My head whips up, causing Vudu’s head to snap back too, and relief explodes out of me when I see his eyes open.
“Vudu!”
His body pulls against mine, and a shudder goes through me as my power and blood start to really answer his need. I feel like he just hooked up a dozen straws to me and he’s sucking me down, and my body is ready and willing to give him whatever he needs to heal.
“He...alright?” I hear Toreon strain to say, but I can’t answer. This connection with Vudu is all-consuming.
I hear my sisters walk over to check on Toreon while I lean in closer to Vudu, watching with ecstatic joy as his paled face begins to slowly come back to his healthy, gray coloring. This close to him, our faces only inches apart, I can appreciate the details of his handsomeness. Utterly different from anything else I’ve ever seen, and maybe scary to some people, but not to me.
To me, his bat wings, large body, red eyes, and his heavy brow, are intriguing pieces of his shell. They guard a giant heart, a fiercely loyal soul, and the tender affection I feel budding between us as my essence works to restore his.
“V?” Toreon calls shakily.
Vudu parts his lips to answer, except it’s a groan that comes out. But...it’s not the groan of a dying demon. Nope, this one is full of heat.
With his red magic still pulling from me, demanding more and more with each pulse, my eyes flare wide when familiar heat spreads through my body. Now, instead of just my palms and arms, that warmth has traveled down, down, down to the apex of my thighs.
I swallow hard, my eyes not leaving Vudu’s, and his not leaving mine. “Forgot to warn you about this,” I say with a breathless chuckle.
I should move. I should definitely get off him before the mating magic consumes us and I forget the dire situation we’re currently in.
Except I don’t move. I don’t know if I have the willpower.
My head is fuzzy as his body continues to sip from mine, but I don’t care. I’m too enraptured in this moment, the connection so ambrosial that I can’t make myself pull away.
“Sable.” The way he says my name in his sexy-as-sin, roughshod, gravelly tone makes a whimper slip out of me. “Little mate, that’s enough,” he tells me.
“Not nearly enough,” I counter as I lean forward and meld my mouth with his in a needy kiss.
This time when he groans, I taste it. I feel it. Revel in it and in the hot, slippery swipe of our tongues as they meet. Everywhere we connect, we become red-hot, and I don’t care how much blood and power he’s taking from me, I’m just so damn grateful that he’s alive, that he’s here, that we’re kissing like this. Because in our kiss? There’s no doubt of the bond already laid like tracks between us. Our bodies sing to each other in a harmony only we can hear.
“V.”
I tilt my head, making it easier for Vudu to go deeper, for our tongues to tie further, as Vudu’s hands come up to grip my hips and hold me closer. His body is drinking slower from me now, his wounds healing and his power restored, but his hunger is now for something else. Something carnal.
“Vudu.” The voice calls.
My pelvis rocks against his strong, large thigh, rock hard with muscle and giving me the most amazing pressure in all the right places. I want to come. I need it. I need him, right here, right now, and—
“VUDU!”
I’m suddenly wrenched away, the power pull and crazy mating horniness cut like a string, and I go falling back, only for a pair of strong hands to catch me.
I blink up blearily at Toreon, trying to regain my head, but I’m amazed and a little embarrassed at how long it takes. Toreon is clutching me against his chest, no longer showing any hints of pain, and his coloring is back.
His golden eyes look down at me softly. “Sorry to interrupt,” he says dryly as he reaches up and tucks a piece of hair behind my ear. My cheeks flush a little, but I’m not nearly as embarrassed as I probably should be, because I’m just too damn relieved that they’re both okay. I’ll worry about my almost wanting to ride Vudu in front of everyone later.