Page 100 of Tin God

“And then I thought… I’ll protect her from anything.” He felt her hands hot on his shoulders. “She’s my world now, and I’ll protect her. I’d have abandoned all of them for you, Brigid. Every tie, every responsibility. Every obligation was nothing compared to that need to protect you.”

She brushed a lock of hair from his forehead. “I learned to protect myself years before I turned vampire.”

“And don’t you know that it makes me crazy that you had to do that?” He gripped her on either side of her torso, his large hands spanning the delicate rib cage that protected her heart. “I hate that you had to learn that. It makes me want to break things.”

“Carwyn—”

“No.” He lifted his head. “I have spent my eternity seeking peace, but no onefuckswith you, darling girl. This vampire, they aren’t only killing and burning and destroying, but they’re trying to get in your head. Turn you into someone you are not. Trying to ruin what we are.”

She shook her head. “No one can do that. I won’t let them.”

He opened his mouth and let his fangs grow long. Then, keeping his eyes on Brigid, he slowly sank his fangs into the flesh of her belly, licking up the blood that released and easing the boxers down her hips.

She sucked in a breath and arched into his mouth. “Carwyn.”

“I’m going to bite all over your body,” he whispered. “I’m going to sink my teeth into your breasts and suck the blood from between your thighs. And you will scream with the pleasure of it.”

“That a promise?”

“Yes.” He lapped up the blood on her torso, sealing the wounds he’d made before he made more. He licked down her body and between her thighs, holding her in place as her body became engorged with pleasure.

He nicked the tender flesh with the tip of his fangs, sucking the wound into his mouth and hurling Brigid into her first climax.

Carwyn turned his head while she was still coming and sank his teeth into the flesh next to her sex, sliding his hands under her buttocks and lifting her body into his mouth. He feasted on her rich blood, sucking in the amnis that purred for him.

Brigid reached for his hand, grasping for anything as she convulsed in pleasure. Carwyn reached his hand toward her neck and growled when she grabbed it and sank her fangs into the vein at his wrist.

He felt her enter him, the true joining of their kind. Her amnis curled around his like smoke around cedar, and the scent of their joined blood filled the cave.

Carwyn carefully sealed the wounds in her thighs before he moved up her body, kissing and licking along her torso, raking his fangs along her flesh and raising welts.

He tore down the center of her shirt and parted it, revealing the gentle rise of her breasts.

“I’ll bite these too.” He put his mouth on the right breast. “Mark you, Brigid. Give you a reminder not to leave me again.”

“Talk is— Fuck me!” She gasped as his teeth sank into her flesh on either side of her nipple. He bit down and sucked the tip into his mouth, teasing the sensitive flesh with his tongue before he sucked hard, leaving her bloody and engorged before he moved to the left breast and did the same thing.

Her skin was gritty and he didn’t care. They were streaked with mud and blood, and the scent of smoke filled the room.

She was gripping a blanket so hard it had started to burn.

Carwyn reached over and smothered the flame with the palm of his left hand before he licked at her wounds, sucking and then sealing them as he slowly worked his way up her body.

She scrambled to shove his pants down his hips. “Please.”

“Not yet.” He still had a little bit of anger to work out before he trusted himself.

“Carwyn—”

“Kiss me.” He braced himself over her, caging her with massive arms, this tiny, lethal predator he’d managed to capture and make his own. “Kiss me, Brigid.”

She lifted her hands, and the water that dripped from his hair sizzled when she touched his cheeks.

Brigid framed his cheeks with hands so hot they nearly burned his skin. She lifted tentative lips and pressed a kiss to his mouth.

He softened a little bit, but his fangs were still down.

She licked up the length of one, then the other. She ran her tongue along the edge of his lower lip, sucking it into his mouth.

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