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“How rare are they?”
“We are the first ones born in nearly seven hundred years and the first girl/boy twins born in over a thousand years.”
Ronan folded his arms over his chest. “I see. Would he stop this marriage if you asked him to?”
“He might try, for me, but I would never put him in such a position by asking him to do that.”
“Is he the leader of your people?”
“We have many different leaders in different places,” she replied vaguely.
He is at least one of those leaders then, Ronan realized and she would sacrifice herself not to cause her brother any trouble. He assumed Nathan had taken over after their father was killed, if the leadership role passed with hunters the same way it used to pass with the vampires.
“Kadence.” He moved back to her, and placing his finger under her chin, he lifted it. For the rest of his life, he would recall every detail of her. He brushed her hair back, letting the silken strands run through his fingers.
Stepping closer, he stopped when his chest brushed against hers. Her eyes searched his as he stood over her, but her face remained serene. He found himself unable to resist the lure of her plump, red lips as he bent his head to hers. He only meant to have a little taste, but the minute his lips touched hers, he knew he was gone.
CHAPTER 17
His hand rested on her hip before wrapping around her waist. When she didn’t try to resist him, he pulled her lush body firmly against his and lifted her. Not even with his first bedding had he been concerned about coming in his pants, but he was now as she sighed when she rubbed against the rigid length of his erection and pressed her breasts against his chest.
Tangling his fingers in her hair, he pulled her head back and ran his tongue over her lips. Her lips parted to his prodding and he delved into her mouth. She gasped then melted against him as he tasted her. Her tongue hesitantly touched his before becoming bolder as she eagerly met each of his thrusts.
He needed to feel more of her, to know what every inch of her looked and tasted like. Releasing her hair, he ran his hand down the velvet expanse of her shoulders. Gripping the strap of her dress and bra, he pulled them both down until her entire breast fit his hand perfectly. He ran his thumb over her nipple until she moaned and the bud puckered against his flesh, branding him for eternity.
Kadence squirmed in Ronan’s hold, wanting to get closer to him yet unable to do so. No one had ever touched her so intimately before or made her feel this alive. For the first time in her life, she didn’t know uncertainty and dread. With complete clarity, she knew she didn’t give a damn what this man was, she just craved more of him.
Her heart beat against her ribs when he ran his thumb and forefinger over her nipple before pinching it. She didn’t know how to react to the overwhelming sensations he ceaselessly stoked to life in her. It was almost too much, but nowhere near enough.
Her fingers curled into his hair when he broke their kiss to leave a trail of heat over her skin with his lips and tongue as they moved over her ear and down her neck. The graze of his fangs against her flesh didn’t scare her. Instead, she drew him closer when his head dipped toward her breast. He hesitated for a second before his mouth clamped onto her nipple.
The low groan he issued and his tongue laving her nipple caused her to cry out as a wet heat spread between her legs. When he drew her nipple deeper into his mouth and sucked at her, she nearly screamed as she ground her hips against him with a wildness she hadn’t known she possessed until him.
“Ronan!”
Killean’s yell from outside the door jolted through the haze of lust consuming Ronan. Still, he couldn’t tear himself away from the inviting warmth of her body.
“It’s time!” Killean shouted and pounded once on the door.
Ronan’s hands clenched on her. He didn’t think he would ever be able to let her go now that he’d tasted her, now that he knew how responsive she could be and how ensnaring the scent of her passion was.
With a ragged breath, he succeeded in tearing his mouth away from her. Rising over her, he gazed at her face. She was flushed not from embarrassment but from unquenched desire. He couldn’t leave her in this state, not when she wouldlethim ease her, but he couldn’t take her innocence and ship her back to the hunters. He had no idea what they would do if they discovered she was no longer a virgin.
His head dropped down so his forehead rested against hers as she gazed at him with wide-eyed awe. She was his for the taking, and he was going to hand her over to never see her again.
Suddenly feeling more Savage than he’d ever felt in his life, he was hit with the impulse to sink his fangs into her, drain her to near death, and turn her. To make her his completely. The sharp points of his fangs pressed against his lower lips. The thump of the blood beating within the vein in the pale column of her throat called to him. He would make her the thing she hated most and he didn’t care, not if it meant he could be selfish and keep her for himself.
Then, her hand rose to pull her dress and bra back up, covering the breast he’d exposed. The tremor in her hand pierced through the demon to his more human side. He set her on her feet and stepped away from her before he lost control.
“I’m sorry,” he managed to get out. “I didn’t mean for that to happen.”
Kadence rested her fingers against her swollen lips. She longed to have him replace her fingers with his mouth once more, but they couldn’t continue this. A lump formed in her throat. If things had been different…
It didn’t matter, she decided. Things weren’t different and hoping for things that could never be was a fool’s game.
“Don’t apologize,” she said. “I wanted it as much as you did.”
To hear her say she wanted him too was more than he could tolerate. There was no point in denying either of them this. Hewouldhave her. He stepped toward her, not caring about anything anymore except possessing her.
