Present Tense (Out of the Fire #3) - Candace Blevins Page 0,13

someone doesn’t mean you have to. Usually, I assume vamps have killed, but I’m guessing you haven’t?”

She shook her head. “No. I was offered shapeshifters exclusively before I had control. I was told I’d just be in the office here, though. Not out in the field.”

“Your contract says we can offer a bonus for you to go out in the field, should your skills be needed.” She’d moved into the room far enough to put the phone on the sofa table, but she was still on the other side of the sofa. “You need to feed, Kelsey. If you don’t want to have sex today, that’s fine, but I can sense your hunger.”

She’d been shy and afraid, but his words seemed to give her confidence. She walked around the sofa, slid her robe down her arms behind her back so it fell onto the arm of the sofa, and then walked to him, completely naked, looking like a model on a runway.

She smelled of vampire, but she looked completely human. He knew this was a combination of being recently dead and the expert use of cosmetics, but he didn’t care. He opened his arms when she neared, and lowered his mouth to kiss her.

Fabio’s dick had been interested before, but the cool mouth of a vampire had blood pulsing into it, and within seconds, he was granite hard. He’d been with plenty of vampires, and all of them wanted to take control. Since his first, none had managed, and this little thing wasn’t going to, either.

“Undo my pants, Kelsey. You may lick, but no more for now.”

Kelsey knew she was good at sex. This wasn’t her being smug, just knowing her strengths. She was horrible at socializing, sports, and just about anything outside of the handful of things she excelled at — sex, hacking and computers, geeky sci-fi knowledge, business and finance, fashion, hair, and makeup.

But in this moment, she was focused on the hunk in front of her who smelled of big cat, and nothing else mattered. Leopards are damned sexy even when they aren’t trying, and this one seemed to be trying. She ran a finger from just below his Adam’s apple through the center of his chest, over ripped abs, and to the top of his pants. She flipped the button loose, and pulled the zipper out and down to make certain she didn’t injure him, since he clearly wasn’t wearing underwear.

And he was nearly as big around as a freaking Pringles can. Not terribly long, thank heavens, but fat enough she’d know when he was in her.

Her tongue touched her upper lip before she realized it was going to. He’d told her she could lick, but she wanted to do more to the beautiful man with the magnificent dick. She pushed his pants to the floor, and while she was leaned forward, she ran her hands up the sides of his legs until they reached his hips, and held on. Her legs were spread and straight, her back arched, and she ran her tongue over his gorgeous cock while she breathed in the scent of warm, male leopard shifter.

She’d fed from a variety of animals, but so far, one flavor hadn’t stood out above the others. Vampires are usually a great deal older when they gain power over a particular kind of shifter, but Kelsey’s former Master had given her a wide pallet on the off chance something stood out.

She wasn’t a fan of reptiles, but occasionally had a taste for them. She preferred mammals over birds but when given a choice, but didn’t mind the taste of birds.

Big cats and grizzlies are always good, and this cat had her hunger rising, but there were things Fabio needed to know before they did this.

She let go of his hips, stood, and met his gaze.

“If I bite you during sex, there’s a good chance you’ll need to change to heal. I have excellent control when everyone is still, but I haven’t gotten the hang of it during the height of pleasure.”

“Good to know. Practice makes perfect, but today’s probably not the day for that since I’ll be taking you to Drake when we finish. If sex is on the menu, I’d prefer to lead with that and have you feed from me with a bonus orgasm after.”

Kelsey hadn’t decided for sure about whether to have sex with the leopard shifter on this first night. She’d figured he’d assume it was going to happen, and that was a