Page 18 of The Mistress, the Monster and the Marquess

She felt him swell, and felt her own body pause in its pleasure, waiting for him.

Benedict groaned and thrust deep, his orgasm triggering hers.

Lina moaned when she felt the warm spill of his seed. She shook against the wall in the arms of her lover. Her fangs elongated, but she turned her head away, unwilling to seek out the blood that called to her. She had taken too much today already.

Benedict leaned forward, shaking in his aftermath, too. He kissed her neck gently,

The gesture was enough to make Lina want to cry.

“Incredible.”

Lina could barely keep her eyes open. She was satisfied to her very core, and it was far too close to sunrise. I need to rest. “My pet, would you stay with me?”

Benedict pulled out of her and gently put her on her feet.

Lina staggered to the mound of pillows and blankets, collapsing on top of them.

Benedict soon lay down next to her, her warm sweaty skin the perfect place to be. “Do you sleep all day?” he asked, stroking her cheek.

Lina was half way asleep already. She curled into his heated body and sighed happily. She had never spent her day resting with a human. In truth it had been a long time since she spent the daytime with anyone at all. “Yes, I do. My butler will lock the door at the top for my safety, then someone will reopen it again at sundown.”

Lina felt Benedict’s panic, but his resistance to leave her was pleasing.

“I can’t stay all day...” he protested.

She smiled to herself and pulled the blanket up over them. “You are safe, my pet. You’re home in my arms. Now, you have come three times and provided us with sustenance. Sleep. You deserve rest.”

Lina felt Benedict relax beneath her and she let a deep healing rest take over her body.

Chapter Eleven.

Benedict awoke, sated, warm and completely relaxed. He blinked twice, trying to remember what had taken place last night. Feeling Lina’s warm, sumptuous body still clinging to him jolted his mind to recall the memories. He was her blood mate and she wanted to turn him into a vampire. Oh God!

Looking down, he couldn’t stop the smile from forming on his face. Nor could he ignore the feeling of complete peace that enveloped him like a blanket. He’d never felt like this, never knew such a feeling existed. Every other morning of his life he awoke with a feeling of dread, his worry and stress crowding his thoughts before his eyes had even opened to drink in the morning sunlight.

Amazing what some incredible sex and being wanted by a powerful vampire could do! He hadn’t realized he wanted to feel so needed. He ran a hand up and down Lina’s smooth, warm back. What am I going to do?

He wasn’t letting her go, and she wouldn’t let him go, he was sure of that. The strength of her conviction and her belief that she would not ever recover from losing him was very overwhelming on one level. But on another however, he felt relieved. He had struggled these past two weeks, being away from her, and he knew his feelings were growing with each and every hour they spent together.

Antony added another level to their encounter too. If Benedict was honest, he had probably enjoyed having Antony with them more than he had enjoyed sex with just Lina alone. Absurd really, but true. He would have to figure out how he felt so he knew what to do when the choice was there to be made.

Lina’s warm tongue licked his nipple.

Heat infused his groin. How could he want her again? His appetite for her surpassed every other encounter in his sexual history.

She sucked his nipple completely into her mouth and used her sharp teeth on the flesh.

Gasping, he ran his fingers through her hair, the thick red tresses silky soft.

She moved further down, kissing his belly and using her tongue to taste the indent of his navel.

Benedict closed his eyes and held his breath as her lips caressed his cock, straining to meet her. They needed to get out of this dungeon. He needed to get his thoughts together and he couldn’t think while they were being as intimate as this.

Her hot mouth enveloped the head, her tongue running around the tip, before tasting his slit which was weeping pre-cum for her already.

He groaned, squeezing her skull; knowing he couldn’t really hurt her made everything so much easier and that much hotter. “Lina!” He moaned.

She took almost his entire length into her mouth, then came back off him again. With a smile, she looked up, catching his eye. “Stay still, pet.”

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