Page 5 of The Virgin and the Vampire

“In my pussy,” I whimper as the need for his touch starts to grow to painful proportions.

“And what is my hand doing in your pussy?” he whispers as his fingers stroke ever upwards. He pauses briefly when he encounters my slick folds. “So sweet, baby. I told you this was meant to be. See how wet you are for me already? What is my hand doing in your dream, Gianna?”

“Pushing into me, stroking my clit. Everything.” I pant, my channel beginning to ache with the emptiness.

“Hmm,” Kade murmurs as he pushes one thick digit into me. It’s not enough and I tell him so. “Patience, little one. One day soon you’ll have not only my cock in your sweet innocent pussy but my fangs in your neck. Do you want that, Gianna? To be twice speared by me, pinning you to the bed, taking your blood while I give you my cum?”

God, yes. Yes, I do. I cry out as he inches a second finger in to join the first. The jewels he locked into place on me seem to glow with comforting heat, adding to my overall arousal. When Kadepinches my clit ever so lightly, I shatter into a million pieces. His fingers continue to stroke in and out, soothing me down from that new found high.

“Sleep, Gianna. We’ll make everything official in the morning.”

3

I wake to the sounds of birds trilling outside the window and the steady breathing of Kade. I study his elegant face. Except for the fangs, he looks like a wealthy executive, somewhere in his late thirties. But I know from what he’s already told me that he’s closing in on four hundred. He’s on his side, facing me with one arm flung over my hips. I’m not ready to wake him yet, so I raise my arm and study the design of the bracelet he placed there. It’s beautiful, almost like lace made of diamonds. There are evenly spaced openings in the design that intrigue me. It’s almost like something is supposed to go there. A ribbon, maybe?

When I lower my arm, it’s to find Kade’s dark blue eyes regarding me steadily. He doesn’t speak, but his arm tightens around me, almost like he’s afraid I’ll vanish with the morning light. “What are these holes for?” I ask, pointing with my other hand at the openings down the center of the bracelet.

The banked heat in Kade’s eyes flares to life. “My fangs,” he growls. My whole body flushes with awareness. I bite my lip in consternation.

“Every vamp has a slightly different placement of the fangs. It might be only micromillimeters, but it was a fashion a while back to emphasize that only he had the right to bite his thrall by building it into the design.”

I trace the necklace around my neck. “Here too?”

Kade nods, his gaze fastened with hunger on my moving finger.

“You don’t want to bite me now?” I query because if ever a man looked hungry…

“I do, but it will have to wait. I don’t need to feed if that’s what you’re asking, but you’re far too tempting a morsel to resist for long.”

He swings his long legs out of bed and stands up. I’m suddenly aware that he came to bed naked. I don’t know how I missed that last night, and I’m a little miffed that I didn’t know.

“I’m going to find you something to wear,” Kade mutters as he heads out the door.

After a thorough search of the house, if the banging and cursing are anything to go by, he returns with a chagrined expression, a pair of sweatpants and another white dress shirt. I eye the clothing dubiously.

“These will have to do until after we meet with Etienne. We’ll head back to your house this afternoon so you can pack up.”

“Hey! I didn’t agree to move in with you!”

Kade raises a sardonic eyebrow. “You want me to move in with you? I’m not sure you understand how this works, sweetness. I can’t protect you from a distance and you sure as hell can’t see to my needs from there either.”

I bite my lip. “But I thought… I thought it was like a casual when you need it thing. You said you only need to feed every few weeks, right?”

Kade shakes his head slowly. “That’s the necessary for survival stuff, which is what the club is for. You are so much more than that, baby. I need to keep you close to protect you, to sip from you when the mood is right, like when I’m plundering your sweet pussy.”

My eyes grow wide. Here I was expecting a broken down Toyota and Kade is talking custom Italian sports cars.

“And you’re positive you won’t get bored with me?” I quaver.

Kade sends me a wry smile. “I’m sure, baby. I’m going to locate Doris, so I can find you some breakfast while you get dressed. Come downstairs when you’re ready.”

I venture down the stairs a few minutes later. I look absolutely ridiculous — like a little kid playing dress up. Doris turns out to be a motherly woman with kind eyes that widen when she spots me. I roll my eyes. “The diamonds were not my idea,” I point out defensively by way of an introduction.

Doris smiles but doesn’t say anything, maybe because Kade is glowering while leaning against the counter. “You look thoroughly claimed by an old and wealthy vampire who should not be messed with. Which is pretty much the point.”

His housekeeper rolls her eyes with a gentle smile behind his back which has me choking back giggles.

“So, who’s this Etienne guy we have to meet?”

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