CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

 

 

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“Now, don’t get any ideas about ravishing me while I’m somewhat incapacitated,” Jai said and caught the look of surprise on her face a moment before it turned into a fit of the giggles.

“Get off me you muppet,” she said, but couldn’t stop giggling.

Jai liked the sound of her laughter, even if he wasn’t too appreciative of the way her body was making him jiggle up and down with it. “Are you trying to make me seasick?”

Emily spluttered some more laughter at his words. “If you’re going to throw up don’t do it on me.”

“I have no control,” he lied and regretted it a moment later when she used her magic to toss him off her body and onto his back on the floor beside her.

Emily rolled over on her side and pushed up, but unbeknown to her the vampire had a rock-solid grip on her towel. A moment later, she was naked, and he was drooling.

She gasped in surprise and lifted her hands – not to zap him, although that thought certainly had crossed her mind – but to cover her blushes where she could.

“Not my fault!” Jai headed her off at the pass. “I had no idea, and my muscles are still cramped from your magic,” he rushed out and saw fifty different emotions cross her face.

“Oh, I’m bloody sure,” she bit out, as she reached down and fisted the towel. She yanked at it, and his arm came with it, up – down – up – down. “Just let go!” she hissed out.

“Love too, never going to happen, but at least now I know how a puppet feels.”

Emily dropped the towel on a curse and dived for the bed, and she snatched up the top cover and started to wrap around her body. “Stop grinning like the bloody cat that got the stupid cream!”

“Can’t help that either,” he admitted on a deep, melodic, and oh so sexy chuckle.

“Try, real hard,” she snapped back.

“Nope, still can’t do a damn thing about it,” he grinned, and there wasn’t a fang in sight. She noticed – so much so that she stopped huffing and puffing and fiddling with the thick sheet around her and craned her head forward to get a better look. “Am I drooling?”

“Yes!” she snapped back. “But that’s not the point…”

“Then you’re staring at me for what reason?”

“You have no fangs!”

“Oh, I have fangs…”

“No, yes, but not right now you don’t,” she said, and he ran his tongue over his teeth.

“The sight of your naked body cured me,” he chuckled, and she scowled. “Too soon?”

“Depends if you want to live or not,” Emily tossed back.

Jai felt his muscles start to relax a little. “Oh, now I’ve seen what can never – ever – never, be unseen, I most certainly do want to live, my love,” he offered her a devilish grin, and his eyes were smoking hot with desire.

“Well…” she squeaked and grimaced. Then she cleared her throat and tried again. “Well, then behave yourself.”

“I’ll be good.” He said it like a promise, and she frowned – a promise of what exactly she couldn’t be entirely sure.

Emily huffed and turned away from him. She scoured the room for the dry clothes that he’d discarded, and the instant that she spotted them and put one foot in front of the other – there he was – right in front of her blocking the way to … anywhere.

“Very, very good,” he said as he reached out and scooped her up against him before she could protest or make any plans to zap him.

Jai needed one thing and one thing only right then, and that was a taste of her lips. His bloodlust was still there clawing at the back of his mind, but he had a handle on it like never before.

“I suppose you think you’re going to kiss…”

“What a good idea,” he said, and brought his lips down on hers.

Emily froze in place for one long moment as the nerve of the man set her brain to thinking of all the things she could possibly do in revenge – one long moment later, and she was melting against him like a freakish summer snow. She felt her magic slide away as excitement and temptation bid her on, and she was truly powerless to anything but – kiss him right back.

 

 

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Emily had to admit – that vampire was one heck of a kisser! Still, he’d had five hundred years to work on it. When he let her up for air, which she truly hadn’t missed, he definitely looked like the cat that got the cream.

“That was…” she stared up at him for a long moment.

“Like heaven on earth, better than expected – too soon?” he asked when she didn’t say anything.

“I wasn’t going to say…”

“Oh good,” Jai rushed out and went in for another killer kiss or ten.

When she came up for air once more, her brain kicked back in.

“Too soon to lose the sheet between us?” he asked, and her mouth opened and closed like a goldfish, but nothing came out. “Got it.”

He kissed her again, and again, and again until her brain was pure mush, her body was alive like never before, and all she could think about was sex-sex and more sex. Luckily, with him.

“I’m not having sex with you.” Were the first breathless words that came from her lips as she tried to regain some semblance of an actual working brain.

“You’re so right,” he said and kissed her again. This time his hand cupped her backside, and he lifted her against him.

What could she do? For stability sake she wrapped her legs around his waist, fighting the stupid sheet all the way.

Emily felt her back against the wall and his hard length pressed against her sex – that sent shots of excitement straight to her womb, and she tried to bite off the noise that rumbled in the back of her throat but couldn’t.

“This is not sex,” Jai assured her before he dipped his head and ran his tongue against the vein in her neck and a flash of excitement mixed with a whole dollop of curiosity at what his fangs would feel like as he bit down into her vein went through her. “This…” he whispered against her ear as he rolled his hips against hers and sent more feral shots of something delectable to her womb from her sex. “Is making love – me style.”

“You didn’t say vampire,” she breathed out against the feel of his blunt teeth nipping at her neck.

“I’m unique,” he said, and then nipped against her earlobe.

“And I’m …” she didn’t know what she was.

“Unsure?” he asked as he pulled his head back on his neck and tested the waters.

“Umm,” she took a moment. “I am now,” she rushed out.

 “My bad, easily fixable,” he said, before taking her lips again and rolling his hips against hers.

Yep, that would pretty much do it in the nuking her brain department. Sex – sex, and more sex.