Aaron's Kiss Series Boxed Set (Books 1 - 7) (50 page)

“Baby, I need you to wake up. I want you to meet with some people, my friends, our friends. They can help us, help you. Come on.” She rolled over and snuggled deeper into his, no, their bed.

He kissed her along her shoulder and then rubbed his hand down her spine toward her firm ass. Need rumbled through him.

“Piccadilly, I told them all about your family. Aaron is expecting us upstairs soon.”

Her eyes opened wide in surprise. “Dominic, what have you done? They’ll think I’m a freak. I need to leave before my family gets here. I can’t involve your friends in this. My family is a bunch of evil men, and my mother is too, as well as a whore. And Sherman is powerful and I believe him to be a tad off his rocker. I have to go.” Pete jumped up and was rushing around the room looking for clothing.

Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how one looked at it, he had torn most of her clothes from her last night, and they were in tatters all over the room.

“Pete, have you any idea what people would say if you told them your lover and mate is a vampire, that one of your friends is the cousin of the Queen of Magic? That Aaron, our master, is a vampire, and the friend of a pack of werewolves? Honey, freak left the building when Elvis did. These are our friends and they want to help us,” he said.

He was distracted by her nakedness and every time she bent over to pick up another button, he nearly groaned out loud. She was just straightening up when she caught him looking at her ass. Putting her hand on her hip, she turned to glare at him. He finally lifted his gaze to her face and grinned at her.

“What do you think you’re doing just lying there? We’ve made a mess of this room and I need you to help me get dressed,” she demanded.

“No. Not yet.”

He was suddenly standing next to her and behind her. He was as naked as she was. He pushed his cock against her ass and cupped her breasts as he stood behind her. He began pulling and tugging at her nipples, which had hardened to stiff peaks the moment he touched her. He could smell her instant arousal. His cock hardened incredibly harder.

“Lean into the chair. Put your hands on the back of it for me.”

When she moved forward to do as he asked and she realized what he was going to do, her body wept for him.

“That’s it, baby; now spread your legs wide for me. I’m going to fuck you like this. Take you from behind and make you come. Are you sore? I can…I will try not to be so rough, but I need to be deep inside of you.”

She moaned when he leaned in to nip at her ass cheek, just breaking the skin and then licking the tiny wound closed. Being this close to her heat, it was all he could do not to drop to his knees and taste her again, suckle from her pussy until he had his fill of her. Standing, he bent his knees slightly and slowly entered her from behind, moving into her wet, hot pussy, and stopped. His body was so close to spilling inside of her he needed a moment to gather himself.

“Dominic, if you don’t move inside of me, I’m going to hurt you. You know I can, too.”

Her voice was husky with her need. Heat from her surrounded his cock and his balls tightened up closer to his body. He put his hands on her hips and moved deeper within her.

When he was seated fully inside her, he began to slide in and out, gripping her hips hard. There would be a mark, a deep bruise, but he did not care. He was mesmerized by the slickness of his cock as it moved in and out of her, wet with her cream and hard for her body. His need to mark her, to fill her with his seed, was paramount to anything else at the moment and he moaned at the thought of shooting his cum deep into her womb. He shifted to his left slightly and watched her breast jerk with each slam of his cock into her.

“Oh, Christ, Piccadilly, you’re so tight. Every time you bent over to pick something up, it was all I could do not to come all over myself. But this is so much better. Slamming deep in you. I love being buried deep in this pussy. Soon, love, I’m going to fuck this sweet ass of yours. I’m going to fuck you here until you scream.”

He stuck his thumb in his mouth to wet it and pressed it hard against her tiny rose. When her body jerked tight against his, he nearly lost his control. His movements became frantic as his need to come and bring her to with him moved over him.

“Please, Dominic. Harder. Fuck me harder. I’m so close, so very close. I want to feel your cum inside me. Now, please, now!”

He started slamming into her, hard and fast. Each time he slammed deep, he would feel her sheath pull him tighter. When she stood up, leaned into his chest, bringing her hands up to his neck, he cupped her breasts and pulled hard on her taut nipples. He suddenly needed more and pulled from her. He jerked her around to face him, picked her up by her ass, slammed her against the wall, and entered her again just as she wrapped her legs tightly around his hips. Pete wrapped her hand around the back of his head, grabbed a handful of his hair, and yanked his head back, exposing his throat.

“Bite me! Fuck, Pete, bite me hard!”

She sank her teeth hard into his throat right where the pulse was pounding as hard as he was into her. She broke his skin and marked him with her bite, bruising the tender flesh. Dominic felt his blood fill her mouth. He jerked his head forward, pulling his own hair, and bit her at the closest place he could sink his teeth. Their release roared through them, their mutual climax nearly violent.

CHAPTER TWELVE

Pete took her shower first, not allowing Dominic to take one with her or she said they would never leave the room. He really didn’t think that was such a bad plan, he told her. He could very well stay in this room with her for a few hundred centuries, but the others were waiting on them.

Dominic gave her one of his shirts to wear, but there was nothing they could do about her panties so she ended up in a pair of his boxer briefs. They were miles too big for her. He seemed to take special pride in that, because of him, she had no underclothes. She continued to glare at him every time he grinned at her.

When they walked into the kitchen, everyone turned to them. Pete, as she had asked him to call her around the others for now, stepped behind Dominic to hide from the group gathered there. Dominic simply reached behind him, pulled her into the front of him, and kissed her hard on her neck.

Dominic looked directly at Aaron and said to the room in general, “I’ve...we’ve mated and bonded. She is my mate. As my master, I ask for your blessings.”

A mated vampire couple, Dominic had explained when she had asked, meant that they had only had sex. Couples could and did live for centuries like that, never taking blood from the other. The non-vampire of them, most of the time a human, would never age, but they could die if mortally injured. The blood exchange was what bonded them both mentally and physically, and also made them both vampires.

“Welcome to my Kiss, Piccadilly Fresno Bartholomew.” Aaron stood and embraced Pete with a kiss to each cheek. Aaron then did the same with Dominic.

Pete glared at Aaron first, then at Dominic. Dominic flushed and glared at Aaron as well.

“Don’t be mad at Aaron. He means well. He needed as many details about you as he could get...I told him everything so he could get as much information about your family as he could. I didn’t know he was going to blab it to everyone and his brother.”

She was embarrassed, not mad at him. Dominic seemed to realize this, kissed her quickly on her nose, and grinned like a loon. She so wanted to smack him silly.

“Poo on them, all men can be such asses sometimes. I think it’s a perfectly lovely name. Come now, meet the rest of your new family, dear. I’m Elizabeth; this is my mate Phillip. We’re Mel’s and Sara’s grandparents. Sara is our son’s daughter, who is no longer with us. This is Savannah and James, they are Mel’s parents and Savannah is our daughter. Colin and Shade you have met. Duncan is the nicest man I’ve ever known, but he claims that he knows you best of all. This is Penny. She is the most wonderful cook. Speaking of which, you must be starved. Let’s get you some food while we talk.”

They had to adjourn to the dining room as the women had to eat. When Duncan set a large plate of food in front of her, she looked up at him. He just winked at her and said, “Its home cooked, miss, just for you.”

It took her several seconds to realize he was referring to the conversation that they’d had once when she was installing the computer for him.

Pete toyed with the amazing amount of food that was before her. It wasn’t until Dominic whispered in her ear that if they continued for an eternity like they had just before they left his lair, she would need to keep up her strength. She could do that by eating her breakfast. Aaron laughed at that and when he had chanced a glance at his own mate, he sobered up quickly. Sara had the most deceptively sweet look on her face.

After ten minutes of eating and joking around as a tight family would do, they got down to business. Dominic reached over and picked Pete up and sat her on his lap. The squeak from her sent the entire room into giggles.

“Your family is indeed on their way here, Piccadilly. According to the information I got earlier this morning, they left on Sunday morning, just after you helped to bring my children safely into the world,” Aaron explained after they were seated around the large room.

“I know that I’ve drawn them here by helping you and your family, Mr. MacManus, and I’ve also told Dominic I will lure them away from your family as soon as possible. They are a dangerous bunch and I won’t have them brought to your family.”

“You’ve no idea how dangerous a vampire can be when it comes to what is his. So there will be no more nonsense about you leaving. Now, as I was saying, you now have seven brothers, and your ‘mother,’ for lack of a better term, is traveling with them. There was no sign of Sherman when they were seen last. But he could be traveling by other means. The Bartholomew’s might arrive sometime late day after tomorrow—I absolutely refuse to call them your family. However, I’ve arranged a couple of detours and ‘accidents’ to befall them, which should give us a day or two more.”

“Accidents.” Pete looked at Aaron and grinned. “I’ll just bet you have. What do you have, some sort of vampire smoke signals that you watch? And it alerts you when they are coming closer?”

“Don’t be impertinent. I have favors owed to me. And that, my dear, is all you are going to know about that.”

For some reason, his statement, though said with a smile, sent chills down her spine. Pete decided that keeping an eye on him might be a good idea. Aaron MacManus was a very terrifying individual.

“Why don’t you just stop them altogether? Why just slow them down? I don’t understand,” Phillip asked, concern lacing is voice.

“Because they won’t stop until they have me. One or all of them will keep coming until they get what they want or they’re stopped permanently. There’s something else you should know. I’m not...I can’t...this curse; it won’t stay down shut down now. I’m...I’m barely able to hold it closed as it is. It’s like a beacon and that is what is leading them here. And I can feel the stupid magic getting stronger too,” Pete said.

“Since when? I mean, when did you start to lose control over it?” James knew a lot about magic, Dominic had told her. Just after he had become mated to Savannah, he’d started keeping a journal of sorts.

He had started out just keeping notes on them, then pictures he had drawn of the beings he’d had contact with or found. He had a journal for each type of being he had learned about. Phillip was thumbing through one now. It was a very plain notebook and the writing in it was with, of all things, a quill and ink.

“After we, hummm, we had sex, then...when he...I bit him, you see, and well, I bit him hard. I...that is to say, I tasted him, his blood. I bit him and tasted his blood, drank from him.”

Even in her embarrassment, she was defiant. Even she knew it. She looked around the room as if to dare anyone to comment on her behavior. Of course no one did. Dominic, as her true mate, felt her emotions and hugged her body close to his, offering comfort and support through their bond.

“Show them, love. Let it go and show them your mark. I’m here for you. We are all here for you. Not one person in this room will be offended by it,” Dominic said with an encouraging nod to her.

“I can show you most of it. But I won’t strip down for you. There are limits to what even I will do in the name of keeping you safe, and baring my ass for the room so isn’t one of them.”

The room full of people laughed as she stood and pulled her shirt up in the back, and Dominic stood in front of her and hid her breasts from view.

“Could you pull your pants down to your knees, lass? Your under garment would cover your...well, it should cover you well enough, I believe,” Colin suggested mildly.

Dominic’s laughter quickly turned into a hard cough when Pete turned to glare daggers at him. She never stopped glaring as she answered Colin.

“I’m afraid that’s not possible, Mr. Larimore. My panties, along with my shirt, seem to have been destroyed. It’s a good thing that sort of opportunity will never happen again, isn’t it, Dominic?”

“Ah, love, that’s not fair! Besides, I’m sure we could buy a few extras just in case it happens again.”

Pete had never wanted to smack someone so badly in her entire life as she did Dominic right then. And how the hell he got his eyebrows to wiggle like that was beyond her. Stupid man.

“Come with me, Pete. We’ll have a look at my closet. I’m sure I have some things we can cover you with. We’ll be right back.” Sara reached out and the two of them headed for the stairs.

Pete was beginning to think she would never be anything but embarrassed around these people again. Not only was she expected to bare all, but to do so in front of strangers too. She trailed along behind Sara to the upper floors.

Shade came up with them. When Sara opened her closet doors after they had meet in her room, Pete could only stare open-mouthed. “Shit!” she said, then looked at Sara in horror.

“I agree, actually. I’ve gone overboard with shopping, but it’s so much fun, especially when we all get together. And if you think this is bad, you should see Shade’s closet. I’m not sure mine is even half that one. And believe it or not, Aaron is worse than I am.” Sara stepped into the showroom sized closet and emerged a few minutes later with her hands full of clothes.

“Here we go. Now, I think I have a shirt that would be large enough for you to lift and cover yourself at the same time.” Pete ended up with a sports bra and a pair of loose trainer pants with a pair of boxer briefs for women.

“Has Dominic bitten you yet? I mean, your mark, has he bitten your mark yet?”

Shade asked, startling Pete out of her wonderment of all the shoes Sara had. She was thinking,
Why you would anyone need more than one or two pair at a time?

“I don’t think so. It...we get sort of...sort of, and you know...it’s very overwhelming while we...I don’t think so.”
Sheesh, did these people never get embarrassed?
she thought. She’d had sex for the first time in her life and it seemed everyone wanted some kind of detail about it.

“When Colin bit into mine, he received my powers. His aren’t as strong as mine yet, but he’s getting really good with them. I just wondered if the same could happen to you. I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to embarrass you. But I know what you mean about it being overwhelming. But, damn isn’t it wonderful!”

Pete had to agree—wonderful, overwhelming, spectacular, earth-shattering, mind blowing...oh yeah, it was all that and more.

“I was actually hoping that person from the restaurant, Queenie, could take them away. My curse, that is. I’ve never wanted it and I would like it gone. Maybe if it’s gone, they’ll stop looking for me.” She glanced across the room and felt rather than saw Mel before she was clear and speaking.

“No, I can’t. And even if I could, I wouldn’t. You are fated to have those powers and I don’t mess with those women, the Fates, I mean. Frankly, they scare the crap out of me.” Mel shimmered in the spot even as Pete watched.

“They’re not powers, but a curse. I don’t want them. I’ve never wanted them. If you had to live with them, you’d think so too. They’ve done nothing but cause problems, and now look. Because of it, my family is coming here, and will stop at nothing to get me, including destroying every one of you. I’m not going back with them. I’ll die first, I swear it. They’re evil and...and I’m not, damn it.”

Pete felt the vine move against her skin and across her back; the vine around her bicep tightened and pulled hard on her skin. Concentrating on her breathing and slowing her heart rate down, she was also able to slow down the movement of it somewhat. It was getting harder to keep the lid shut on it. The energy was surging now, the waves getting stronger with every breath she took. It was practically pulsing to be released from her hold on it. It was also beginning to scare her a little.

“And you won’t, not as long as I’m still breathing, and I plan to do that for a very, very long time. Also, I think I can speak for everyone in this household when I assure you no one here thinks you’re the least bit evil. You were there to save my children, Piccadilly. There’s no telling what else the Sisters Three have in store for you, but until we know, you are our family and no one is taking you away from us,” Sara said with conviction.

“Why? Why would you give two shits about me? Sure, I helped you with your kids, but they’re safe now. I would think that you’d want me to move on and out of your hair. I would.”

“One time I said the same thing to the big guy downstairs. I went so far as to ask him to end my life as I knew it. He did, though not the way I had hoped or asked him to. Now I have two children and him. And I have a family, one I didn’t know I had. I would also be honored if you’d allow me to call you friend. You need to trust me, trust us.”

Pete didn’t say anything. She couldn’t even if she wanted to. There was a large lump in her throat and she couldn’t seem to get past it.

When they returned to the main level of the mansion, the others had gathered in the huge living room. As soon as Pete stepped over the threshold, Dominic was at her side.

She could see the concern in his eyes and had only meant to give him a quick peck on the cheek. As soon as her mouth touched his skin, need for him slammed into her. The tiny peck became a nip, the nip a bite, the bite a devouring kiss. Heat flared within her in an instant. It wasn’t until someone cleared their throat that she realized where they were.

“I’m sorry. I...we…” She looked helplessly at Dominic. He just grinned at her, the arrogant ass. Pete wondered how she was going to stand the next five minutes with this man much less the next few years.

“No need to explain, lass. We’ve all been there. Why, I remember once I thought we’d have to turn away twelve hundred vamps so that Sara and Aaron could...how did you put it Dominic? Ah yeah, fuck like bunnies,” Colin told her with a wink.