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

by Spade, Harnet

  He opens me to him, pushing my cheeks apart… “You’re so fucking beautiful in your need for me, Eva.” He exhales right before I feel him licking me, entering me with his tongue. I pulse as I try to crawl away, but his claws dig into me, and I can’t move. He’s licking me fiercely, starved… and I can’t help but scream against my forearm, biting myself. My whole body shivers as I start to move against his mouth wanting him deeper. He nuzzles against me, groaning loudly as it vibrates through me. I scream over and over into my arm, reaching my climax. Needing to climax with him, I quickly turn as his claws retract and he stretches elongating his body. His lips are flushed covered with my fluid, and I think I’ve never seen a sexier sight.

  “Lean back on your hands,” I hoarsely demand.

  He does as I say, and I lower my lips on his shaft. I run my tongue smoothly down his length as he grips my hair, groaning feverishly. I continue to run it all over his length then right back up his head licking at the drops, savoring when he throws his head back and says, “Eva… please don’t ever leave me baby.”

  I look up at him knowing what Eros has done, and I know I don’t have much time with him. It shatters me to hear him beg. I know he’s using this out of a last resort because I know I’ll be the first and last person to ever hear this man beg. “Shh… baby,” I say easing his pain, “I’ll come back to you, I promise… I always do.”

  A preview from Savage Awakening (Book 2) in the Blood Thirst Series.

  Introduction: Breaking Free From Fear

  I’ve run away from this moment so many times, yet now watching Darius surrender to me… in this moment there is nothing I want more than to be his. He’s told me not to leave him… but very soon there will be no stopping me. Not my love for him, or even the enchantment he has placed on this cave to keep me trapped here.

  He’s lied about everything, and all I can think is- I don’t care… I just want to give myself to him. He’s magnificent, and he wants me. I’m not sure what he is because like everything else, he’s kept it from me.

  None of it matters. Nothing does but the two of us.

  He encircles my waist within his arm and reaches out for me, burying his other hand in my hair, “Come to me baby, give me all the reason I’ll ever need in this fucked up world,” fangs extending about to pierce my neck when it happens.

  I feel the heavy weight of the cold metal sink against my neck as his lips are about to claim me when the collar and beast appear within the alcove.

  My heart stutters, I temporary lose my mind, and my attention quickly shifts to find Eros.

  He doesn’t have Eros’s appearance, looking more beast than anything else. His silver eyes find me first, see me naked from my waist down, and focus on the blood stains running from the two puncture wounds on my neck. I see severe pain reflect in his eyes… I don’t hide myself from him because I can’t try to pretend the love I feel for Darius is not real.

  “No… I’m not going… I love him.” I hold on to Darius with everything I have, unashamed for admitting so much. I hope, knowing in my soul it is in vain, this is reason enough for him to leave us.

  I now find Darius’s body is all over mine, his skin blankets… engulfing mine. I’m on the ground completely immobile and covered. There is no place I can possibly go with all his massive weight on me and his rigid forearm held tight against my throat… keeping me down, growling his warning for me not to move.

  His face is turned from me… with all his fury directed at Eros.

  My arms rise from underneath him, and I try tearing off the collar responsible for keeping Eros here because I don’t want him seeing me like this, the moment is reserved for Darius and I alone- Eros has no right being here. I feel the biting chill of the metal collar digging into my skin, while I’m trying to tear it off, making me bleed as I watch Eros watching me in my desperation.

  I’m surprised to see no hate in his eyes. I don’t understand how Darius says this beast could be Eros… because the Eros I know and fear would have tried to kill us both by now.

  He must read the surprise in my eyes because he explains, “You are young in your infinite years and a newly turned breed. You… love the blood and would lust after anyone strong enough to give it without end. It is the power within the blood you love, Emma.” Eros says pointing at Darius with the promise of death in his eyes.

  “He uses your greatest weakness, your hunger, to trap you.” Eros hisses.

  My hands let go of the collar.

  Darius straightens his body, kneeling over me first, but quickly taking a fighting stance a couple of feet closer to Eros. He challenges him… waiting for Eros to make the first move.

  I stand, not sure if I should be fighting by Darius’s side, or seeking to find my way out.

  “Eva, go now! He wishes to confuse you… to turn your love for me into hate. He knows this is his only chance to win your love.” Darius hisses over his shoulder stepping back, pushing his body against mine to keep me as far away from Eros as possible.

  “I never knew you to be a coward, Darius. Tell her why you have kept her hidden.” He looks to me behind Darius, “He is too aware of your thirst for me, has kept controlling you by leaving you no choice for whose blood you truly desire… Mine!”

  I think this happens too often- this is Eros behavior, always finding Darius and I when we are weak with desire for each other. Suddenly, I’m against the rock wall, and Darius is before me covering me with his naked body while facing Eros –then he lunges for him. Eros is unprepared for the onslaught, momentarily taken down.

  They wrestle on the ground while I beg them to stop. I can’t look at either one of them because there is so much blood and it’s causing a fevered hunger within me, I have to get them to stop… I can’t control the pangs of hunger for long.

  Darius looks to me with doubt filled eyes, claws Eros’s chest making me feel unbearable pain, “No, please don’t,” I scream panicked as he separates himself from Eros and draws closer to me.

  “It’s okay stay with me, look at me, and think of our love… don’t let the hunger control you.” We are staring at one another, the pain momentarily stuns me making me forget about my hunger long enough for him to reach me. I’m staring at their mixed blood on his skin… and think, just a taste- what would it feel… to have them both in my mouth. Darius is furious, and Eros smiles, “She can’t help what she is.”

  I try to tune out their scents and hamper down my rising panic from the fear of losing control. I nod letting him know I’m better although I’m barely hanging on.

  Eros is watching, studying us… he is so focused on getting to me, all he cares about is what he knows we’ve been doing in this cave, what he’s stopped us from doing. I see it in the intensity of his stare. He knows Darius hasn’t taken me yet, and he wishes to stop it from ever happening.

  His eyes search mine, scrutinizing everything about me, my reactions- what he’s interrupted. I’m immobile, like he has some power over me, while he examines my mind and sees everything that’s happened since he left me lying on the ground with barely a breath left in my body. He takes comfort in the knowledge that I’ve tried to escape Darius going to extreme lengths, even killing him, but he can’t believe I have broken my promises to him.

  I see the pain evident in his features, and I realize this time he’s different. There’s a selfless kind of love… it confuses me, shocks me still- holding in my breath, turning my world… me inside out. He is a completely different person. I don’t want either of their pain. And more importantly, I will never move beyond the pain he’s caused me to feel.

  “Please stop! Please don’t.” I scream.

  My mind reacts involuntarily and reaches to Eros because deep within I know there is no reasoning with Darius when Eros is so close. I could have loved you, been happy loving you if you’d somehow been like this, but you hurt me from the very beginning- too deeply. He catches it before I can suppress the thought. His eyes flash with longing and purpose, so I quickly add, “
You’d be wise to let us go, it’s too late- I love him.”

  He shakes his head disapprovingly, and returns his hate filled stare to Darius who is an impenetrable wall in front of me.

  I find myself in Eros’s mind again, and feel how he’s waited for the spell to work… waiting for us to be reunited. He wants to take me from here, but not by force. He felt this time everything would be different… believed in the promises I whispered to him while we were surrounded by night, under the stars, wanting each other.

  He felt I would now crave him… and no amount of seduction from Darius would change the undeniable hunger I’d felt for him in the few moments we collided.

  A momentary lapse of judgment, we collided, but I’ve moved on, so should you. I will always love him.

  About The Author Harnet Spade:

  She’s been reading and losing herself in romance novels since the age of thirteen. Graduated from The University of Miami with a bachelor's Degree in English and Criminology. Attended law school for two years before realizing her passion was in writing paranormal romance. She is happily married since the age of nineteen to the only man who has been able to capture her heart and has two teenage daughters who everyone confuses for her sisters. She lives in a corner of paradise called Miami, Florida. And truly is an advocate of having your own happy ending, no matter the hardships life may throw your way remember to never lose sight of your dreams.

  Blood Thirst Series:

  Taken by The Hunger (BK 1) On Sale Now

  Savage Awakening (BK 2)

  Contact the Author through email for upcoming new releases: harnetspade@yahoo.com and please title the email -Blood Thirst.