Holding Hope by Paloma Beck

Author:Paloma Beck [Beck, Paloma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Secret Cravings Publishing
Published: 2013-03-31T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Ella awoke with a warm body next to her and a tightening in her lower stomach. That need she’d first felt when she’d met Lucas continued to thrum inside her even after spending the last few months here with him. She was shocked to realize she needed more of him each day despite falling asleep out of sheer exhaustion each night begging for mercy. Now she couldn’t remember ever sleeping as soundly as she did in his arms. Lucas made her feel safe, and loved and so, so hot. Goddess, she needed to get up and splash water on her face.

Slipping her legs from the sheet, Ella slowly moved to the edge of the bed but got no further than an inch or two before Lucas’s arm banded around her waist and pulled her back.

“Just where do you think you’re sneaking off to?”

“I’d like to take a shower,” Ella explained.

“Sounds like fun,” Lucas purred into her ear, his voice still sleep-roughened. “I think I need a shower too.” Still, he made no move to get up as he gathered Ella closer. She felt his erection at her back and wiggled her bottom into him. He inhaled sharply, let out a long moan and bit down on her shoulder.

“How can we possibly want more?” Ella asked even as her body began to tingle. Her skin came alive, her flesh on fire everywhere he touched.

“Mi amo, I don’t know if I’ll ever have enough.” Lucas continued nibbling at the tendons in her neck, alternating with sucking and licking the tender spots, until Ella couldn’t stay still.

“I’m not sure I will either,” Ella conceded before tilting her head to give him greater access.

“Your neck is tempting.”

“I’m not stopping you.”

“I know but I’m trying real damn hard to not overwhelm you.” Lucas sighed. “Are you tender?”

“A bit,” she admitted. “But I can rest after.”

“After. I like after. I like now even better,” Lucas’s words faded as he went back to her neck, to that spot that made her believe nothing else in the world mattered.

Ella lost herself in the feel of her mate loving her. Never before had she felt so safe, so connected to another human being as she had since she met Lucas. Yet the reality was that neither of them were truly human. She’d finally found the world she belonged in because this was her world, not the human world where she was forced to exist.

Lucas’s tongue lapped a wet line along her neck. “I need to drink from you,” he whispered just before she felt his teeth pierce her skin. He drank deeply, so very deeply as he always did, and as he swallowed her blood, she couldn’t hold in her sounds of pleasure. She lifted her arms over her head and stretched to run her fingers through Lucas’s thick, wavy hair. She pressed her bottom back against his pelvis, ready to scream as he continued to take his nourishment.

“Lucas, I need—” Ella turned her head to the side to reach him for a kiss.

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