“I COULD ASK you the same thing. How did you find me?” Lexine asked, trying to deflect Sterling’s question.
He didn’t answer her question, just like she hadn’t answered his query.
“Why did you drink from him? And what’s up with the unconscious female in the bathroom? When did your parents get kidnapped?”
He could see a look pass over Lexine’s face as she realized that he wasn’t going to let this go.
Lexine had snuck out of the house before everyone else was up, so he had tracked her here. When he’d come upon her lying on the floor as some asshole tried to choke the life out of her, he’d seen red. And, if she even thought about lying to him, she was going to regret it.
She sighed. “I need to be able to track him and the female in the bathroom. The rest, I’ll tell you once we get out of here. It’s not safe.”
She stood up and started to leave the room, but Sterling clasped her wrist and didn’t let go. If Lexine needed to track the asshole, then Sterling was going to be right there with her. He picked up the male’s arm and struck him on the inside of the elbow. As he took deep pulls, trying to take as much blood as possible in a short amount of time, he felt Lexine trying to break free of him. He tightened his grip. There was no way he trusted her not to flee once he let go. When he took enough, he dropped the male’s arm and stood. Sterling spit on the male’s chest before walking out of the room.
Sterling then dragged Lexine into the bathroom where he did the same thing with the female, minus the spit. She hadn’t tried to kill Lexine. At least, going by her lack of injuries, he doubted there had been any sort of struggle.
Once that was done, he and Lexine left the house through the backyard to get to their cars. Sterling had parked his SUV right behind her car when he pulled in.
“How did you find me?” she asked again, pissed.
He couldn’t believe she was the one who was pissed. He’d just saved her ass back there. “I tracked you.”
“How?” she demanded, yanking on her arm but giving up when she realized he wasn’t going to let go.
“I put a GPS on your car.”
He could see the wheels turning in her head, and she was angry with him for tracking her car.
“Okay, that got you to this location. How did you find me in the house?”
“Your phone.”
“You asshole,” she said as she tried to fight off his grip.
He pushed her against the side of his SUV and pressed his body against hers. “I’m the asshole? You are obviously up to something, but you won’t tell anyone or ask for help. You almost died tonight, Lexine. If I hadn’t tracked you here, you would have died. And you’re angry with me? I don’t think you have that right.”
She lifted her chin. “I don’t think you have the right to track me down. I’m going to make sure you never do that again.”
He shook his head. “You and your stupid pride. You can’t even admit when you’re wrong. And I’m sorry, honey, but you can use a different car and you can turn off your cell phone, but you can’t get rid of your blood. And, if that’s what it takes to see that you’re safe, then that’s what I’m going to have to do. And seeing as how you drank enough for both of us tonight…” Sterling used his hand that wasn’t holding on to her wrist to bend her head to the side.
He expected her to fight him even more, but she didn’t fight him at all. It was like all the fire had left her body. It was one thing to take her blood when she was mad and getting in his face, but with her like this, he couldn’t do it. He felt too much like a predator, and she was his prey.
He let go of her wrist and used his vehicle to push himself away from her.
He couldn’t understand what happened next or why it happened, but Lexine flung herself at him. She beat on his chest with her fists as she started sobbing. Sensing that she needed to get this out, he let her use his body to vent her frustration.
It went on for some time until she collapsed against him, and the same arms that had hit him now burrowed into his back as she buried her face in this chest. Without hesitation, Sterling wrapped his arms around her and stroked her hair over and over.
She sniffled against him a few times, but the crying seemed to have stopped when she looked up into his eyes. He expected to see sadness and vulnerability there, but instead, he saw raw heat.
She had never looked at him that way.
“I’m still mad at you,” he told her.
“I’m still mad at you, too.”
That was enough for him to let go of her and back away again, except she grabbed on to his shirt and pulled him down to kiss her.
He knew he should end this, but while she had vented her feelings, his were still brimming on the surface. How dare she scare him like that. Didn’t she know how much—
She bit his lip, and Sterling lost what was left of his self-control. He pushed her back against the side of his SUV and took her mouth. He cupped the back of her head and pushed his tongue inside her mouth. She moaned against him, which only made him kiss her harder.
He wanted her so badly, and apparently, she felt the same because she unbuttoned his jeans and pushed her hand in to grasp his cock. He reached under her sweatpants and cupped her bare ass. He ground his cock against her as much as he could with her hand still enveloping him.
He wasn’t sure who did what next. All he knew was that they both went from dressed to Lexine wearing only one leg of her sweats while his pants were pushed around his knees. Lexine grabbed on to his neck and jumped up, wrapping her legs around his waist. Sterling pushed her butt against the vehicle and thrust inside her.
Neither of them seemed to care that they were outside where anyone could walk or drive by. The big trees only blocked so much, but at the moment, it didn’t matter.
They were in a frantic rush. There was no other way to describe it, except as him pounding into her over and over again.
She dug her nails into his back and ass and told him, “More,” and, “Harder,” as if he even thought about slowing down.
Then, she moved one of her hands to the back of his head and pushed it into her neck. “Do it, Sterling.”
He kissed her there and sucked until she moaned, but he didn’t do the one thing he was dying to do. He couldn’t forget the way she had just stood there earlier.
“Do it, Sterling. I want you to. I want you to fucking bite me. Take my blood. I want to be inside you, the way you’re inside me.”
Fuck if those weren’t the most erotic words ever spoken to him, and Sterling struck. He hesitated for a moment after his fangs were inside her neck, but she moaned so loudly and clenched her pussy around him, so he knew she had been truthful when she said she wanted it.
He sucked on her as he thrust inside her.
“Oh my God, I’m going to come,” Lexine said into his ear. “Oh, please, don’t stop. Right there. Oh, fuuuuck,” she cried out as she convulsed around him.
Sterling withdrew his fangs and licked and sucked on her neck while he waited for her orgasm to finish. When he could tell that she was nearing the end, he pushed inside her once, twice, and three times before he came in a rush, too.
He withdrew from her body and set her feet down on the pavement. He kissed her again as he slid his hand between her legs and pushed two fingers inside her, so he could feel himself there. She was wet with his cum, and he pushed it further inside her. He used the rest to rub over her clit, and she clutched his shirt and gasped into his mouth.
He wanted to fuck her again and tell her that, this time, he wanted her to take his blood even though that was not a possibility. She wasn’t his mate, and right now was the wrong time to even think about a baby. She was caught up in a mess so deep that he feared she wouldn’t get out of it.
Sterling continued to use his fingers and thumb until she came again. Only then did he withdraw his hand. He brushed his fingers against her lips and kissed her one last time, so they could taste themselves together.
He broke the kiss and pulled up his pants. He bent down and helped Lexine get into hers.
As she slid her foot inside her shoe, he said, “We should probably get out of here. You said it wasn’t safe.”
He almost regretted his words because her post-orgasmic look changed to one of panic.
“Let’s go,” he said. “We’ll meet somewhere, and you’re going to tell me everything.”
“Okay.”
“Everything,” he reiterated.
“I know,” she said with just enough irritation to make him smile. “But you’re not going to like it.”
“Honey, I haven’t liked it from the start, but at least I will no longer be in the dark.”