“Oh, God, baby!” he ground out, his eyes mirroring the disbelief in his voice. Even as he collapsed on top of her, he braced himself so she wouldn’t carry his entire weight.
He leaned his forehead to hers and breathed heavily. “I had no idea.
Maya, I’ve never come like that. Never so intensely.”
She smiled and pressed a soft kiss on his lips. “Neither have I.”
Gabriel kissed her deeply, his tongue sweeping against hers in long and commanding strokes. When he released her lips, his mouth trailed down to her neck again, suckling at the same spot where he’d suckled before. But this time, his teeth gently grazed against her skin. Out of nowhere a vision entered her mind: of him sinking his fangs into her and drinking her blood.
She gasped and felt him pull back. “Did I hurt you?”
Maya looked into his passion-clouded eyes and swallowed hard.
And before she could stop herself, she expressed her deepest wish. “Bite me.”
Gabriel groaned. She wanted him to bite her? She was dangling his greatest temptation in front of him when he had no right to take this much from her. Not with what was going on inside him right now, not
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with the urge that had started boiling up in him, the urge to do unspeakable things to her. Things no decent woman would allow a man to do, things even most whores would refuse.
“Oh Maya, you have no idea what you’re offering me.” Conflicting emotions warred in his mind: desire on one hand, caution on the other.
He couldn’t bind her to him when she might be running from him, recoiling from him when she found out what he wanted from her. To fuck her in the most bestial way. She couldn’t possibly want that.
“What’s wrong?”
“If I bite you while we have sex and you take my blood at the same time, we would create a blood-bond – Maya, a blood-bond is forever.
There’s no way out.”
Her response came faster than he’d expected. “You don’t want forever?”
He recognized the disappointment in her eyes, the hurt. He couldn’t let her believe that, not even for a second. “I want forever, but there’s something you have to know about me first.” He paused and closed his eyes before he spoke again. Laying himself bare was the hardest thing he’d ever done, but she deserved it, deserved honesty about the darkness inside him.
“I want to take you in the most bestial way you can imagine, and I don’t think I could suppress that kind of lust for long. Now that I know what I am, now that I realize what my body wants, I can’t hold it back much longer.” He opened his eyes. “Maya, I want to claim you with both my cocks at the same time, take your pussy with one and your – ”
He broke off and looked away, not wanting to see the disgust that would soon flood her eyes. “And your ass with the other. Don’t you see? It’s depraved. I shouldn’t want something like that, but I do. If you bond with me, you won’t escape that, you’d have to endure it.”
His heart beat frantically in his chest. What if she walked away from him now?
“Endure?” With her hand to his chin, she forced him to look at her.
“Gabriel, I want everything you have to offer. We’re both satyr. What makes you think that I don’t have the exact same wish? What makes you think that I don’t crave being taken like that?”
His eyes widened in surprise. “You want this?” He searched her eyes and couldn’t see anything that looked even remotely like disgust.
“Why else would a satyr have two cocks but to use them to satisfy his mate?”
First, she’d called him perfect, and now Maya offered to fulfill his darkest desire. In that moment, Gabriel knew he’d struck gold. She was the personification of everything he’d ever wished for: a home, a loving wife, a fulfilled sex life. And while life would be even more perfect if they could have children, it wasn’t important enough for him to give her up. His mind was made up – in fact it always had been.
“I pledge my heart and my life to you.” His voice almost cracked as he continued, “I want a blood-bond with you, but not here. I want you to have a memory you’ll always look back at as special.” He looked around the room to indicate that this wasn’t it. “When we bond, it will be in a room full of red candles. We’ll lie on crisp white sheets as we make love, and everything will be perfect. I promise you.”
She smiled at him. “Could it be that you’re a hopeless romantic?”
“Not hopeless. Hopeful.” He brushed his lips to hers. “Just promise me you won’t tell anybody. Otherwise it might undermine my position.”
She rolled her eyes. “Men!” And then she laughed. The sound went right through him and warmed his heart. Maya looked happy, and he promised himself that he’d do everything in his power to make sure she was always this happy.
She seemed to realize that he was staring at her and her laugh subsided. Her eyes locked with his and he felt as if she looked into his soul. “I love you.”
He choked back the tears that threatened to unman him at her unexpected declaration. “My heart is yours.”
The kiss that followed turned from sweet and gentle to heated and demanding in the blink of an eye. He was still inside her and growing hard again, having remained semi-hard the entire time they had talked.
He eased himself out of her hot sheath and broke the kiss.
“Something wrong?” she asked, her voice soft, almost sleepy. He recognized it as that of a very satisfied woman. And it satisfied him to know that
