Page 59 of Sold to the Dark Vampire Prince

He shuddered, breathing in the clean scent of her skin. “Now I’m starting to believe her plan all along in bringing you here was to cause enough trouble that you would tire of having your heart broken and leave me for once and for all. I suspect she and my father hoped I would be so devastated I would give up all protests and agree to marry her in a fit of despondency.”

“Don’t even think of doing such a thing.” She poked him in the chest. “I am not nearly so fragile, and for the record, I prefer my princes far less broody.”

He bent to kiss her softly. “That gown looks absolutely ravishing on you. Please tell me we have five minutes to spare before we’re needed downstairs.”

“I suspect no one would miss us too terribly if we were delayed.”

His hands skimmed up the edges of her bodice. There was no missing the way her eyes darkened when they reached the full swell of her breasts, made all the more round by the corset he could see she had on under her gown. Gods, how he loved corsets.

“I confess… I’m having a rather hard time being a gentleman right at the moment.” His mouth hovered a breath from hers.

“Then don’t.” Dani leaned in, nipping lightly at his bottom lip.

She slid a knee across his lap, the voluminous folds of her dark purple dress spilling out on either side of him on the couch. As his hands found her hips, pulling her flush to him so she could feel his want, he relished in seeing the soft little “O” that formed at her lips.

She was perfect. Exquisite. And he was going to have her just like this.

“I want you very badly right now, Daniela.” His lips found the vein at her throat, tasted each soft pulse beneath it as he slowly began to undo the fastenings at the back of her dress. “I ache to be inside you.”

Two more buttons came undone. He traced the bare skin at her back, taking the liberty of tugging lose the string securing her corset. When Dani shivered, arching against him, he bent to kiss the hollow of her throat.

“You’re shaking,” he murmured. “You want this.”

“I can see your fangs growing longer, can feel how aroused you are.” She was breathing hard, the round swells of her breasts trembling with every roving pass his hands made across her ribcage. Her stormy gray eyes stared down into his, her fingers tangling in his hair, begging him closer. “It shouldn’t feel so good when you feed from me, when you sink your fangs into my throat. I’m your prey. You’re so much bigger than me, so much stronger. And yet every time you withdraw and I feel the sore ache from the last time you had me, all I can think of is how long until you’ll take me again.”

He loosened the corset a bit more. Dani arched her back as he pushed her breasts up so that her dark pink nipples peeked over the top. When his lips closed over one rosy peak, she released a soft gasp, fingers threading into his hair to keep him at her breast.

“That could make certain things feel especially exquisite.” His hand slipped beneath her layers of skirting, teasing up the inside of one stocking-clad calf. When the edge of his fang scraped her nipple, she gasped, and he scented the immediate rush of wetness where her thighs lay parted over his. “And you’re not my prey. That word is so crude considering that my every waking thought is of how many ways I can make my name fall from your lips as your eyes go unfocused with pleasure.”

“That doesn’t sound… entirely unpleasant.” She bit her lip. “And it is because I trust you would never hurt me that I can allow myself to lie back and enjoy feeding you, that I have come to crave it.” She trailed fingers through his hair. “That first night, when you knew I was afraid, and you swore you would touch me nowhere but my wrist, it only made me want your hands on me everywhere.”

“Everywhere, hmm?” He reached her knee, circling lazily as she moved her other breast to his mouth. “Do elaborate. I believe I may need further instruction in this matter.”

“I regret to inform you, Your Highness, that if your hand continues on its current path, I may be unable to stay quiet. It would be most embarrassing if we were interrupted by a contingent of well-meaning guards, convinced my virtue was in danger.”

He reached the tops of her stockings, fingertips lightly stroking the lace he found there. Dani shivered when his fingertips grazed her bare skin, and he flicked her nipple with his tongue.

“Are you wet for me, Daniela?” His fingers slid higher, finding the thatch of curls at her sex resting beneath an enticingly tiny scrap of lace that could barely be called an undergarment. She keened when his fingers stroked deep inside of her. “Yes, it seems you are.”

“Alex,” she breathed. “I’ve been wet for you all day. Make me come.”

He guided her mouth to his, hand working beneath her dress.

“Like this?” His thumb teased the aching nub of her clit until she shuddered, head falling back. “Or more like… this.”

“If your intent is to make me rouse the entire palace, your aim is… rather perfect,” she gasped.

Pulling her over his chest so the creamy length of her neck was bared to him, he laved kisses down the length of her throat. “Tell me what you need, Daniela.”

His fangs were so elongated they hurt, his need to feed from her a raw pulsing hunger he felt from the burn in the back of his throat to the heavy ache in his cock.

But he wouldn’t. Not until she gave herself over to him. Not until she begged for his fangs in her throat. He could never be satisfied with anything less. He needed the Daniela who craved him as desperately as he hungered for her, wanted him not because he was a prince, or because she’d harbored a secret crush on the man she’d known from the legal aid office, or because she’d felt the first dark stirrings of attraction to the vampire who’d spared her in the auction house, but because she wanted all the parts of him in equal measure.

Her vein hammered beneath his lips, warm and thrumming wildly as his fingers teased her to the precipice of orgasm.

“Alex, please,” she whispered. “I can’t hold back any more.”

“Your thighs are shaking.” His fangs scraped her throat. “And every time I tease your swollen little bud, you hold your breath in anticipation. How badly do you need to fall apart around my fingers right now, Dani?”