She saw the exact moment realization hit him. 'You can't mean to... '
When she nodded, he yanked on the chains, seeming incredulous that they were holding him.
'The chains have been mystically reinforced,' she explained with a leisurely lick. 'Not even an immortal as strong as you can break them, and you can't trace from them, either.'
He still tried to. 'Let me free,' he growled. 'Is this some kind of revenge?' His naked body was wracked with tension, every muscle bulging as he fought the chains. His arms grew even more huge with effort.
'Not revenge, Bastian.' Once his seed descended again, and he wasn't in immediate danger of release, she removed her robe. His struggles eased as his lips parted. She leaned over, breasts close to his mouth, to prop up his head with a pillow. With his gaze riveted to her body, his battle to be free subsided. When she straddled him, he stilled completely, as if he'd forgotten to resist.
'Closer,' he commanded.
She moved in, holding her breasts to his mouth, one, then the other. He sucked her nipples hard, groaning around each, hands clenching in the manacles.
When she pulled away, he bit out curses—until she moved down his body to take him with her mouth once more. She relished the taste of his flesh, loved how responsive he was, how disbelieving when she licked the base and down to his heavy sack.
'These things you do to me... my God, I didn't know... '
She couldn't take all of his prodigious length, so she used her hand as well, stroking the base.
'Katja, I'm about—'
She gripped him hard, preventing him again, and he yelled out in agony. He dug his heels into the bed to thrust, to shake her hand loose, desperate to lose his seed in any way. Never had she seen anything so erotic as his body twisting in the chains.
But she held firm, and soon he grew drugged with lust, nearly insensible. His chest was slicked with sweat, and his entire body quaked with the need for release. He reverted to his native language, and the things he told her made it clear he didn't think she could understand him. However, she spoke Estonian fluently.
Oh. Had she forgotten to tell him?
He rasped that she was his kena, his darling, that she was so precious to him. He admitted he hadn't been able to tell her that, no matter how badly he'd needed to.
He would die if he knew I can understand him.
He told her he wanted her with him, only him, after this night. Just as he'd been loyal to her and would ever be. For always...
Sebastian hadn't had another that night in Colombia? Emotion trilled through her, making her toes curl, and she became hungrier for him—if possible—and aroused to the point of agony.
Her fingers longed to trail down to her sex for what would be an instant release. Loyal for always? She shivered, kissing him lovingly now, breathing hot and fast. She couldn't stop a moan—
Immediately, he lifted his head, shaking it hard, as if to clear a haze. 'Let me free.'
What had brought about this abrupt change? 'Bastian, this time I promise you can—'
'Let me free, or I will find a way out of these chains.' His demeanor was becoming alarming. His eyes were narrowed and black.
Seeing that he was serious, she leaned up. 'Why? Didn't you like what I was doing?'
He yanked on the chains, straining, as her eyes went wide.
She wasn't at all certain she wanted to release the vampire she'd just been sexually tormenting. While she was naked and needing. And not when his eyes promised retaliation. 'Wh-what do you want to do?' Good money said, To turn the tables.
If she unlocked those shackles, he'd take her this very night.
Now she felt like he was skipping a step.
She hadn't been prepared to have sex with him yet. Yet? Oh, gods. As if it had been a foregone conclusion. She'd only slept with men she'd trusted, and for all of Sebastian's considerable charms, she did not trust him.
He strained against the bonds even harder than before, but no vampire could break through those—he'd only hurt himself.
Suddenly, she became very conscious of how much larger he was than she. His cut muscles that usually thrilled her now made her swallow with alarm. His shaft, which she'd always found so big and wondrous, daunted her.
Everything added up to make her want to run, but when a trickle of blood slid from his wrist, she cried, 'Wait!' and dove forward for the key. With trembling hands, she unlocked him—
In an instant, he tossed her onto her back, looming over her, and began palming and fondling her between her thighs. He groaned to the ceiling to find her so wet.
'Bastian! What're you doing?'
He faced her. 'It's time.' His voice was unrecognizable.
'Wh-whoa, what time? Why now?'
'You're denying us for no reason... you want me, too.' His whole hand covered her sex possessively, rubbing. 'Tell me you don't need me inside you, and I'll stop.' With his other hand, he grasped her breast, brushing his thumb over her jutting nipple. 'Tell me.'
She glanced away, gritting her teeth. Finally, between panting breaths, she said, 'If we do this, Sebastian, there's no making love. There's no claiming me, like I'm lost luggage. This isn't a promise of any kind. Just meaningless sex.' Surely he'd balk at that?
Instead, he grated, 'Agreed.'
'Wh-what? You're agreeing to meaningless sex?'
'Any kind with you, Bride.' The dark look he gave her made her shiver, even before he growled, 'I'm due.'
'So you think you're just going to take the reins?' If he does, I'm lost.
In answer, Sebastian knelt between her legs, shoving them apart with his knees.
Kaderin was so beautiful, her breasts lush beneath his hands, her nipples stiff against his palms. Her sex was visibly wet, waiting to be filled, and his cock throbbed to be buried inside it.
'Sebastian, we can't just do this! I'm not ready—' Her words died in her throat when he slipped his finger inside her.
'You feel ready.' He pressed a second finger in.
When her knees fell wide in surrender, he knew he was about to have her, at last, and nothing would stop him. Not after what she'd just been doing to him—and to herself. His Bride desired him, had moaned around his shaft as she licked it desperately. Her kiss had maddened him, but the idea of her aching for what he could give her was too much to take.
He didn't want to hurt her, though, and he knew he'd never been this hard. He could hold on a little longer and make sure her body was ready for him.
His fingers thrust in and out, slowly, as he played with her nipples, and soon she was as frenzied as he was. 'Bastian,' she cried. 'I'm ready!'
When she tried to draw him down to her, claws biting into his shoulders, he caught her wrists above her head with one hand.
She went wild. Cries burst from her as she arched her back sharply. He'd known taking her would be furious...
With his other hand, he grasped his shaft to guide it in. When the tip met her heat, he bit out an agonized curse, and ran the head up and down her slick sex.
'Please... '
He worked just the head in, and groaned in anguish. The urge to buck between her legs or fall into her was overwhelming. He choked out the words, 'You're so tight.' As tight as he suspected a virgin would be.
She was panting, her soft breasts pressed against his chest as she rolled her hips on his cock head to work more of it inside her. He had to release her wrists so he could clamp his hands on her hips and pin her down to the mattress.
He was desperate for release, for her release. He would follow her if it killed him. As he drove his length into her, inch by inch, he gritted his teeth. When he flexed his hips, plunging deeper, she cried out, and he froze. 'Ah,
