Lexi didn’t know how to respond to the fact he was leaving or that he wanted her to go with him.
She’d known this day would come, but she still wasn’t ready for it. And as much as she yearned to, she couldn’t go with him. She had far too many responsibilities here and a certain dark fae to remove from beneath her manor.
Maybe if Orin wasn’t lounging in her tunnels, she would have asked the handyman to help in the stables like he did when they traveled to the Gloaming. But she couldn’t do that now.
But he was asking her to go with him! What did that mean? Why would he want such a thing? Didn’t dark fae usually forget all about their past partners when someone new popped up?
That’s what she’d always heard, and while there was no one new yet, there would be once he left the manor. There would be countless new then.
If she was with him, would he stay away from those women?
She shut the possibility down. It didn’t matter; she couldn’t go, so traversing down that path wouldn’t do her any good. Pondering it for too long would only make her crazy, and she planned to enjoy what little time they had left together.
If he returned, great. If he didn’t, well then, she would move on. It would hurt, but she would get over it.
When he lifted her and slid naked into bed, the image of the flames from yesterday tried to push their way back into her mind, but she shoved them aside. He was leaving, and no matter what he said, she might never see him again.
Gripping her hips, he guided her along his erection. She shuddered at the sensation of him slipping between her legs. The head of his shaft teased her clit as the brilliant blue of his eyes shifted to silver.
His hungry gaze excited her almost as much as the hands pushing her shirt up. He lifted it and pulled it off before tossing it aside. His eyes latched ravenously on her breasts as a small smile curved his lips.
“You’re gorgeous,” he murmured as he gazed at her.
He stroked her breast before teasing her nipple with his thumb. Then he lifted his hand to cup her cheek. He ran his thumb across her bottom lip before slipping it into her mouth to prod at one of her canines. Her fangs lengthened in response, and he smiled.
“You haven’t fed from me,” he said.
“I’ve never fed from anyone,” she said.
A spark of something lit his eyes. “We are going to have to remedy that.”
Her gaze fell to his neck as excitement twisted in her belly. Lexi wasn’t sure if she could do it without hurting him, but she was impatient to find out as she watched his blood pulse through the vein in his neck.
“Have you fed from me?” she asked as she played with the hair at his nape.
“No, but I’m going to,” he murmured as he ran his thumb across her lip again before pulling it down a little.
“Will I know when you do?”
“Yes.”
“Will it hurt?”
“No. Many say it enhances the pleasure.”
“Impossible.”
He chuckled as he cupped her nape and pulled her close for a kiss.
“Will I hurt you if I feed on you?” she asked when the kiss ended.
“No. And even if you did, I want it too much to care.”
Releasing her, he planted his hands behind him and leaned back on the bed. She frowned as he smiled at her.
“This is all you, beautiful,” he said.
“I… I don’t understand.”
“Explore, learn, discover what pleases you. I’m merely here to make sure you come.”
She wasn’t entirely sure what he meant by that, but his words made her wetter as she slid along the length of him before shifting so the head of his shaft teased her entrance.
However, no matter how much she wanted him inside her, she enjoyed this far too much to end it now. She moved, shifted, teased, and played with him as she ran her hands over his chest and down his stomach.
She traced the dips and hollows of his chiseled abdomen before shifting to explore his cock. His breath quickened when she ran her fingers over it before stroking it.
She thrilled at her power over him as his breathing changed, his erection pulsed in her grip, and his body tensed. However, he didn’t move as he continued to let her learn more about him, herself, and what they both liked.
When she finally took him inside her, Lexi was so aroused, she came almost instantly, but as she floated down from her high, he still didn’t touch her.
“Keep going,” he grated.
He said the words, but she saw the strain on his face as sweat beaded his forehead. Lexi leaned forward until her breasts rubbed against his chest.
She lifted her hips until he was nearly out of her again before sliding slowly back down. His head fell back as she ran her tongue across his chest.
She tasted sweat and man as his fingers entangled in her sheets and the corded muscles of his arms stood starkly out, but he still didn’t touch her. She ran her tongue back up his chest, across his collarbone, and up to his neck before nipping at it.
“You better feed soon, love,” he said. “I don’t know how much longer I can take this.”
He didn’t need to encourage her anymore. With a hammering heart, she kissed his neck again before resting her mouth over the solid thump of his pulse. Her concern over harming him caused her to hesitate.
“Do it,” he commanded.
And she found herself helpless to do anything but obey. Her lips skimmed back, and she sank her fangs into his throat. She cried out against his flesh as the hot wave of his blood pulsed into her mouth.
She’d never tasted anything so delicious as it slid down her throat and the power of it seeped into her veins. Out of her mind with desire, she tried to draw him closer. Sensing her frustration, his arms locked around her, and he pulled her flush against his chest.
Lexi wasn’t convinced she would feel it when he fed, but then his power seeped out until it crackled the air around them. Beneath her hands, his muscles swelled and vibrated.
At first, she didn’t understand what was happening, and then she realized he was growing stronger as he fed on the energy their joining emitted. The crackling in the air increased until it vibrated against her skin.
Oh yes, she could see why some believed it enhanced the pleasure as her skin came alive, the hair on her arms rose, and she craved more.