inevitability about the act that she didn’t want to examine too closely. Instead, she surrendered to the blissful sensation of holding Jacob in her arms, their bodies thrusting against one another.
His weight pinned her down, his chest rubbing against her breasts and his hairy belly tickling hers. Akila groaned and drew her knees up high, locking her heels around the small of his back, welcoming him even deeper. She arched her back, her head digging into the pillow, baring her throat to him.
As Jacob dipped his face and latched onto her neck, sucking hard enough to leave a mark, she couldn’t help but think of Valarian and imagine fangs sinking into her throat and a mouth greedily sucking her life’s blood. What had that felt like to Jacob when the bond had been forged between the two men?
She smoothed her palms from his sweat-slicked back to his shoulders, which heaved beneath her hands as he rocked against her. Jacob was a nearly silent lover. Soft groans and grunts were the only sounds he made. The hum of the pump in the aquarium was louder than he was.
Akila tended to be vocal during sex. She filled the void with encouragement. “Come on, baby. That’s it. Harder. Fuck me.”
Her exuberance spurred Jacob’s excitement. He moved faster. Their bodies slapped together as he drove into her harder. She loved that loss of control and clenched her inner muscles around his cock, her legs and arms around his back.
“More,” she wailed, as he hit her sweet spot. Akila began to spiral upward once more, straining toward another climax. “Keep going. Right there.
“Oh, God, yes!” she cried as starbursts exploded through her once more.
With a quiet groan, Jacob pushed deep and froze, trembling against her. His cock pulsed as he released. Akila continued to rock against him while the last waves of her own climax receded.
Afterward she lay still, breathing hard and clinging to his sweaty body. He lay heavily on top of her and she welcomed his weight and heat. Sweet, sticky summertime loving. Next time they should do it on the beach with the surf crashing around them. She’d always wanted to try that.
Jacob sighed softly and rolled off her to stretch out beside her, one arm flung above his head, the other hand resting on his rising and falling chest.
Akila drew a deep breath and let it out slowly. “That was fantastic. I’m glad you stopped by.”
She didn’t like the way the words sounded light and dismissive, as if she was thanking a guy after a casual quickie. This had been more than that. She could feel it. Yet how could her emotions be involved when she didn’t even know Jacob? He was, after all, a stranger. But she felt strangely connected to him, and a voice inside her warned, Something has begun.
She glanced at his profile as he lay beside her, the bold nose and sculpted chin and jaw line. His eyes, hooded by half-closed lids, were full of secrets to unravel. Now that he was relaxed and drowsy, she would ply him with a few questions and learn a little more about the man who would supposedly sire her child.
“Tell me more about how you hooked up with Kaspan.” She kept her voice soft, cajoling a confidence from him.
Jacob paused for so long she feared he’d tell her it was none of her business. But at last he replied. “What do you want to know?”
“I’d really like to understand what it means to live in thrall to a vampire. You said he freed you and nursed you back to health. Start with that.”
Could he tell her? Yes. The story was not complicated. But speaking the words was as painful as having his fingers broken one by one, and he could testify to exactly how that felt.
He closed his eyes and released a long breath, separating himself from emotion and looking at his life through the detached eyes of a man staring down a long telescope. What had happened to him sometimes seemed light years away now, but other times it was as vivid as yesterday.
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