"It's my turn now." While Juliette somehow managed not to stammer, she couldn't help blushing when she saw the way Gaël raised a brow as she placed a hand on his bare chest.
"What are you planning to do?" he purred.
"Pleasure you," she tried to purr back...but she ended up croaking in the end, and Juliette's heart skipped a beat as laughter gleamed from his icy blue eyes.
Oh, how she loved him!
"You're full of surprises tonight," Gaël murmured.
"Is it bad?"
"I love it."
"Then..." Her heart started thudding at the thought of what she was about to say. "You'll probably love it even more if I tell you..."
Gaël's gaze narrowed.
"That I've been dying to taste you?"
The answer was completely unexpected, and it had Gaël groaning as his body became hard as rock. "If you keep this up," he warned gutturally, "I won't be accountable for what I might end up doing to you."
"I don't care. I just want to pleasure you." Doe eyes searched his. "Will you let me?"
"Yes."
Oh God, this was really happening!
Fear and excitement exploded inside of her, and it made Juliette barely able to hear her own thoughts over the ruckus her heart was making. She knew she was about to take the biggest risk of her life, but it was now or never, and she didn't want to spend the rest of her life tormenting herself with unanswerable what-ifs.
Rising up on her knees, Juliette reached for his shirt with trembling fingers and started unbuttoning them. It took her a lot longer compared to how much time he needed to undress her, but she did get to take his shirt off eventually, and she was now left swallowing at the bronzed, muscular wall of his chest.
Oh God, my guardian is so hot!
Gaël could barely keep himself still as his ward worked on his jeans next. She had such a look of serious concentration on her face it nearly made him smile. It was just so fucking adorable, the way she was treating the whole thing like it was a test she had to pass, and he was tempted to laugh and groan at the same time when Juliette visibly jerked as her fingers accidentally made contact with the twitching beast under his jeans.
Another minute passed before she was finally down to his last piece of clothing, and he saw her gulp at the sight of his briefs.
"Do you need to take them off, too?" He only meant to tease, but Gaël was startled when she actually nodded.
And then she was indeed reaching for his briefs, and fuck, fuck, fuck—-
By the time his briefs joined the rest of their clothes on the floor, his arousal was at its most engorged state, and Juliette was staring at it like she had a monster before her.
"It's too big," Juliette couldn't help whispering.
"Thank you?"
"It's not a compliment." She raised dazed eyes to his. "I know this is a cliché, but are you sure that's really going to fit me?"
"I hope it doesn't."
"Gaël!"
"You know I don't lie—-WHAT THE FUCK?"
Gaël barely managed to control himself from throwing Juliette off when she suddenly climbed over his lap before fully impaling herself on the thick, hard length of his cock.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
Juliette's tears flowed at the fury and disbelief etched over her guardian's features.
"What the hell have you done?" Gaël couldn't understand why she had done such a thing. What the hell was she thinking?
"You s-said that the more I hurt, the more my sangferia would make me stronger."
"Dammit, Juliette, I did say that, but we haven't even reached the maximum amount—-"
His ward shook her head. "I keep track of your consumption rate, too. 99.9% might not be the maximum amount, but it's close enough, isn't it? So please..." Dark, tear-stained eyes locked with his. "Please drink it now, Gaël."
Fuck!
"Please."
And once again, he was unable to resist her.
Juliette watched her guardian grit his teeth as if he was also in pain while carefully lifting her off his cock. Every inch of movement hurt, but she simply bit her lip hard and reminded herself that this was what she wanted.
And while that was true, she still ended up sobbing when he was finally out of her, and the pain only started to ease the moment he started lapping up her sangferia...before moving to the vein pulsing in her inner thigh. His fangs punctured her flesh, and Juliette whimpered just before pleasure once again began coursing through her veins.
She could hear him drinking her blood, but whereas this same sound had given her nightmares a few years ago, it was so, so different when she knew that the one drinking her blood wasn't some vampire.
Instead, this was Gaël.
Her guardian Gaël, and oh, how she loved him!
After drinking the last drop of her sangferia, Gaël moved back on top of Juliette and took her gaze captive. "Thank you, my darling," he whispered.