Her breath came in shallow pants, the ache in her spread from between her thighs and into her belly as he suckled on her other breast. Then, he sank his fangs into her breast just above her nipple. She cried out, her body bucking on the counter, her wrists jerking in his grasp as overwhelming pleasure speared her.
He kept her wrists firmly within his hold as his tongue laved her nipple while he drew on her blood. Shifting his hold on her wrists into one hand, he kept them pinned as his fingers skimmed over her flesh in a touch so faint that she barely felt it, but it left her skin electrified.
Ronan slid his hand between her thighs, spreading them wider. Her wetness slipped over his fingers as he stroked her, causing her to cry out. He kept his mouth on her breast while he dipped a finger into her.
She writhed against him, her head moving back and forth as he parted her further and slid another finger into her. Her muscles clenched around him when he rubbed his palm over her clit, stoking the fire within her higher.
“Ronan!” she gasped. “I can’t!”
He released his bite on her breast and lifted his head to meet her gaze. Leaning closer to her, his mouth brushed over hers as he spoke. “Can’t what?”
“I can’t take anymore.”
He slid his fingers away from her and grinned when she moaned and pressed her hips forward on the counter. “I thought you enjoyed teasing,” he said and pulled her wrists down so that he held them against her belly.
Before she could respond, he trailed his fingers up the inside of her thigh in a wispy touch that she barely felt, but her body begged for more of it. She tried to pull her hands from his grasp again, but he kept them firmly in place as he pushed her thighs further apart and knelt before her.
Her eyes widened when he bent his head between her legs. “Ronan!” Any protest she’d been about to utter died on her lips when his tongue stroked over her aching center.
Her head fell back as he worked his tongue into her in penetrating thrusts. Finally, he released her hands. Kadence grasped his head, not to push him away but to pull him closer.
Ronan growled as her hands curled into his hair and her hips surged toward him. Grabbing her ass, he dragged her closer to his mouth as he tasted the heated wetness of her core. Her hips moved faster as she fucked his tongue with a wild abandon that had him growing impossibly harder.
He sensed her impending release in the tightening of her muscles. Pushing her closer and closer to the brink, he pulled away before she could plummet over the edge. Her hands tugged at his hair as she groaned her disappointment. He rose before her and seized her wrists again with one hand. Drawing them over her head, he pinned them to the glass once more as he met her dazed gaze.
“I love to tease too,” he murmured before taking hold of his dick and guiding it to her entrance. He held her gaze as he buried himself within her.
“I love the way you do,” she murmured as her eyes drifted closed.
Ronan pulled back to drive into her again. He lost himself to the frenzy of his need as he thrust into her again and again. He was on the brink of spilling, but he gritted his teeth and held back his release.
Kadence’s eyes opened, and his breath caught as he found himself gazing into their startling white-blue depths once more. She most certainly was something more than a normal turned vampire, and she was starving.
Releasing her wrists, he wrapped his hand around her head and pulled her face into the hollow of his throat. “Feed,” he commanded.
Her fangs slid over his skin before sinking into his vein. His body jerked as she pulled hungrily on his blood and her body kept rhythm with the demands of his. The muscles of her sheath clenched around him and she cried out against his throat. This time, he didn’t hold back his own release, but followed her over the edge.
CHAPTER 38
“My brother would never hurt me,” Kadence said for what felt like the thousandth time that night.
Ronan barely glanced at her as his eyes remained focused on the trees around them. He tuned out the clacking of the branches in the breeze swirling through the park as he listened for any other sounds. The hunters would come, he had no doubt, but he didn’t know what would happen when they did.
Kadence searched the woods for her brother, her hands twisting anxiously before her. She’d spent the past week adapting to her new vampire status and training with Ronan. She’d always been fast before, but now she moved with a speed that still startled her, and her reflexes had amped up.
She’d managed to avoid having Ronan take her down once, but it had been a big improvement. He’d reluctantly admitted to her that she was doing better than he’d expected and, with more training and her added vampire strength, she would be able to take down a Savage on her own. He’d even admitted that, if she kept working as hard as she had been and completed the training, she would make a good Defender one day.
Finally, he had agreed that it was time to contact Nathan, and she’d called him earlier today. She was surrounded by over eight hundred pounds of solid vampire flesh as Ronan and the others stood close by her, yet a shiver of unease raced up her spine. The swings across the way swayed back and forth, their creaking chains adding a creepy air to the already tense night.
Her brother would never hurt her, but the eerie playground, coupled with the fact she knew Nathan wasn’t going to react well to what she had to tell him, made her feel like screaming. She’d told Nathan he could bring some of the other hunters with him, but no more than ten. She really hoped he’d listened to her. Otherwise, this night could end badly, and she desperately wanted everything to go right.
The two men she loved the most could die if this blew up in her face.
Killean kept muttering about killing hunters, and Lucien looked like someone had taken away his favorite toy as he studied the woods with a sullen expression. Declan idly twirled a lollipop in his mouth as Saxon tapped a foot while his hand rested on one of the knives strapped to his side. Ronan stepped closer to her.
“My brother won’t hurt me,” she insisted again.
His hand settled into the small of her back. “You are not one of them anymore, Kadence. There is no way to know how they will react to that revelation.”