Page 29 of Bound in Blood

She hesitates for a few seconds. Ordinarily, we give her blood while we’re feeding on her, but that’s not possible right now. I run my nose over her cheek. “I’d get my mouth on you and use my saliva, but I’m way too desperate to fuck you.”

Laughing, she opens her mouth, allowing me to slip my thumb inside. She suckles gently, and she may as well be sucking on my dick for the way it has my balls tightening.

“Feel better?”

She releases my thumb from her mouth with a satisfied moan. I waste no further time sinking inside her with one smooth, need-filled thrust, driving in all the way to the hilt and pushing her up the bed. She cries out my name, her tight pussy spasming around me, bringing me closer to the edge I’m already teetering on. I’m going to come inside her in a few short thrusts if she keeps squeezing me like that.

“Kai,” she whimpers.

“I know, baby. You feel so fucking good. You take us all so well. Such a good fucking girl.” I pull all the way out and slam back inside her.

“Oh, god, Kai,” she cries out before sinking her teeth into the pillow, her body shuddering through another orgasm.

Heat coils around the base of my spine, and I pick up my pace, driving home with every thrust until I feel the familiar spasm in my balls and empty my load inside her. I collapse onto my forearms and rest my forehead between her shoulder blades when I’m done, panting for breath, my head spinning with the strength of my orgasm.

I kiss her damp skin. “You are incredible, sweet girl.”

She turns her head and murmurs something unintelligible, a contented smile on her face. I roll off her and onto my side and pull her close while Axl and Xavier nestle in on either side of us. I close my eyes, a smile spreading across my face. For the first time in three weeks, I feel like I might be able to keep all the promises I’ve made to Ophelia about how everything will be okay.

Chapter

Twelve

OPHELIA

Iwake with Axl’s arms around me, Malachi’s head on my shoulder, and Xavier’s leg draped over him with his foot resting on my calf. My muscles ache with a reminder of last night and the way the three of them took such good care of me.

I stretch my legs and wiggle my toes, trying to disturb my three sleeping giants as little as possible. Managing to roll onto my back, I smile at Xavier’s sleepy mumblings and wonder whether Cadence will be awake yet and if she has any news for me. Less than twelve hours have passed since I asked her to look into the blue poppy, but if I know her, she’ll have made it her mission to find out what she could.

Closing my eyes, I search for her and have barely said hi when her voice bursts into my head, as though she’s been desperate to speak with me.Ophelia, girl!

She clearly has something to tell me, and I can only hope it’s good news.Cadence. Did you find something?

Hell yeah, I did. And I hope you don’t mind, but…She goes quiet, and I hold my breath.But she’s part of the blood oath, and Professor Chowdry wasn’t around, and I needed a little helpgetting into the library, so I told Enora you contacted me, and then we got to talking, and well, she…

She what?

She’d love to speak to you too, if that’s all right? She has something super important to talk to you about. Can you do that? Speak to her too? Like a three-way thing?

I don’t know. I’ve never tried, I admit. But I’d love to speak to Enora. She’s always been kind to me, and she was really supportive when she found out about my powers. Besides, Alexandros trusts her, and therefore, so do I.But I’m willing to give it a shot.

I focus on Enora now. The smell of jasmine at Silver Vale. Her warm eyes and the gentle, soothing lilt of her voice. Her mind opens like the click of a lock, allowing me inside.Hi, I say quietly.

Ophelia, my sweet child.Her kind voice makes tears spring to my eyes, reminding me of the day we left Montridge and all we left behind.

Wow!Cadence says.I can hear you both. This is incredible.

Tell Ophelia what you learned, Cadence.

Her enthusiasm appropriately tamed, Cadence gives me a summary of everything she learned about the blue poppy, most of which she found in an ancient ledger about herbs and sleeping spells. Apparently, vampires never built up any resistance to the plant due to lack of exposure to it, but it only remains in their bloodstream for forty-eight hours. However—and this is the most depressing part—unlike other opiates, it remains in a human, or in my case, an elementai’s bloodstream for ten days. Ten long days without my boys being able to bite me. However, the best news is it causes no long-lasting damage, and as soon as it’s out of their systems, Axl, Xavier, and Malachi will be perfectly fine again.

That’s all so good to know, Cadence. Thank you so much.

It was nothing, girl. Glad I could help. We feel so helpless while you’re basically being held hostage by Giorgios.

Had I known of his intentions, Ophelia, I never would have permitted you all to leave with him, I swear to you, Enora adds.

That’s part of the problem though, Enora—we don’t know exactly what his intentions are. All we know is that he’s lied to us about Alexandros. But why? What the hell is he up to?

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