by Tina Folsom
Thomas took Eddie’s hand and kissed his fingertips. “Nobody was ever meant to see what I felt for you. I was determined to keep those feelings locked away. But you can’t lock up love. It always finds a way. Eddie, I know all this has happened in a whirlwind for you, but for me, this has been a long time coming. Just having you in my bed was never going to be enough for me.”
Eddie’s lips parted and he leaned closer, his breath washing over Thomas’s face. “I meant every word I said over the intercom. Every single word.”
Thomas smiled, his heart warming at Eddie’s reassuring words. He looked down at the box in his hand and opened it, revealing the platinum band sitting on a red velvet cushion.
An intake of breath made him look at Eddie, who stared at the ring.
“I bought this for you the night you sucked me in the garage. I knew then that our relationship was changing. And I wanted you to know then that you weren’t just any lover for me. I wanted you to know that if you committed to me, I’d lay the world at your feet.”
Eddie’s hand on his chin pulled his face closer. “I don’t want the world. I only need you. I know that now.” Then he smiled. “So, are you going to get on with this proposal or do I need to fall to my knees now and ask you instead?”
“You’re impatient, you know that?”
“Yes, because I wasted over a year not making love to you. I’ve got some catching up to do.”
Eddie brushed his lips over Thomas’s, then pulled back again. Their gazes locked. “Ask me so I can finally do what I need to do.”
A spear of excitement shot through Thomas, and he pushed back the tears of joy that threatened to unman him. “Will you marry me?”
Eddie put his hand on Thomas’s nape, bringing his mouth to hover over his lips. “I thought you’d never ask.” He sighed. “Yes! Of course I will.” He pressed a kiss onto Thomas’s lips, then released him just as quickly, before Thomas could even enjoy the sensation.
When Eddie lowered his gaze, Thomas realized that he was still holding the jewelry box in his hand.
“Oh!” he said, suddenly realizing what Eddie was waiting for. Thomas took his hand. “Sorry.
This is the first time I’ve done this.” He slipped the ring onto Eddie’s finger.
“And it will be the only time,” Eddie promised. “I’ll never let you go.”
Thomas pulled Eddie into an embrace, lowering him onto the bed behind him, while he freed himself of the towel. He covered Eddie with his body, the skin-on-skin contact fueling his desire.
“I have no intention of ever leaving you.”
“Good.” Then Eddie all of a sudden pushed against him, rolling Thomas onto his back.
Straddling him, he now sat above him. “I was going to do this on my knees, but I guess this position works too.”
Thomas raised an inquiring eyebrow, then looked pointedly at Eddie’s cock. “With you, any position works for me.”
Eddie shook his head, chuckling. “Do you ever think of anything but sex?”
Thomas pressed his hard-on against Eddie. “Don’t play coy with me now. I know you want this.”
Eddie lowered his body over him, his lips within inches of Thomas’s. “Yes, I want this. I want you taking me, making me yours. I want to feel you ride me long and hard, and then I want to feel you come inside me.”
Eddie’s seductive words made him moan out loud. “Fuck, Eddie, if you don’t let me get on with it right now, I’m not going to last more than ten seconds.”
“Patience, my sweet lover. There’s something else I want from you first.”
“What?” Thomas growled impatiently, his hands gripping Eddie’s hips to grind against him with more pressure. His cock slid against Eddie’s, making the fire in his belly flare up.
“I want more than just marriage. I want a blood-bond.”
Eddie’s words made him rear up in shock, bringing them both to sit up, Eddie still straddling him.
“Eddie, it’s impossible! We can’t!”
“Are you trying to tell me that two male vampires can’t bond?”
Thomas shook his head. “No! Theoretically, it’s possible. But you and I, we can’t.”
Eddie pulled back, a hurt look spreading over his face. “Are you saying you don’t want to?”
Reaching for him before he had a chance to lift himself off his lap, Thomas stopped him. “I want to, I do, but I can’t.” When Eddie simply stared at him, he continued, “I thought you understood that I can never blood-bond with anybody. Kasper’s blood, it’s evil. How can I share that with you? How can I subject you to that? I love you, Eddie, I love you more than my life.
That’s why I can’t do this to you. Marriage will have to be enough.”
Slowly, Eddie eased back onto him, his hands gripping Thomas’s shoulders. Understanding dawned on his face. Then he slowly moved his head from side to side. “So that’s why you didn’t want me to lick your wounds.” He sighed. “Oh, Thomas, have you already forgotten what happened tonight?”
Not understanding what Eddie was referring to, Thomas answered with a questioning look.
“You were able to fight the dark power with my love. Together we’re stronger than the evil in Kasper’s blood. Much stronger. Because we love each other.”
Eddie’s gentle press against his shoulders urged him to lower himself back onto the sheets.
“You can’t be sure of that.”
“I am sure. Our love will protect us both.” Eddie rocked his hips against Thomas’s groin, eliciting a soft moan from him. “Now let me ask you again.” He looked down to his knees, which were braced to either side of Thomas’s hips. “Guess I am on my knees after all, just like I’d planned it.” Raising his gaze back to Thomas, he continued, “Will you blood-bond with me?”
The love and affection shining from Eddie’s eyes invaded Thomas’s entire body, capturing every cell and spreading warmth and peace. Instinctively, he knew that Eddie was right. They would defeat the dark power together, because their love was stronger.
“Yes, I want to blood-bond with you.” And now that he’d made the decision, he couldn’t wait a moment longer. “Now.”
“Yes, now,” Eddie agreed. “With your beautiful big cock inside me.”
Thomas couldn’t have imagined it any more perfect. He flipped them, bringing Eddie underneath him. Gazing into the eyes of his lover, he spread Eddie’s legs, making space for himself. “I’ve waited for this for so long.”
His hand trailed down to Eddie’s cock, squeezing him briefly before sliding over his balls, caressing them softly. Then he slipped a finger farther back, and noticed how Eddie brought his knees up, placing his feet flat on the bed.
Eddie hissed out a moan. “I missed your touch.”
“You’ll never go another day without my touch,” Thomas replied.
“Promise?”
Thomas smiled up at him. “You’re going to beg me to give you a breather, that’s how often I’ll touch you.”
“I don’t need a breather,” Eddie whispered. “I need your cock. Now!”
Thomas bent over him, bringing his mouth to Eddie’s lips, capturing them with a kiss.
Eddie’s lips parted, and his tongue immediately stroked against Thomas’s, inviting him in to explore him. Thomas groaned out his pleasure, reveling in Eddie’s masculine taste, a mixture of leather and wood, of musk and innocence. As he delved deeper, he felt Eddie’s arms pressing him closer, one sliding onto his ass, squeezing him, while Eddie ground his cock against him in the same rhythm as his tongue responded to Thomas.
Even the night Eddie had sucked him, his kiss hadn’t been as passionate as it was now. It was as if all barriers between them had finally been removed, and they were free to show their love for each other.
Breathing hard, Thomas ripped his mouth from Eddie’s and stared into his lust-drugged eyes.
“I can’t wait any longer.” His cock was aching for release. And his heart was impatient to claim his mate.
“Then take me. Make me yours forever.”
Thomas lifted himself off Eddie and reached for the bedside table. He opened the drawer and pulled out a tube of lubricant. When he turned back to Eddie, he noticed how he was turning onto his stomach.
“No,” Thomas stopped him, meeting his questioning look. “I want to look into your eyes when I’m inside you. Turn onto your back.”
Eddie complied without a word, stretching out on the sheets, his knees raised again, his thighs spread wide. “Like this?” he asked and swept a seductive gaze over Thomas, before resting his eyes on Thomas’s erection.
Thomas moved closer and squeezed a dollop of lubricant onto his fingers. “Perfect.” As he settled between Eddie’s thighs and brought his hand to his crack, he continued looking into Eddie’s eyes.
“I’ll be gentle. Just relax into it.”
Thomas slipped one lube-covered finger into Eddie’s crack and slid farther back.
Automatically, Eddie brought his knees closer to his torso, giving him more access, opening himself up. Thomas felt the tight ring of muscle that guarded Eddie’s dark channel and rubbed his finger over it, slowly and gently.
Eddie’s eyelids fluttered. “Oh!” he let out on a sigh.
“Yes, just relax,” Thomas cooed. “Let me take care of you.” He continued rubbing against the spot until Eddie pressed against his finger. Adding more lubricant, Thomas pushed against the muscle and breached it, his finger slipping inside it to the first knuckle.
Eddie moaned out loud.
“Am I hurting you?”
“God no! Give me more.”
Spurred on by Eddie’s words, Thomas slid deeper inside him, still slowly and gently, but without stopping, until his entire finger was enveloped. Feeling Eddie’s interior muscles clench around him sent a bolt of desire through him. His cock wouldn’t survive Eddie’s virgin ass for long; he knew it instinctively.
“God, you’re tight,” Thomas said.
“Just like you were when I was inside you,” Eddie responded, lust blazing from his eyes.
“Now fuck me.”
“You’re not quite ready,” Thomas cautioned and withdrew his finger, only to add more lubricant and slide back in a moment later.
Eddie bucked against him, taking his finger deeper. “I’m ready.”
Eddie’s eagerness warmed his heart, but he wasn’t fooled. His lover wasn’t ready to take his cock yet. He would be soon though.
“I’ll get you ready,” Thomas promised and thrust his finger deeper and harder, increasing his tempo. With satisfaction, he watched how Eddie’s eyes rolled back and uncontrolled moans tumbled from his parted lips, while his body moved in synch with Thomas’s thrusts.
“Soon,” Thomas whispered as he added a second finger to the first and plunged deep.
Eddie’s back lifted off the mattress, then crashed back down, a groan dislodging from his chest. “Fuck, yes!”
As he finger-fucked him with two digits now, Thomas felt his own body heat rise with desire.
His cock had already oozed pre-cum, and if he wasn’t careful he would come just by watching himself pleasure Eddie. Seeing the vampire he loved respond to him so freely, and with such passion, drove him wild with lust.
“Oh, fuck it!” Thomas cursed and pulled his fingers from Eddie’s ass, lathered his own cock with lubricant, and positioned himself at Eddie’s entrance.
As the tip of his cock brushed against Eddie’s hole, Thomas looked deep into his lover’s eyes. “I love you.”
Eddie’s lips echoed the words silently just as Thomas pushed forward and drove inside, seating himself to the hilt.
Eddie gasped, a visible shudder racing through his body.
“Are you okay?” Concern spread in Thomas, and he stilled in his movements.
“Fuck, you’re big!”
Thomas pulled back, but Eddie’s hands on his hips stopped him from withdrawing his cock completely.
“Don’t you dare stop now!” A wicked grin spread on Eddie’s face. “I think I like big.”
Thomas felt Eddie’s hands draw him back toward him, making him plunge back into him.
Eddie’s eyes flashed red at him and from his parted lips, Thomas now noticed his fangs extending. “Yes, I do like big, and hard, and deep.”
Thomas couldn’t stop a smile from curving his lips. “How hard?”
“I’m a vampire, Thomas. I can take it as hard as you can deliver it.”
“A man after my own heart.” Before the last word had left his lips, Thomas plunged deep into Eddie, his movements still slow, but with every thrust and every withdrawal, he sped the rhythm, and with every moan coming from Eddie, he gave more of his control over to his body, allowing himself to bathe in the sensations his connection with Eddie conjured up in him.
Eddie’s tight muscles squeezed him hard, but the plentiful lubrication made every thrust a smooth slide into heaven. Heat engulfed his erection and Eddie’s channel kept him prisoner in a prison he never wanted to escape from.
Not even in his dreams had it been this good. Reality was more exciting than any dream could have ever been. They were two male bodies, moving in synch with each other, their hands caressing, their mouths fused in a passionate kiss. Against his stomach, Thomas felt Eddie’s hard cock pulse, the heat of it driving a spear of desire into him, adding to the thrill of finally taking the man he loved and making him his. Of possessing him, just as Eddie possessed him. His heart, his soul.
Thomas lifted his lips from Eddie’s, unable to hold back any longer. “Now,” he whispered and felt his lover nod.
Thomas’s fangs descended. Eddie tilted his neck to the side in invitation. Without haste, he lowered his mouth and scraped his fangs against the tender skin.
“I love you, Thomas.”
Closing his eyes, Thomas drove his fangs into Eddie’s skin and pulled on the plump vein.
Simultaneously, he felt the sharp tips of Eddie’s fangs pierce his shoulder.
While his cock continued to thrust into Eddie, Eddie’s rich blood spread in Thomas’s mouth, its taste exploding on his tongue. He swallowed it down, letting it coat his throat, and felt all tension flow from his body. Everything around him seemed to disappear. The dark power in him retreated farther and farther until he could sense it no longer.
At the same time, he felt another force invading him. This invasion he welcomed. Love and peace spread in his mind as he opened up the wall around his heart. He felt the pull of Eddie’s fangs on his vein more intensely now, just as he could feel Eddie’s imminent orgasm.
I’m coming, he heard Eddie’s thought in his mind as clearly as if he’d spoken the words.
I’m right there with you, Thomas replied without speaking.
When Eddie’s muscles convulsed around his cock a moment later, and cum shot from Eddie’s cock against Thomas’s stomach, Thomas felt his own cock jerk, and sensed his semen as it charged through his erection and exploded from the tip, filling his lover in hot spurts. His body shook with the waves of his orgasm, wringing every last bit of energy from him until he collapsed on top of Eddie, unable to move a single limb. He couldn’t prevent his body from trembling, and noticed that Eddie was shaking too.
Too exhausted to speak, Thomas reached out with his mind. You’re mine now.
And you’re mine, he heard Eddie’s voice in his head.
Then Eddie moved his head, bringing his lips to Thomas’s, brushing them against him.
“You can do this anytime you want to.”
Thomas lifted his head. “You shouldn’t give me carte blanche like that, because your sweet ass is going to be so sore for the next century that you’re going to curse me.”
“Just for the next century?” Eddie teased.
Thomas felt a laugh build in his chest. As he released it and Eddie joined in the laughter, happiness cocooned him like a thick blanket. He knew then that the dark power in his blood would never be able to rise again as it would forever be locked away by love.
THE END
About the Author
Tina Folsom was born in Germany and has been living in English speaking countries for over 20 years, the last 12 of them in San Francisco, where she’s married to an American.
Tina has always been a bit of a globe trotter: after living in Lausanne, Switzerland, she briefly worked on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, then lived a year in Munich, before moving to London. There, she became an accountant. But after 8 years she decided to move overseas.
In New York she studied drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, then moved to Los Angeles a year later to pursue studies in screenwriting. This is also where she met her husband, who she followed to San Francisco three months after first meeting him.
In San Francisco, Tina worked as a tax accountant and even opened her own firm, then went into real estate, however, she missed writing. In 2008 she wrote her first romance and never looked back.
She’s always loved vampires and decided that vampire and paranormal romance was her calling. She now has 17 novels in English and over two dozens in other languages (Spanish, German, and French) and continues to write, as well as have her existing novels translated.
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