Chapter Four
Babs wanted to scream. Well, she probably would ultimately, but somehow this man was keeping her just on the edge of her orgasm. She shifted her hips, but he moved with her.
“You’re doing it on purpose.”
He looked at her wide-eyed, but she knew he was no innocent soul. “What?”
“You are keeping me just on the edge.”
He smiled and it looked feral. For a moment she thought he had fangs. She blinked. Must be her pre-orgasmic haze. She tightened her grip on him, her nails digging into his back. His eyes bore into her and she could see clear to his soul. It was an old soul for sure.
She didn’t care. She just wanted to come. Then he shifted and he hit that right spot. Oh. My. God.
She screamed as she came. He grunted while he thrusted into her his speed faster than humanly possible. Her body arched and her ovaries sang and it lasted and lasted until she was boneless underneath him.
He rested on his elbow, looking down at her.
“Holy shit, Elias.”
He smiled. Then he kissed her. With a passion she didn’t think possible after that session of sex. This man was a machine.
He rolled off her and snugged her close to him. His front against her back. How did he move her around like she was a doll? He was taller than any man she’d ever met and stronger.
“You are something else,” she said.
He stiffened. “What do you mean?”
“You carry me up a long flight of steps and just move me around like I weight nothing. I haven’t had that sensation since I was a little girl.”
“Does it bother you?”
“No, it makes me feel safe. I feel as if nothing can hurt me when I’m in our arms.”
He snugged her tight. “Nothing can hurt you.”
She sighed. Darkness had fallen while they’d been busy. Then she remembered her dinner. “I never cleaned up the kitchen.”
“It can wait a few minutes. I’m not ready to get up.”
“I’m not sure I can get up.”
He chuckled by her ear and it send a thrill through her body. She wasn’t sure how she was still conscious. How was he still conscious? That had been a pretty vigorous session.
“Can I ask you a question?”
“Sure,” he said.
“What do you do in your lab?”
He let out a breath. “I’d have to show you, but I’m not ready to reveal that yet. Can you trust me to tell you at some point?”
Could she trust him? Her heart was all for it. Her vagina had a positive vote. It was her head that needed convincing. “Okay.”
“Thanks. I promise I’ll tell you. Especially if you tell me who broke your heart?”
“How do you know my heart is broken?”
“Because I can see it in your eyes. You have a sadness that you can’t seem to shake.”
She didn’t know what to say.
***
Elias had dodged the bullet of telling her he was a vampire, but that was only temporary. He had to reveal it. Or could he wait. She said she was leaving when her debt was paid off. Should he pay it for her?
Except. He didn’t want her to leave.
He wanted her to stay. As long as she could as a mortal. He’d be sad when she died, but in his three plus centuries no one had made him feel this good.
She was lively and smart and sexy.
“Who broke your heart,” he said again.
He’d kick some ass, but if that person had treated Babs properly she wouldn’t be here.
“My last boyfriend, Jeff.”
She’d said that quietly and he knew it still smarted. “I’m glad he hurt you.”
“Glad?”
“Wait that came out wrong. I’m glad he didn’t know enough to treat you right. Otherwise you wouldn’t be here.”
She shifted to look at him. “That’s sweet.”
She smiled up at him and his whole world seemed brighter. The sting of his last girlfriend’s rejection became a distant memory. He smiled back.
“You need sleep?”
“I need to finish my dinner.”
Her stomach rumbled at that moment. She tried to get up.
“No, I’ll get it.”
“You’re still my employer,” she said.
“But I’m also your lover. I’ll just be a second.”
He raced down the steps and grabbed her meal and was back. He pause at the door to compose himself.
She blinked when he entered. “That was fast.”
“I know a shortcut.”
She sat up, pulling the covers with her. “Is it okay if I eat in your bed?”
“Yes. As long as you stay in there naked, please eat in my bed.”
She laughed. “Okay. You want some?”
“No. I don’t need much food.”
She looked him up and down. “I would have thought that just to be upright you’d need a certain about of calories.”
“Yes, you’d think.”
He didn’t eat. Some vamps ate. He didn’t enjoy it, but he could stomach a little. He might have to to appease her until he was ready to reveal himself.
She finished her food then put the plate on the nightstand. He’d sat on the edge of the bed. She wasn’t intimidated by his nakedness. This scene was as if they were an old married couple.
“I’ll take this downstairs.”
“You really like your place clean and neat.”
“Yes, I do.”
He was back in a flash. Or almost a flash. He didn’t know how it seemed to Babs. She had thrown off the coves and had adopted a sexy pose. Though any pose she adopted would be sexy.
“You ready again, big boy?”
As if on cue, his dick stood at attention. Her eyes looked they could bug out.
“Did I say some magic word that makes that thing work?”
He laughed. “No, you’re just naked and in my bed.”
She laughed. He slid into the bed beside her. She smelled of wine and meat and those were not bad smells. He felt a slight craving for blood, but as he was an old vampire, he wouldn’t need to feed for long.
But her scent told him where she was in her cycle. She couldn’t have a baby, not that he would be turned on to see her pregnant with his child. Too bad, he couldn’t sire anyone this way. Only with a bite.