Total pages in book: 51
Estimated words: 47359 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 237(@200wpm)___ 189(@250wpm)___ 158(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 47359 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 237(@200wpm)___ 189(@250wpm)___ 158(@300wpm)
Michael paused for a moment and Lara could almost feel how much the thought of what his grandmother had suffered upset him.
“If only my grandmother had fed, she would have been able to defeat them, but she made sure her children fed before she did, leaving her vulnerable when they attacked. But as soon as she regained presence of mind, she reached out to my grandfather.” Michael grinned. “You have to hear the pride and love in my grandmother’s voice and how it shines in her eyes when she tells this tale. She swears two of her captives died of fright when my grandfather burst into the room, his eyes glowing a fiery red and his fangs dripping with the blood of the men he took down to get to my grandmother. Needless to say, there wasn’t a man left standing, and my grandfather got her out of there and fed right away. As my grandmother proudly says time and again, you can always count on Valaine men to protect their women. And she’s right. There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do to protect the woman I love.”
Love me.
She hurriedly chased the thought away, not wanting him to hear it, not wanting him to know how she felt, but wanting to make love with him, but when didn’t she not want to?
She tugged at his hand. “There’s someplace else I’d rather be.”
“Where’s that?” he asked.
“On top of you.”
She was up in his arms and out the door in the blink of an eye.
CHAPTER 14
Night came much too fast for Lara and though there were hours left… they weren’t enough for her. She didn’t want to leave him, say good-bye and never see him again. But he had made no move to tell her how he felt, and he had to know how she felt. He had told her often enough how she was an open book to him. She could not believe he hadn’t heard her thoughts on how much she loved him. Yet he had said nothing about loving her, so what was she to do?
Enjoy.
She almost laughed at the thought, since she had been doing just that. Right now, she lay snuggled in his arms pretending to read a book just as he did, though he didn’t pretend. He was actually reading.
They had lingered in his bed talking after more than an hour of making love. Exhausted, yet more than satiated, they had talked of their childhoods and memories that brought laughter and some that brought tears. It had been so very intimate in more ways than one. And, of course, the sex had been...
A silent sigh spread through her, recalling how she had felt slipping him into her and riding him with such abandoned pleasure. And after she had an explosive climax, he had flipped her on her back and drove into her making her have one of those mind-blowing ones. She couldn’t imagine a more powerful climax, but then he hadn’t bitten her so she couldn’t really say.
“Your thoughts and your grinding softly against me will have you naked beneath me very soon.”
She stilled, and then with a smile continued to move against him.
He dropped his book along with hers and did exactly as he promised. And she wondered how it was that she could want him so frequently. Never, ever had she felt this way about sex. She could take it or leave it, but not with Michael. The more she had him, the more she wanted him.
They lay naked wrapped around each other on the couch when they finished, a blanket thrown across them.
“We should just stay naked for the rest of the night,” he said with a laugh, “since we’re both ravenous for each other.”
She wondered then if she had vampire blood in her somewhere since she realized that he was right. Her voracious sexual appetite matched his. And how she would appease it once they parted, she had no idea.
“Though I do think a nice formal supper in the dining room would be a good way to celebrate our time together.”
Our time together.
This was it. The hours were ticking away. Their time together would be done.
“Let’s make it a bit formal. Go have yourself a soak while I see to details and wear that lovely long skirt you look so delicious in.”
“Why? Do you plan on eating me?”
“Sweetheart, I intend on tasting every single inch of you tonight.”
How could her passion stir after she had just climaxed twice? Damn, if he hadn’t infected her with his insatiable sexual appetite and damn if she didn’t care—at least for the moment.
He roused them up off the couch and pointed her toward the door. “Go and meet me in the dining room in an hour.”
She scooped her clothes up, though didn’t bother to slip them on. She did, however, make sure to wiggle her naked butt at him as she walked out of the room. He was behind her in a second, and she let out a yelp when he slapped her bottom lightly and whispered, “This is the first place I intend to taste tonight.”