Page 47 of Shattered Illusion

The same unconditional love my own parents—or my adoptive parents—looked at me with.

“They loved you to the moon and back,cor meum,” Axel says softly from behind me, making me jump. My hand clutches my chest as I spin around, knocking the unshed tears free to trail down my face. “Oh, sweetheart.” He pulls me into his chest, a place I’m starting to become intimately familiar with, and lets me work through my emotions the only way I seem to know how lately. With tears.

When they’ve all but dried up, Axel steers me toward the front of the house, locking the door behind us before ushering me into the car and buckling my belt. He clutches my hand the entire ride back toward the academy, stopping at a drive-thru for food that I’m no longer hungry for.

As we pull up out front of Stonewell, I’m finally able to shake off the funk seeing those pictures put me in. Axel has been amazing the whole time, just letting me process all that I saw and not forcing the house on me again. But I’m confident he knows, just like I do, that I’ll be keeping the house. There’s no way I can sell it after that.

“Can I walk you to your door?” I snort a laugh.

“Sure. Only if you carry my books.”

“What if I want to carry you instead?” My head whips toward him, not realizing just how close he’s moved, the middle console the only barrier between us.

I pull my bottom lip between my teeth, nibbling lightly. Axel’s red eyes flash down to my mouth before coming back up to mine. Heat resides behind those bloody orbs, tempting me to burn.

I’m not sure who moves first, him or me, but my seatbelt disappears and I’m over the console before I can blink, our lips crashing together in a dance of pent up need. With every swipe of his tongue, I feel myself falling further out of my own orbit and into his. The one place I’ve wanted to be since he waltzed into my home in the human sector.

“Fuck,cor meum,you drive me crazy. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about you,” Axel murmurs against lips, “about what I want to do to you.”

“What do you want to do to me?” I ask, damn near breathless from how he’s making me feel.

“I want to feel you come around my fingers.” Yes, please. “On my tongue.” Shit. “Around my cock.” I whimper, knowingthat’s exactly what I want, too. What I’ve wanted since the very beginning. Virginity be damned. Not that I think he’d care about that pesky little detail. “Are you wet for me,cor meum?” His words make my thighs clench, feeling the wetness pooling between my legs. “Mmm, you don’t even have to answer.” Axel skims his nose across my cheek, sucking in a harsh breath before pressing a kiss below my ear. “I can smell your arousal, little mancer.” The sharp tips of his fangs scrape across the delicate skin of my throat, making me shudder. “Do you ache,cor meum? Do you need me to make the hurt better?”

I nod, all words failing me, but that isn’t good enough for the randy vampire.

“Words,cor meum. I need you to tell me what you want.”

Godsdamn. Him asking for verbal consent is sexy as hell.

“Please,” I cry. Wanting—no, needing—him to touch me.

The smooth leather of the seat creaks as Axel slides it back before he shifts me in his arms, my back flush with his front.

“Last chance,cor meum,” he purrs, his arm snaking up my chest before his hand encircles my throat. “We don’t have to do anything. I can take you upstairs right now, kiss you goodnight, and go home. What is it you want?”

Him.

“Touch me, Axe.”

“Mmmm, never have such sweet words passed between your gorgeous lips.” His hand squeezes my throat, the small action of his strength eliciting a whimper begging to be set free. “Prepare yourself,cor meum. I’m going to make this pussy hurt even worse before I kiss it all better.”

I suck in a breath, goosebumps prickling my skin as Axel’s other hand slides beneath my hoodie and his cool palm presses against my belly. His chilly fingers dance across my heated flesh, drawing a needy whine from my throat. Oh, so quickly, his hand slips beneath my leggings and my panties, straight to my moltenlava core, and my legs spread wider, as much as the small area allows, giving him unfettered access to all of me.

Axel growls as his fingers glide through my wetness, grinding his hard cock into my ass. “Fuck,cor meum. You’re absolutely dripping for me.” A thick appendage prods my entrance before slipping inside easily, thanks to how wet this vampire has made me. My back arches with a cry, my legs trying to close, but Axel’s not having that. “Put one foot on the steering wheel, baby, and the other over the console, then spread those thighs wider for me.”

Doing as he asked, my legs shake as he thrusts that single digit inside of me while I try to maneuver how he wants me, but my knee cracks off the window before I’m able to get my foot placed. “Ow,” I grumble, making Axel chuckle, but he never stops the smooth glide of his finger in my core as he grips my thigh, pushing his cock into my ass to help lift me to shift my other leg over the console.

From this position, even with the limited room because of my clothes, he’s able to get in deeper, harder, faster than he was before. One single finger becomes two, the stretch a delicious ache I know I’ll feel tomorrow.

My foot slips from its place on the steering wheel as he brushes across my G-spot, making the horn blare and me jump in his lap. He pulls away with a laugh before the door is shoved open, and in my next breath, my back is pushed up against the side of the car with my legs wrapped around his waist. He nibbles at my lips as his hips grind into my center, making my pussy clench with the need to be filled by something thicker than the fingers that were just there.

His lips trail away from mine, and I toss my head back, begging for the breath in my lungs as he leaves open-mouthed kisses down the column of my throat, scraping his fangs along my flesh with the promise of his bite.

“Mmmm,cor meum,” he murmurs the words into my skin, pulling back slightly before sucking the fingers that were inside me into his mouth. “Such a delicious little pussy. I can’t wait for you to ride my face and come all over my tongue.”

Before I can reply, telling him to take me upstairs so I can do just that, a throat clears behind us, pausing all movements. Axel drops me to my feet and spins around with a hiss, his protective instincts at the forefront, pointed at whoever has interrupted us.

The muscles in Axel’s body seem to relax at the sight of whoever it is, but neither of them says a word. My curiosity gets the better of me, and I peek out from around his body, coming face to face with none other than the headmaster himself. Jasper.

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