muttered, wondering what he was going to do next.

  “I should apologize for surprising you like this, but I think I should tell you that I have been thinking about what we talked about, and you were right.”

  “I was right about what?” Ashlynn asked, not quite understanding what Jace was telling her.

  “We shouldn’t try to have a committed relationship with each other. So, if you only want a one-night stand with me, then I’m going to give it to you.”

  She was too startled by his suggestion to offer any kind of comment at first. “Are you sure about this?” Ashlynn asked, surprised again by the unpredictable man.

  Jace kept walking until he was in front of her. “Sweetheart, if this is what you want, then I’m going to give it to you, because your happiness is the most important thing in the world to me.”

  Lowering his head, Jace captured her mouth with his, and the last of her calm was shattered with the hunger of his kisses. Ashlynn kissed him for a few minutes before she placed her hands on his chest and pushed him away.

  “Stop, I’m all sweaty from dancing. You don’t want to get covered in it.”

  “Ashlynn, you look stunning. A little sweat isn’t going to keep me from kissing you,” Jace said, taking her face into his hands. Reclaiming her lips, he crushed her to his body, and his tongue sent shivers of desire racing through her.

  Tired of denying herself the pleasure that she wanted from Jace, she wrapped her arms around his wide shoulders, giving herself freely to the passion of his kiss. She had a burning desire, an aching need for him to do more than this.

  “Please…” she whispered against his lips. “Touch me. I want to feel your hands on my body.”

  Jace chuckled as he raised his head and gazed into her eyes. “Oh, baby. I’m planning to touch you and do so much more.” After picking her up, he carried her across the dance floor to the table she kept over in the corner where she sat at when she auditioned new dancers.

  He laid her down gently on the top before sliding her skirt up past her thighs until the material pooled above her panties. “Damn, you are so beautiful. I could just stand here and stare at you for the rest of the day.”

  “Thank you,” she whispered softly.

  “Are you wet for me, baby? Did I soak your panties just from my kisses?”

  The arrogance in his voice should have upset her, but instead it turned Ashlynn on even more. “Yes…I felt them get soaked the second your tongue touched mine. I want you so much. I’m burning up with the need to have your cock buried inside of my pussy.”

  “How about I see for myself?” Jace moved his large hand over her flat stomach, placing it against silk underwear. “Oh, darling. You are really wet for me. Let me see if I can make you even wetter than you already are.” He leaned over her body, pressing his mouth against the side of her ear. “Do you like how this feels?” His thumb brushed over the moist impression in the center of her panties. “I think that you do. I know that I love how good you smell right now.”

  Ashlynn bit the bottom of her lip, trying to stay in control as her fingers gripped the edge of her desk. She wanted to keep quiet, but his touch was driving her crazy. Why was he teasing her like this? She had thought about this from the first moment she saw Jace standing outside on the sidewalk that one night.

  “Sweetheart, I can’t hear you,” he breathed into her ear as his finger eased underneath her underwear, teasing her wet curls. He moved his index finger up and down her wet slit, teasing her cunt more and more. “I need to know if I’m making this beautiful body of yours feel special…good…hot.”

  Nodding, she moaned a soft yes.

  Jace kissed the side of her jaw as she felt one of his thick, long fingers enter so slowly, inch by inch, into her wet pussy. He ran the tip of his tongue down the side of her neck, sending shockwaves of pleasure over her heated skin.

  She squirmed against the hard desk underneath her back at the snug fit. It had been so long since a man touched her like this. She almost forgot how much she loved it. Foreplay to her was more important than sex, and she was finally going to get it from Jace.

  Slowly, Jace grazed his thick thumb over her clit. “I’m glad to hear it, because I want to make you forget any other man has touched you like this. Did any of those boys make you scream?”

  “No…never,” Ashlynn whispered, remembering all of the times she was left lying there wanting more from her lousy, selfish lovers.

  “Well, I know you will without a doubt get that fulfillment with me,” he bragged as his thumb continued making lazy circles around her stiff clit. “I will have you screaming so loudly that your neighbors will hear you. Damn…baby. All I want to do is rip this flimsy underwear off your body and push my cock inside of you.”

  As Jace’s words took over her senses, Ashlynn felt a hot spark of passion race through her like out of control fire she didn’t want to extinguish. She thought she knew what Jace was going to tell her, but she wasn’t prepared for his words.

  He was making her shake with need while taking care of her in ways none of her other past lovers thought about doing. He was setting her on fire, and Jace was the only man who would be able to put it out.

  “Jace,” she whimpered. “Stop teasing me.” Ashlynn didn’t care if she was practically begging him to take her on the desk she used for work. She wanted to feel him inside of her desperately.

  “Baby, I’m so hard right now that I can barely think straight. Do you know that I want to do more than fuck you? I want…no need to take my time with you. A vampire always makes sure his mate knows how cherished she is when they are making love.”

  “I want to be cherished,” Ashlynn admitted, getting lost in the sensations he was creating in her body.

  His fingers started thrusting in and out of her while Jace used his thumb, massaging it over her clit until Ashlynn gasped as her nipples hardened inside of her bra. She was unable to ever recall a man making her feel so sexy…so wanted…so desired with only his touch.

  Jace nibbled at the side of her neck as he worked another finger inside of her; it was almost too much for her to handle at one time. It had her wondering, if his fingers felt like this, then what in the hell would his cock feel like buried deep in her?

  “Spread your legs wider for me, sweetheart,” he whispered against her skin. “Let’s get rid of your underwear.”

  Ashlynn moaned softly as Jace used his free hand and slid the black fabric
down her legs, leaving her panties to dangle off her right ankle.

  His gaze raked over Ashlynn’s soft, beautiful figure so open to him, so perfectly ready for him to love in any way he wanted. Jace watched her every reaction as he withdrew his fingers halfway before easing them back inside of her cunt inch by inch until he thought he was going to lose his mind.

  He loved how his woman’s eyes were partially closed and her mouth slightly opened as little mewling sounds came from the back of her throat. Her hips were thrusting back and forth, keeping perfect rhythm with his fingers.

  Ashlynn’s perfect face possessed an expression on the brink of utter ecstasy. Her unabashed look made his cock so painfully hard that it was literally straining the zipper of his pants, pushing to be released from its prison.

  “Baby, do you want me to take you over that edge you have been searching for?” Jace questioned softly.

  “OhmyGod…yes,” Ashlynn screamed as her breathing sped up.

  Jace noticed how hard her nipples were straining against the fabric of her shirt, begging him to draw one into his mouth and suck. He wanted them so badly that his entire body ached from just the thought of how they would feel against his tongue.

  “Are you ready to give yourself to me fully and completely? Accept me as your man…your mate for the rest of your life?” He knew what he promised Devin he would do, but this was his woman, and he had to at least try one last time.

  Moving back from Ashlynn’s tempting form, Jace placed his hand on the zipper of his pants, more than ready to make her his. His blood raced through his veins as his fangs slowly descended from his mouth, the sweet scent of his mate’s arousal filling the air around them.

  Her eyes slowly opened as Ashlynn leaned up on her desk. Resting back on her elbows with her legs spread wide and her panties hanging from one foot, his mate looked more than ready to be fucked long and hard.

  All he needed was her acceptance, and he would take Ashlynn into a world she had never experienced before with any other human male. Only three little letters, y-e-s, were keeping both of them from going over the brink.

  “I can’t think about any of that right now,” Ashlynn said, reaching for him. “All I want now is for you to finish making love to me. We can talk about all of that later.”

  A heaviness centered in Jace’s chest as he felt a permanent sorrow about to weigh him down. Ashlynn might not have realized it, but she just made her choice about him loud and clear. She rejected them and anything they would have had together. He ached with an inner pain that he didn’t know was possible. He shook his head regretfully as he took several steps back from her.

  “What are you doing?” she demanded. “Why did you stop?”

  He swallowed the lump that lingered in his throat before answering. “I thought I could go through with this, but I can’t do it. I just won’t be a fast fuck for you or worse, a one-night stand so you can move on to the next guy,” he said, watching as Ashlynn dropped her gaze. “You denied me, and there’s nothing I can do to change that fact. Satisfaction is going to be my fate.”

  “Jace, I wasn’t—”

  “Stop right there,” he snapped, jumping in, trying to stay calm, but he was fast losing control. “I know how you feel about me, but I thought I could change your mind after you felt how good we fit together. However, I can see now I was wrong.”

  Jace turned on his heel and stormed away from Ashlynn, heading for the door. He couldn’t look back, because he wouldn’t be able to leave her a second time…no matter how strong he thought his willpower was. He quickly vanished from the room when he was steps away from the exit sign.

  Chapter Twelve

  He left her. Jace actually walked away, leaving her with her panties hanging off one foot. Sitting up on the edge of her desk, Ashlynn gasped as grief and despair tore at her heart. A flash of loneliness stabbed at her like she had never encountered before in her life. She couldn’t believe this was happening to her.

  “Jace…come back. We need to talk about this. You can’t leave me. What about satisfaction? You can’t go through that agony because of me…. Please…baby, come back!”

  She tried jumping off the desk and going after him, but her underwear got caught on her high heel, making her stumble.

  Ashlynn quickly pulled her underwear off and raced to the spot Jace disappeared from, hoping he heard her pleas and would come back. She had to make him understand that she wasn’t denying him. She wanted him with a burning need. The pain in her heart became a sick and fiery, gnawing feeling.

  “Jace, I do want you. Please come back,” Ashlynn hollered as she fell to her knees, not caring about anything else but her man. “I accept you. I want to be your mate.”

  The knowledge twisted and turned inside of her stomach that he was truly gone this time. The swell of pain taking over her body was beyond tears. He had come to her with his heart wide open, and she tossed it away along with his love without a second thought.

  Trapped by her own selfish needs, she lost the only man who ever truly cared about her. Jace loved her and was willing to go against everything he believed in because she pushed for it, and it cost her…his love. Something she didn’t know she dearly wanted until it was gone.

  Swallowing the sob that rose in her throat, she dragged herself up off the floor. She wasn’t going to let this happen. Jace was hers! He told her as much that he spent almost two hundred years looking for her, and she wasn’t about to live a life without him in it.

  Ashlynn brushed her tears away with the back of her hands. She couldn’t get Jace back without Devin’s help. He would tell her where to find his brother. She would make him understand what an idiot she was and convince him that she wanted to be his mate.

  She loved him. God, just don’t let it be too late for her to take back her hurtful words, or she didn’t know how she would be able to go on without Jace.

  After rushing over to her purse, she dug through it, pulling out her cell phone. She dialed Krishell’s number, praying that Devin was at home and still not at work. She had to get him to tell her where Jace was staying. She had to get to him.

  “Hello,” Devin answered on the first ring.

  “Devin, you have to help me,” she choked out as tears filled her eyes again.

  “Ashlynn, what can I do for you?” he asked in a cool voice. Ashlynn knew from his tone that Jace had already talked to him.

  “Please tell me where Jace is. I need to talk to him,” she begged.

  “Why don’t you just leave him alone? My brother is already heartbroken enough because you denied him, and now he will have to experience the full cycle of satisfaction because of your selfishness.”

  “No, I don’t want that to happen. He can’t be in pain like that because of me. I was so wrong. I tried to tell him before he vanished, but I didn’t get the words out in time. Devin, I love him. I can’t be here without him. Please…tell me how to find him.”

  “Why didn’t you tell me that in the first place?” Devin demanded roughly. “He’s staying in the penthouse suite at the Kent Palace, but you better hurry up. I think he’s flying out on his private plane pretty soon. He had his pilot on standby just in case you turned him away this last time.”

  “Shit. Kent Palace is almost a twenty-minute drive from here,” Ashlynn cried as she grabbed her purse and raced toward the door. “I have to stop him. Thank you so much.”

  “You’re welcome, but I have to warn you, as hurt as Jace is, he might not believe anything you tell him.”

  “I know, but I’m hoping my love will be enough to make him see how stupid I have been.” Ashlynn shut her phone, hoping she would get there in time to stop Jace from leaving her.

  Chapter Thirteen

  Kent Palace

  Standing inside of the elevator, Ashlynn kept watching as the numbers flickered past, cursing at how long it was taking for it to get her to the top floor. If she hadn’t gotten held up by the front desk, she could’ve been inside Jace’s room by now.
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  God, if that bitchy woman made her miss seeing Jace, she would go back down there and kick her ass. The elevator finally beeped, and the doors opened directly into Jace’s room. She didn’t waste a minute rushing off it.

  “Jace, are you still here?” Ashlynn hollered as she rushed into the living room.

  She tossed her purse down on the couch, running from room to room as heartbreaking disappointment started to settle in at the fact Jace might be gone. There was only one room left to check, and it was the bedroom.

  Ashlynn hurried down the long hallway past the small kitchen/bar on the right side and opened the bedroom door, stopping in her tracks as her gaze landed on the bed. It was completely made up, and there wasn’t a sign of Jace in sight. He was gone. She covered her face with trembling hands and gave in to the agony of her loss.

  “Ashlynn, what are you doing here?”

  Her hands fell from her face a second before Ashlynn spun around, and her heart jumped with love at seeing Jace standing there. He looked heartbroken, and some of his usual confidence was gone, but she hadn’t missed him. She still had a chance to tell him that she loved him.

  “I thought I had missed you,” she said, taking a step toward him, but he walked around her and headed over to the nightstand at the side of the bed.

  “I was gone, but I forgot my cell phone. I had my driver bring me back to get it.” He picked it up off the table, holding it up for her to see. “I answered your question, but you didn’t answer mine. Why are you in my room?”

  “I need to tell you something. You left so fast from the studio that I couldn’t get the words out of my mouth in time.”

  “You told me enough while I was there,” Jace said. “I need to leave. My pilot is waiting for me at the airport. Have a nice life, Ashlynn. I hope you find what you are looking for since it wasn’t me.”

  She wasn’t going to let this happen a second time to her. After rushing up to Jace, she stood in front of his path, blocking his way. “No, you aren’t going to leave until you hear me out.”