Taken by The Hunger: A Blood Thirst Novel (Book 1) Paranormal Romance/ Erotica/ Urban Fantasy

by Spade, Harnet

  “We can deal with this Eva.”

  “No… we can’t keep coming back to all this pain. You need to let me go,” I said injecting my voice with a strength I didn’t feel as I turned to bravely look at him.

  Did he know how much I concentrated on tuning out the sound of his heart pumping his precious blood? How delicious that sound was to me, how starved I was to consume him? At the same time, did he know how I valued his life? No, I had to get out of here… wanted him to the extreme.

  “Don’t call me by that name, it’s not even my name only a name you called me because you said everyone worshipped me. They saw me as a goddess or princess, but you… you said Eva fit me better because I would be your downfall… your forbidden. You were right don’t you see?” I laughed bitterly as I said, “We are forbidden to each other. After all these years of us being like this- it’s not getting better.”

  I walk away from him and move towards the elevator, but stop because of a thought that keeps harassing my mind.

  “And Darius, I don’t remember everything, but what I do remember… I rather not because whatever made me come after you to kill you can’t be good. The more I remember the more at risk we all are. I remember how I felt about you. How much I loved you, so forgive me if I’m not ecstatic wanting to dig up something that I’ve tried my hardest to forget.”

  I look for him and see he is sitting in a wrought iron bed. There are some bare pieces of furniture here. It all looks out of place. This underground cave is truly beautiful. I was fascinated by it ever since laying eyes on it when he walked us in. “What are your plans, do you think to keep me in here Darius?” I ask silkily because I know he moves so quickly. I didn’t want to delude myself with hopes of reaching the elevator only to come face to face with a realization I wouldn’t forgive him for. He would not trap me here.

  “If you mean to try and erase everything that happened between us, Eva… well then perhaps. You think I don’t know just how much you hunger for me, for my touch, yet you expect me to let you forget everything including the time we spent wanting, needing one another?”

  I couldn’t answer him. I wanted him so bad it was killing me.

  “I won’t let you run away because you still love me,” he says as he pierces me with his gaze.

  “`Don’t you see that we are at risk of losing more than each other, if we keep digging up the past? We both almost died! I’m sorry but I’m not willing to see you die right before my eyes,” I pleaded.

  “Eva, I don’t die so easily.”

  I refused to listen, “My mother was right you know? About love… love has been romanticized, but in reality all it brings is pain and regret. To truly love another is to lose oneself. It’s wrong… it goes against who we are.”

  “If you lose yourself to me and I to you, we are one in the same. There is no harm in love. Your mother is a cold, uncaring bitch who knows nothing of love, and she has done everything to shatter your confidence in it. I’m not who I used to be Eva, I’ve also changed. I can protect you from your fears, from him.”

  I looked at his beautiful body and then up at his eyes. I remembered how it lay shattered with marble fragments digging into his beautiful skin, immobile with so much pain in his gaze while my blood was being drained from me. I’ve never seen such acute pain in anyone’s eyes.

  I promised myself never to put that look in his eyes again, even if it meant giving him up. I knew he would hate me, but I could deal with his hatred if it meant he lived. I knew now I meant everything to him, and he was trying not to frighten me with the intensity of his feelings. He was practically begging me not to end us.

  But I needed to end this disease that was our love because it was eating at us both. He had to see reason. He had to let me go.

  So I said, “I don’t need your protection. Fear him… please there is nothing to fear. I don’t remember how, but I know I took care of him. He can only torment me in my dreams. A small price to pay for both our safety. Now I’ve come to realize, I don’t need you. I’ve learned how to survive. I’m not the fragile girl you fell in love with.”

  Chapter 8: Lick Away my Tears While I Carve out Your Heart

  “There is absolutely no reason for you to keep me trapped here.”

  “You think I don’t see right through you, foolish girl. You are afraid, Eva. No one is leaving here, at least not until I find him and kill him.”

  “You are wasting our lives, waiting… fearing a ghost!”

  He stiffens, his whole body goes hard, and I immediately regret my words.

  “He found you before! Waited patiently while we deluded ourselves thinking you were safe. I’ll make sure he doesn’t find you again. I get it… you want to hate me, but when are you going to face us? Don’t you see that no matter how much you try to deny us, I won’t let you… you can’t be rid of me. I’m under your skin, and I’m not leaving ever. Not now, not when you’re cured of this bloodlust, and definitely not while you still want me… here,” he said pointing to his heart. “Not ever Eva, and I will continue to enter your room when I know you’re distressed because if having my blood while you’re drinking your fill of me will keep you alive than it’s yours. Fuck Eva, I’m yours!”

  He put that image in my mind and it took everything I had not to go over to him. I was so thirsty for him. I wanted him. Through all this pain, I still wanted him. He needed to take me back… he did say he was taking me back... please he can’t keep me here.

  Thirty feet to my left there was a natural pool. I walked there and tested the temperature with the tips of my toes carefully dipping them in while I squatted with one leg. It was deliciously warm, it beckoned me.

  “It’s very deep, you can reach the center of the earth, deep,” he rumbled. I looked at him over my shoulder. His look was turning dangerous, he intended to have me very soon. I needed to get lost in something other than him. I took a step back remembering the pool, where I can lose myself tonight, I thought.

  I couldn't pull my eyes away from how erotic his body looked. His impressively, beautifully sculpted and oh so deliciously defined body. His perfect skin showcased broad shoulders and thick long muscular thighs. I felt the need to have him deep within myself… anchoring myself on those thighs, and too quickly I recalled how he looked straining over me… I wanted to give in so bad.

  He knew what he did to me because as my eyes traveled his body, he tightened his body leaning back on his elbows. He wanted me to come to him.

  So I looked him dead in the eyes when I said, “You’re wrong, you know. We can’t be together… I do hate you and I hate myself! For God’s sake, most of the time I don’t even recognize who I am, and I can’t stand to look at either one of us,” I said raising my voice.

  I turned and dived into the endless deep sapphire blue of the water hoping it would wash away my desire for him. Hoping I would be able to deceive him by running away without having to look at what I had wanted all along. What I was forcing myself to give up.

  I swam into the abyss- searching, learning this place he had discovered and noticed an opening in the rocks. Without thinking it through, I swam into the opening knowing that one day he would keep me here… an intuition of sorts giving rise to feeling- the need to find an exit to this place.

  This tunnel I’m passing through seems to be getting narrower making me panic as I quickly try to come up for air. I hit my head on more rock wall and begin seeing white spots behind my lids when I feel his hands grab me- pulling me deeper with him. Suddenly, I taste his bloodied wrist shoved in my mouth as I feel him swim against the currents of a nearby waterfall. His chest is at my back with one arm holding my waist while his legs worked to get us afloat.

  When we surface, I see we are in a natural pool which lies some fifty yards away from the main 130’ chute of the waterfall. We are on a lower level pool with smaller waterfalls about five feet high all around us. It is breathtakingly beautiful. In awe, I realize I don’t want to leave. The dams are made of travertine formation
s with the water having a beautiful turquoise color.

  My eyes lower to find his gaze. He’s been watching me inspect the falls, his hands stroking me. “How long have you known about this place, and why haven’t you shown me before?” I ask.

  “Because if I brought you here, it would be as a last resort- everyone above lives blind to this place. I want you to come here, find it, if you ever need to find safety. Remember it lies underneath the property. There are cave openings throughout the grounds. Listen and follow the sound of water. It’s enchanted and it will only allow us to enter it. Others will see huge barrier rocks that will obstruct passage. I can show you because of your recent behavior… you now see we are not like the others.”

  “Do you sleep here?”

  “There was a time I did- when your dreams weren’t as regular. I would imagine us like this in this swimming hole. Making love here.”

  “Have you ever wanted to bring someone else here?” I asked breathless while holding on to his shoulders, and gently kicking my legs moving the water around his hips.

  “Just you Eva, it will always just be you.”

  “How long can we stay here before they notice,” I whisper.

  “Long enough for you to give yourself to me… till sunrise.”

  “What are we?”

  “Not as different as we used to be,” he says as his hands close in on my thighs and he seats me against his lower chest.

  “What is that supposed to mean? You keep everything from me, yet you expect me to give in to you, to let you seduce me?”

  “Be honest with yourself baby; don’t you want me to seduce you, isn’t it what you’ve always wanted?” He spoke into my mouth before he licked my partially opened lips.

  “What I want is to drink you so bad Darius, it’s driving me mad… you so close, the beating of your heart, and your blood running so fiercely underneath your skin. You’re in danger when you’re so close.”

  “Drink me then, I DARE you to.” There was raw hunger in his eyes as he said those words. I realize we are both entering a point of no return. I feel it.

  He takes us closer to the walls where there are huge blocks similar to steps only much bigger, and he lifts me sitting me down on one.

  I lean back on my elbows looking up at what has to be one the many beauties of the cave. Looking almost like a night sky, but instead of stars there are moisture drops falling from rocky cones. I hear the water falling from his skin as he rises on his palms, my eyes follow, and I see him completely naked rising out of the water. He is so aroused that warning bells sound off in my head as he places himself between my thighs. Ignoring everything but him, I lift my legs off the rock to trap him in.

  My nipples harden as I watch him looking at the wet transparent material against my breasts. “You presume I will let you make love to me when I just said I wouldn’t.”

  “I thought you changed your mind with the way you were staring at my dick.”

  “You don’t have to be so crude. I happen to think there is no way you will fit.”

  He smiles and it’s all I can do not to melt in his arms. “You can take me baby… you were made to take me. Don’t ever let anyone tell you differently.”

  I smile gasping at the feel of his warm exquisite skin against mine.

  “I do want to. I even think it’s inevitable… like it was meant to happen all along, but if we’re going to do this I want you underneath me. I want to be in control of how much of you fits, when, and the pace.”

  Quickly he turns us as my hands shoot out against the rock surface, and I lay crouched over him. He closes his eye, his neck strains revealing what I’ve wanted.

  “Do it, Eva- taste me.”

  My lips lower licking over the pulsating vein on the side of his neck. He groans hips moving even though I am on his stomach, he can’t help showing me- what I’ve wanted all along, his voice whispers in my head.

  “Open your eyes,” I demand.

  “They’ll scare you. I won’t be able to stop. I want you too fucking much.”

  “Open them, they’re beautiful… your beauty is what frightens me most… I want to possess it- to own you.” I encourage him.

  He opens them automatically, and everything around us is cast with a luminous glow. I moan with my lips over his neck. I am taken by a hunger so primitive just because of the exquisite taste of his wet skin and drink him in. His blood flows down my throat as I feel him at my back ripping my camisole. His hands travel the sides of my breasts feeling them as he grunts with pleasure and pain. My need to drink all of him becomes so fierce, his blood so powerful, my hands bleed against the rocks. I am trying not to lose control. I release him suddenly arching my back while I lick his blood from my lips and throw my head back in ecstasy. I think I can come just from the sensations I’m feeling while rocking on his stomach wanting him. I feel my soaking hair at my butt and on his stomach. His hands grab my waist as he fits me over his erection.

  My hands push against his stomach, lifting me, as my face comes down, and I bite him on his nipple. He is groaning uncontrollably.

  “Can you take what I will become, my dark needs?” I demand more than ask.

  “Yes,” he moans, “can take anything you want. I am willing to give you anything you need, Eva.”

  I think I bring him close to release, with my name on his lips, by just feeling me while I drink him. I feel him in my mind, but this time he is sharing his thoughts with me. He’s trying not to lose control. It is all he thinks. But my blunt teeth bring him such a strong combination of pain and pleasure he knows he needs to be inside me soon, or he will come all over my panties. He doesn’t want it like this he wants to be hilt deep inside of me when he comes.

  “Eva!” He shouts.

  I laugh as I lick the blood from his nipple and open my thighs wider as I lower my body just a fraction on his erection. He is so thick… too thick making me tremble over him.

  My knees are supporting me against the rock- holding me over him when his hands come to my opening and hook on my panties to slide them out of the way. “Eva now, it needs to be now!” I hear the panties start to rip when I lift away from him, and bite him on a vein running under his belly button.

  He yells, “Eva, Fuck baby… yes!” as I feel hot come fall on my neck.

  And I drink while he continues to come as my breasts rub against him. I continue drinking… even when I feel his heart slowing… he is still so hard. He moans incoherently, and I drink more.

  All I could do is drink, fuck… I should stop, but I think I am coming from the pleasure of drinking him a breath away from death. I push away from him as I tremble and fall back into the pool.

  I let the pool swallow me in and leave him, there… dying.

  One moment I was drinking him the next I’m in the elevator making my way up to my room.

  I look at my reflection and for the life of me I don’t recognize the monster staring back. My eyes usually a true light blue are completely black. I am naked and beautiful in a frightening way. I want more, but there isn’t any- I took all he had. I want more power, more blood, but most of all I want Eros. He can give for hours.

  I go crazy in the elevator with the realization. I think I barely made it to my floor because the elevator walls are caved in.

  When the screeching doors try to open I punch, tear, and kick my way out. I hear him… his laughter, his need, and desire- it excites me. I’m coming for you, he promises.

  Where are you? My mind begs, I need you- My King.

  Did you kill him?

  Yes, I did as you asked.

  I open and shut my door walking into the bathroom as I prepare my bath with the tuberose oil.

  I need to wash Darius away if Eros is coming for me.

  I will not let thoughts, or doubts of Darius enter my mind. Soon I will be reunited with my king… it is all that matters.

  Tell me where you are!

  I can’t he kept it hidden from me.

  I enter the bath and lo
se myself to the smell, the feel of the water. And soon Eros is gone too.

  I awaken as I feel arms wrap around me and carry me to the bed. I am too weak to gather who it is and think it’s probably Kimmy- I’m just too tired and know if not for her I would have probably drowned in the tub.

  I dream of him, lying in our bed. I dream of us being happy and making love. I see his face in the final throws of passion, it is branded there- forever behind my lids. He is so beautiful, his shining bright eyes covering my body with their blue light. I dream of discovering every inch of the body I would never get to feel inside of me. Darius, I warned you to stay away.

  Let it all be a terrible nightmare. Yes… he lies next to me. Nothing’s happened. It was all a terrible, horrific dream. I feel Darius’s warmth, he’s holding me against him, flesh to flesh.

  We are both naked. He’s moving over me, covering me. I need to get away. I don’t want to dream of killing him again.

  Chapter 9: Are you Ready for Me Because I’m Coming for You

  “No… no, no! I won’t lose control... not this time!”

  “Emma wake up,” someone is shaking me, “wake up baby, you’re dreaming.” I open my eyes to see Darius yelling in my face.

  Tears are falling down my face over his hands. “You’re not real... you’re dead, I killed you.” He was pulling me up by my arms, sitting me on the bed. The sheets are tangled between our naked bodies.

  “No baby, I’m here in your bed. Nothing’s happened to me.”

  “I killed you! I drank from you until your heart stopped. Until you no longer breathed. I wanted to drink more. I wanted there to be so much more- I’m imagining you warm… wanting you with me now with so much more to offer me.”

  “Don’t you worry baby, I found you. I have you… I can give you all that you need and more. I can satisfy all your needs.”

  “My eyes… Darius what color are my eyes now?”

  “Blue Angel, your eyes are the loveliest of blues I will ever see.”