Clare Willis by Once Bitten

Author:Once Bitten [Bitten, Once]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Kissing Eric was when his scent was at its most overwhelming. Its effect was like laughing gas, beginning with numbness in the extremities and moving toward disorientation and euphoria. I couldn’t understand it except that maybe I was in love, and this is what the experts mean by the power of pheromones.

At some point I noticed that Eric hadn’t removed his own clothes but it didn’t seem to matter. The sensation was of six hands stroking my body, three pairs of lips kissing me. Just the feel of his long hair as it swept along my skin sent sparks of electricity down my spine. I wasn’t sure what was happening or to which part of me. My body had become a single organ of pure feeling. I could say I had an orgasm, but that would not begin to describe the feeling. I experienced a climax that encompassed my entire body, from my hair to my toenails. I bit my fist to keep from screaming.

In the midst of this storm of sensation I felt a pain like lightning and a pleasure that was too intense for words. I felt Eric enter me in a way that joined our very souls together. My bones melted, my blood coursed through my veins like a flood tide, rushing to pour into him and join us together at our very molecules. At the apex of this union Eric entered my mind and his thoughts became mine.

Eric sits in a room with walls made of rough stone, writing with a quill pen by the light of a flickering candle. A man dressed in priest’s robes comes up behind him, puts his arms around his chest, his lips to Eric’s neck.

A flash of red, then another vision.

Eric is sitting with Lucy on her couch. I recognize the abstract painting on the wall behind them. There are two wineglasses on the table. Lucy is laughing, her head thrown back. Eric leans toward her, takes her in an embrace. Her arms wind around his neck.

Behind my eyelids I saw the red licks of flame again, but this time instead of a vision I felt my connection with Eric break. I was falling, tumbling, out of control, into an ocean of darkness. Then, oblivion.

I awoke in my bed, facing the window, alone. From the utter stillness of the city I could tell it was predawn, sometime between three and six. I stretched and rolled over. Eric was sitting in my desk chair, dressed in his white shirt and suit pants. His shirtsleeves were rolled up to his elbows, his hair tangled around his shoulders. In the moonlight I could see streaks of tears on his cheeks.

“Angela, I don’t know how it came to this. I have tried to live virtuously, I have tried to fight against my nature, and now I see I have failed.”

I sat up and pulled the sheet around my chest. “You know what’s happening to me, don’t you?”

Eric nodded, and then dropped his head into his hands.

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