Page 65 of Deadly Cravings

“Why couldn’t Tobias leave?”

Asher sighed. “That’s enough story time, Pet. You need to rest. Don’t think I didn’t notice you stifle that yawn.”

“I just woke up,” I said, forcing pep into my words. Another yawn encroached.My eyelids did feel heavy.

“Come. Rest against me. I’ll keep watch over you.”

I pouted and went along with his decree more because he was stronger than me. He settled against the headboard, and I rested against him.

I wiggled my toes, trying to get some blood circulating. My legs were going to be numb by morning with Bastien’s weight.There seemed to be tons of baggage accompanying these guys and the one with big blaring lights was named Imogen.

She had a hold on them, even in death, and that soured my stomach. There was nothing positive with thoughts attached to her, but I was sure that had more to do with the jealousy creeping up on me. She had them all seemingly wrapped around her fingers, and I knew now that I had no chance against the memory of her.

As I faded away, Asher’s hair brushed my cheek.

“When you’re ready to tell me what has you so fearful. I will protect you.”

The vow was heaven . . . My shaking subsiding and I slept.

TWENTY-SIX

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I groaned,wiggling my ass to get closer to the hard body pressed against my front. My breasts smushed against the broad, muscled chest and I pinned my hands between us. So comfy . . . and safe . . .

My lashes fluttered and I met piercing blue eyes. Instead of the teasing expression I expected to see, it was serious and searching.

Jax.

My lips parted and I was about to yank back, but he tightened his grip. I blinked at him, my cheek pillowed on his bent arm. I was in a different bedroom, but that was all I could tell from my vantage. Licking my lips, I searched for words, but nothing would come. His gaze lasered in on my mouth.

“What—” He cut me off, swiping his tongue against mine. Hovering over me, he nipped my bottom lip. I sucked in a surprised breath. I expected him to push away from me or spout nonsense about being disgusted—not this. His eyes heated, a sultry look in them that made my stomach dip. Lust flushed my body and I wiggled my hip into the bed. Jax’s hold flexed and his palm dragged up my body, lifting my shirt to my neck and exposing my breasts.

I gasped, detaching from Jax’s possessive caresses. His thumb and pointer finger gripped my chin and he forced my gaze to his.

“I’m going to fuck you, Kitten.” I sucked in a deep breath, my eyelids fluttering from the electricity tightening my throbbing pussy.

His muscles bunched beneath the skin containing them. I tipped my head back to look into his eyes. Jax lifted his hand to my cheek, and he pressed his thumb to my mouth. A wicked grin spread on his lips as he dragged the damp digit to my nipple, then trailed them lower and lower until his large hand engulfed my hip, clasping it tightly.

He flipped me with such ease it took my breath away. My cheek pressed into the mattress.

On instinct, I fought to turn back around, but his palm pressed between my shoulders, forcing my chest to flatten on the bed. My hands pressed into the bed next to my head and I was about to forcefully push up when his teeth sank into my shoulder.

I went limp, moaning as Jax dragged blood out of my body. He lifted his head and lazily licked the wound once. The bed jostled as he pushed to his knees. I remained in place as his hands skimmed down my sides and gripped my bare thighs. His thumbs pressed into my ass cheeks as his fingers wrapped around my hips, teasingly near my pussy. My face was warm from lust and embarrassment, but I wanted to be filled so bad.

Jax dragged me back, forcing my ass higher in the air. I yelped at the sudden movement and exposure of my sensitive flesh. The cool air made my drenched state startlingly clear. Nerves curdled in my stomach and I tugged once to get free, face blistering. There was something so erotically charged about being so vulnerable and at the mercy of the vampire that didn’t like me.

He stilled my hips and a sudden swipe of a wet tongue had me sucking in a deep breath and groaning into the mattress. I bunched the sheets in both fists as Jax’s tongue prodded my entrance and slowly swiped upward to the bud of my ass where he swirled his tongue.

The suddenness there stiffened me, but he chased it away by slipping his tongue into my wet pussy.

A moan crawled from my throat and my toes curled.

The bed jostled again as he lowered the angle he had me at and his hard cock prodded my entrance, slowly dipping in and out in a shallow thrust, again and again until I was wiggling in his hold. My fingers gripped the bedsheet, and I arched my back, but nothing I did forced him to give me what I wanted.

“Jax,” I whimpered.

“Quiet, Kitten.”