“Why do you have to wait? That seems stupid.”
Something passed across his face, annoyance, definitely, impatience also, frustration too, I was pretty certain. Then there looked to be defiance but that was so fleeting I couldn’t be sure.
“It isn’t smart, you’re correct, however it’s also the law,” he answered.
“Wouldn’t that make the first bloodletting, the initiation, rather dangerous if the vampire is hungry?”
I thought he’d lie.
Instead he agreed by saying, “Yes.”
“That doesn’t make sense,” I whispered and I could feel my heart, which had been slowing, start to speed up again.
“I was there when they wrote the law and I still don’t understand it.” He stopped speaking because I wasn’t listening.
I was panicking.
His head cocked slightly then his fingers ceased drawing on my back and his hand flattened, moving over my bottom and up to my hip.
“Leah, your heart,” he warned.
“I can’t help it!” I burst out. “You even admitted you were hungry. What if you can’t stop!”
“I’ll stop.”
“What if you can’t?”
“Leah, I’ll stop.”
I shook my head and started to pull away but his hand slid down my hip, over my bottom again but this time to cup it and he pulled me closer, pressing my h*ps into his.
He was aroused too, very aroused, I felt it immediately. And his arousal made me even more aroused. It was insane but it was true.
Oh my God. What was wrong with me?
I stilled against his body and my eyes caught his in shock.
His face came close, his mouth barely a breath from mine before he promised, “I won’t hurt you.”
“You can’t help it.”
“I can.”
“Please don’t do this,” I whispered my plea.
He drew a breath in his nostrils and his black eyes, so close, lost focus.
“God, you smell sweet,” he murmured.
“Lucien.”
When I said his name, his eyes came back into focus and they were more intense than ever.
“You’ll like it,” he told me softly.
I shook my head. My panic was keeping pace with my arousal. He was turning me on and scaring me to death at the same time. How, I didn’t know, but he was doing it.
It was as if he sensed this and he liked it. He liked it too much, I could tell because his eyes started burning and that turned me on too.