She shivered with every press of his lips as her gaze roamed over the façade of his French country home. “Your house is beautiful. Do you always bring clients here?”
“Never.”
Melanie’s breath hitched and she deprived him of the warmth of her hand. Protectively she crossed her arms and held herself like Alec wanted to be holding her. “Is there a reason I’m special?”
He wanted to tell her the truth but being told you were meant to love somebody was worlds apart from feeling that love. Tonight and tomorrow he and Rook would show her so much love she’d have to believe.
“Let’s just say Rook and I’ve been ready to change things up for a long time.” Alec slipped his hands into his pockets to keep from touching her again so soon. “You’ve provided us with the opportunity to do that.”
“And do you and Rook usually tag team your clients like this or is that a change-up too?”
He smirked “You make it sound like we’re professional wrestlers. Does it count that I sometimes want to put Rook in a chokehold?”
Melanie’s shy smile gave him a preview of her dimples.
Alec didn’t want to talk about anybody who had come before her. He didn’t want her to think she was just another woman in a long line of many. She was the only one who would matter ever again.
“You have questions, I know, and I’m sure this is overwhelming.” Alec searched her face, resisting the pull of her lips, still swollen from Rook’s kisses as he listened to the seductive beat of her heart pounding. “Just don’t be scared. I won’t do anything you don’t want me to do.”
She nodded and he was glad to see her posture relax some. The last thing he wanted was her to be uncomfortable around him.
“I’m sure this isn’t what you expected when you walked into Empriva Fitness.”
“Nah.” A fake bravado masked her insecurity. “I totally expected horny, fat-sucking vampires to be the secret to guaranteed weight loss.”
Laughter bubbled up from deep within his chest. “That’s funny. Not completely true but funny.” The horny part, however, she had right. “When we bite an enzyme is released that speeds up your metabolism and collagen production. The longer the feeding the more that’s released. I take it Rook didn’t waste much time with explanations.”
“We didn’t exactly have an informative Q&A. He kind of just flashed some fang and before I could even get over the shock of it he went all aromatic on me.” Melanie touched her neck and cleared her throat. “Not that I didn’t enjoy the experience but I prefer to keep my wits about me.”
She must have been frightened. Rook wouldn’t have used his scent otherwise. All vampires had the ability to emit an aroma that calmed—for lack of a better word—their prey. Submitted to the scent long enough, a person could forget the entire feeding incident. It was one way vampires survived undetected.
“I promise that your wits are safe with me.”
Her body? Well that was in deep trouble. Alec’s gaze dipped to her lush breasts peeking out from underneath the plunging v-neck sweater that hugged her body perfectly. Decades came and went but his preference for full, soft breasts always stayed the same. He planned on getting to know them intimately soon.
“Good, because I want to be clear.” Melanie shifted on her feet and the moonlight glinted off her eyes. “You two don’t have to play the whole romance thing up with me. Or give me lusty looks. I get it. This is a business transaction. I’ve hired you to help me lose weight. I don’t need handholding or flirty words. I think it best if we look at the whole scenario as a very progressive way of exercising.”
Exercise would be a very good word to describe the long hours of lovemaking he planned to encourage her to do. Alec swept her into his arms and Melanie went wide-eyed. She was a wonderful, solid weight cradled against his chest.
“Put me down. I’m too—”
“The romance isn’t part of the program and I couldn’t do a damn thing about the lusty looks if I tried. And the whole weight thing—we’ll argue about that tomorrow.” Alec closed his mouth on hers, silencing any further protests.
She was tense at first and then her lips softened and he caressed the seam with his tongue, coaxing her to open. He channeled every bit of heat she stirred within him into the kiss, pushing his tongue deeper and gorging on her taste.
She melted with a whimper, her body recognizing what her business-minded rationale fought to deny. Attraction so bone-deep it was part of who they were.
Alec groaned low and gritty, fighting his urge to nip and suck because she tasted as good as she smelled—like returning home after a long journey, like comfort. Fuck it. Rook had been right. She smelled like forever and that was what he wanted with her.
With fevered steps he carried her into the warmth of his house, slamming the front door with a kick. He dropped her feet to the floor, spun Melanie around and corralled her against the etched glass of the door.
Maybe he’d take her here standing up and leave the imprints of her delectable ass on the glass. Wouldn’t that make a nice welcome for Rook later?
“Your heart’s all a-flutter again.” He buried his mouth against the sensitive skin of her neck, torturing himself with temptation. Little bumps of pleasure exploded across her skin. Slowly he licked her pulse, making his own jump. “But something tells me it’s not because you’re scared.”
“I’m terrified. I shouldn’t be doing this but don’t stop. Losing weight never felt this good,” Melanie gasped, wrapping her arms around him and digging her fingers into his back. “You promise this won’t make me a vampire? I don’t want to be stuck with this butt forever.”
Women were all the same. They hated those things men loved most about them. Alec slid his hands down her sides, cupped handfuls of plump ass and squeezed. “I can’t turn you into a vampire, I promise. But I can turn you over my knee and show you just how much my hands and I like this ass of yours. Would you like that?”
Her tremble and whimper said it all. Alec swooped in for another kiss, sucking on her bottom lip. His body hummed with life, charged by desire. Every time he touched her skin, sizzling heat awakened his body. Frantically he ripped his shirt up over his head.
“I want you naked now. I want to touch every inch of your addicting skin.” He didn’t wait for permission. With a tug he pulled her sweater off, urgently running his hands across her lace-covered breasts and soft, trembling stomach.
He knelt and whisked down her skirt, his hands skimming the supple brown leather of her sexy high-heeled boots. “But these,” Alec squeezed her calves before running his palms up the back of her legs. “These are staying.”
Without clothes, her curves were even more pronounced and Alec looked up at her, eager to map her with his mouth. He didn’t know which way to go first, every direction beckoned him.
Alec kissed her thighs and hips. He slipped his tongue along the seam of her panties already wet and fragrant with her excitement. The pink lace barrier had to go and he hooked his fingers under the waistband, slowly guiding them down her shapely legs.
She tried to hide from him. Melanie pressed her thighs together and slipped her hand over the neat patch of hair just a shade darker than that on her head.
Her modesty was such a turn-on but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t love bringing out the naughty girl in her. Someday he’d have her wearing short skirts with nothing underneath and unabashedly bending over for him. And then he’d have to spank her for misbehaving just like he wanted her to.
“Since you’re so keen on getting in my way, the least you can do is help me out while you’re down here.” He gazed up from her hand into her downcast eyes. “Spread your pretty pink lips for me, Melanie.”
“You don’t have to do that,” she said on a shaky breath, turning her head and tugging at her bottom lip with her teeth.
“Yes I do. You don’t know how delicious your scent is.” Alec kissed her unyielding hand and skimmed his hands up to the curve in her waist. “I want you to open
for me.” He dipped the tip of his tongue between her fingers. “Let me have a taste.”
Her pause was agonizing but finally Melanie spread her fingers, pulling back her folds and exposing her moist, swollen flesh. Alec couldn’t control his animalistic groan of appreciation. Hunger consumed him, clawed at him from the inside out. He licked her sweet pussy deep and long, spiraling his tongue around the sensitive swell of her clit.
She shuddered and shook with each pass of his tongue as he grasped her tighter. Her fingers locked in his hair in a useless attempt to hold him back. He sank deeper between her quivering thighs, reveling in her delicate flavor and the feel of her flesh slipping under his tongue. The thought of tasting her release, drinking it down, caused an uncustomary tremble to rack his muscles.
His dick throbbed with selfish need. Tonight, when he made her come for the first time, he’d be buried deep within her body. Alec tore his mouth away, shot up and slowly worked one finger inside her slick cunt.
“Oh…oh, yes. That’s what I wanted, what I needed.” Her hips bucked against his hand with each thrust as she gyrated in a shameless display of arousal. “Just. Like. That.”
Fuck. He liked a woman who knew how to let go. Her cries of pleasure sent a rush of lust to his groin.
“That’s not all you want is it?” He kissed her chin and licked the line of her jaw, added a second finger to stretch her wider. “Not just my fingers? Don’t you want something else to fill this lovely tight pussy of yours?”
“Mmm-hmm,” she hummed against his mouth. Melanie ran her nails down his chest and kept moving south until she reached the swell of his erection bursting to break free from his jeans. She rubbed him mercilessly.
His body seized. Alec fucked her with his fingers one last time, relishing the sharp intake of her breath and then he ripped every last piece of clothes from their bodies. He fell upon her breasts, kneading them, sucking on them and flicking his tongue across one erect nipple then the other.
“Harder, Alec. Suck harder!”
He obliged. Her pleas made his gums burn and he wanted to pierce the pale pink puckered skin of her areolas.
Lightning shot through his body and tightened his balls when Melanie’s hand wrapped around his erection. Their eyes locked and lightning struck again. Her skin burned red and the thought of her blood rushing to the surface was an enticement hard to ignore.
Alec had been told that when he found the right match it would be like this but now that she was here in his arms, he realized nothing could have prepared him for how strong the connection would be.
The bedroom was too far away, his need too urgent. He grabbed her around the waist and mashed his mouth against hers. Alec navigated through furniture until he reached the warmth of the fireplace. Ripping a plush blanket off a nearby chair, he threw it on the floor and then eased her down. She was trapped beneath him. His cock rubbed against her skin and he nearly convulsed.
Heat pooled low in his body and burned hotter when Melanie spread her legs willingly. Alec settled his hips between her yielding thighs and pushed up her knees.
“What about protection?” she asked, barely able to hold onto a breath. “I’m on birth control, but you must have been with a lot—”
“Trust me. I would never put you at risk and I can’t get you pregnant.” If she agreed to be his lifemate and he became human again, that would change.
The doubt shadowing her face slipped away. So did his self-control.
Alec thrust into her tight body. “Fuck.” He milked the word for all it was worth, drawing it out. With long, slow strides he took his time working in and out, letting her stretch, getting control of his urge to pound her into the floor. There’d be time for that soon enough.
“This is—oh, my God.” Melanie dug her hands deep into his skin, pinching muscles. Her thighs hugged the sides of his body and her boots rubbed against him. “This is—”
“Amazing.” The word didn’t even begin to describe the pleasure he felt. Alec rested the length of his body over hers and concentrated on her high heels biting into his ass so he wouldn’t come. He pumped harder, desperate to get closer as the moist sound of their bodies slapping together fueled his demanding pace.
“I want all of you inside me.” She nipped at his ear and it made him wild, made him want to sink his teeth into her too. “Bite me, please bite me,” she begged. “I need you too. Take my blood.”
Alec’s fangs punched through his gums. He groaned out his frustration. This wasn’t how tonight was supposed to go. A second bite would send her to sleep for hours. The evening he and Rook had planned for her would be lost.
But who was he to deny his lifemate anything? The way she pleaded wore down his resolve and played at his weakness for her. She might not know why she craved his bite but her body instinctively recognized that he was her match.
He pulled away from her soft warmth and let his aggressive side take over. Alec wedged his arm underneath her, flipped her onto her stomach and smacked her ass hard enough to leave it red. “Put that ass up, Melanie.” He grabbed her hips and tugged. “And I’ll give you what you want.” What I want.
On her knees, she arched her back invitingly and he aligned himself with her moist folds. She had the kind of ass a vampire wanted to sink his teeth into. He pinched her flesh hard enough to make her squirm.
“I’m gonna take you hard and fast. Bury my cock and fangs so deep you won’t know where I end and you begin.” He ran his hand up along the seductive slope of her spine, wound his hand in her hair and pulled. “Do you want that?”
“More than anything,” she gasped.
Alec rammed into her slick pussy, feeling the same urgency Melanie voiced. Damn she was tight in this position. So perfect, made for him. He buried his head in her neck and bit down with his next body-jerking thrust, promising himself not to take too much.
She shook and screamed his name like a jolt of electricity had ripped through her body. Blood seeped into his mouth, blood sweeter and more addicting than anything he’d tasted before. It coated his tongue and throat while her orgasms drenched his cock.
Pumping over and over, it wasn’t enough. He found her breasts, tweaked her nipples, squeezing them like her inner muscles choked his erection. He could have fed on her richness for hours, but he pulled away, licked the bite.
She sagged underneath him and Alec held tight. He’d never let her go. With one last deep push, he let his dry orgasm overtake him. Again and again his body shuddered with pained relief but she’d find no evidence of his release between her thighs later.
As sexually active as vampires were, nature had seen fit to step in and provide them with built-in birth control.
He eased Melanie down onto the blanket, rolled onto his side and drew her against his chest. Alec paced his breathing to hers, trying to prepare his body for the labors of being fully human again. The process had already begun with the first taste of her blood.
Chapter Three
Melanie stretched her pleasantly sore muscles, rolled onto her side and shimmied backward against a mound of warmth. The bed rocked and she went from the lazy haze of sleepiness to heart-pounding awake in seconds. She opened her eyes and peered over her shoulder.
“You’re awake.” Rook’s spirited eyes glinted back at her in the dim light. He rested his hand against her stomach and pulled her close.
Quickly, she sucked in her tummy. And we’re naked. The realization trapped the air in her lungs, especially when his rock-hard erection cozied up against her backside.
There was so much she didn’t remember from last night but ending up in bed with Rook…she’d have to have amnesia to forget that.
“Where’s Alec?” The memory of his whisker-rough chin buried between her thighs had her squeezing her legs together. No man had ever taken her with such urgent, raw need. Just thinking about it had her body responding like he was still touching her.
“I’m offended.” Rook furrowed his brow and feigned irritation. “Here I a
m, nude, very aroused and in no uncertain terms ready to make this a very good morning for the both of us and you’re asking me about another man.” He shifted his hand higher and caressed her breast underneath the luxurious cream sheets. “I know how you can make it up to me though.”
She ignored the zings of pleasure awakening in her body. “I just want to be sure you didn’t move me in my sleep again like you did last night.” She looked over his shoulder at the long line of heavy curtains taking up one entire wall. A sliver of light slipped through two of the panels. At least she knew it was daytime. “Is this Alec’s bedroom or yours?”
“Clutter drives me crazy, it’s Ale—”
“Is it true vampires burst into flames when exposed to the sun?” Melanie interrupted as she inspected that bit of light again. She had a million questions about vampires. Before her libido muddled up her brain again she was determined to ask a few.
Rook sat up and looked down at her. “Why do you want to know? Are you planning your escape?”
The only thing she needed to run from was this way-too-comfortable feeling. It felt like they’d been in bed together countless times. Melanie gripped the sheet tighter and sat up, trembling when his hand seductively tickled her exposed back.
“I can leave whenever I want, right?” She scooted back against the headboard of the four-poster bed, nowhere near ready to leave. “I don’t remember the contract stating anything about me being kept against my will? I do have a living to make, you know. You guys aren’t cheap.”
“There was a kidnapping clause in itty-bitty letters at the bottom of page four.” He winked. “I can’t believe you missed it.”
Her shoulders slumped and she abandoned sucking in her belly. “I haven’t had my morning dosage of caffeine yet. Could you please give me a straight answer? I need at least two cups of coffee before I can be expected to banter.”
Rook treated her to his dazzling, fang-free smile as he leaned in and with a breathy laugh gave her a quick kiss on her lips.
Who needed caffeine when you had a man who could kiss like this? His lips had only touched hers for seconds and she’d be feeling the heat for hours. Not to mention the way it tugged on her emotions. Do not fall for him. Do not fall for him.
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