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she offers, her eyebrows twisting up in a cute way.
I smile, but it fades away quickly. “Look.”
“Yes?”
“I know Christiano’s a good guy, and he said he loves you,” Her eyes round slightly, and she opens her mouth to speak, but I barrel through, “but I don’t think he’s the one for you. I think I am. I think I’m the one for you.”
She gives a few confused blinks as her pretty face melts into a smile. “I think you are, too. You really think that, Brendan?”
With my heart on the outside of my chest, I nod. “I do. And if you need time to find out, that’s fine. But you have to leave him. It’s got to be just us.” I take her face in my hands and my voice deepens. “I love you. I haven’t been able to sleep, to laugh, to do anything worth anything. Without you, I don’t want to live. I need you. I’m sorry for reacting the way I did. And when I saw you tonight, before we found out about Tommy, I knew there was no way I was going to let you go. I knew it! You have to leave him.”
She’s smiling up at me. “That’s a pretty easy thing to say yes to, because he’s back in Italy. I told him I love you and couldn’t be with him.”
“What?! He didn’t stay?”
She shakes her head. “No. How did you know he was here?”
“Wait, let me get this right. When did he leave San Francisco?”
“He only stayed one night.”
“He hasn’t been here with you these past weeks?”
She looks at me like she wishes I’d known that, that I hadn’t been tortured, and shakes her head again. “No. And you should know, we didn’t... do anything.”
A tidal wave of relief hits me. I laugh! Grabbing her, I kiss her hard. She responds to my kiss, sliding her hands up the back of my neck to pull me closer as she stands on her tiptoes.
She tastes exactly like happiness.
Chapter Ten
Annie
Six Months Later. Reading: Fire Nectar 2 on the couch in the penthouse. Wearing: red bra. red panties. red garter belt. beige fishnets. red stilettos.
The sound of the key turning in the lock pulls up my head from the eerie vampire book I’m engrossed in, and I look to the hallway, waiting to see my boyfriend get home from work. Brendan walks in, holding his jacket. He takes one look at me and freezes. “Whoa. What do we have here?”
I throw a leg straight in the air and point my toe. “I’m going to church.”
He laughs and tosses his jacket on the ground. I toss my Kindle to the side and he’s on me in no time flat. I squeal as he pins me down on the rug. “Now that I’m taking Krav, too, you can’t fight.”
“I could try! I just don’t want to!” I laugh as he tickles me. “Stop it! Oh my God! Stop!”
His eyes go hungry with need. I gasp as he pins my arms and lunges for my neck. He doesn’t know I was just reading a vampire story and this is exactly what I want right now; a good neck gnawing. I moan as he takes my tender skin between his teeth and chews on me, giving me a sensual massage with his mouth. My hips rise up with desire. He maneuvers my legs easily so I can slip them around him as he grinds into me, licking my neck and breathing heat onto my skin.
He moves my panties to the side to slip one of his thick fingers deep inside me. I moan and crane up, crushing my chest into him. He lies on top of me as he fingers me, taking my mouth in his as our tongues lash about. “I can’t get close enough to you,” he groans, unzipping his pants and pulling his engorged cock out.
“I know! Hurry!”
Brendan’s dark blue eyes lock on mine as he pulls my panties over more, snaps my garter belt, and plunges himself into my pussy, yelling out as he goes in as deep as he can. I cry out and fight against him for the fun of it. He growls and pins me down harder, ripping into me again and again. His pulsing lights up every nerve ending. We rock our hips faster and faster until he pulls at my hands and freezes, taking control so he can slow down and drive me to insanity. I pant, waiting, aching so badly