Page 19 of Blood Ties
Losing what little control that was remaining; my fingers gripped Grayson’s hair, ripping him from my neck. I felt his fangs tear my skin, but I didn’t care. My lips fell on his tasting my blood on his tongue. It wasn’t as good as his, but it did something to me deep in my core. It was similar to tasting my arousal on his mouth. It turned me on. Between my thighs instantly grew wet. Grayson ran his tongue up my neck closing the wounds there. His fingers grazed over the damp fabric covering my sensitive flesh. Just the barest touch had me writhing uncontrollably. He tried to push the fabric aside.
“No,” I protested with a small shake of my head. “I don’t want anything between us.” I could feel the faintest smile cross Grayson’s lips as he grabbed the fabric and with one hard yank, ripped them from my body. That one move sent me into a frenzy. I shoved Grayson to the ground. I gripped his shirt and ripped it apart in the same manner he had just done to my panties. The buttons scattered, rattling around before finally settling.
Grayson shifted his weight, rolling us over, pinning me to the ground with his hips. “I need inside you now,” he groaned.
“Yes…” I tilted my chin up and flicked my tongue lightly across his bottom lip. I heard the clink of his metal belt buckle and the rip of his zipper undoing. My back arched off the ground with anticipation. When I thought I couldn’t wait a moment more, Grayson eased himself inside my folds.
“Oh, god,” I moaned, loudly not caring that someone might hear us.
Grayson growled as his pace quickened until he found a steady rhythm, but I wanted more. I reached under the soft material of his shirt and ran my nails down his back deep enough to draw blood.
“Ah!” He groaned before he started pounding into me. I clung to him feeling that familiar build starting deep inside.
“Harder, please!” I shouted and he obeyed. Within seconds he had me crashing hard over the edge just as his body spilled into mine.
Our momentary bliss was shattered when the bathroom door swung opened.
“Gaby? What’s going… Oh GOD!” Shawn shouted as he spun away from the door leaving it open.
“SHAWN THE DOOR!” I shouted. Realizing his error, Shawn quickly shut the door.
“Sorry!” he whispered from the other side.
Grayson eased off of me, readjusting his clothes.
“You should have told me about this, Grayson.” I stated as I sat up looking over the blood stained bathroom. “This isn’t a normal side effect from the transition. Something could really be wrong.”
“Are you just going to have me stand out here all day?” Shawn wondered from the other side.
“No. You can come in.”
“Alright then, I’m opening the door. Please let everyone be descent this time.” Shawn didn’t wait for a reply before the door swung open. “I thought the sun burnt you to a crispy fritter?” Shawn crudely asked. I shot him a menacing look, but he didn’t seem to notice. He was distracted by the room covered in blood. “Is this from you two and your...” He gestured to us resting on the floor.
“No!” I spat.
“Then why the hell does it look like a scene out of a horror movie? What the hell is going on?”
“I’m not keeping blood down,” Grayson mumbled.
“And what? You guys got turned on by all the blood and decided to do it?”
“God no, Shawn!” I couldn’t believe how blunt Shawn was being.
“Well, I don’t know Gabs. You guys are both vampires now. Everything I know about vamp sex I learned fromTrue Blood.”
“I fed him. That’s what triggered our...us...” My cheeks flamed crimson. I didn’t know what to say.
“I thought you just said you couldn’t keep blood down?” Shawn spoke to Grayson, kindly ignoring my embarrassment.
“Only the blood bags. Gaby’s is the only one I can keep down.”
“Grayson,” I whispered drawing his attention to me. “Why don’t you tell me what happened.”
He looked at me and nodded. “It started the night I turned,” he began. “I woke up in the middle of the night with what felt like food poisoning.” Shawn and I exchanged a look. Neither of us had ever had food poisoning to know what Grayson was talking about, but we had grown up with one foot in the human world and knew, somewhat, what he meant. So we both nodded and Grayson continued. “But it was nothing compared to this.” He waved his hand around the room. “I think it’s because even then I had some of your blood in my system, but last night I only had the blood bag. I didn’t think anything of it. You said the transition would make things different. It wasn’t until John pulled up to the building that I really started to feel ill, but I ignored it. Mind over matter,” he sighed. “I was sitting in my office when the first wave hit. It felt like my insides were being shredded.”
My whole body was tense at his words. How could I have been so stupid to think he could just return to the human world like nothing had happened? Shawn had been right. This wasn’t Grayson’s place anymore. His pain, the agony he went through was on me.
Shawn, seeing my discomfort, halted Grayson in his explanation. Grayson hadn’t even looked up until then. When he saw the tears I was struggling with, he was on his feet and had me in his arms in seconds. “Gaby,” he sighed.
