Chapter Seven

Robert looked at the clock. William should be doing his bit to keep Katie safe. Now it was his turn. He drank down his shot of vodka. It would stem the fiery attraction coursing through his veins.

Robert was amazed by her bravery. He admired her. She’d had to deal with so much, terrified, scared and alone, with no one to run to for comfort, or to ask what she should do. And now he was going to complete the final part of the blood bond.

He needed to remember that Sophie was a virgin, and that in order for this to work she had to accept him into her mind and her body.

He glanced at the clock again. No matter how many times he stared at it, it wouldn’t change what he had to do. It would be easier if he could be angry.

But two women hadn’t understood the consequences of being afraid. All they had done was try to keep themselves safe.

It wasn’t a coincidence that tonight had been the night the wolves had planned their attack. They still had time to change Katie to their side.

Innocence was so over-rated. If Katie had gone out and slept around, it would have just been a direct hit tonight. A quick, clean kill. But because her precious virginity remained intact, they still had a chance to manipulate her. To turn her into a mongrel-witch. No matter how much he dwelt on it, it wouldn’t change the fact that Katie was innocent and at risk. He couldn’t help her now.

But he could save Sophie—he just prayed he could protect her against the wrath of the Council as well. Sophie was his one and only priority. He would have to trust in William. He gulped down some of his aged brandy and turned to the door.

He entered the bedroom to see she was already in bed. She lay facing the window. The full moon shone down, highlighting her perfect face.

“You know, I’ve spent years thinking about this moment. Wondering if I would do it with my husband or with a friend or someone I loved.” As she spoke, her gaze never left the beauty of the full moon.

“I’m sorry.” He didn’t know what else to say.

She rolled over to look at him.

“I’m pleased my first time is with you. I know we don’t know a lot about each other and I’ve caused you many problems but…well, I’m happy it’s with you.” Sophie got up out of the bed and moved towards him.

She took his hands, bringing them up to her lips, and kissed them.

“You’re my husband. Since we bonded, I’ve felt a part of you. For the past three years. After tonight, I don’t want to be parted from you again.” She kissed the inside of his wrist. “I know I’ve done wrong, but I did it thinking only of doing the right thing. I can’t be sorry, because I wouldn’t be here otherwise.” She laid his palm against her breast.

He cupped her breasts, feeling the hard nipples pressing against his skin, her pale mounds filling his hands.

With one hand still pressed to her breast, he used the other to take her chin. “Your words mean a great deal to me, Sophie Ford, and there is nowhere else I’d rather be.” He leant down and kissed her on the lips.

She responded to him, curving her hands around his neck. The kiss was hot, appealing to both senses, touch and taste. Sophie squirmed to get closer. To feel the contact of skin to skin. His palm never left her breast. He stroked the turgid nipple with his thumb, causing her to cry out. She opened her mouth on a scream and he plundered it, taking full advantage of her vulnerable lips. He filled her with his tongue, tasting her, exploring her.

He fisted his hand in her hair, holding her to him. Her nipples pulsed for more attention. She moaned, lifting her leg up over his hip, trying to get more intimate contact. The warm glow of lust consumed them both. They were drugged. They fed from each other’s kisses. Sophie couldn’t get enough of him.

He walked them backwards until they fell onto the bed.

She giggled as he landed on top of her, knocking the wind from her.

“You’re heavy.”

He laughed, piercing her heart with his sinful smile. She gasped as lightning shot straight through to her clit. She was doomed if that was her reaction to just his smile. There was no way Sophie would survive the main event.

He came off her, but pulled her up so that she was resting against the pillows again. He laid a kiss on her lips, then went down to her jaw and over her collarbone, making her gasp at the violent sensations running through her. She didn’t know whether to pull away or beg him for more. Her body was filled with an urgency to feel this man’s body between her thighs.

She opened her legs willingly, silently begging him to move between them and assuage this terrible ache, to sate them both.

Sophie was beginning to understand why people became addicted to sex.

His lips left a trail of fiery ecstasy in their wake. Her body was alive and screaming for attention. His lips were at her breasts.

“Give them to me.”

She looked at him, dazed and confused.

What does he mean?

“Offer me a breast,” he told her. It was strange, as though he was reading her mind.

Taking one of her mounds in her palm, she offered him a bite. She tensed, scared, but she wanted to feel him biting into her, feeding on her blood.

He teased her nipple, playing with her body.

She watched as he attended to her, his tongue flicking out. Her breasts looked wet and swollen in the moonlight.

“Bite me,” she begged him.

He bit down into her nipple and she watched him swallow. The pain was light, its sting delightful. Her nipples were so sensitive, taking a pulsing message down to her clit. She could feel the gathering orgasm she’d experienced many times before—but only at her own hand.

She wanted to feel his hand between her legs. To know what it was like to have a male finger teasing her aching clit.

She took his hand and guided it to where she’d been thinking about having it seconds earlier, to where she craved his touch, pressing one of his fingers against her swollen clit. Sophie moaned and prayed he would give her more.

The merest contact had her almost dizzy with longing. She pushed her hand on top of his and she could already feel how wet she was for him. She should probably be embarrassed, but being embarrassed would take too much energy. Her energy was reserved for him.

“What do you want from me?” he asked her.

She looked up as his mouth left her breast, the cool air sending shivers down her spine.

“I want you to make love to me. To show me what it’s like to be a proper woman. Your woman,” she spoke the truth.

He stared at her for some time before she felt his finger move between her legs. She took her hand from over his, knowing he wouldn’t do anything to harm her.

Sophie opened her legs wider so he could have complete access to her body. Her eyes closed of their own accord as she allowed her heart, mind, body and soul to be taken over by rapturous bliss.

 

Robert watched her give herself over to him. She looked so stunning that she took his breath away. Or rather, she would have taken his breath away if he could breathe. Her bud, peeking out from its hood, was swollen and begging for attention.

The smallest touch had her arching up to meet him, a cry escaping from her lips. He smiled. He loved the feeling of being able to take her past the point of no return. Robert didn’t just want to do that with his fingers. He wanted to take the time to explore and taste her.

He moved down the bed, his gaze directly on her mound. The hairs were light blonde, giving a clear view as if she was shaved. Already her lips were filled with blood and opened wide. He could see her cum glistening all over, lubricating her—preparing her body to receive his. Her clit caught his eye, swollen, engorged and pulsing. He pressed his tongue against it, licking her. She smelt and tasted delicious.

He licked her up, her essence addictive. He’d been so long without a woman—over three years, to be exact. After the bonding ceremony, the thought of touching another woman had repulsed him. The connection between Sophie and him had been strong from the beginning. No matter what he was doing, he had always been able to sense her.

“Hold on to the frame,” he told her. He’d seen her clenching her fists and, if his assessment was right, as well as never having had a man between her thighs with his cock, a man’s tongue was new to her as well. This would drive her to the pinnacle in a matter of moments.

He wanted to spend as much time as he could arousing her, so that when he took her virginity the pain would be slight.

Robert spread her lips open with his thumbs. He tongued her clit, sliding up and down her slit. He licked her clean, then teased her clit again, creating more of her cream. He could see the hold she had on the bed. Her head was flung backwards, her groin moving in time with the rhythm of his tongue. He smiled as she squirmed and growled in frustration when he stopped her building towards the desired peak.

As she felt the rising climax within her, her stomach sucked in and he could see the orgasm gathering—then he pulled away, exploring the rest of her pussy. There was more to a woman than breasts and a clit. He teased the fine hairs surrounding her pussy. A little closer and he would feel the wetness of her slit, not from his licking but from her own cream. Her arousal intensifying with each caress. She appeared to be sensitive—everywhere he touched elicited a response from her.

He smiled when she moaned once again, her body and her thrusts becoming more frenzied as he refused her more of what she wanted.

His cock was tight and begging for him to plunge inside her body, but he wanted this to last. A woman’s first time should always be memorable as the beautiful force it was.

“Please,” she gasped when she couldn’t take any more. “Please, let me come.”

Her body was on fire and he would need to put the flames out soon—otherwise he would spoil the moment.

He flicked his tongue over her clit, teasing and tormenting, keeping his attention on her.

As she climaxed, he felt the response of her body, sensed the rush of endorphins pulsing through her blood. He heard it, too, as she screamed her completion into the room.

Her body jerked against the continuing onslaught of his tongue. He saw and tasted the cream leaking from her body.

Robert had the male satisfaction of knowing he’d been the first to bring her to orgasm with the use of his tongue.

Soon she was moaning for him to stop, but he refused. She had wanted orgasm and he would give it to her—multiple orgasms.

Before long, her body hurtled into another orgasm, leaving her faint and sated. Only when Robert was satisfied that she would be able to take him inside her body without pain did he move up the bed.

She opened her eyes. “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome, my mate.” He slid along her body. Taking his cock in his hand, he pressed it against her entrance.

“This may sting a little, but I want you to look at me and never let go,” he told her.

She circled her arms around his neck, connecting them further with her touch.

He guided himself into her slick entrance. He didn’t look away. When his cock was in far enough that he didn’t have to hold on, he moved his hand out of the way, placing it near her head.

“I’m sorry,” was all he said before he jerked his hips, embedding his shaft right to the hilt inside her pussy.

Sophie screamed but she held on to him and didn’t look away from his eyes. He saw the pain she felt and he felt it too, in his heart and soul. He hated causing her pain and it almost undid him. But he couldn’t stop. If he didn’t complete inside her body and feed from her, they would be able to take her away from him forever, and that would be more unbearable than the few seconds of pain she was going through. At least he tried to tell himself that.

“Are you all right?” he croaked.

She nodded, the action jerky but reassuring.

He moved, pulling himself all the way out, slowly allowing her to become accustomed to his strength and size. He wasn’t small and she was.

“Tell me if it hurts.”

She nodded, not able to find the words, he assumed.

He thrust back inside her. Her eyes widened.

He stopped abruptly.

“Have I hurt you?” Robert panicked. He needed to complete the ritual but he wouldn’t be able to if she was in pain. As much as the pain of losing her would hurt him, in this moment, with her pain clear on her face, he couldn’t be responsible for bringing her more. He was torn between doing the right thing and risking his very life source.

She shook her head but no words came out. Robert refused to move. He needed to make sure she was all right.

“I feel so full,” she said.

He chuckled, resting his forehead against hers.

“It feels wonderful,” she gasped as the jerks of his laughter sent shock waves through her pussy.

“It can feel better.”

They were his final words before he took her on a journey of sexual pleasure. He pulled out of her body before plunging back inside her, going further and deeper with every stroke. He lifted her left leg over his hip, angling her pelvis so that he could go further inside her. Sophie cried out. Robert made sure to hold her on the edge between unbearable pleasure and pain. He knew he was large, thick and deeply seated inside her. Robert had spent so much time thinking about how it would feel to be inside her cunt. So many restless nights of fucking his own hand when all he wanted to do was be with this woman. The woman who would be his for the rest of his life. Her pussy contracted around him and he forced himself to hold back, to give her more time before he plunged into her wet heat.

Robert swivelled his hips, the movement nudging her clit, making her jerk in his hold.

He took her lips in a searing kiss. She scoured his back with her nails. His thrusts increased in speed. He could feel the heat building between them. He wanted to bring her to orgasm at least once with his cock embedded inside her. He wanted to feel each pulse and quiver. He wanted to know the heights of pleasure he could bring her to.

“It’s too much,” she panted. Breaking away from his lips, she tried to push him off her as the pleasure became too intense.

“Let it come,” he urged.

He smiled as she began to push up, meeting him thrust for thrust. Her skin glowed and her cream dripped around his cock, letting him know the rapture she was feeling. Sophie was so close to the edge of release, he knew how to bring her to the final earth-shattering climax. He would never have Sophie question his skills in the bedroom department if he could help it.

As he felt her pussy flutter around his thick shaft, he spoke the binding words. “I, Robert Valentine, take Sophie Ford as my bond mate for all eternity, and will let nothing part us. By blood, by love and by all things pure, I cement her to me for life.” He bit into her neck, sealing the bond with her blood.

Bright light shone around them as the blood bond was accepted and cemented by the natural forces of the earth. Sophie Ford was his and Robert Valentine was hers.

They were catapulted into a world of love and pleasure, the driving force their need for one another. Robert felt her pulse around him mere seconds before his seed erupted inside her body, burning a pathway into her heart and soul.

Her body would recognise none but his. Her blood would feed and nurture him.

Their minds connected, their souls mingled and their bodies collapsed, sated.

 

Sophie could feel everything. His breathing against her neck and how much her body had pleased him. She sensed him in the deepest part of her mind.

“I love you,” whispered across her temple.

One of the first times she’d heard his voice had been on the ceremonial dais but the voice had been faint. She jerked as she recognised his voice, but again he hadn’t spoken out loud. Only now his voice was clearer and she couldn’t question what she’d heard.

She looked across to see him watching her with his black eyes.

“How?”

He stroked her face, her cheek. She could see from his expression how much he cared for her.

“You were always supposed to be mine.”

Her heart jolted inside her rib cage. She stopped his hand on her face.

“What?” she asked again. Her mind was a whirl of activity.

“The force of nature has deemed you suitable to be my life’s mate. The connection is there because of how well we fit together. You may not know or believe it yet, but you love me, too.”

She started to protest but he paused her with a finger to her lips.

“Your mind may not accept it but your heart has awoken for me as have your body and soul. You can feel it and soon you’ll accept it.”

 

Hours later Sophie lay awake, thinking of his words. They didn’t terrify her. They soothed her. For the first time in her life, she had a protector to love and care for her. She glanced over at her sleeping vampire. He looked so calm and serene, but her body awoke at the thought of feeling him inside her again. He was becoming a drug for her aching body.

Did she love this man—this vampire?

She didn’t know. He intrigued her and throughout the past three years, when she hadn’t been petrified for herself and for Katie, her thoughts had always gone to him. She moved the hair off his face, enjoying the softness on her fingers. She couldn’t believe she was now a woman. This man had turned her from a girl into his woman.

This vampire.

Her vampire.

She smiled as he mumbled in his sleep.

“You’re going to be the death of me, Sophie.” He moved closer, for her to touch him.

She laughed. “It’s a good job you’re a vampire and will come back to me.”

She giggled as he rolled over in the bed and within seconds had her trapped underneath him.

“Wow, look at how powerful and wonderful you are,” she teased, surrendering to him.

She offered her lips for a kiss. He took what she gave, taking her lips for more. She moaned as she tasted him. All her senses were heightened. His smell. His flavour. Her body was alive.

“How can you taste so good?” she said when he broke the kiss.

“Do I taste better than chocolate?” he asked.

She smiled as he landed kisses on all her sensitive areas.

“Much better than chocolate,” she admitted.

She let out a gasp when he stroked a sensitive spot on her neck with his lips. She arched, exposing her throat to more of his passionate kisses.

“What about ice-cream?” he teased, leaving her neck to travel to her swollen breasts.

She nodded, unable to form words. She watched his dark head as he took a beaded nipple into his mouth, nipping her slightly. Her breasts were so sensitive, a wave of bliss set off contractions inside her pussy, making her want more.

“Answer me.” She felt one of his fingers thrust inside her wet channel as his teeth did wicked things to her breasts.

“Yes,” she managed, her hands going instinctively for the headboard, her eyes closing of their own accord.

“What’s your favourite colour?” he asked.

She shook her head, trying to think past the dizzying heights of arousal.

“Why?”

“What better chance to get to know you than in bed?”

She chuckled. “Red. My favourite colour is red.”

She opened her eyes, looking down at him.

“Yours?”

“Green.”

“I only eat green sweets,” she admitted.

He laughed at her confession.

“Why?”

“I figure they’re healthier, since vegetables are green.”

Robert laughed.

How bizarre—they were getting to know each other while on the verge of making love.

“I eat any type of sweet,” he answered.

“I bet.”

“I can’t help it. I have a sweet tooth.” He removed his finger from her dripping channel and brought it to his lips, tasting her.

Sophie flushed at the suggestive act.

“How do I taste?” she couldn’t help but ask.

“Sweet.”

She smiled.

“I’m going to make love to you,” he informed her.

Sophie lay still and surrendered to his masterful skill.

He took her on a rollercoaster ride that seemed to have no beginning and no end. Nothing mattered—not Katie, not the Council, not even the fact he was a vampire. Sophie was content to be in his arms.

Once he had brought her to the peak of ecstasy, balancing her on the edge until he guided her over into her climax, he followed soon afterwards.

She lay spent, her mind starting to accept that she just might be falling in love with her mate.