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I ’ve never felt so alive.

I stand and hold out my hand. Millie doesn’t hesitate taking it.

“How are you feeling?” she asks as I lead her to the bedroom.

Our bedroom .

“It’s as if an electrified wire has replaced my veins. Everything is sharper. Colors more vibrant. Wait…”

I pause in the hallway and listen.

“I can hear people in this building talking and the cars driving on the street. Incredible.”

We’re in the penthouse of a sixty-floor high-rise. My enhanced senses are overwhelming but exciting all the same .

“You’ll learn to filter those sounds out and focus on what you want to hear. But I was talking about your hunger.”

I push Millie up against the wall. “I’m definitely hungry.”

I kiss her and she whimpers when my fangs cut into her lips again—something else I’ll have to get used to.

She breaks off the kiss, but I can’t get enough of her and trail my lips across her jaw and down to her neck.

“I was talking about your need for blood, Puppy.”

Mmm. I’ve been transformed into a cold-blooded killer, and she still calls me puppy. I love it.

“What should I be feeling? Because the only part of me that is in need of satisfying is my cock. It needs to be back inside you.”

She giggles and it quickly turns into a moan when I scrape my fangs over her skin. I’m already getting hard despite emptying everything down Millie’s throat minutes ago.

“Most fledglings are ravenous when they wake up from the turn. They need to feed immediately. In fact, they struggle not to kill any human in their path. This building is full of beating hearts.”

My fangs cut her neck deep enough for small drops of blood to surface. I lap it all up .

“You’re all I need… right now and forever.”

She sinks her fingers in my hair and latches on, pulling my head back.

“I’m serious, Teddy. I need you to tell me if you need to feed. I’m talking about human blood, not me,” she adds before I can joke. “You will get stomach pangs, your fangs will ache, and your throat will feel as if you’ve swallowed hot coals.”

“Don’t you worry, my queen. I’ll tell you when I’m ready for blood.”

She rolls her eyes but smiles.

“Now will you let me fuck you so we can complete our blood mate bond?”

She nods, her smile stretching wider, lighting up her beautiful face.

I take her hand and lead her to the bed. We’re still naked from our quickie in the living room so I spin her around and push her onto the mattress. Her tits bounce and belly jiggles in the most delectable way.

She moves to the middle of the bed.

“I need to ask you about hearing my thoughts,” I say, crawling up her body. “That wasn’t a hallucination while I was dying, right? You can hear what I’m thinking?”

I place soft kisses along her legs and thighs .

“Yes,” she sighs when I reach her pussy and huff a breath on her slickness. “You should be able to hear mine too. You’ll have to learn how to open your mind to it.”

I continue up her stomach to her breasts where I take a nipple into my mouth and suck. She arches off the bed.

I release it with a pop. “Is that normal or a blood mate thing?”

Her other nipple is in my mouth before she can answer, and I scrape my teeth over it. She screams and bucks.

“Blood mate,” she says, the words hampered by her lust. I pause to let her continue. “I think. I forgot to ask Noran, but it has to be. Henry could never hear my thoughts.”

“Tell me how you and Layla killed him,” I say and return my attention to her breasts.

“He expected me to fight—oh fuck, Teddy,” she moans as I scrape my fangs across her nipple again. Not bad. Maybe it won’t take long for me to get the hang of them. Despite my desperate urge to fuck her right now, I stop my pleasurable torture so I can hear the rest of how badass my mate is. “He didn’t expect Layla to fight though. So I distracted him with a headlock and took him down to the ground which allowed Layla to stake him. I honestly didn’t think it’d be that easy. It’s satisfying because Henry never liked to be outshone, especially by a woman. ”

“And it was sexy as fuck,” I say and without warning, I plunge my fangs into the peak of Millie’s breast.

She screams, her back bowing at the sensation. Her blood pours into my mouth while I lash my tongue over her sensitive nipple. I slide my hand down her stomach, finding her soaked cunt and slipping two fingers inside.

I pump in and out and bring her to the cusp of orgasm. Then stop. I unlatch my mouth and remove my fingers.

“No!” she whines.

I use my newfound speed to readjust us on the bed, sitting with my back to the headboard and Millie straddling me.

“Are you ready?”

“More than ever.”

She grabs my cock, lines it up to her entrance, and sinks down. She throws her head back in a moan, and I grunt at how tight she is for me.

With her hands clutching my shoulders for leverage, she rides me. Her sharp nails dig into my skin but I barely register the pain.

“I’m already close, Millie,” I huff.

“Me too.”

My palms slide to her back, and I skim them up then down until cupping her thick ass and squeezing .

We cling to each other as if trying to morph our bodies into one. The more of our skin that touches, the quicker I get to orgasm.

As if her skin is hot-wired straight to my cock.

“Now, Teddy. Bite me now.”

I bury my face into the crook of her neck and pierce her skin. Her blood fills my mouth and gushes down my throat, causing me to erupt with pleasure. Millie mirrors my actions. Her fangs impale my neck with greediness, and she growls—something she does often when feeding from me.

Her pussy walls milk me dry of cum, spasming around my dick for what feels like hours.

Once we’ve both had enough blood—somehow knowing when to stop—we retract our fangs and just sit there, cocooned in each other’s arms.

“That was…” I begin, struggling to find the right word.

“Euphoric?”

“Exhilarating.”

“Intoxicating.”

“Mind-blowing.”

Millie laughs. “All the words. It was all of them.”

“Do you feel different? Noran said you’d be able to withstand the sun. ”

She reaches up to move a piece of sweaty hair off my forehead.

“That’s something else I need to ask Noran: How long after we bond before I change?”

I glance out her UV protected windows and see the sky brightening.

“I’ll call him later tonight,” she says, following my gaze. “Right now? I want to cuddle with you and fall asleep.”

“I’ve been sleeping for days.”

“Then maybe I need to wear you out with more sex.”

In a blur, I take us into the bathroom, my cock still inside Millie and her legs wrapped tight around my waist. I grow hard, ready to take her up on that offer.

“Deal,” I say. “Let’s start in the shower.”

And I slam her against the tile.