His eyes flashed and he held his position for a split second.
Then he lunged at her, taking her down onto the bed. His tongue shot into her mouth and his hands tangled in her hair, pulling on her, arching her, trapping her head. The hunger in him was ferocious, a warrior's thick-blooded need for sex. He was going to take her with all the strength he had, and she was going to be sore when he was through using her. Sore and utterly blissed out. She couldn't wait.
Suddenly, he stopped and pulled back from her mouth. He was breathing deeply and had a flush on his cheeks as he looked her in the eye.
And then he smiled at her.
She was so surprised she didn't know what to do. She'd never seen that expression on his face before, and the lift in his mouth did away with the distortion in his upper lip, showing off his gleaming teeth and fangs.
"I like this," he said. "You underneath me... You feel good. You're soft and warm. Do I weigh too much?
Here, let me..."
As he propped himself up on his arms, his arousal pressed into her core and his grin faded quick as a gasp. It was as if he didn't like the sensation, but how could that be? He was aroused. She could feel his erection.
With a lithe move he repositioned himself so her legs were closed and his knees were on either side of them.
She couldn't guess what had happened, but wherever he'd gone in his head was not a good place.
"You're perfect on top of me," she said to distract him. "Except for one thing."
"What?"
"You've stopped. And lose the shorts."
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His weight came down on her immediately and his mouth went to the side of her neck. As he nipped at her skin, she pushed her head back into the pillow and bared the column of her throat. Gripping the back of his head, she urged him against her vein.
"Oh, yes..." she moaned, wanting him to feed.
He made a noise that was a no, but before the rejection could ripple through her, he was kissing his way down to her collarbone.
"I want to latch onto your breast," he said against her skin.
"Do it."
"You need to know something first."
"What?"
He lifted his head. "The night you came here... when I bathed you? I did my best not to look at you. I really did. I covered you with a towel even though you were in the water."
"That was kind-"
"But when I took you out... I saw these." His hand captured one of her breasts. "I couldn't help it. I swear. I tried to allow you your modesty, but you were... I couldn't stop my eyes. Your nipple was tight from the chill of the air. So small and pink. Lovely."
He moved his thumb back and forth across her hard tip, scrambling her mind.
"It's all right," she mumbled.
"It wasn't. You were defenseless and I was wrong to look at you."
"No, you-"
He shifted, and his erection pressed into the top of her thighs. "This happened."
"What hap-Oh, you got aroused?"
His mouth tightened. "Yeah. I couldn't stop it."
She smiled a little. "But you didn't do anything, right?"
"No."
"So it's okay." She arched her back and watched as his eyes clung to her breasts. "Kiss me, Zsadist. Right where you're looking. Right now."
His lips parted, and his tongue led the way as he dipped down. His mouth was warm on her flesh, and so very tentative, kissing, then sucking her nipple inside. He tugged, then ran a languid circle around her, then drew her in again... and all the while his hands stroked her waist and her hips and her legs.
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How ironic that he'd worried he wouldn't be gentle. Far from brutal, he was positively reverent as he suckled, his lashes down against his cheek as he savored her, his face worshipful and rapt.
"Christ," he murmured, moving to her other breast. "I had no idea it would be like this."
"How... so?" Oh, God... His mouth...
"I could tongue you forever."
She grasped his head with her hands, pulling him closer. And it took some wriggling, but she managed to split her legs and get one out from under him so that he was almost lying in the cradle of her body. She was dying to feel his arousal, except he just hovered over her.
When he pulled back she protested, but then his hands went to the insides of