The room was dim, with only the side table lamp illuminating the space. His human lay on top of the blankets. She was on her side, legs curled towards her chest with a book clutched tightly to her breasts. He removed the paperback, the cover brought a smile to his lips. A half-naked male, the title said Demon Shifters. Brant shook his head while placing the book on the side table.

The dress she was wearing was open all the way down her back, it hugged her ass and accentuated her full breasts. His blood heated and his hands itched to touch her. Brant let out a pent up breath. He was worried how seeing her again would affect him. She still carried the faint undertones of Zane’s scent, but for some reason seeing her in his bed made it easy for him to push that fact aside.

It had been a long hard day. What he needed right now was a hot shower. He would not touch his future mate until he had prepared for her. He undressed, making quick work of his clothes and made his way to the bathroom. He turned the faucets on and entered the cubicle, allowing the hot water to massage his skin. Taking some shower gel, he lathered himself including his hair before rinsing the suds from his body. Now that he had seen Tanya, he couldn’t wait to touch her smooth creamy skin. He brushed his teeth. Using one of the fluffy white towels, he dried off and strode back to his suite. She was exactly as he had left her. There was a tiny snorting sound and he realized that she was snoring ever so softly. His mouth drew into a smile.

His little human was adorable.

Right now, he wished he hadn’t been away for so long. There were many things that needed doing though and he had needed time to think things through. The current situation was not of Tanya’s making. This had to be very difficult for her. Brant would do everything in his power to keep her happy. He would have to find a way to tramp down this possessive streak as well, even if it killed him.

Brant slid in behind her. Soft ass pressed up against a very hard part of him. Taking his time, he trailed his fingers down the length of her spine nuzzling into that soft spot at the back of her neck. Tanya whimpered.

Brant carefully brushed her hair to the side, so much skin, where was he to start? He took her earlobe into his mouth and nibbled and sucked alternately until she moaned. Next, he moved to the sensitive patch just below her ear. His delectable human arched back into him, mumbling something incoherent ending on a sigh. Even in sleep she was highly sensual. It was when he ground his hard cock against her perfectly rounded ass that her eyes sprang open in a gasp.

“I missed you.” Brant slid his hands around her cupping her exquisite breasts loving how her nipples turned to stone beneath his palms.

So responsive.

“You were gone so long.” Her voice held no trace of sleep, it held a husky tone that made him harden up a whole lot more.

“I will make it up to you, Cenwein.” He rubbed himself up against her ensuring that sweet contact was made with her entire slit, honing in on where her clit would be nestled. The sound she made told him he had hit the spot. The intoxicating scent of her arousal filled the air. His human arched her back in such a way that had his hands overfull with her lush mounds while her ass came up flush against him.

Taking the hem of her dress, he slowly tugged it up, wanting to see the material bunched at her hips. Up and up he pulled until the soft globes of her ass came into view.

No underwear.

Without realizing it, he had moved back to get a better look. His little minx pushed her ass out even further.

“Christ.” He swallowed hard. Her pussy was the perfect shade of flushed pink. His mouth watered. His entire body tightened in anticipation. Her slit glistened with her arousal. “So pretty.” Brant couldn’t help himself. Ever so slowly, he slid a finger from her opening across her entire slit settling on her swollen clit. Her nub tightened under his ministrations. She whimpered. Brant loved the little sounds of pleasure.

“I need to taste you.”

“Yes,” she whispered sounding so needy that he was tempted to ram himself into her welcoming flesh, knowing that he could make her come with just his dick. Instead, he flipped her onto her back. She didn’t realize it but her legs had fallen open. Her eyes were half-mast. Her cheeks were flushed. Placing a hand on each thigh, he opened her further.

Swollen, glistening, the scent of her arousal almost took him over the edge. His fangs ached to descend and he clenched his teeth to prevent it. His little human squirmed in anticipation. Her hips tilted towards him as if to urge him on.

Brant lowered his head, not sure where to start first. He had to taste her, needed to sample her sweet pussy. One swipe of the tongue across her opening, Brant closed his eyes to savor the taste.

Tanya whimpered, bucking her hips as he made contact. “Please,” a needy cry.

He went in for a second taste, this time he speared her opening with his tongue pushing himself as deep as he could go. Only once his little human was begging in earnest did he move to her clit, sliding his tongue over the bundle of nerves ever so slowly. Next, he inserted a finger into her tight sheath. Brant pumped in and out at a leisurely pace feeling her excitement grow as her body tensed in preparation for her orgasm. He picked up speed, adding a second finger. Her head was thrown back, she clawed at the sheets and came apart on a high pitched scream.

So fucking expressive, his dick throbbed.

His cell phone rang. It was on the bedside table where he had left it when he’d come in earlier. Brant had to stretch to reach it. The screen showed that it was Xavier. He answered with one slide of the thumb. “Yeah?”

Xavier chuckled, “I take it your mate is fine.”

“You have no idea just how fine.”

Xavier chuckled and ended the call.

Tanya had propped herself up on one elbow. “Who was it?” Wide, chestnut eyes looked at him with concern.

“Just Xavier checking up on you.”

“Oh.” Her cheeks heated. “He heard me. Oh shit.” She nibbled on her bottom lip for a second. “Half the hall probably heard me.”

“The only other vampire on this wing is Stephany. The sounds of our love making are to be expected.”

She groaned, falling back onto the bed and covered her face with one hand.

“I adore the noises you make. Don’t stop making them.” As he talked, he moved up her body loving how she locked her legs around him as he drew eye to eye. Brant lowered his mouth to hers. She moaned as their lips meshed. He deepened the kiss keeping the pace slow and easy. The tip of his cock nudged at her slick opening. So warm, so welcoming.

“I had promised myself that I would take you slowly, that I would savor each and every thrust.”

“Sounds good,” a little breathless.

“I don’t have the willpower.” He drove into her hard knowing she would be ready for him. She cried out, automatically lifting her legs higher onto his back so that he would be able to take her deeper. Using one hand to grip her thigh, he splayed the other on the mattress next to her head. “Feels so good.”

“Yes,” she cried and he thrust into her again. Her velvet sheath so tight it almost hurt. A few more glorious thrusts and already his balls were pulling up. No female had ever had this effect on him. The need to feel her soft flesh against him almost overwhelmed him. Brant jerked at the fabric covering her. It came apart easily, giving him access to what he wanted.

Soft, silky skin. Hard nipples that speared his chest. Brant continued to thrust, working hard to keep his release at bay. He grit his teeth. Sweat beaded on his brow. He was grunting with every stroke but couldn’t stop himself from doing it.

His human was perfect in every way.

The desire to drink from her rode him hard but he was able to tramp it down, but only just. His balls were so tight. It physically hurt to keep from coming. Brant slid a hand between them using it to strum on her clit. Tanya screamed as her pussy clamped down around him. He roared as his semen filled her with hot jets. Brant turned his head as he jerked into her ensuring that she rode out the pleasure right to the very end. Keeping his weight on his hands, which were now both on either side of her head, he watched as her eyes fluttered open.

“You destroyed my dress.”

“I’ll buy you more.”

Her eyes narrowed in mock anger. “You’ll be more careful in the future.”

“That might entail you walking around semi naked from now on. Something that allows for easy access and for the record, I like the no underwear thing.”

She smiled. “Now you’re sounding just like Zane.” Her eyes widened as she realized what she’d just said.

It wasn’t easy to school his reaction. The thought of Zane having easy access to this beautiful woman. Of the bastard king…of his female…best he not torture himself.

“I’m sorry I…” Her face had clouded.

“You have nothing to be sorry about.” It was with reluctance that he pulled himself from her warm body. His cock had decided that it was ready for round two. Although he would take her again before she went back to Zane, she would need rest first. He planned on taking her just before she left, with no chance of a shower. Let that bastard get a taste of what Brant had felt yesterday morning. He knew that Zane would scent him on her either way, but if she didn’t shower his scent would be so much stronger.

He brushed his lips against hers. Pulling her into his chest, he found for the second time that night that he was amazed at how well she fit. How right it felt to have her in his arms. “I’m sorry I was gone so long, I will make it up to you when you come back. I believe I owe you a candle lit dinner and a long walk.”

“We also need to get to know each other better.” Tanya lifted her head to look him in the eyes, her eyebrows bobbed up and down. Brant chuckled.

“Oh we’ve hardly even brushed the surface on that one.”

She smiled wickedly, her tongue skimming the expanse of her bottom lip. “I think someone wants to continue now.” She gestured to his engorged cock.

“You are an unmated human. You should rest first before I take you again…” His words ended in an astonished groan as she slid down his body and took the head of his cock into her mouth. Her full raspberry lips surrounded his head. Her wicked tongue did spectacular things to the slit at the top of his shaft. Oh by the gods it felt good. Vampire females didn’t go down on the males because their fangs got in the way. Not so with his human. One of her blunt teeth raked against him and he groaned loving the sensation.

“Cenwein,” he choked out.

She released him and he fisted his hands to stop from pulling her back onto him.

“You were saying?” Her sultry voice was almost his undoing. Tanya smiled, so sexy it could almost be termed predatory. Then, her gaze moved back to his engorged head which she took back into her warm, wet mouth. This time she took him as deep as her throat would allow. It was his turn to fist the sheets, to make ridiculous grunts and moans as she sucked him. Never in his wildest dreams had he ever imagined something could feel so good without actually being inside a female’s body. Something about seeing Tanya’s mouth surrounding him, watching her head bob up and down. Seeing the sway of her breasts as she took him deep, suckling at just the right degree of pressure.

Tanya picked up speed, her tongue sliding across his rim in an arch that had his balls pulling up. She laved a second time before deep throating him. He so wished he could delay his pending orgasm but his body was reacting to this erotic woman. His human. His future mate, come war or blood rivers. He would do anything to ensure that she stayed at his side. It was on that thought that he erupted, shouting his release, not caring if the whole manor heard him. Incredible how she swallowed him down in greedy little gulps. It almost had him coming a second time. He moaned when she used the tip of her little tongue to lick him clean.

“Better?” Her lips were slightly swollen. The raspberry color had become overripe.

“By the gods.” He was panting heavily.

“Don’t tell me you’ve also never had a blowjob?”

He felt his hackles rise. His blood ignited. “Also?” This time it was a struggle to repress the turmoil he was feeling and the word was out before he could think.

Her face crumpled and she covered it with her hand as a sob escaped her.

Brant felt like a jerk. “Hey.” He threaded his hand through her hair and used the other to pull her to him. She refused to meet his gaze. “I’m sorry. It just slipped out. I’m a possessive jerk. It is perfectly normal that you would…pleasure Zane while you were with him. You need to get to know him better, check for compatibility.”

She made a growling noise. “Is that all this is to you? Sexual compatibility? Heirs?”

“You know that it isn’t.” He cupped her face using both his hands. Her lashes glistened with tears and her lip quivered as she spoke. It made him feel like he’d been stabbed in the heart with a silver tipped arrow. “The reason I’m so possessive is because I’m developing feelings for you. I want a relationship, a union. I want a family.”

“I want the same, but I don’t want to choose. I don’t think I can. Stephany said that—”

“Stephany?” He really needed to have a word with his trusted assistant.

“Don’t be mad at her, right now she is the only friend I have. Please?”

Everything in him softened. How could he refuse her anything? “I understand. In eight days’ time you will need to choose though Tanya. Best you be prepared.”

She sat up fumbling with her dress, she was trying to cover herself from him. The dress refused to cooperate so she finally wrapped her arms around herself. “And what if I choose Zane, would you walk away?”

“No,” Brant growled the word unable to fully control his emotions. He banded his arms around her and pulled her to him crushing her against his chest. “He won’t have you. I won’t let—”

Her little hands were splayed on his chest, they pushed so he released her. “Exactly. If I choose you. Do you think that Zane will let me go?”

Damn, he hated where this was going. He could guess what she wanted to ask of him and hoped she wouldn’t do it. It was the one thing he couldn’t give her.

“I don’t want to choose.”

Part of him wanted to leave it there but that would be cowardly. “What are you saying?” He ran a hand through his hair and felt his jaw lock.

“I could mate both of you.”

His blood turned to acid. His vision swam. His fangs and claws erupted. Brant could feel that his eyes were glowing. He leapt from the bed to the far side of the room and before he could stop himself, had fisted large holes in the wall.

The door crashed open and Xavier entered. Tanya yelped and grabbed for a sheet.

“Get the fuck out!”

“You are unstable my lord.” Xavier took several slow steps towards him as he spoke.

“I am fine.”

His brother’s eyebrows arched as he glanced at the holes in the wall and back. “I see that.”

“I won’t harm my female.”

Xavier looked down for a second or two before lifting his eyes to meet Brant’s. “For the record brother, I think that the human is on to something.”

Without thinking, he punched Xavier square in the jaw, just managing to hold back at the last second so as not to inflict too much damage. Tanya screamed. Stephany crouched next to his fallen brother, her eyes blazed. He wasn’t sure when his assistant had arrived.

“Have you completely lost your mind Brant?” she asked calmly.

“Is that how you would speak to your king?” He realized he was being a dick but couldn’t stop himself. The thought of this arrangement continuing beyond the new moon was unacceptable. Brant turned his gaze on Tanya who sat in the center of his bed wide eyed, sheet clutched to her. Just by looking her way, he felt his demeanor soften. Felt everything in him soften. “I hope that you will choose me,” he paused. “But know that if you do not, I will kill Zane to have you.”

Silent tears tracked down her cheeks as he spoke and he longed to go to her to give her some measure of comfort, instead he picked up his pants and strode from the room.