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Chapter Thirty-Eight

Even after the doors had closed and the elevator had moved to another floor, Thorsten continued to stare at it in sheer amazement. He had actually laid eyes on his
Unique
woman and seeing her was life changing.

He had never felt so a
live
like he just found his reason for living all of these years. She was beautiful...more stunning than any other woman he had ever seen in over two hundred plus years.

She even knew Sahara! How was that possible? What was she doing here?  He had so many questions that needed answers but first he had to make sure he wasn’t feeling only a sexual attraction to a good-looking woman.

The only way he could know for sure was by touching her. Once a vampire touched his
Unique
woman he would know for sure if she was the one born to be with him. What would he do if she was his mate? He had fought so hard not to believe in it.

However, Thorsten didn’t really have to touch the female with Sahara to know the truth. He felt their connection even from this distance. She hadn’t even acted like she knew he was there, but that didn’t matter to him.

She wasn’t going to get away from him. Not if he had anything to do about it.

Thorsten knew he wasn’t in the mood to almost die for her like Jax almost did. Or wait forever for his mate to tell him she loved and accepted his secret the crazy way Zander was doing for Sabrina.

No, he would tell her what she was going to do and there weren’t going to be any problems from her. He didn’t have time to find 101 ways to romance his mate and why should he? She was already marked to be with him.

Why did he need to win over a female who was technically already his?

Feeling a little better, Thorsten smiled to himself as he left the hallway and headed back towards the stairs. He had a date with a blond he had met at the farmer’s market the other day.

He might as well have one last date before he claimed his mate and spent eternity with her. After his date was over, he would make a trip to Jax’s house and talk to Sahara about her friend. More importantly, he had to find out the name of the future Mrs. Thorsten Irizarry.

Thorsten knew he was going to show Jax and even Zander the correct way a vampire claimed his other half and it would be a lot faster than the way either one of them had done it.

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Later on that night, Zander stood in his kitchen pouring another glass of wine for him and Sabrina. His meeting this morning ran way longer than it should have, but he wanted to make sure all of his employees understood what he wanted from them over the next few weeks. In addition, he had to assign another guy to Ms. Case after the way she almost ruined things with Sabrina.

He wasn’t about to set foot in her house again and give her any kind of signs of encouragement. Of course, when he got back to the office after three o’clock in the afternoon, Sabrina was long gone and he hadn’t expected her to still be there.

Unfortunately, he didn’t leave Alpha Male Incorporated until after five o’clock  and of course he headed straight for Sabrina’s house. A part of him had been more than a little nervous she wouldn’t even open the door for him. There wasn’t a doubt in his mind that she wouldn’t be upset with him and he didn’t have any reason why she shouldn’t be.

Zander knew that he had kept his woman waiting way longer than necessary. She should have come first way over anything else. However, he had an apology ready when he finally made it to her house, but it wasn’t necessary. Sabrina wasn’t upset with him. She didn’t even think twice about having dinner at his house tonight.

Picking up the glasses off the table, Zander walked away from the kitchen island and made his way back into the living room.  “Baby, thank you for agreeing to have a late dinner with me,” he said, handing Sabrina her glass then sitting down on the couch next to her. “I want you to know that I didn’t have any clue my meeting this morning would last so long. I shouldn’t have kept you waiting. I should have called you.”

Taking a sip of her drink, Sabrina looked at him before placing it on the table. “I understand. I’m not upset. You love your job just as much as I do, maybe a little more. I know how busy you are and besides Sahara came up to see you and I got to meet her friend Raya. We all talked for a few minutes and she filled me in on a lot of vampire things about you.”

Swallowing hard, Zander sat his glass of wine down beside Sabrina’s drink. He wasn’t getting a good feeling about this, not at all, because his sister-in-law didn’t know how to keep out of his personal life.

“What did the two of you talk about?” he asked. Shit! Zander prayed hard that Sahara kept her mouth shut.

Smiling, Sabrina slid across the cushions of the couch closer to him. “Why are you asking? Do you think she spilled some vampire secrets I shouldn’t know about?”

He slid his hand up the side of his mate’s thigh. He would rather be doing something else than talking about Sahara, but he had to find out what she might have told Sabrina while he wasn’t there.

“No, I don’t think she did.”

“I’m glad you aren’t a gambling man because you would be out of a lot of money.” Sabrina grinned.

His hand stopped moving as he stared at his mate. God! Surely, Sahara didn’t tell his mate about the sleep of the dead. It was his place to do it ...not hers. He needed to have a talk with Jax about this but it would have to wait until later. Right now, he had to stay calm and deal with whatever Sabrina knew about.

“Baby, aren’t you going to tell me what she told you?” he asked nervously.

“Well, Sahara told me how much you loved me but I already knew that. You never made a point of hiding your feelings from me, but that isn’t it.” Tilting her head to the side, she ran her hand down the front of his shirt. “Do you want to make another guess?”

“I think it might just be best if you tell me, so we can talk about it.” Zander wasn’t going to say anything else in case Sabrina was talking about something different than he was thinking.

“Are you sure that you don’t want to read my mind? I mean wouldn’t it give you a heads up before the words come out of my mouth.”

Relief like he had never known before rushed through him. Zander couldn’t believe that was all Sahara let go. He was proud of her and mad at her all at the same time. She shouldn’t have told his mate about his mind reading abilities, but she had kept the most important secret to herself.

“So you know now that I can read minds.”

“Yes and now I know why you seemed to know some things before the words came out of my mouth,” Sabrina said, hitting him on the arm. “How come you didn’t tell me about this?”

“You aren’t mad at me?” Zander asked, surprised.

“No. I’m trying to get used to the idea of you being a vampire. I think the mind reading is an easy idea to accept. I’m just wondering now what else you can do that I don’t know about.”

His cock twitched and hardened at the thought of what he could show Sabrina, but she hadn’t shown him any signs she was ready to make love yet. It didn’t matter how much he wanted to feel her naked body against his. He would wait as long as she needed him to but the scent of her was driving him a little crazier the longer he spent time around her.

“Sweetheart, I could show you so much.” Zander admitted as his hand eased further up her leg. “You are just so beautiful and holding back has been hard, but I can wait until you’re ready.”

“How do you know that I’m not ready now?” Sabrina questioned, catching him off guard. “I’ve been fighting my need to be with you for so long that I can’t do it anymore. I’m tired of being the ‘good girl’ my family is used to seeing. I want to know how it feels just to act on your feelings and not care about what happens later.”

What this really happening
?

Zander couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Sabrina was finally admitting she wanted him, but he required more than her sexual attraction to him. He wanted her love to go along with it. It was the glue that would hold their future relationship together. He’d had passionate sex with countless women in his past, but he never loved them the way he did his mate.

“Does your silence mean you don’t want me?” she asked, removing her hand from the middle of his chest. “I’ve waited so long to make love and I want my first time to be with you.”

Shit! Why did her voice have to sound so sexy and inviting?

He was trying to be the better person here today. Sabrina still didn’t have the full picture. She was drawn to their chemical attraction as mates and it was making her want to experiment more sexually. She couldn’t control her urges now if she wanted to. It would be near impossible.

“Please Zander. Show me what it’s like to lose control like I’ve never done before.”

Reaching out, her thumb traced over his bottom lip sending a blaze of fire shooting straight to his cock.   Zander wanted to knock her hand away, but he didn’t have the strength to do anything but sit here waiting for her next move.

“Do you know how much I love it when you kiss me? I mean my body feels like it’s going to explode from the power of it. I want to know that feeling on every level possible. I know you’re the only man who can give that it me,” Sabrina admitted, looking him directly in the eye.

Closing his eyes, Zander knew he wouldn’t be able to turn down the gift Sabrina was offering him. He had been waiting
too
long for her to accept him to turn her away now. He would just deal with whatever might come up later.

Slowly, he opened his eyes and their gazes locked on each other. Grabbing her hand, Zander held it against his chest. “Sabrina, are you sure about this? Sweetheart, once I start loving you this time I won’t be able to stop. I want to make sure you understand how important this is. I’ll have to bite you. I won’t be able to control my need to taste you.”

Sabrina looked at him with total trust in her eyes. “I know and I’m not scared. How can I be afraid of you when I know how much you love me, but can I ask you to do something?” her soft voice asked him.

“Sweetheart, you can ask me anything you want to.” He would do anything she wanted no matter what it was.

“I know we agreed for you not to kiss me, but I’m dying to feel your─.” The rest of the sentence was cut off as Zander captured his mate’s luscious mouth with his lips.

Their lips met in a frantic kiss as he tried to make up for the short time he hadn’t tasted her sweet mouth. He groaned deep in his throat as his tongue dueled with Sabrina’s the second she slipped it between his lips.

Without breaking their kiss, he picked her up from the couch and hurried towards his bedroom at the end of the hallway. If it had been another time, he would have taken her right there on the couch but he wanted Sabrina’s first time to be in his bed where her alluring scent would remain even when she wasn’t there with him.

Kicking the door open with the toe of his boot, Zander continued to rain kisses all over her face and down her chin as he laid her back on the bed. Lying on top of her, he cupped Sabrina’s face in the palm of his hands and worked his mouth down the side of her slim neck until he stopped at where her neck and shoulder met.

The urge to bite her now clawed at him, but he could hold off. He wanted her to be crazy out of her mind with desire before he got his first sample of her.

Instead, he continued planting kisses along her tempting body until he came to her breasts. Her aching, hard nipples were rock hard and straining against the fabric of her shirt. They were begging him to take one into his mouth and give it all the love it deserved.

Grabbing the shirt, he ripped it apart exposing Sabrina’s perfect, full breasts encased in a tiny white bra that wasn’t big enough to keep her generous gifts from spilling over the top.

“My shirt,” she gasped.

“Don’t worry about it. I’ll buy you twenty more of them if you want,” he answered without taking his eyes off the treasures he’d just exposed. Seconds later, his fingers unhooked the front of the lacy fabric baring her breasts to his waiting eyes.

Not wasting a second, Zander brushed his thumb over the tip of her sensitive nipples making his woman squirm underneath his teasing touch. “Baby, you are more beautiful than I remember . How is that possible?”

Lowering his head, he sucked one nipple into his mouth. Sabrina arched her back moaning softly as his teeth scraped over the hard peak. Her small fingers slid his over his head holding him against her breasts as he continued to please and worship her.

Soft feminine cries filled his ears as he slid his hands down her body until they spread her thighs apart and he eased his large body between them. He pressed his throbbing cock against her soaked underwear thrusting a couple of times causing Sabrina’s nails to dig into his shoulders.

As she lifted her hips to give him better access, Zander eased his hand between their bodies feeling how hot and feverish her skin was against his fingers. The softness of her skin mingled with the scent of her arousal was a very powerful aphrodisiac. One that he wasn’t about to fight off but accept with open arms.

Right at this moment, Sabrina was his salvation. She was going to give him the emotional attachment he had been searching years for but never found with other women.

Sneaking his fingertips beneath the skimpy thin fabric of her underwear, brushing over her slick curls, Zander worked two fingers finding her clit and started to rub drawing another moan from between her kissed swollen lips.

“Yes, Zander,” she screamed. “Oh, please don’t stop.”

He continued his loving treatment of her breasts as one of his fingers slipped into her tight pussy. Zander moved his mouth back and forth giving each glorious tip the love each one begged for. Letting her breasts go, he kissed each nipple giving each beauty one final lick, savoring the taste of her.

“Sweetheart, I have waited for years and I do mean years to be inside of you. I’m not going to stop until I’m buried deep inside of your tight pussy. You don’t have to be worried about me stopping.”

Seconds later, Sabrina’s skirt and underwear were pulled off her body leaving her beautiful form naked to his eyes. “But before I do anything else, I have to sample you. I need to know what my mate tastes like.”