Bite Me, Your Grace by Ann Brooklyn

Author:Ann, Brooklyn [Ann, Brooklyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2013-04-01T22:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

The bedchamber was huge and daunting with shadows in every corner that seemed to encroach on the large four-poster bed. Liza was waiting next to it, just finishing arranging rose petals on the coverlet. The whole scenario looked fitting for a ritual sacrifice. Angelica forgot all about her curiosity about the other vampires as the impending consummation of her marriage loomed over her in stark clarity.

“I am ready to help prepare you for bed, Your Grace.” Her maid blushed and led Angelica through an adjoining door.

“I hope he will be gentle with you, truly I do.” Liza divested Angelica of her wedding gown and helped her into a filmy white scrap of satin. “But at least you will be comforted by the fact that he will give you such beautiful children!”

Angelica shivered. No, I will not. What he is going to do to me will give me no comfort at all.

Liza departed, and with quaking knees, Angelica crossed the length of the bedchamber to join her vampire husband. His back was to her as he faced the fireplace. The orange flickering light cast sinister shadows on the wall.

“Here I am, Your Grace.” She lifted her chin and prayed he did not hear the fear in her voice.

Ian whipped around, his eyes glowing hungrily at the sight of her in the nearly transparent nightgown. “Dear God,” he breathed.

Despite her trepidation, Angelica couldn’t suppress a light laugh. “I didn’t think vampires would speak much about God.” At his slight smile, with no dimming at his intense stare, she sobered.

“You look like the seraphim you were named for, Angel.” His voice was husky. “Come here.”

She couldn’t stop herself from stepping backward, farther away from him. “What are you going to do to me?” How badly would it hurt?

“I am going to make love to you.” He stepped forward, slowly approaching until their bodies touched.

That didn’t sound so bad. Ian’s lips claimed hers, and he gripped her shoulders as he whispered between kisses, “I feel as if I have been waiting an eternity to have you, Angel.”

His hands crept down to the bodice of her gown and he began to untie the laces. She gasped at the feel of his hands on such an intimate part of her body. She struggled and tried to shove him away. “What are you doing?”

He stepped back and blinked. “What exactly did your mother tell you about what goes on between married couples behind closed doors?”

She shuddered and pulled the fabric of the gown tight around her bodice. “She said you would hurt me very badly and that I would bleed.” Her eyes narrowed and her tone grew laced with hostility at such a horrific concept. “She said I must submit to you without complaint.”

He cursed and Angelica flinched. “I suppose that explains why you’re an only child. Damn, I hate some of the traditions of this century. To keep a young woman in ignorance of one of the most important facts of life is… is a goddamned outrage!” He ran a hand through his hair and sat on the bed.

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