“Uh, I dunno,” he says. “It’s, you know.” He runs his hands through his hair.
I sit up and take his face in mine. “Cole, I am healthy and protected,” I say. “Are you?”
“Yes,” he says.
“Then I want you right now. I want to feel you inside me,” I say to him.
“Oh God, I want to feel you too, Liv. You are so wet and so warm, I just want to slide myself inside you and damn the consequences,” he says desperately, as I climb onto his lap.
“No consequences,” I mutter as I kiss him. “Just take me.” I rub myself over him and he groans in pleasure.
“Oh, yes,” he says as I tilt my hips again and this time he doesn’t hesitate. He pushes me down roughly and turns us over. “Oh God, yes,” he says and kisses me as he moves in and out of me. “I’ll pull out,” he mutters almost to himself as he speeds up.
I sigh to myself. He really has an issue with this. If only I could tell him that I am a Vampire. No babies–well, at least of the human-crossbreed variety–and no diseases. At the very least I suppose I could tell him I am already pregnant, but that probably wouldn’t go down well either before I turn him and make him mine. An idea starts to form in my head as I roll us over and take over. He grabs my hips and I pound away at him, bringing us both to the brink. I can hear his heart beating rapidly and I want to feed. I am starving and I can smell his AB Negative blood pumping through his veins. He is close, I know it and I take his hands off my hips and push them above his head, holding them in place. I come around him, causing his own orgasm to burst out of him. He struggles against me briefly as he groans in ecstasy and I let him go. He pulls out of me, hands on my hips, and deposits me next to him. “Liv,” he says breathlessly as I snuggle into him. “Fuck, that was amazing.”
“I know,” I say with a smile against his chest. “I want to do it again.” I look up at him and he stares down at me. “Easy and eager? I did luck out with you, didn’t I?” he asks as he pushes me over. “This time we do it my way.” He takes his time with me, setting my body ablaze with his kisses and touches and when the time comes to enter me there is no hesitation.
Chapter 8
My eyes flutter open as I feel his hand running up and down my back. I will the Dragon to stay still but She loves to be caressed and I know She wants him to run his hand over Her. I turn over quickly in case She decides to show off for him, and smile into his perfect blue eyes. “Hi,” I whisper.
“Hey,” he smirks. “That is incredible work.”
I smile and I am about to thank him when he rolls over and gets out of bed. “Where are you going?” I ask as he reaches for his pants.
“Uh, I had better get going. Early morning,” he explains evasively.
I sit up suddenly. I may be new to this whole modern-day relationship thing, but I know when I am being blown off. “You’re leaving?” Whatever happened to Other Cole’s declaration “I have loved you from the second I laid eyes on you, Liv”?
“Uh, yeah. I had a great time,” he says as he starts to get dressed.
Well, I think, affronted, this was not going to plan. Who knew he was such a cad? Then again, I didn’t exactly have a plan. I came here unprepared and the whole “seduce you until you love me,” while well executed, was a pretty lame move now that I think about it. “Cole,” I say, getting up and sauntering over to him. His eyes roam over my body and it’s a start. “Stay, please. I’m not finished with you yet,” I add seductively and his lips part as he watches me run my tongue over my lips.
“Oh, you don’t make it easy for a guy, do you?” he says, running his hand through his hair. “Look,” he says eventually, “I have a girlfriend. This night was amazing, but that’s all it was. Sex.”
I look at the bed where he is pointing and think, he has a girlfriend? The jerk.
Okay, I am not one to judge, I am standing here not only married to someone else, but also pregnant with someone else’s baby, but still. I was not expecting this to be so difficult.
“A girlfriend,” I say slowly, trying to think on my feet. Well, that goes a long way to explaining why he was so concerned about being protected. But I have to get him to stay and short of pouncing on him and biting him until I feed him my own blood, I would really rather he knew first and decided for himself he wanted it.
He shrugs as if it is no big deal and continues to get dressed. “I’d like to see you again,” he says as he tucks his shirt into his pants. “You know,” he shrugs again.
Oh, charming. He is asking to see me again for a sex date. Fan-bloody-tastic. I guess I have two options here: give up on him and find someone else to turn or give him no choice in the matter. I decide on the latter, as I am running out of time now and I don’t have enough of it to find someone else. Besides, I want him. I drop my fangs and advance on him. His horror is evident as he sees my Shift and he backs up, shaking his head.
“Shit,” he says. “Shit, it’s you!”
I stop dead in my tracks, then lunge forward to catch him as he promptly passes out.
I pace fretfully, wondering what on Earth he meant by “it’s you.” He knows me? I nearly leap out of my skin when Corinne appears next to me and holds her hand up, causing time to freeze.
“You are ahead of schedule, Your Majesty. We weren’t expecting this for some time. We weren’t finished with him yet,” she says with a slight reprimand in her voice.
“What?” I ask her, confused beyond belief right now.
She sighs and sits, indicating me to follow, which I do. “There is a special role for this man in your life. He was chosen and we have been trying to prepare him for entering into your world.”
“I don’t understand,” I say. “What special role? How are you preparing him? Why not just let me turn him?” I fire these questions at her and she holds her hands up again.