I pulled back long enough to flip her onto her stomach, and then my teeth were at her neck again, sucking, licking, devouring every inch of blood she offered, knowing I would never be the same.
I would never come back from this craving.
This lust.
She thrust her ass against me as I drank deeper; her arm came up behind her to cradle my head tenderly, her body moving back against mine.
Claim.
Claim.
Claim.
Her blood chanted.
Thunder boomed in the distance.
With shaking hands, I gripped her hips and pulled her back onto me, sliding all the way in, staying there, never leaving again.
Home.
Her scream was one of ecstasy.
My grip was one of power as I claimed my mate, as I made her mine while she moved with me.
“Enough,” a voice whispered.
I pulled my mouth away from her only to have her latch onto my wrist as I continued my steady thrusts.
The feel of her teeth against my flesh was too much at once, to know she was mine, to know she wanted me; she wanted my taste, my blood to soar in her veins.
I found my release quickly, and her head fell forward as blood dripped from her mouth.
And slowly, her heartbeat stilled.
And matched mine.
An invisible thread appeared in my mind, between us, never to be severed. And I could have sworn I heard angels singing.
I heard creation in her heartbeat.
I tasted it on my tongue.
And when I licked her wound closed on her neck, I cradled her face and gasped as her eyes lit up with my reflection, blue eyes. We both had matching blue eyes.
They were wide, her eyes.
They were also… afraid.
SERENITY
“Don’t look away.”
“Don’t look away.”
My body was still buzzing with his presence. I felt him everywhere, tasted even more.
But the man I was looking at…