Julian tossed aside the remains of her shirt as his gaze ran hungrily over her full breasts and rounded curves. At first, he couldn’t bring himself to touch her. He was half afraid she might disappear, or the blood staining his soul might spread onto her, but his hand was drawn to her. When he rested it between her breasts, her racing heart assured him she wouldn’t vanish, and when he ran his hand between them, no blood streaked her ivory flesh.
“You’re real,” he whispered.
“I’m real,” she assured him.
She resisted drooling as she ran her hand down the center of his chest and across the corded muscles of his eight-pack abs. Her fingers played with the trail of black hair running from his bellybutton to the waistband of his sweatpants.
Straining against his pants, his erection caused apprehension to niggle at her again, but she shoved it aside as she grasped the waistband of his sweatpants and pulled them lower. The way he was sitting made it impossible for her to get them past his hips.
Grasping her ass, Julian lifted her and turned her over to pin her beneath him. He gazed down at her flushed face as her lashes fell to shadow her eyes, but when they flickered open, the love filling her golden-brown depths stole his breath. He didn’t know what he’d done to deserve her, but if she let him, he would spend an eternity loving her.
“You’re beautiful,” he whispered and bent to kiss her.
She smiled against his mouth as her hands slipped up his back to grasp his shoulders. Julian broke the kiss to tug off his sweatpants. He shifted to pull them down and kick them aside. At first, she couldn’t look at the erection against her thigh, but then she bit her lip and steeled herself to gaze down between their bodies.
She gulped when her eyes landed on the rigid, thick length of it. It wasn’t the first one she’d seen, but it was the largest, and it would be the first one inside her. She forced her fingers not to tremble when she grasped his shaft. It was hot against her palm but also soft as she ran her hand over the length of him before using her thumb to spread the bead of precum forming on his head. When he thrust his hips toward her, she marveled at the power of him as his muscles flexed. His hooded eyes watched her with a ravenous hunger that aroused her more.
Resting his hand against her hip, he slid it up her side and clasped her breast to roll her nipple between his thumb and forefinger. He bent to suck the bud between his lips, and when he gave it a little tug, she wiggled her hips invitingly toward him.
Aida was lost to the sensations he invoked inside her until he nudged her knees further apart and the head of his cock prodded her entrance. Fear shot through her; before she could stop herself, her thighs clamped against his sides.
Julian froze. “Are you okay?”
Aida swallowed to wet her parched throat before speaking. “I’ve never…” She looked away as a blush crept across her face and her cheeks burned. “I’ve never done this before.”
Shock riveted him. She was so beautiful and alluring, he’d never expected her to be a virgin. When they used to hang out together, they never discussed their past relationships, and he hadn’t seen her for four years; so much could have happened during that time.
“Aida.” He clasped her chin and turned her head toward him. “We don’t have to do this if you’re not ready.”
“I’m ready,” she said. “I’m just… nervous.”
“So am I,” he admitted. “I’ve never done this before either.”
Aida snorted with laughter, but the intensity of his eyes and the serious look on his face silenced her. “I thought you had a girl in every country.”
“That’s what Kyle said and what he would have done, but not me.”
Aida couldn’t get her eyebrows out of her hairline as her gaze ran over his magnificent face and body. She’d seen the way women reacted to him and knew vampires possessed an innate magnetism that lured others to them. He easily could have had dozens of women in every country.
“How is that possible?” she blurted.
He smiled as he stroked her cheek with his thumb. “Before you, girls interested me, but they weren’t something I was overly concerned about. I much preferred to be on my computer, practicing my hacking skills and coding. After you, there could never be anyone else.”
Aida’s breath exploded out of her as tears burned her eyes.
“How is it possible you’re still a virgin?” he asked.
“Because before you, boys were playthings I didn’t get serious with, and after you…” She rested her hand against his cheek and ran her thumb over his bristly beard. “After you, there was still just you.”
Julian closed his eyes as anguish tore at his chest. “I could have had all those years with you if I stayed. I won’t waste any of our time together again.”
There was something more to what this was between them, but before she could grasp what it was, he kissed her again, and she stopped caring. Her thighs released their crushing grip on him as his kiss eased her apprehension. He’d been waiting all this time for her, and she’d been waiting for him; now that the time was here, she was going to seize it.
“Are you sure about this?” he whispered against her mouth.
“Yes, and I’m on the pill.” She started taking it when she was sixteen to help with her acne, but she stayed on it just in case. “But I’m not sure if it will work with vampires.”
He smiled as he kissed the tip of her nose. “It’s for your body, not mine.”
When he grasped his cock to guide it into her, the excitement pounding through him had him worried he’d blow this. He was going to be inside his mate, inside Aida, the only woman he’d ever loved. He feared he would come as soon as he was inside her. Gritting his teeth, he focused on baseball while he entered her.
There were diamonds in baseball and a field and players. What did the players do? They chased the ball. No, they…
Oh, who cared? Baseball had nothing on the wet heat enveloping him as he slid deeper into her.
Wrapping her legs around his waist, Aida lifted her hips as he stretched and filled her. The sensation wasn’t as pleasant as it had been, but her body was adjusting to the size of him. His muscles shifted beneath her hands as she turned to bury her face in his shoulder. His delicious aroma enveloping her helped to relax her further.
“I love you,” he said as he kissed her again and buried himself deep inside her.
Aida’s legs clenched around him when pain rose to replace the haze of euphoria enveloping her. She closed her eyes against the tears filling them and bit her lip to keep from telling him to get off her. It would fade, she knew it would; she had to let her body adjust to his.
Julian pulled back to gaze down at her. He hated the pain he caused her, especially since all he felt was ecstasy. He’d spent years fantasizing about being inside her, but it was so much better than all his fantasies.
It took everything he had not to start thrusting into her and finally experience what he’d only dreamed of doing. However, if she were going to get any pleasure from this, he had to wait for her to be ready, and he would make sure she enjoyed it too.
Over the years, he read countless romance novels in the hopes that if he ever got the chance to be with her, he wouldn’t make a complete mess of it, but it might not be enough.
He’d also tried watching porn in the hopes of learning what to do and not to do. It didn’t take him long to realize Aida probably wasn’t going to need her pipes cleaned or her photocopier repaired, so he stopped watching it.
But the romance novels had helped him understand women and their bodies better, or so he hoped. He may not be a billionaire, but he was a vampire, so that was a plus for him. He kissed her again before caressing her breasts and stroking her side down to her hip.
He was doing something right as her legs eased their death grip on him. When she lifted her hips to him again, he slowly pulled back before slipping into her again. He shuddered when he buried himself deep inside her once more.
Her fingers dug into his back as his mouth teased hers. With every caress of his hands and mouth, the discomfort ebbed further. A delicious shiver ran down her spine as she nipped his lip.
When her head fell back, he bent to suck one of her nipples between his lips. He sucked on it before releasing it to turn his attention to her other breast before rising to kneel between her thighs. He grasped her ass and lifted it. He never could have imagined anything this amazing, and now that he was experiencing it, he would tear this world apart before he ever let her go again.
Aida couldn’t get enough of Julian’s magnificent body as it moved over hers. Her hands slid over the supple skin drawn taut over muscles so firm they could have been carved from stone. He was magnificent, and he was hers. She was the only one who’d ever seen him like this, the only who knew what it was like to have this powerful man inside her, and she reveled in the knowledge.
When her gaze fell to where their bodies met, excitement built in her. He was a part of her; they were joined, and it was an irrevocable joining. The building tension inside her coiled tighter as she neared the edge she experienced every time she pleasured herself, but this time, it was different. This time it was stronger and more unrelenting as he pushed her closer to the precipice.
And this time, when she went over, nothing would ever be the same.
She bit her lip to keep from crying out when she fell over the edge. Her toes curled, and her body arched as she was bombarded by the waves of ecstasy shaking her.
When her body bowed beneath his and the tight muscles of her sheath clenched around his dick, Julian gave one final thrust and came harder than he ever had by himself. When his release finally came to an end, he held himself back from collapsing on top of her as he gathered her into his arms and rolled to the side.