Page 48 of Blood Day (Blood Alliance #7)

Because he wasn’t just fucking me. He was making love to me.

Emotions warmed the air between us, his mind and heart telling me his intent.

We were creating a dark promise of sorts.

A promise for more.

A whisper for a potential future.

He wanted to keep me. I wanted that, too.

Determining a way forward would be nearly impossible. But perhaps together we would figure it out.

Because each pump of his hips further deepened his desire to make this a permanent reality.

No more dreams. Just a fantasy brought to life.

For eternity.

As a bonded pair.

I’ve never understood love, he whispered, his forehead against mine as he clung to my hip with one hand and palmed my breast with the other.

I’ve always thought I was immune to it, he continued. But with you… I think I may be experiencing it. This undeniable obsession, the need to possess, the lightness I feel when we touch, and the undeniable ache that forms at the thought of something harming you—even me.

He slowed his pace again, his thumb circling my nipple as he drew out the pleasure mounting between us.

I don’t know if this is our bond or us or some combination of both, but I can’t hurt you, Lily. I can’t… I can’t deny this anymore. So mething about you dismantles my control. All I want is to make you mine forever.

Then keep me, I whispered. Because I’m already yours.

He stared down at me with stark affection in his eyes as he continued his slow assault of passion.

“I’m going to bite you, Lily. I’m going to unleash so much pleasure into your bloodstream that you come until you pass out on my cock.

And then I’m going to fuck you until you wake up so I can do it again. ”

“Are you punishing me?” I wondered aloud, his words sounding angry and agonized at the same time.

“Yes. No. I’m not sure. But I want you to climax until dawn. To make you feel a lifetime of orgasmic bliss and more.”

A subtle quake stirred inside me at the thought. “Yes.”

He smiled. It wasn’t cruel or mean, but a true smile. One that told me he saw this as a gift.

His way of ensuring I knew what I meant to him.

By essentially killing me with passion.

You can’t truly die, he reminded me. But yes, you may temporarily meet the other side. I promise it’ll bring about an ecstasy unlike any other.

There wasn’t much left for me to say. He would do this regardless of my choice.

But I would never fight him on an experience like this.

Because I wanted it as much as he did. Perhaps even more.

“Bite me,” I whispered. “Bite me, Cedric.” He was no longer Master Cedric to me right now.

Just Cedric.

My Cedric.

“Your trust will be our undoing,” he replied, his mouth going to my throat as he pushed all the way to the hilt inside me, stroking that spot deep within .

The one that made me burn with the need for more.

Which he gave me in the form of his bite.

It started slow, pushing into my bloodstream with a lavalike build of heat and burning every nerve ending in its wake.

Winding through my being.

Pulsing in time with my heartbeat.

And spreading magma to my core.

I screamed as the first wave hit me, taking me under into an oblivion that threatened to rewrite my very existence.

I writhed beneath him, pressing up into his groin as I sought more.

More.

More.

The rapture rippled around me, drowning me in a hot pool of intensity that seared my insides.

He was branding me.

Owning me.

Killing me.

No. Not death. He wasn’t swallowing, just pushing his vampiric venom into me and forcing me to take more than a human should.

If he was going to snuff out my existence, now would be the time to do it. I heard the confirmation of that idea through our link, the notion swirling darkly at the vestiges of his thoughts.

Cedric , I breathed. Don’t. Don’t kill me.

He didn’t reply, the concept growing with purpose inside him.

When you love someone, you do what’s best for them, he was telling himself. This is what’s best for her.

No! I shouted at him even as my body said, Yessss . He was overwhelming my senses. Overtaking my mind. Owning my body.

He fucked me harder as I continued to orgasm, my limbs shaking with depleted energy.

He was destroying me.

Contemplating my death.

And driving me into a dangerous oblivion.

It’s too much, I panted. Cedric, it’s… I can’t… Cedric!

Take it, he replied. You can take it.

I can’t!

You can, he snarled, shoving even more into me as he continued to fuck me wildly, taking me into a dark shadow of insanity where all I could do was feel.

His mind quieted.

No… no, my mind quieted.

Cedric? I whimpered.

No response.

Just more whiplike lashes of rapture, pulling me deeper and deeper into a whirlpool of intoxicating sensation.

I couldn’t breathe here.

I wasn’t sure I needed to.

It was just pure heaven. A blissful kiss of sensuous heat.

I melted. I allowed it to suck me under. I ceased understanding life and the desire to survive. I just existed in a state of purity and grace and intensity.

Warmth soon drifted away into a chilly sea.

But still I writhed in ecstasy.

Feeling nothing but the beauty of the moment.

My lungs burned despite the ice forming in my veins.

My heart no longer made a sound.

But that hot kiss of orgasmic bliss remained, consuming my focus.

Until renewed air burst to life inside me and my eyelids flew open to find Cedric still hovering above me with a passionate expression.

I gasped.

And then he kissed me while sliding in and out of me.

I wasn’t sure what had just happened. Yet I could hear it clearly in his thoughts.

He’d carried out his vow.

He’d knocked me out with pleasure.

And now he was going to do it again with his cock.

This was how a vampire fucked. Intently. Cruelly. Yet so passionately that only fiery sensations remained.

I couldn’t move, replete and exhausted.

Yet my insides fluttered.

And within seconds, I was coming again, this time with a sprinkle of agony on top.

Too much. Too much. Too much.

You’re doing beautifully, Cedric praised, kissing me even harder. You’re perfect. And you’re squeezing the life out of my cock.

Cedric…

Just one more, he urged. Be a good little flower and come one more time.

He sank his teeth into my lip, driving me into that dangerous spiral again.

I couldn’t do anything other than willfully fall.

Down.

Down.

Down.

Into a darkly beautiful euphoria.

Only this time, he followed me on a roar that sounded like my name.

And then his thoughts blanketed me in love. In praise. In a promise to keep me. In a vow that said I was his for eternity.

No matter what.