“What are you doing here?” he pressed out tensely, and I couldn’t help but eye his straight jaw, which underlined his masculinity, making this fucker damn attractive.

My eyes continued to wander down to his slightly unbuttoned black shirt, exposing his breastbone and some of his bare skin.

I instantly felt warm and probably blushed a bit, but luckily it didn’t show on me as much as it always did on my best friend.

Embarrassed, I looked up at Adrian, whose gaze was also in a completely different place.

He was staring directly at the upper end of my tight top, where a black lace bra peeked out and accentuated my cleavage, just the way I liked it best. Playful, yet subtle. It was perhaps not subtle enough, because Adrian lingered there a little too long with his intense stare, giving me tingles that turned into goosebumps.

He seemed to notice that, too, because his gaze wandered up to my sternum, straight to my neck, pausing there for a second, until he was able to look me in the eyes again.

An unintentional sigh escaped me.

This had been too much.

For both of us.

With a firm grip around my waist, Adrian pulled me close to him.

My heartbeat quickened noticeably, and I sucked in a sharp breath.

Within a second, he closed the distance that had just lingered like a gaping hole between our lips and pressed me against him.

His lips were soft and cooler than I had expected. They pressed down on mine and his tongue probed wildly over my lower lip before biting into it.

My whole body instantly reared up, and I pressed further against his, because that was all the throbbing between my thighs was asking for right now.

The next moment, Adrian grabbed me by my hips and pulled me up against him. I knew the game, so I wrapped my legs around his body and let myself fall deeper into the intense kiss.

Our tongues played with each other as if they were both searching for something, as ifhiswere looking for something he hadn’t gotten in a long time.

I moaned softly and felt even more heat rising inside me as he carried me, barely noticeable, to a table near the window and set me down on it, not breaking the kiss. On the contrary, his lips pressedharder and harderon mine, pulling at my lower lip until he released and moved down to my neck. I threw my head back, closed my eyes, and surrendered to Adrian DeLoughrey’s demanding kisses. His lips traveled up and down my neck, my shoulder, along the nape of my neck, and my breathing quickened considerably.

Everything about this situation turned me on so much that I could no longer suppress the second moan and finally let myself fall completely. Should he do what he wanted... At some point it would have come down to this anyway.

Suddenly, I felt a very light bite on the back of my neck. It hurt and my whole body tensed. I curled my fingers around the edges of the table I had just been leaning on, sighing audibly.

Adrian sucked on my skin, kissing me, his tongue playing with my collarbone. I was sure he was turned on, because I could feel his hardness between my thighs.

Damn.

He was playing with me like I was his prey. And I was enjoying it...

Then he bit me again, this time in my shoulder.

Chapter 30

Adrian

Never in my life had I met such an attractive human girl. And also, never before had the mere smell of blood driven me so out of my mind. I had to be careful that my teeth did not dig into her warm flesh, and that had never been an issue before.

My lips moved almost automatically on her soft skin, and the smell of her blood was now sweetly in my nose, clouding my senses in an unusual way.

Her moans were already stealing my mind, and so my teeth slid into her soft skin.

The sweetness of her blood was like a drug, and the first drop made me curse softly, but I couldn’t just stop, and so I kept sucking, biting her warm shoulder this time.

I had never been this close to being unreasonable before. But I had to pull myself together. One serious bite and her life would be over.