Page 55 of Love & Monsters
“You no longer simply want me inside of you, youneedit. Isn’t that right?” Each thrust of his hips against me punctuated Vadric’s words.
“Yes,” I gasped, vigorously nodding my head.
“Don’t worry, little one. I’ll give you exactly what you crave.” His words teased my senses. Vadric’s hand curled around my neck, pushing my chin up with his thumb. He slithered his tongue along the exposed side of my neck, making me bodily shudder against him.
My hips rolled to meet his thrusts. Our bodies rocked together perfectly in sync. I pawed at his chest and shoulders, wildly exploring his skin while he moved over me. As he moved faster, my breathing picked up. I followed the euphoric feelings. We rose higher and higher together.
It didn’t escape my notice that Vadric and I weren’t playing this time. No feral games, and no erotic pain to go with the pleasure. It was wholly different this time. Each touch was tender, and his movements were gentle.
However, the feeling of his thick cock addled my mind and I couldn’t think clearly past what my body blissfully experienced. There wasn’t a full thought in my head aside from the desire to reach my release with Vadric, because that’s exactly what I needed from him.
“Please.” The word slipped from my lips in a needy, whining tone.
Vadric slowed, staring down at me with the most wicked grin before growling back, “Please, what?”
I didn’t know what I asked for. My vision crossed, and I shook my head, at a total loss for words. There was too much heat between us, and the pressure in my core expanded quickly.
Vadric’s head dipped to the side of my face. I felt his hot breath on the side of my neck, brushing along my bare shoulder. He nudged his nose over the shell of my ear, causing a tingling sensation to run through my belly button to my clit. My walls squeezed his thrusting cock tighter after he pulled my earlobe between his lips.
“Vadric!” My nails raked down his chest. The muscles in my thighs tensed and my hips shook.
“It’s so amusing to tease your supple little body. Your whimpers and moans are music to my ears, Mina.” His fangs carefully nipped my throat. “Now sing for me.”
That monster knew exactly what he did to me when he rolled his hips against me. Every ridge of his cock hit me in the right spot at the same time as his command. A drawn-out moan freed itself from my lips as I exploded around him.
My orgasm rolled through me. It didn’t ease up with each continued pump of Vadric’s hips. The feeling of my pussy clenching him with each wave of my climax pushed Vadric into overdrive. He roared and lost a fraction of his control, relentlessly pounding into me.
His new momentum would leave me internally bruised in the morning, but I didn’t give a damn. It felt otherworldly, and my body continued to climax. My entire body trembled, on the verge of giving out and turning into jelly.
Even as he came, Vadric didn’t stop plowing me. I heard the bed rocking beneath us and the hard slaps of our slick joining bodies. The heady scent of sex in the air added to the haze in my mind. I wanted to drown in everything that was Vadric and what was happening between us.
My entire body seized up at the height of my relentless orgasm. My breath caught in my throat and my cries stopped. Vadric withdrew his cock, forcing a powerful aftershock through me as each ridge quickly brushed over my g-spot.
Still trembling, Vadric pulled me under the blankets and against his chest. The heat from his body and the bed enveloped me instantly. It helped to ease the tension in my frame. I felt Vadric’s heart beating in his chest nearly as fast as mine.
“You’ll be safe here, Mina. I swear it.” His tone was barely an audible whisper as he made his promise. It felt urgent, and although I was falling asleep, I listened.
My fingers brushed over his skin, and I nuzzled my face into his chest, inhaling his masculine spiced scent. His massive body caged me in with warmth and a sense of comfort. “I feel safe right now, Vadric.”
He let go of a heavy sigh, but I got the sense the weight of the world was still pushing him down. I held onto him tighter, wishing I could ease his worries. Vadric’s arms tightened, embracing with me with just as much need and longing.
Through the moments I fell asleep, I was aware of his fingers brushing through my hair reverently and the ardent way Vadric held me close. It appeared he never wanted to let me go, and I didn’t want him to.
My dreams were pleasant, and I slept soundly through the night. Yet when I woke, the side of the bed next to me was cold and empty. Vadric was gone, and I realized his tenderness through the night had been his way of saying goodbye.
Thirty-One
The bed was so cold. It told me that Vadric had left early in the night. He left in silence without speaking a word. He left without waking me to say goodbye. It broke my heart more than I wanted to admit.
Losing my family and my world was still too fresh a wound in my chest. The gaping, raw hole where my heart should have been still ached. While Vadric’s presence and the distractions of the fortress made for mild diversions, time hadn’t healed my grief yet.
There were mornings in the past week I woke up and Vadric was already out in the castle making his rounds for the day and getting prepared with Knox for his war. This time I knew without a doubt it was different.
Hunger and the small lingering hope I might be wrong spurred me on to go searching. I left the room shortly after getting dressed. Perhaps I would still find Vadric somewhere talking to Knox, Ilya, or Anakis as they prepared to march against Rykan. But the castle was empty save for the servants. The silence was so loud it echoed through my skull with each step I took.
Even the great hall was void of life. They still left breakfast out, though there was only enough for whoever they had left behind. My body moved on autopilot as I picked at the options. Just as I sat down to eat, the doors swung open, catching my attention.
Ilya swept into the great hall. She wore a glimmering gold and purple dress that stressed her baby bump and highlighted the lovely color of her skin. Her red eyes narrowed on me, and my back stiffened. That moment stretched as we assessed one another. However, none of the usual vitriol filled her eyes as she watched me, and I noticed how puffy they were.
