“Four.”
“Huh. I’m going to take a wild guess and say Babylonian, Akkadian, Latin, and now English,” I say, counting them off on my fingers.
“You’d be right,” he says with a smile. He shuffles his chair closer to mine and I can feel the heat coming from him and I want to touch him but keep my hands to mysel
f as he proceeds to teach me the Demonic alphabet. It is, and I pick it up quickly much to his delight.
“So clever, aren’t you?” he says.
“I try,” I say as I sit back. I look at the clock and see we have been sitting here for several hours.
“Break time,” he declares and stands up, pulling me up with him.
“What do we do at break time?” I say.
“This,” he says as he pulls me to him and kisses me. I let him for a few moments as I run my hands up his chest but then push him back.
“Stop pushing me away,” he says, frustrated. “I have tried to be patient with you, Xerxei, but you are making it very difficult for me.”
“Xane,” I start but he shushes me.
“Don’t. Don’t go into an explanation of why we can’t be together. We should be together, and this is just bullshit. No one else should factor into the decision. It is me and you and that is it. Just stop over thinking it, for once just stop thinking and feel.” He kisses me again and I stop thinking as he brushes his hands over my breasts.
Encouraged when I don’t push him away, he slips his hands under the hem of my vest top, pushing it up as his hands go around to my back. I can feel the fire start to burn deep inside me. In that small empty space, previously unnoticed, that now starts to fill up, making me whole once again. Try as I might, I cannot deny this bond we have, we are two halves of the same circle and I need him, as he needs me. I know I should stop this, but I don’t want to as he pulls back from our kiss and removes my top, letting it drop forgotten to the floor. He gazes at me lustfully, as his hands go to undo the button on my jeans. I have no idea where this outfit came from, as it isn’t mine and wasn’t what I was wearing when I left the suite as Liv. Down to the sexy underwear, bra and panties, that he is now brushing his fingers over lightly, as he drops to his knees, tugging on the jeans to get them to come off. He removes my shoes and discards the jeans and then kisses me, licking me through the lacy fabric of the panties and then his teeth come up to tug them from me and they too get discarded. He stands and unclasps the bra and my heavy breasts fall free into his hands and he squeezes them, rubbing his hands over my nipples.
“I love you,” he says as he drops his mouth to me, sucking on me as my hands work to free him from his own clothes. He magicks them off as I struggle, desperate to have our skin touching. He crushes me to him and picks me up as he walks to the bed. He lays me down gently as he kisses me and, now confident I am not going to reject him, he lets me go and trails his hands down me as his mouth follows. He slowly parts my legs and thrusts his tongue into me, and I cry out, needing more of him. He adds his fingers and I come quickly. He rises to his knees and is inside me before I have finished throbbing.
“Oh, fuck, yes,” he breathes as he pounds into me. “I love you,” he says as he lowers himself to kiss me and I wrap my legs around him. “Please, Xerxei, please tell me you love me,” he whispers so quietly but I can’t. Not now. Not yet. I roll us over and placing my hands on his chest, I move over him. I feel myself Shift back to Liv, to my relief, as I was getting very worried about my Vampire bonds disintegrating, and I drop my fangs as I pull him up. “I want to taste you,” I say, and his eyes go black as he nods. I lower my mouth to him and slowly sink my fangs into him. Oh, he tastes good. Like cinnamon and spice with a fiery aftertaste.
“I wish I could bite you back,” he says as I let him go and he heals instantly. “I want to take you from behind.”
I climb off him and turn around and he is on his knees, quickly thrusting into me, roughly pulling on my hips as I slide over him. He sits back pulling me with him and kisses my back as I move over him. He stills suddenly and sighs deeply as he licks my Demon marking gently before touching it lightly with his lips. “Oh, Xerxei,” he murmurs before he pushes my head to the side, exposing my neck to his left. He bites down on me, simulating feeding as he kneads my breasts harshly and with a burst of fire coursing through me, I come right before he does.
Breathing heavily, he falls back to the bed and I suddenly remember that I had gotten rid of the curse to do the ritual with CK. I keep my fingers crossed that nothing happens here. This is just getting too difficult. I climb off him and snuggle with him, still needing to touch him, to feel our heat. As soon as I stop touching him it disappears and I don’t like the feeling, which is not good news either.
“You can’t make me wait as long next time,” he whispers as he runs his hand through my hair. “I felt like I was dying.”
“I know,” I say quietly, and he looks at me, startled.
“You do?”
“I feel it,” I say, kissing his chest. “I don’t want to, and it is all kinds of wrong, but at the same time it is so right,” I sigh deeply, and he does too.
“I get that it is difficult for you. Your situation is complicated. But, Liv, you just cannot deny me anymore. I won’t allow it. It is making me weak when I should be strong. When we should be strong together.”
“I don’t know what to do,” I say, unsure.
“Be with me,” he says simply. “And stop taking this off.” He holds up my fireball necklace.
I smile sheepishly. “I’m sorry. It hurts…”
“Your Vampires. I know. But I want you to keep it on. They get everything else from you. Just give me this.”
I nod and sit up, curling my hair over my shoulder as he puts it back on me, again his fingers brushing my DX Marking. “This makes you mine,” he says. “It makes me yours. You claimed me and I accepted. Don’t fight it now.”
I turn back to face him, and he can see I am caving, but I still have my doubts.
“Just for us, Liv. Just let it be for us. No one else has to know or be a part of it. I already told you, I don’t like my personal life being public. I will be happy, if you just say we can be together.”