For a moment his big hand stroked gently over her bare breasts. Addie gasped in surprised pleasure as his callused fingertips caressed her tight tips, sending sparks of pleasure through her entire body. Everything felt more sensitive somehow. It was like every nerve ending was on high alert. Her pussy began to feel hot and wet and swollen and she arched her back, moaning softly.

“Oh, Drago, that feels sogood!”

Abruptly, he pulled his hand away.

“I shouldn’t do this. You’re not in your right mind.”

“Yes, I am! I’m more in my right mind now than I’ve ever been!” Addie protested. She felt that this was true somehow, though she couldn’t have said why. “I’m just trying to find out why you don’t like me. If it’s not my puffy nipples, then what is it?”

“Idolike you, baby,” he said softly. “So fuckingmuch. But I can never have you—never. So we should stop this right now.”

He started to get up but Addie wasn’t ready to let him go.

“Hey—come back here!” She looped an arm around his neck and pulled his face down to hers. Before he could protest, she kissed him, tasting his lips for the first time as she’d always wanted to.

Her Protector stiffened for a moment—then he kissed her back. Running his big, warm hands up her arms he pushed them above her head. Capturing both her wrists in one hand, he held her in place. Then he took her mouth with an urgency she’d never felt before—it was as though he washungryfor her and he couldn’t get enough.

“Mmm!”Addie moaned as he deepened the kiss. She loved the feeling of being pinned down by the big Kindred. It wasn’t lost on her that she was spread out on the bed with her arms above her head and her bare breasts still on display. She felt incredibly helpless…and incredibly hot at the same time. She arched against him, wishing he would stroke her breasts again while he kissed her. If only he would, she was almost sure she could come just from the pleasure of his big, warm hands on her sensitive peaks…

But then Drago pulled back, panting, his eyes glowing in the dim room.

“Is that what you want, baby?” he growled. “You want me to show you how much I want you?”

“Yes!” Addie moaned without hesitation. “But not just by kissing me—you have toproveit to me.”

“Prove it? Prove what?” His brow furrowed in confusion.

“Prove you really do like my breasts—my nipples,” she demanded. “Kiss me there if you really like them.”

“Gods, I shouldn’t…” He shook his head and abruptly released her wrists, which he’d been holding over her head. “Don’t want to fucking take advantage of you.”

Addie wilted, crestfallen.

“So youdon’tlike them,” she said sadly. “You don’t like my nipples after all.”

“Yes, I fucking do! I fuckinglovethem!” Drago protested. “I love how sensitive you are there—how responsive you are when I touch you. And the fact that your nipples are so tender and—what did you call it? Oh, ‘puffy’—that makes them look fuckinghot.”

“Thenproveit.” Addie arched her back, offering her bare breasts, taunting him with her body. “Kiss me there—put your money where your mouth is.”

For a moment he looked confused.

“Put my money where?”

“It’s an Earth saying,” Addie said impatiently. “It just means you have to back up what you’ve been saying with actions.”

“I see.” His golden eyes were half-lidded in the dim room. “So you just want me to kiss them?”

“Yes!” Addie’s breath was coming fast and her heart was pounding. “Just kiss them.”

“All right, then. I guess a kiss can’t do any harm,” he rumbled.

He leaned over her again and captured one of her nipples in his mouth. Then, looking up to hold her eyes with his own, he gave the tender peak a long, hot, open-mouthed kiss.

Addie moaned as the kiss sent sparks of pleasure through her entire body. Finally, she had her Protector where she’d always wanted him! She ran her hands through his thick, dark hair and arched her back to get more of her breast in his hot mouth.

“Yes,”she heard herself purring. “Now do the other one—kiss me again but deeper this time!”

Drago seemed to like her bossy tone because he looked up for a minute, his eyes flashing.