The Warlord Wants Forever

One hand pinned her wrists above her, the other shot up her skirt and ripped her panties completely from her. His fingers roved, hot and slow over her, teasing. He knew exactly how to set her on fire, using the moisture from her own body to slide his thumb around her clitoris in slow, slick, mind-numbing circles.

'So wet,' he rasped against her breast. 'As soon as I saw you, I wanted it to be you.' His lips took her hardened nipple, sucking on it till it throbbed. He turned to the other one for the same attention.

Myst made a decision then. There was simply no way she was going to miss this.

She moaned in truth, unable to control herself as lightning fired outside in conjunction with the emotion inside her. When he plunged one finger into her, withdrew, then thrust two deep within her, she wanted to come around them. He slid them into her unhurriedly but with enough force that she was rocked to her toes each time.

She arched her back more, wanting to offer up her breasts. She spread her legs, taking his fierce touch. 'Don't stop,' she panted, so close, aching to reach for his shaft. But he'd captured her hands above her.

'Never.' He thrust harder, until she didn't know if her toes even touched the ground, then he spread his fingers inside her as if preparing her for his size. Her head fell back and she moaned at the overwhelming feeling of fullness.

She raised her leg to lay it over the knee he'd placed against the wall as if just for that purpose. Spread to him, she ground her hips wildly.

At her ear, he rumbled the words, 'Come for me, milaya.'

'Ah, yes…Wroth,' she moaned again, about to succumb to his stroking. She gave a strangled cry and climaxed with a fiery, wet pulsing that staggered her and made him groan as if he had as well.

'I can feel you come,' he grated while she clutched him, rolling her hips against his masterful touch until she was too sensitive to continue. But he didn't stop until she was mindlessly moaning his name in his capturing arms.

When she was spent, she sagged against him, still weakly undulating for him. Her nipples were wet and achy from his tongue.

He cupped the back of her neck and yanked her up to face him, gazing down at her with lust, but his words were more. 'I will be good to you, Myst. I will protect you. You are mine.'

He was saying these things because he was about to shove into her with that huge shaft, to claim her. A true vampire's Bride. He took her leg and clutched it to his hip, about to free himself.

Her half-lidded eyes had just widened with true alarm when she heard the merest whisper at the gateway to the dungeon.

Before he could react, Myst flung herself away. Why would she do that? His hand shot out to pull her back, but she shrank from him. Why wasn't he inside her right now? He'd made sure she was wet, ready to receive him —

He heard movement and jerked his head around, fangs sharpening in fury.

'Look at the lovebirds.' A creature similar to Myst was standing at the entry to the cell, a bow at the ready.

A second one with bright, glowing skin joined the first, happily chewing gum and flipping a dagger in the air. 'Don't make me look—I think I'll be sick. Myst, cavorting with a vampire is a new low even for you.'

'What is this?' Wroth demanded, stalking toward them.

The archer nocked an arrow with supernatural speed and let it sing without hesitation. He lunged to dodge it, but she'd anticipated his move and the arrow pinned him to the wall. A second took his other shoulder, drilling its tip half a foot into the stone. He cast her a killing look, then lurched forward to simply let the arrows tear through him, but the shafts were ringed like shank nails.

When he realized he wouldn't be moving, he bellowed with rage.

He saw Myst pulling her clothing together, turning for the door. 'Don't you walk away from me.'

'So sorry to interrupt your plans for tonight.' She cast him that hurt look. 'You almost made me forget that you'd come down here to torture me. You want to learn? Know that we hate torture. It starts to add up over the years—'

'That was before I knew you were my Bride.'

Her face went cold in an instant. 'Before you knew you could finally screw me? Now that your body's in working order, I don't feel the skin flayed from mine?'

'You're my Bride. Mine. You belong to me.'

She flew back at him, enraged. The bright one tossed her a dagger and Myst caught it behind her without looking. Again his mind demanded to know what she was.

She pressed the blade to his jugular. Her pupils were silver and lightning bombarded the castle. 'If I belonged to every man who wanted it so or to every vampire I've blooded there'd be nothing left of me. But no one cares about that.'

'You've not blooded others. They would be here protecting you, fighting for you.'

'Not'—she leaned in closer, tilting her head like an animal—'if I killed them all.'

Then she grabbed the back of his head and pulled him to her, pressing her lips against his. She kissed him hard. Yet he soon tasted…her blood? Just as he groaned, she drew back with an inscrutable expression on her face.

Unimaginably warm and rich, her blood was as exquisite as everything else about her, and he shuddered in ecstasy at the luscious taste. 'You know I'll want nothing else now,' he rasped.

In response, she snapped her teeth at him. To the others she commanded, 'Leave him,' then exited the cell.

The archer and the bright one exchanged a confused glance. 'And by ‘leave him' you clearly mean leave him beheaded, disemboweled, and chock full of quills like a pincushion.'

'You heard him—I'm his Bride.'

'Ohhh,' the bright one said, blowing a bubble. 'You mean he hasn't, uh, you know, released, the first time since his blooding?' Then with a quick glance at his crotch, she said, 'And he stays like that without you, right?' She chuckled. 'I'm cool with the plan.'

The archer wasn't convinced. 'Don't get me wrong, I enjoy condemning vampires to unending sexual torture as much as the next fabulously talented huntress…' When Wroth heard a guard charging in, she leisurely shot an arrow in that direction, tilted her head at the result, then sighed to Myst, 'But Vampire Bride just sounds so B-movie. He just dragged you down to B-moviedom.'

The bright one made her voice overly dramatic, saying, 'For that alone…he must die. Seriously, Myst. Your ‘husband' has irrevocably damaged your street cred unless you kill him like the others.'

They were all mad.

And still he was hard, aching for her body, for the blood she'd given him just to torture him. 'You evil, teasing bitch. Kill me then.'

For just the merest second he imagined he saw compassion in her eyes, but when she shrugged, his hazy mind finally grasped that she was going to leave him here with nothing but a body knotted with lust for her and a taste of blood that he would go to his knees for. 'You're the most malicious bitch I've ever known.'

'Flatterer,' she chirped.

Across the corridor, she easily leapt to the window forty feet above, opening the shutters to draw the unfortified bars from the space as though she might pluck back a curtain. She held a hand down for the others.

'I will find you,' he bit out. 'I will find you and make you pay for this a thousand times.'

The bright one leapt up and caught Myst's forefinger with her own. 'Sounds like he's setting up a date,' she said as she dangled.

'Oooom,' Myst purred, her gaze flickering over him. 'Dress casual.'