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to thrust hard, trapping her between my body at the tile wall. My fangs lengthen, and I long to strike again, but hold back, knowing I can’t drink from her every time I have my way.
The wall seems too hard to slam her body against, so I wrap her in my arms, keeping close and using my muscles to protect her from the force of my passion.
She lifts one leg and wraps it around my waist, changing the angle of her tunnel. I pound into her until she gasps, “May I—?”
“Yes,” I choke, losing control and finding my own peak at the same moment she convulses against me.
Chapter 14
Aurelia
Charlie traces us back to my place after our shower. When he sees the bruise appearing on my cheek from where the vampire smashed me against the wall, he hisses, baring his teeth. Pushing me to sit on the bed, he vanishes, and I start to curse before I hear him in my kitchen, opening the refrigerator door. He blurs back, holding an ice pack wrapped in a kitchen towel. I jerk my head back instinctively when he tries to touch the bruise, so he presses the ice in my hands. “You do it,” he says softly, still looking grim over it.
He picks up the dresser he overturned and replaces it. “Sorry,” he mutters. He stands with his hands on his hips and looks around. “What are we going to do, Aurelia? A fairy doesn’t belong in a hole in the ground. You need to live in nature with room for a big garden, so you can do things fae do with plants.”
I blink, surprised.
“Let’s buy some land and build a house. With a basement for me and a light-filled ground floor for you.”
I tremble, hardly believing how well he seemed to understand me and my desires. “Do you...how would we pay for it?”
“I have lots of money,” he says dismissively.
“What about my job? How will I get there?”
He considers me. “I have a car you can drive. I won’t make you quit, but I think I’ll have another discussion with Edith to reduce your hours. Or perhaps I’ll get a job there too.”
“What?” I laugh.
“Yeah. Why not? I was good with that kid.”
I giggle. “I can’t decide if you’re serious.”
“I don’t know—why not? What else do I have to do? I might as well be of some use in this world.”
I gape, hardly able to assimilate it all. “So...does this mean you’re my boyfriend?”
He grins. “I am most definitely your boyfriend, along with your vampire, lover and master.” He moves closer and wraps his arms around me, sliding his hands down to cup my ass. “Do I get to meet your friends now?”
I bite my lip. “I suppose I’ll never be able to tell them, will I?”
His expression sobers. “It’s better if you don’t.”
I look up, seriously contemplating how life would be, mated to a vampire—the difficulties of his nocturnal restrictions, or of my mortality. ”Is it done much? A vampire with a mortal?”
“There’s another vampire in town who is married to a mortal about your age. They even have a baby—no one knows how. Probably artificial insemination. We could hang out with them and see how they do it.” He smiles down at me warmly.
The idea encourages me. “I guess we’ll...figure it all out?”
He kisses my forehead. “Yes, love. I don’t know how, exactly, but we’ve established the main points.”
“Which are?”
“You’re mine. And I’m not going to walk out on you.”
Tears fill her eyes in a rush.
“What?” Concern appears between his brows.
I shake my head, trying to duck my gaze.
He puts a finger under my chin and lifts it until I look at him again. “I have something for you,” he says softly. “I bought it for you when you were Anka. I kept it all these years, but I never knew why.” He smiles. “Now I do.”
He pulls a gold chain out of his pocket, from which dangle dozens of red gemstones.
“Garnet?”
“Rubies, love. They’re supposedly good for blood and circulation.”
I laugh. “Ah. This is really a gift for you. Kinda like the corset and stockings.”
He makes a twirling motion with his index finger.
I turn and lift my hair from my nape, waiting as he fastens the incredible necklace. “This must be worth a fortune.”
“I’ll buy you any and every stone or crystal you want. They each have special powers, or so Anka believed.” He kissed my neck in the place he’d bit it earlier.
The necklace buzzes on my neck,