Blood Born by V. M. Black

Author:V. M. Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, vampire, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, billionaire, love triangle, virgin, comingofage, alpha male, new adult, romance money

Chapter Eight

Dorian sat up and gathered me into his arms, pulling my body against his and kissing the top of my head softly, over and over. Limply, I stared up at the bed’s canopy above me for a long moment, struggling to catch my breath, to pick up the broken pieces of myself and put them back in some kind of order.

And the order that it showed was painfully clear. What had occurred was a deliberate, planned, devastatingly thorough initiation into sex.

“How did you know?” I asked.

“That you were a virgin?” Dorian asked, an unexpected note of humor in his voice.

Oh, God. I had just popped my cherry with a thousand-year-old, blood-sucking vampire. As far as first time stories went, this must top them all. I nodded mutely, aware that some part of me I could not yet fully feel was shuddering in horror.

What could he have done to you, Cora? What might he have done if he’d lost that iron control, only for a moment?

He chuckled softly into my hair. “I have had a few centuries of practice at reading women and their reactions, Cora. Less changes than you might think.”

Centuries of reading women—centuries in which the women who were with him died.

He turned me slightly so that we faced one another. As the afterglow faded, self-consciousness returned. Stiffening, I crossed my arms over my breasts, curling my legs under me, even as I felt the tug that his presence always had on me.

What had I done?

“There is no reason to be embarrassed,” he said, reaching out to stroke the line of my jaw with one knuckle.

Right. Because him saying so made it true.

It could, though, a part of me whispered. Wouldn’t that make everything so much easier?

I pushed back to the foot of the bed, pulling up a corner of the bedspread and wrapping it across my body. My legs shook slightly, an echo of an ache in my thighs, gone as soon as I recognized it.

“You held back. I could tell you were trying to be…gentle.” I almost choked on the word. It sounded like some kind of cheap promise from a villain in a bad movie. But he wasn’t a man, treating a less experienced partner with smarmy condescension. He was a vampire, and I had no doubt he could break my body in his hands as easily as he could tear my throat out.

“And was I?” He looked almost impossibly self-satisfied, leaning on one elbow against the bed, his exquisitely sculpted body stretched across the bedspread.

“Sure. This time,” I said, scowling at him. He could have attacked me with all the finesse of a bull in season, and under his thrall, the pain would have been turned to pleasure. A dark thrill went through me at the thought. Fear, I chose to call it.

He laughed again, his voice stirring a small shiver from me. “Don’t be afraid. I’ll never do anything you don’t want me to.”

“But that’s exactly what I’m afraid of,” I said stiffly. There wasn’t much he couldn’t make me want, at least in the heat of the moment.

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