Downbeat - Biting Love 07 by Mary Hughes

Author:Mary Hughes
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Romance, Romantic Comedy, Literature & Fiction, Vampires, Paranormal
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-03-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Um, couldn’t you come up here first? And maybe we could, um, talk?”

“Normally, yes. I delight in talking with you.” He paused. “Which is odd, now that I think of it. My amoureux rarely interest me.” He said it more to himself than to me. “But in this case, you’re delaying.”

He was right, which made me blurt what I was actually thinking. “Why do I have to make the first move?”

To my surprise, he sighed. “Because, my dearest Raquel, this is for your sake, not mine. While taking advantage of a sweet innocent amuses me, I am trying to do the right thing by you. In my own small, misguided way, I’m trying to empower you. That won’t work if I continue to steal your favors instead of you choosing to give them.”

“Oh. Um. Well.” I tucked my keys into my purse in my flute bag on the passenger seat. With a deep breath for courage, I got out the driver’s door, clicked it shut and opened the rear door.

Dragan slid over on the seat and patted the space he’d vacated. It looked even darker and more treacherous. Another breath. I slid in.

He reached past me to shut the door. I caught an elusive woodsy scent from his long hair. “Now.” He wrapped hot arms around me and pulled me into his chest. “You’ll remember this from last time.” He opened his mouth on mine.

I’d been waiting for this since Sunday. Expecting it, and deep down, wanting it desperately through all the delays. My need was a natural gas leak building through four days, steadily increasing pressure waiting for exactly this. His taste, his heat, his scent.

At the first touch of skin, desire ignited and lust exploded through me. It burned away any fear of rejection. I grabbed his head and tried to torque my tongue down his throat.

I was awkward. Instead of a deep, sensual kiss I cracked teeth with him.

He clasped my head in his hands and pulled back slightly. Embarrassment ran cold tingles up my neck and face. He laughed and my insides crumbled. He said, “I have kissed courtesans and queens and their artifice bored me. You are so beautifully fresh, honestly eager. Kiss me again, my Raquel. Just like that.”

“Cracking teeth? I don’t think so.”

“Drahý.” He pulled me to him and teased my mouth open with his tongue.

I was embarrassed and didn’t want to play, but he coaxed then withdrew, coaxed and withdrew, until I poked a grouchy tongue at him. Immediately he captured it with his lips and wouldn’t let go until I laughed too.

“That’s better.” He burrowed his long fingers in my hair and held me in place and ravished my mouth with every bit of expertise he possessed.

I was gasping and limp when he finally raised his head. “Now you. Kiss me like that.”

I raised incredulous eyes to him; he thought I’d been paying attention to what he was doing through that whirlwind of teeth, lips and tongue? “You’re insane,” I panted.

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