Page 56 of Zodiac Monsters

With her legs spread, in her short skirt, I was enjoying the view more than I would admit out loud, for the sake of sparing her the embarrassment. Gorgeous as she was, she was still unexplainably self-conscious and rather innocent. Explaining how much I liked her pussy was the kind of praise I’d work her up to when she was in the right situation.

For now, she was wearing that restrictive underwear she always did. I’d have to do something about that later, too.

I pressed another kiss to her sensitive skin, moving up her thigh an inch at a time, until I was just two more kisses away from where she wasn’t quite ready to have me. Her eyes were burning into me as she watched my every move, and her heart was pounding so hard, I could feel it through the delicious pulsing of her femoral artery.

I opened my mouth and licked lavishly across her smooth skin, while making a show of the slow extension of my fangs. She tensed when I touched each sharp point to her thick thigh, and that heartbeat found twenty more beats per minute as I sunk into her flesh.

Her breathing was heavily focused yet labored, and her temperature had spiked just below the surface of her skin. When I sucked roughly between her legs, she let slip a quiet moan, and I couldn’t help the satisfaction that flared in my soul. I took only a small portion of how much blood was needed, then I licked her wounds closed, and took hold of her left leg. I placed it over my other shoulder, and I pressed a kiss just below the hem of her skirt.

“May I?” I asked, as I licked the blood from my extended fangs. Baby Doll was covering her mouth as she nodded, like she was ashamed of every naughty little squeak.

“You don’t need to hold anything back around me.”

I reminded her of our mental connection, and she sucked in a sharp breath in response. She bit into her lip to stop its quivering, but she didn’t move away as I pressed my lips to her left thigh. She held still as I skated the smooth surface of my fangs up towards her core.

“Bite me.” She whispered with so much need, it had me on the edge of my own sanity. She covered her mouth again, and the thought “I didn’t mean to say that out loud” ran through her mind. I adjusted in my pants, trying not to make it obvious how much that just affected me, and I tried to ignore my own speeding heartbeat as I sunk my teeth into her perfect body.

Who was getting who hot and bothered, now? She had an impeccable ability to turn my plans around on me, and I didn’t understand how she always did it. She was accidentally my perfect sex kitten, and all I could think about was how much I wanted her to do this to me on purpose.

I rubbed the inside of her right thigh with one hand, drawing gentle, idle lines up and down the length of her soft muscles, and I sucked just a little harder on her left. She fisted my hair, and she squeezed me between her legs. Her breathing hitched, and her legs quivered, as if I was about to send her into a full convulsing orgasm.

“Does it feel that good, Baby Doll?” I asked through her mind, as I absolutely would not be taking my mouth off her.

She answered only with a half nod, filled with heavy inhales and shaky exhales.

I’m not going to fuck her yet. I told myself, and only myself. In a blur, I ripped my teeth from her thigh, then moved up higher, sinking back in just outside the edge of her undergarment. I was buried in her short skirt, and I was digging my fingers into those tensing muscles as far up her leg as she’d let me go.

When she responded by tugging at my hair harder, it occurred to me this was really only as far as I would let myself go.

Slow down. Not yet. This time, I had to make a firm demand of my brain. My own needs were forgetting the plot, and her indescribable flavor was overriding my good sense. I savored another thick swallow, and I shuddered as that power radiated through me. It was with great regret and sadness that I retracted my fangs and covered her punctures with a quick flick of my tongue.

Lila’s grip loosened, so I returned her feet to the floor, and rose back to standing. She folded her legs, curling into fetal position on the couch, while staring up at me with her lust glazed, caramel colored eyes. Flecks of rose pink circled her irises, and I didn’t know how I hadn’t noticed that beautifully inhuman part of her.

I took a deep breath, then covered the lower half of my face with my hand. “Are you okay?”

Lila nodded before she reopened her eyes to meet mine again. “I’m not sure which feeding point I prefer.” She rubbed her neck with a laugh.

Lighthearted.

That was both how she reacted and how her comfort was making me feel. How unexpected.

“If the carotid or the femoral artery aren’t to your liking, the radial artery is still an option.” I took one of her hands, then pressed my lips to the underside of her wrist. “Anywhere will work, really. Those are just the most efficient.”

“N-no, I like those ones.” She tripped over her words, and if the strange feeling in my face was any indication, I think we both might have been blushing.

What the fuck?

Vampires did not blush. Stupid shifter blood was giving me away.

“Then we can explore them more next time.” I placed a kiss on her forehead. “Maybe we’ll explore some of the less efficient places too. No need to rush it.” I winked, and she nodded with bashful fervor.

I excused myself to the kitchen to prepare a post-blood donation meal for her. I took the entirety of those twenty minutes to try to calm my own rapid heartbeat and the unexplainable prickle in my skin. I wondered if drinking her blood had made her attractive draw more powerful than it would have otherwise been. Had I been falling into her rhythm because I was dedicated to annoying Adrian… or was I a slave to magic that neither of us understood?

If the latter was the case… would I actually want to stop?

There was no way I could answer that question authentically with her still in my house and running in my veins.

When I returned with a sandwich and some water, she was back to looking comfortable and off her guard. I sat beside her and placed the food on the coffee table. She picked it up without hesitation, and a smile exploded on her face as she dug in.