Shades of Darkness (Guardians of Eternity #16) - Alexandra Ivy Page 0,60

sensations thundering through him couldn’t get more intense, she leaned forward to take him between her parted lips.

Basq’s head fell back, his body clenched as she sucked him deep into her mouth before she slowly, excruciatingly pulled back.

Oh…hell.

He reached down to touch the downy hair that covered her head, his knees threatening to buckle as she used her teeth and tongue to create erotic chaos. He wanted to spend the rest of eternity savoring the sensation of her wet mouth surrounding his cock. But he was just a vampire, not a superhero.

There was only so much a poor male could endure before he lost complete control of the situation.

Grasping her shoulders he tugged her upward. “Enough, Chaaya.”

“I wasn’t done showing you,” she protested with a smile of pure female satisfaction.

He wrapped his arms tight around her waist, circling the base of her throat with openmouthed kisses.

“You do it very well,” he assured her, continuing to brand her soft skin with kisses as he headed down to the curve of her breast.

She circled her arms around his shoulders, moaning softly as he reached the tip of her nipple.

“You’re not so bad yourself,” she assured him.

He chuckled. “I’m glad to know my efforts are appreciated.”

Her nails dug into his flesh as he laved her nipple with his tongue before sucking the tip between his lips.

“Much appreciated,” she assured him.

The sweet taste of her was like nectar on his tongue, tempting him beyond all reason. He had to have her. It was that simple. And that complex. She was his mate, and he had to claim her in the most basic, primitive way possible.

Lifting his head, he gazed down at her. “Chaaya, are you ready?”

Her face was flushed and her eyes smoldering with the same hunger that echoed deep inside him.

“Can’t you tell?”

The scent of her desire drenched the air, making his cock twitch with impatience. But that wasn’t the question he was asking.

“Are you ready to become my mate?” he clarified.

“Yes.” The word came without hesitation.

Still, he had to make certain. “You’re sure?”

Her eyes narrowed. “Do you want me to beg?”

He flinched in horror at the mere thought. This female’s pride was an integral part of her, as important as her tattoos and leather and badass attitude. He would never do anything to compromise it or demand that she become less to satisfy some male need for dominance.

“Never,” he swore in a harsh voice. “Not unless you’re begging for more of this.”

He captured her lips in a kiss of savage need, and without warning she jumped up, wrapping her legs around his waist.

Basq cupped her ass in his hands, angling her over the straining head of his erection. Then, lowering her inch by luscious inch, he speared deep inside her. They groaned in unison, both taking a moment to absorb the shockingly intense impact of this moment.

After all the bickering and teasing and wary refusal to accept the inevitable, they were one.

Finally.

Chaaya wiggled against him, clearly impatient. “More,” she demanded, tangling her fingers in his hair.

He chuckled, moving his hips in a slow, ruthless pace as he scraped his fangs along the base of her throat.

“More,” Chaaya rasped, meeting him thrust for thrust with a strength that sent sparks of bliss shooting through him.

Yes, he silently acknowledged. He needed more. Pulling back his lips he bared his fangs, and with one smooth strike he plunged them into the yielding flesh of her upper breast.

He sucked deep, a dizzying explosion of emotion bursting through him as her blood slid over his tongue and down his throat.

She was just as sweet as he imagined, with a hint of sage. But it was more than that. There was a wild, reckless power that coursed through him.

This magical warrior woman. This creature of pain and sacrifice and untold loyalty.

She filled him until his heart overflowed and he couldn’t contain himself any longer. Pumping into her at a ferocious pace, he continued to drink deeply until she clutched her legs around him and screamed in a shattering release.

His own orgasm hit in unison, his muscles contracting as the ecstasy erupted through him like an earthquake.

“Mine!” he cried out, his joy reverberating through the darkness.

* * * *

Brigette opened and closed her mouth a dozen times. Like a beached fish.

This dazzling, exotic, outrageously gorgeous male was a jinn? She’d somehow expected a blob of smoke that floated around causing disasters. Instead he was…male perfection.

Her eyes lingered on the bare torso, mesmerized by the shimmers of color that swirled