I nodded. “That must be it.” No way would I explain to Griffin that I was pretty sure Caesar thought it would be sort of a nice, romantic way to spend our time together.Unless I’m wrong, and it’s really about the creek overflowing. Was that possible? It couldn’t be, could it?
“Then good idea to check it.” He kissed me again before he left the room. I didn’t know why he’d exited until Ace started to move on the bed. Griffin must have known he was about to get up and need to feed. They could probably hear the rising before I knew it was happening, although they had no idea when the others were hungry. That was my own private, strange superpower.
I crawled over to him, fitting myself next to his body. As quietly as I could, even knowing the others might hear and wouldn’t understand, I whispered in his ear, “I told you I’d be here.”
He rolled toward me, taking a long breath next to my neck. “You made it through the day.”
Ace really worried about my safety. We were only back in each other’s lives—or after-lives?—less than a day. Why was he so convinced everything would go astray? “I did. Feed. You’re hungry.” A lot less than he had been, but the ache was there.
Instead of biting me, he ran a hand down my side. “When I woke up the first time, I thought you were there. I searched for you all over the room, convinced you were supposed to be there.”
“I was nearby. Maybe you could sense that or smell me or something.”
He lifted his head. “I’m always hungry. You can’t fix that. There’s no way.”
“Yes, I can.” I tilted my neck. “Trust me.”
Ace seemed reluctant to try anything good for him. He didn’t want to feed, and he hadn’t wanted to sleep. It was like he got used to pain and refused the idea there could ever be anything else.
He bit down, and I settled in next to him, my body pressed so tightly against him, he had to feel it when my nipples hardened like pellets of small pain that turned into pleasure with any movement against them. I moaned and closed my eyes.
Ace squeezed my waist as he hardened with each passing moment. The minutes passed, and we did nothing but hold on to each other while he fed. The ache in my bones from his hunger passed until it vanished entirely. He wasn’t hungry anymore, and I knew it before he did. His sucking tapered off, and with a swipe of his tongue, he finished feeding from me.
But neither of us moved. Finally, with a big squeeze on my arm, he raised his head. “How are you such a miracle?”
I kissed him, hard, and right on the mouth. I had no answers, but I really wanted him right then. He kissed me back, over and over again. Ace took possession of my mouth like he had every right, and I loved it.
When I would have hurried us along, he slowed me. The man seemed to be in no rush, each kiss becoming a slow, prolonged dive into heaven. I smiled against his mouth and let my mind float away so I could actually, for once, be present in the moment.
We moved like we’d done it before, even though it was our first time. Everything with Ace felt that way, as though it was remembered and not new.Add that to my ever-growing list of what the fuck.
“Do you know what I’d like to do someday?” he whispered in my ear.
“No. I have no idea.” I discarded my shirt impatiently. He wasn’t dressed from the waist up, so I wouldn’t be either.
He stared down at my breasts and seemed to lose his train of thought, because he didn’t tell me what he wanted to do.
I bit my lip.That is stupid cute. I flicked my own nipple, and his eyes glowed red for a second.
“Like that?” He flicked my other one and I grinned.
“Right now I do. It changes. I guess I’m just an enigma.”
He sucked on the end of my nipple and then lifted his eyes as I moaned. “The best kind of enigma.”
Are there other kinds?I might ask another time. Right then, I couldn’t think, because we were pulling each other out of the rest of our clothes. His gaze traveled downward, taking in what I looked like naked, and I lifted my eyebrows. The way his breathing sped up told me he liked what he saw. Maybe I shouldn’t care but I really did. I wanted Ace to think I was sexy.End of story.
“I remember thinking you were the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen. I thought so before you ever spoke to me, back when I was also human.”
That was pretty much the vampire way of telling me he’d thought I was pretty back when he used to think such things. I winked at him. “Thanks, Ace. I remember thinking you would be a douchebag, and then being pretty excited because you weren’t.”
He laughed, which seemed to surprise him, because then he rapidly blinked. I didn’t let him overthink his joy, grinding myself against him before I took control of his mouth again. We both moaned. I’d never be as strong as he was out of the bedroom, but damn if I wouldn’t be in control right then. I wanted him and he was going to give me what I wanted.
Ace rolled over on top of me. His grin was slow. “I think you like being on top. So do I, it would seem. We’ll have to fight over it.”
That sounded perfect, and just what I wanted with Ace. He surged into me, and I cried out, but not before I wrapped my legs around him and lifted my hips to challenge his control. He was on top, but I could still win our war of pleasure. Maybe we could both win, and that was the point.
Over and over, we moved. At some points, he was on top, only to find himself again beneath me. We rolled, we pushed, we groaned, and clawed at each other. In the end, when I came around his hard cock, I cried out his name and maybe blacked out for a second.