DANTE SLOWLY OPENED his eyes to see Phoenix kneeling next to him on the bed. With half-lidded eyes, he watched her as she touched his belly where he’d come all over himself, and then she slowly brought her fingertips to her mouth and sucked on them.
It took everything in him not to groan, afraid that he would scare her.
She glanced over to his face, and a guilty look crossed over hers.
He released his grip on the headboard and put a hand on her arm. “Hey, you can do whatever you want with me.”
She smiled, and all the guilt melted away.
He looked down at himself. “I should probably go clean up though.” His semen was starting to get cold.
“Oh. Oh, I’m sorry,” Phoenix said as she started to get off the bed. “I’ll go get a towel.”
“Don’t bother. Just grab my shirt off the floor,” he told her. It was closer and already dirty anyway.
She grabbed his tee off the floor and brought it over to him. He held out his hand, but she shook her head.
“Do you mind if I do it?”
Surprised but feeling lucky, he told her, “Sure.”
She used his T-shirt to gently wipe his chest and stomach off. When she was done, he took it from her and threw it in his closet where he’d put it in his hamper later.
When he looked back at Phoenix, she was frowning at his groin.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
“You’re still hard. How is that possible?”
What kind of losers has she been with? “Well, I find myself pretty much hard whenever I’m around you.”
“But you just orgasmed.”
He chuckled again. “It doesn’t matter.” Since she didn’t seem to mind that he was naked and it might be a good thing for him to stay this way for as long as possible so that she’d get used to him, he put his arms behind his head. “Besides, I’ve always been a two-times-in-a-row kind of guy.”
Phoenix hissed. Like a cat.
Dante felt his eyes widen. “Holy shit, did you just hiss at me?” he said the words out of shock, but he was worried that she’d think he’d said them out of anger. He brought an arm down and cautiously grabbed her hand. “I didn’t mean to worry you. Just because I can come twice in a row doesn’t mean I would ever do that to you if you were not comfortable with it.”
Here he’d thought that they’d made a breakthrough tonight, and he’d just set them back. Him and his big mouth.
“I wasn’t trying to brag or anything. I apologize.”
“What?” she said, confusion on her face. “Oh no,” she said with a laugh. “I’m not worried. Just a little…um…uh…” She scrunched up her nose, pursed her lips, and grunted. “I’m jealous, okay?”
“Jealous?”
“Yes,” she said, shaking his hand off hers and throwing her hands in the air.
“But…why?”
“I keep picturing you coming twice.”
“So?”
She gave him a dirty look.
“Oh. I get it. With other—” He was going to say females but stopped when her eyes narrowed. He grabbed her hand again and pulled her on top of him. He rolled them over until he could look down at her face. “I’m sorry. I can’t change the past.”
She sighed, and some of the anger left her face. “I know. I keep thinking about that first time I offered to feed you. ‘When I feed, I fuck,’ you said.”
Dante closed his eyes and winced. Damn. He opened his eyes and made sure to meet hers. “When I said that, I was mad. I’m sorry. I should have never spoken those words to you. And you know that’s not true. I feed from you all the time, and we don’t have sex.”
Phoenix looked away from him. “Yeah, but that’s probably only with me.”
Huh?
It took him a second, but he finally figured out that she felt insecure.
Oh, Phoenix.
Dante was stunned as hell, but this wasn’t about him. “Hey.”
Phoenix continued to stare at the ceiling.
“Hey,” he said again. “Phoenix, look at me.”
She met his eyes reluctantly, according to how long it had taken her to meet his gaze.
“It’s not true. You’re not the only one, okay? As my position as a Guardian, I actually do it quite often. I can’t have civilians get attached to me because I’m a Guardian. Not trying to brag. By the way, it’s my position they’re attracted to, not me. The point is, I said that feed-and-fuck thing because I was angry. I was feeling vulnerable, and I took my resentment out on you. I’m sorry.”
“Apology accepted,” she said somewhat halfheartedly.
Then, because he felt words would no longer do him justice, he kissed her. Gently but thoroughly, trying to let her know that he meant what he’d said.
He broke the kiss when he started to rub against her, and he remembered he was still naked.
“Dante?”
“Yes?”
“I want you to have sex with me while you feed from me.”
He put his forehead against hers and groaned. He wanted that so badly, but he couldn’t let her do something like that out of jealousy. When they made love, he wanted it to be because they both wanted it and for the right reasons.
“Soon, Red,” he told her.
“But I’m feeling good, and I think I’m ready,” she said as she arched against him.
He lifted his head and looked at her. Crucial moment here. He couldn’t say no because she would definitely feel rejected. But he refused to agree to have sex with her and have her regret it later. He needed a perfect compromise.
“I don’t think you’re ready for that yet.”
She opened her mouth, and he held up a finger.
“But I would love to make you feel good in another way.”
She considered this. “Like how I made you feel good?”
“Yes. A little tit for tat.”
She frowned.
“But not because I owe you. I’ve been wanting to do this forever.”
That seemed to make her happy because she smiled. “Okay. But I don’t know if anything will happen. You know, like me having an orgasm.”
“Why don’t you let me worry about that?” Dante said as he got off the bed. He went and grabbed his jeans and slipped them on.
“Why are you getting dressed?”
“I’m just putting my jeans on,” he told her as he walked back over to the bed. “I know you said you’re ready, but just in case you start to feel nervous, I want you to know that I’m not naked.”
“Okay,” she said, not arguing with him. Maybe she realized that she wasn’t quite as ready as she had thought she was.
“Can I undress you?”
She bit her lip. “Yes?”
“Everything or bottoms only?”
She thought about this for a few seconds. “Bottoms only, please.”
He nodded and knelt on the bed, parting her legs. He leaned forward and kissed her again. He could tell that she was nervous, so he kissed her until some of the tension left her body. When he went to break the kiss, she pulled him back and kissed him again.
He moved to end their kiss a second time, and she let him this time. He lifted up her shirt, only to the bottom of her ribs and kissed her belly. He kissed the middle and the sides until she started to melt under him.
Only then did he undo her pants. He got them unzipped and kissed her lower. Over her hips and her pubic bone, using his lips, his tongue, and his teeth. Her breathing got heavier and heavier, so he slowly pulled her pants and underwear down her legs and off her feet.
He kissed each sole and then moved up her calves to her knees. He kissed each leg as he moved higher. As he reached her thighs, he gradually spread her legs and looked upon his prize.
She was pink and wet and covered in red-and-black curls to match her head. She had more hair than the vampires he’d been with and definitely more than the few humans he’d fucked, who shaved themselves bald. But he liked it. It was so…Phoenix. There was no other way to describe it.
He kissed up her thighs, and when he reached the juncture in her legs, he heard her take in a breath, as if she was waiting for what he’d do next. He gently parted her lips and licked inside her.
Fuck, she tastes good. Spicy and hot.
It took Dante several seconds to realize that Phoenix had a death grip on his hair. He thought maybe he’d gone too far, but instead of pulling him away, she pushed him back between her legs. That was all he needed to go to town and feast on her.
She made mewling noises as he ate her out. He made sure not one part of her was neglected. He licked inside her, he sucked on her lips, and he paid extra special attention to her clit.
When he felt like she was ready, he slid his middle finger inside her and immediately groaned against her pussy. She was tight on one digit. He couldn’t imagine what she’d feel like wrapped around his cock.
One thing was for sure. They’d have to do this many times until he made sure that she could take him without any pain. She might be sore and tender after they had sex, but he didn’t want her to hurt.
Dante began to fuck her with his finger as he sucked on her clit. He wanted her to get a little taste of what it would feel like for him to be inside her. She dug her nails into his scalp, and he couldn’t help but smile. She was so into what he was doing; she didn’t realize that she was practically drawing blood.
Dante pushed his finger in as far as he could without causing her discomfort and bent his finger up toward him to rub on the spongy area inside her that he knew would make her come.
He released her clit, wishing he had two mouths as he kissed his way over to the top of her inner thigh. He sucked on her there, feeling for her pulse to make sure that he would miss her artery and hit her vein. When he was sure that he was where he needed to be and that Phoenix was getting closer to coming, Dante sank his fangs into her leg and sucked on her delicious blood.
She’d said she wanted to have sex while he fed from her. He figured this was pretty damn close.
Phoenix was practically riding his hand, so he withdrew his fangs and licked her closed. He barely even touched her clit again, and she exploded, coming all over his finger and squeezing him so tightly that he was sure it was turning blue.
Her orgasm went on and on, and Dante again cursed the lazy fucks who’d had sex with her. Their loss was his gain though because he got to be the first one to make her come.
When he was sure her orgasm had waned, he withdrew his finger and moved beside her to collapse on the bed. He grabbed one of his pillow shams and placed it over her naked body, cursing himself for not thinking of finding something to cover her with before they’d started.
“Holy shit,” she said between pants. She slowly regained her breath.
Dante looked at her and smiled. “Yeah,” he agreed.
She pushed the pillow off her lap, rolled on her side, and curled up to him. “So, when can we do that again?”