did you get here? Fly?” I asked, turning my gaze to the five-foot span between her balcony and mine.
The corners of his lips curved upward, slight and mocking.
A frisson of alarm made me shiver. Had he? I was something other—was he as well?
“Stop thinking,” he murmured, his hands reaching up to grip the top of the door frame. “You brought me here.”
I lifted my chin. I realized that was a mistake when his gaze dropped to my lips. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
As the moments stretched, my mouth grew dry, my nipples pebbled against the thin fabric sticking to my skin.
“You were with us,” he said softly. “Both times. You’re the only reason I returned.”
I didn’t pretend not to understand. “Are you angry because I peeked?”
“No…intrigued.” He leaned back his head and drew a deep breath, which lifted his well-defined chest.
I’d felt the weight of all that masculine mass crushing my breasts. I licked my lips and imagined how much more powerful the sensations would be without the filter of another’s body between us.
His lips twisted. “Are we going to do it out here?”
I cleared my throat. “Do what?” I asked after I’d pried my tongue loose from the roof of my dry mouth.
One dark, elegant eyebrow rose. His gaze kept its steady glare.
I straightened from the door. “Are you punishing me for intruding?”
“That’s an odd way to describe the kind of pleasure I bring. Perhaps you only get off sucking someone else’s pleasure.”
Christ! He knew what I was. “Better that than taking their blood.”
“We all do what we must to survive.” His expression grew impossibly darker. “Invite me in.”
My heart pounded harder, faster. Oh, he frightened me all right—but I was more frightened of myself. I’d learned to harness my curse, use it, control it. I lived a solitary life for a reason.
Maybe this was recompense for stubbornly distancing myself from others, letting in only what I needed, when I needed it—on my own terms.
I took a deep breath and stepped back.“Come in,” I whispered.
To give him credit, he didn’t immediately pounce. He let go of the door frame, shot me another all-encompassing glance and stepped past me, into my bedroom.
Once inside, he seemed to grow larger, darker. His movements, at once fluid and purposeful, drew my attention and robbed me of breath. Soon, I’d know his touch, his kisses, firsthand.
I moved to close the doors, but he glanced back and shook his head. “Let the storm inside.”
I already had. His eyes, so dark and fathomless, pulled me deeper into the room. “Stop it!” I said. “No tricks. You’re here—you have what you want.”
A harsh, rasping laugh lifted the hairs on the back of my neck. Then before I could make up my mind whether to step closer or flee, he moved—so quickly his movements were a blur. His hands slid around my waist and he lifted me off my feet, stepping forward until the wall behind me halted his progress.
He held me up, my body inches from his, but close enough to feel the heat of his skin and his sweet breath as it washed over my face. “Decide now, succubus. Will you feed me?”
“You have the advantage. Why even ask?”
“Because I’m going to ravage you, and I want you ready—committed. I want everything you’ve taken.”
Not just my blood? Would he take my strength as well? I trembled and leaned back against the wall, watching his mouth as it tightened.
I licked my lips, considering. I’d never shared the power of the passions I drew from others. I’d kept them, using them to fuel the stories I wove. What would it be like to release them, share them with another?
I closed my eyes for a moment. In all the months I’d lived here, no man had ever stepped inside this room. Except for a delivery boy every now and then, no one had even seen the inside of my apartment.
Yet here I was, trapped against a wall with a man towering over me, demanding I submit to his lust.
Damn, was there even a choice? I’d been lonely and alone for so long.
I made my decision, then lifted my hands to slide them over the damp cotton covering his hard chest. “So, you intend to ravage me?” I quipped softly.
Grim satisfaction filled his stark features. His chest rose beneath my palms. His heartbeat, just beneath my fingers, hammered against his chest. “Take off your robe.” But he didn’t move away, just let go of my waist while he waited for me to obey, challenging me to complain with his watchful gaze.
I scowled and wriggled, sandwiched between the wall of his chest and the plaster behind me, until the robe slipped to the floor. Already, my nipples were erect, chafed into arousal by the movements that brought my breasts into contact with the fabric of his shirt. “I better not be the only one naked here.”
A grin curved his lips. His hands slid between us, the backs rubbing my breasts and belly as he unbuttoned his shirt and shrugged out of it. Then he toed off his boots, one a time, while at the same time sliding down the zipper of his black pants, slowly, letting me feel the heat of his hands and belly, then the weight of his thick cock when it sprang free.
My breaths grew ragged. Cream seeped between my legs to dampen my labia and inner thighs.
His nostrils flared, no doubt picking up the proof of my arousal. When he’d managed to push down his pants and kick them to the side, we stood for a moment, skin to skin, savoring the freedom and the anticipation.
Again, I smoothed my palms upward, following the curves of his muscled arms up to his shoulders, and then I thrust my hands into his hair, combing it with my fingers as I waited for him to move.
He let me wait a long, excruciating minute while our deep breaths rasped our chest together and apart. My knees began to shake, my belly quivered, and finally, he lifted me again, higher against the wall.
His mouth opened on the blushing skin of my chest, pressing wet kisses on the upper swell of my breasts, gliding his tongue between them, then suckling the full curve beneath.
My legs moved restlessly, until I wrapped them around his upper abdomen and squeezed. My pussy opened, sliding along his hot skin and I rolled my hips, letting him know he could hurry it up a bit and I’d have no complaints.
However, he seemed content to tease me, drawing out the pleasurable sensation of his mouth gobbling up my breasts.
“My nipples,” I pleaded between clenched teeth. “Suck them! Please.”
He nuzzled them with his nose, licked his way around one dimpled areola without ever touching the tip, and then
