Page 10 of Obsession

The undeniable lust.

Twelve

As Renalta felt the weight of her eyelids growing heavier she finished her last sip of the dark red vintage. She closed the book on her lap leaving the corner of the last page she read folded down so she could begin again at another time.

She felt herself comfortable enough to simply drift away to sleep, and leaned over in the high wingback chair that she was dwarfed by. Clearly it had been made for a much larger frame than hers.

Callum stood in the open doorway admiring her sleeping form. Renalta hadn’t even noticed him there as she drifted away to dream.

Simply watched as her slow steady breaths made her chest rise and fall. The ever present beat of her heart, a steady rhythm in his mind that he couldn’t ignore.

He replayed from memory the encounter between Bastian andhis pet.Her reaction to Bastian’s expert touch releasing that potent pheromone that instantly made his cock hard. Callum knew that there was no way that he was letting Bastian have all the fun to himself. So when he found his houseguest asleep in the study he knew his time had come.

Silently as always, he moved from the doorway to Ren’s side. A small breeze followed him— unintended. It seems he moved so quickly to her side that it was enough to snuff a few candles out.

A small piece of hair blew across her face, tickling her nose. Ren’s hand reached up and rubbed her nose with the back of it. Back and forth a few times before it fell down to her stomach. The errant piece of hair brushed aside in the process. Her eyes never opened.

Callum watched as she took a deep breath. Her mouth fell open slightly on the exhale and caught his attention the most.

Her pretty pink tongue fell out slightly to wet the edge of her full bottom lip. He wanted so badly to run his tongue along the edge of her lip, to tease that little tongue out further.

“You have no idea what you have been doing to us…to me.” He whispered softly into the crook of her neck as he grazed his nose against it.

He drew in a deep breath of her unique scent that still couldn’t be masked by living in the mansion with them. Slightly floral and effervescent mixed with the undeniable scent of her fresh lifeblood.

His mouth began to water as his fangs protruded slightly. His hardened cock pressed against his slacks in much the same fashion. Uncontrollable while in her presence.

“I thought I was too old to be smitten by your youthful beauty.” Callum whispered so quietly into the near darkness with only one solitary candle still burning in the room.

He hovered over her lips. A hair’s breadth from touching his to hers. Ren’s soft breath falling across his cupid’s bow lips.

“Kiss me.” He said a bit louder. She stirred but didn’t wake.

Ren leaned forward—helped slightly by Callum— and pressed her soft pouty lips to his chiseled jawline.

A simple kiss like one might give a friend. She lingered there a beat too long though.

Purposeful.

Meaningful.

He hadn’t used his power of influence, at all. She wanted to kiss him.

Soft and sincere.

The room surrounding Callum and Renalta all but disappeared for Callum. His vision tunneled for only the slumbering woman before him.

“I will be here forever for you. I promise that I am yours. All you have to do is ask.”

Callum ran his strong hand down her collar bone from the shoulder to her cleavage. The slow deep breaths made the space between them grow ever so slightly. His focus was drawn to the crevice. The thin blue purple lines of her veins visible to him through her paler skin.

He felt the need to feed on her pushing his fangs to their full extension. The pain in them ever present. Only quelled by feeding.

Callum lifted her heavy with sleep arm and grazed the sharp points of his fangs across her skin until he reached her wrist. The potent scent of her made him lose some of his control.

“Just a taste.” He convinced himself he would be able to stop after a drop.

Slowly he sank his fangs into the soft flesh of her wrist, hitting that deep vein between the bones of her arm. The heat of her life’s blood flowed through his own veins and made him even more enamored with her somehow.

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