“Please, Corbin, I trust you,” I whispered,stroking his hair. “Please, I need…I need to come.”
His eyes flashed again, this time with lust.“You have no idea what it does to me to hear you say that. And tohear you call my name when you come.”
“I’ll say it again and again if you want,” Itold him, my need completely overcoming my fear. “Just, please,don’t stop.”
“I won’t,” he growled softly. “I won’t stopuntil I feel you coming for me, Addison.” Then he leaned down andpressed his mouth to my open pussy, enveloping me in his heat as hepenetrated me with his tongue.
I moaned and arched up to meet him. The feelof his tongue inside me, filling me, fucking me, was incredible butI needed more direct stimulation to reach the peak. Corbin seemedto realize that because he moved back up and sucked my clit intohis mouth again. At the same time, two long, strong fingers tookthe place of his tongue and then he was thrusting deep inside me ashe sucked and licked my pussy, making me crazy, making me come forhim.
“Corbin,” I gasped, as what felt like atidal wave of pleasure crashed over me. “God, Corbin, yes!”
I felt his growl of lust through my entirebody as he pressed even harder against me, his fangs two sharppoints bracketing my clit as he lapped and sucked and fingerfuckedme over the edge. The pleasure was enormous—intense—and for a long,long moment I lost myself in it completely.
I forgot that what I was doing was dangerousand illegal and that I had told myself I didn’t even like the manwho I was doing it with. I even forgot that Corbin was a vampire,someone I could never really have a relationship with—I just wantedto feel close to him, to let the seductive power of the pleasure hegave me erase everything else but the two of us together as he mademe come.
But at last the pleasure ebbed and I laythere panting, my hands still buried in his hair. Corbin looked upat me, a little smile on his sensual mouth.
“Delicious,” he murmured. Slowly anddeliberately, he licked his lips.
“I’m glad you think so.” I could feel myselfblushing. “I didn’t…I’ve never been able to, uh, come likethat.”
“It has to be done properly and by one whotruly enjoys it.” He kissed my inner thigh. “And it helps that as avampire, I don’t really have to breathe and my jaw never getstired.”
“Right.” I gave a little laugh. “You couldprobably go on all night like this, couldn’t you?”
“Why?” His eyes gleamed. “Would you like meto? Are you ready to come again, Addison?”
I bit my lip, feeling suddenly nervous. “I…Idon’t think so. I’m surprised you were able to make me, uh, comethat way in the first place.”
“It wasn’t all my doing,” he murmured,giving me a little smile. “You had to trust me enough to losecontrol.”
I sighed. “Yes, well, you’re certainly goodat making me do that. I can’t believe I let you, uh, do that, afterwhat almost happened last night. I promised myself I’d never getinto this situation again.”
Corbin got up on the bed with me. I scootedover to make room for him.
“The most difficult promises to keep are theones we make to ourselves,” he murmured, turning on his side toface me. “Tell me, Addison, are you tempted to break any morepromises?”
“What kind of promises?” I shifted uneasily.We were lying face to face in bed now and our conversation feltstrangely like pillow talk. And as weird as it was to be havingpillow talk with a vampire, it felt oddly right too in a wayI couldn’t explain.
“Oh, I don’t know…” Corbin trailed one longfinger over my shoulder and down the curve of my waist, making meshiver. “Promises about who you will love, perhaps. Who you willtrust with your heart.”
“Corbin…” My shoulders got tight and I feltthe throbbing behind my eyes that signaled a tension headachecoming on. We couldn’t talk about this now—we justcouldn’t.
“Addison,” he mocked lightly, returning myfrustrated frown with a little half smile. “We do not have to speakof it now if you don’t wish but I want you to think aboutsomething: I saw into you when your shields were down. I know thatyou care for me much more than you want to admit.”
“That’s…not true,” I whispered. “I hardlyknow you.”
“You know me in ways no other has incenturies,” he murmured seriously. “You know me well enough totrust me.”
“Not true.” I shook my head.
“Oh, yes.” He raised an eyebrow at me. “Ifyou do not trust me, why did you allow me to glamour you? If you donot trust me, why were you able to come so sweetly while I lappedyour soft little cunt?”
His hot, dirty words made me blush andsquirm. I was desperate to change the subject.
“Speaking of you glamouring me,” I said,looking away. “Who was that girl I saw in your mind? The one withhair like mine holding the baby and crying?”
Corbin looked suddenly serious. “Ah, her.”He sat up swiftly and drew his legs up. He rested one arm on hisknees and looked into the fireplace across the room. There was nofire in it tonight, only some glowing embers. I thought he lookedsad.
“Yes, ‘her,’” I said, sitting up as well.Now that I had broached the subject, I found I really wanted tohear what he had to say about it.
Corbin sighed and then was silent for a longtime. Just as I was about to give up on getting the story out ofhim, he spoke.
“She was my wife—for a little time, anyway.We were married less than a year before I was born todarkness.”
“Oh?” I frowned. “And how did thathappen?”
“I did not volunteer for it, I can tell youthat,” Corbin said grimly. “She who made me passed through my partof the world and took a liking to me. She did not care that I had ayoung, lovely wife I was desperately in love with. She wanted tokill Janet but I wouldn’t
