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My fingers twitched to touch her further, but instead I lifted my hand and ran it over my mouth, the scruff underneath my jaw and cheeks scraping my palm, sounding so fucking loud in the room. I focused on her neck, her head turned to the side so I got an unobstructed view of the graceful arch. I’d never seen such a tempting, gorgeous strip of skin before.
I could see the steady beat of her jugular, and my bloodlust roared, causing sweat to break out along my forehead, my body becoming strung tight.
I was so fucking thirsty for her.
But I knew I wouldn’t be able to satiate my thirst with just anyone. Not anymore. Not since I’d found my mate. She’d be the only one who would do from this point on, the only one I wanted to sink my fangs into. What coursed through her veins was the only sustenance I wanted to take into my body.
To survive off of.
“Fuck,” I whispered harshly under my breath and forced myself to turn, to leave her room, her house, and make my way across the yard and deep into the woods that surrounded the property.
I took a few steadying breaths, but they didn’t help. I knew my need for her, the primal urge to claim her would only grow the longer I wanted to fully make her mine. My fangs ached, my mouth watered, and my throat became as fucking tight and dry as the damn desert.
I continued to imagine her pulse throbbing under her skin. Thump-thump. Thump-thump. Thump-thump. All I wanted was that sweet, thick red sustenance that pumped through her veins, but I knew in the state I was in, it would be far too dangerous for her. I’d gorge myself on her, no doubt become so fucking intoxicated from her flavor I’d lose reality.
I didn’t want to drain too much, her body too human, so much weaker than mine, and far too vulnerable to my ravishing need for her.
But the very idea of sucking down a bag of blood or piercing another human’s neck had my stomach churning, cramping in disgust. With one more look at her house, at her window, I walked away.
But it wouldn’t be for long. If she didn’t come willingly with me, I knew what I’d resort to.
Taking her.
5
Adryan
The last thing I wanted to do was meet with Odhran and my men, but here I was, having to get shit done, when all I wanted to do was be with my female. I couldn’t stop thinking of all the barbaric things I wanted to do to her. All the filthy, depraved things I would do to her.
I wanted to throw her over my shoulder, palm her ass like some kind of beastly creature before giving those perfect mounds a smack. I wanted to do this over and over again until my handprints were splashed across her pale flesh.
I growled low when my cock started hurting again. The fucker had just barely gone down, and the last thing I wanted was to walk into a roomful of my soldiers and them seeing my damn slacks tented. That would be firm confirmation that I’d found my female, seeing as an Otherworld male felt no arousal until they found their fated mates.
And although I wanted every damn bastard to know she was mine and to stay away from her, the very possessive side of me rose up at the thought of sharing any information about her.
I didn’t want anyone near her, didn’t want them fucking breathing in her direction. I wanted to keep her away, lock her in my room where no one could touch her, where I could keep her safe, where she couldn’t run from me.
And I knew she would. Or she’d try at least.
The underground tunnel beneath one of the abandoned warehouses I owned was quiet aside from the steady thump-thump-thump of my boots hitting the concrete, and the swoosh-swoosh of my slacks brushing together as I strode forward.
My hands were in my pockets as I kept a steady pace, and although normally what was about to happen would excite me and cause that deranged bloodlust side of me to rise up violently, all I could focus on was her.
All the things I’d do to her.
All the places I’d pierce her skin and lap at the ruby beads that would form on her pearlescent skin.
All the ways I’d make her moan and cry and beg for more.
I groaned as my aching cock got even harder. I pulled a hand out of my pocket and adjusted the heavy length of my cock so it was no longer tenting my slacks, and I rounded the corner as I moved closer to the room where everyone was waiting.
Even though it felt like the most unnatural thing to do, I pushed all thoughts of my mate out of my mind.
Once I finished handling business here, all I wanted to do was go back to her, to watch her sleep until the sun rose and forced me away from her. And then I’d do it all again the following night until I finally—irrevocably and permanently—made her mine.
I needed to find out any and all information I could about her, which was easy enough with the resources I had at hand.
Just thinking about that had demented excitement moving through me. Fuck, I was a bastard, getting all hard—or impossibly harder—at the thought of finding out her name and age, her favorite food, what her life was like growing up… any past boyfriends. That last part was for me to stake my claim, to ease the possessive beast in me. My anger rose and my eyes flashed red as my thoughts envisioned someone touching her curvy body, breathing in her scent… knowing how soft her skin was.
