Endless Days (The Firsts) (18 page)

It was all over when she felt his tongue inside her, the decision made.  She would make love with him and keep this as the sweetest memory of her life.  Her body responded by opening up completely to him, and letting the waves of pleasure lift her to heaven.   When her orgasm came, he held her to him, his face buried in her belly, his tongue not finished with its exploration.  He lifted her up and pulled her to him…sat her on his lap as he tugged her shirt over her head.  The lace-edged bra died a quick death as it was torn apart at the clasp and tossed halfway across the room.

He stared at her breasts.  “You are the most gorgeous woman in this world, Cherise,” he said and pushed her back down to stretch out long beside her to take her breast into his mouth.  She couldn’t stop the tears.  To know that this would be the first and last time with him…

Cherise pushed away.  “I want to be inside you. 
Right now.”  She shoved his clothes off, ripping buttons, and tearing at the stubborn zipper on his jeans.  They were extremely tight, and she knew why, as she pushed them away to reveal he was fully erect and ready for her.

“Gorgeous,” she repeated, and ran her hand down his length as she pushed him back onto his back and climbed on top of him.  She’d never been with a vampire before.  And although he was huge, she didn’t hesitate as she fitted herself down over him, and slid down against his body.  They both gasped.  His arms came around her as he lifted his hips and very gently pushed into her.  Just feeling her bare skin against his bare skin was almost too much, and they both moaned at the contact.  As they started to move together, the scatters of pleasure grew into the most explosive orgasm either of them had ever known.  Even without his memory, David knew this.

He held her after they dropped from the final spasm of ecstasy, couldn’t keep his fingers off her skin as he caressed her.  He sighed with pleasure.

“That was everything I expected it would be.  I could feel you with me…not just physically, but I could feel
you
.  Like I was part of you.  Like we were one.”

Cherise had her head buried against him.  He smelled so
good.
  “It’s the bond.  I can’t help but open up my heart, mind, and soul to you.  In that, in this…you
do
own me.  I was able to know you, too.  You
are
the noble vampire you once told me you hoped you were.  Oh, Kav, I’m glad I didn’t let myself leave.  I’ll remember this always.  You are a magnificent man.”

She sat up and scooted away from the bed, not looking at him, and said, so quietly he almost didn’t hear it, “Katerine is a very lucky girl.”

David vampire-moved off the bed and onto the floor, his hands around her, caressing her bare waist.

“It wasn’t Katerine I just made love to.  Cherise, that wasn’t sex.  I made
love
with you.  It isn’t her I want!”

Cherise brought both her hands up and buried her fingers in his hair again, looking into his amber eyes.  They were glowing.

“Yes.  Yes, we did make love. I will treasure it for the rest of my life.”  She sighed and slid forward, gently pushing him away and off the bed, comfortable with no clothes.  “Well, we’ll see, when I open up your past to you.  We’ll see.  I need to go.  People will be talking.”

He grinned.  “They better be.  Will you come back and begin my session?  I want to get this working.  I need my memory back so I can prove to you that I love you.”

“Alright.  We’ll begin tonight.  I just need to go clean up.”

“Like hell!  You’ll stay here.  I have the most phenomenal shower.  And there’s another benefit here too.”

“What’s that?”

“Your own personal wash attendant.”

Suddenly she was whipped up into his arms, vampire speeded into the bathroom, and under a pulsating shower head.  David held a huge scrubby and slathered it with a scented body soap that smelled like him.  He knelt on the smooth black tile and began to scrub her legs, then between them.  Cherie was giggling. 
Giggling? 
She never giggled.  She thought even the word was ridiculous.  But with him down there and scrubbing earnestly, she gave herself the moment to feel amused, turned on, and happy.  Reality would smack her back in the face in another hour, but right now, for this moment, they were lovers at play in a sexy waterfall shower, and nothing else mattered in the world.   He worked his way up, the scrubby becoming way more than just a cleaning tool, and then he kissed her deeply, lifting her up into his arms, pressed and glued to him by warm soapy water.  When he let her slide down, the sensuous skin contact made them serious again.

Cherise took his beautiful manhood in her hand and looked at him.

“I want to taste you,” she said, and took him into her mouth, tonguing the heavy penis, until he shot backward into thick handmade tile built for a vampire…and still shattered it.  He reached for her immediately and kissed her again.  He spoke, his voice deep with emotion.

“If you think I’m letting you out of my life, you’re fucking crazy.  Let’s get this done.  I want to you to see that I will never let you leave me.  I’m in love with you, Cherise, and I can’t help but think it’s for the first time in my life.”

He couldn’t see the tears on her cheeks since they were mixed with water cascading over both of them.   She kissed him back and thought how it wasn’t likely to happen.  Fairy tales
didn’t
come true.  But no one could take these moments away from her.

He carried her, dripping wet, out of the bathroom and laid her on his bed.

“David, let me up so I can get a towel,” she protested.

“You don’t need one.  I’m going to lick you dry.”

And he did.

Cherise was finishing up her third shower of the day.  Smiling the entire time as she ran the scrubby over parts of her body that had been thoroughly pleasured by the vampire she was in love with.  When she’d entered the bathroom in her own rooms tonight, her reflection showed a woman who glowed.  Really, really glowed.  Her aura was as bright as she’d ever seen it.  Which had made her smile deeper.  That’s because she was as happy as she’d ever been.   Nothing, not even the fact that it couldn’t last, could spoil her elation.  If she never got to feel this again, it would still have all been worth it, even to be with him, just this one time.  Let any other repercussions come…she was in love and it was worth any price.

The towels were extremely plush and huge.  Her bath sheet wrapped around her twice, so she just cocooned herself in it and went back into her room to let herself dry naturally.  Sitting on the leather divan, she laid her head back and tried to clear her mind for the coming session with David.  It would be difficult for both of them and she hadn’t had a lot of time to prepare.  A completely clear mind was an essential starting point, so she began to let herself sink into
esprit vide
.  Empty mind.

A knock at the door interrupted and pulled her back out. 
Probably Leo.  She pulled the ends of the towel closer and started toward the door, but stopped midway, her mind searching.  It wasn’t Leo.  She paused, then opened it.

“Hi,” she said.  “Please come in.”

Katerine looked her up and down, noticing her state of undress.  Her smile was slight.

“Expecting someone else?”

Cherise looked down at the towel.  “No.  No, Katerine.  I just finished my shower.”

“I see.  Do you think we should talk?”

It was hard to look her in the eye, but Cherise forced herself to.  “I think so, yes.”  She led her over to the divan, but didn’t take a seat.

“I’m going to…uh…grab a robe.”

“Good idea.”

Each guest room came with a supply of robes that were equally as plush as the towels.  They were sized more for larger people, like the towels, so this one swallowed her up, too, but it felt more substantial than the towel.  She came back and curled up on the divan across f
rom Katerine.

Looking her up and down, Katerine leaned in.  “You really are quite stunning.  It isn’t any wonder he loves you.”

Cherise was speechless.  Where did she start?  She’d just let this woman’s man make love to her.  And everyone in this household knew it.  With a deep breath, she looked Katerine in the eyes.  She deserved it.

“I am so sorry.  This was never my intention.  He just…I mean…I couldn’t…”

Katerine laughed.  “Baby, calm down.  He is a force of nature.  You don’t say no to a thunderstorm.  And it’s apparent in every way…you love him too.  I could never turn down someone I loved like that. 
He
took
you
. 
You
didn’t take
him
.”

“I should have refused to let him.”

“You never could.  He’s a beautiful man. How could you have him naked before you and not jump into his arms?”  She paused.  “Don’t feel guilty.  Not because of me.  I love David, I always have.  But he’s been gone over thirty years.”  She stared at Cherise for the statement to sink in.

It did.  “You’ve taken another lover.”

“More than that.  I’m in love with him.  David and I have had good years.  I will always love him, but it was never like this with him.  Like it is with Gunnar.”

Katerine and the large blonde human.
 
Human.

She smiled again…it was soft and beautiful, and full of wonder.  She really was in love.  And it really wasn’t with David.  Those stupid tears threatened again.

“I know it’s ridiculous.  He’s human.   Weak.  Short lifespan.  Gets colds sometimes.  But he brings sunshine into my life.  And a fire that was never there with David.  So we may have a dilemma that will help all of us.”

Except…

“David may still be in love with
you
.  If he is, it will break his heart when he remembers.”

“I don’t believe it, my little empath.  I believe he will find that it is you, and only you, in his heart.  It will work out for the best.  I always believe this.  So, Cherise, I am not angry with you for following your heart
.”

“I tried so hard not to.  But when I see him, all I can think of is to climb inside him.  I’m sick, aren’t I?”

“Well, then, I have the same illness, because I feel the same way around Gunnar.  So, let’s get David well so you two can be together.  And I can come straight with him about Gunnar.  He needs to know we did not betray him.”

“I’m sure he will understand.  Thirty years is a very long time.  Even to vampires.  And you guys are so extremely sexual.”

Katherine lifted her eyebrows.  “Yes.  Yes, we are.”  The statement purred with pleasure.  “But I think so are you.”

“I’ve never been.  Not until now when I can’t think straight without him wrapped around me.  Love really
is
a sort of madness.”

“Anyone who has ever been madly in love would not disagree. 
So.  My new friend.  Get some clothes on and see if you can shake David’s tree.”

Cherise nodded and got up to slide on slacks and a turtleneck sweater she’d laid out before the shower.  They had been chosen because they covered every part of her, and she wanted no distractions when she began her work.  When she was ready, Katerine lifted up off the divan and stretched.

“I hope this works out.  I would love another woman here and I think you and I could be great friends.  You just better keep your hands off Gunnar.”

Cherise laughed.  “
I can only handle one psychotic love affair at a time.”  She hesitated and then continued.  “Actually, Katerine.  I want to tell you this.  I am bonded with David through my empathic abilities.  I will never be able to move on from him.   So, if he is still in love with you, and doesn’t want me, then I’ll return home to pick up the shattered pieces of my heart alone.  But he’ll always be the one that I love.”

“Then let’s get cracking.  You have a mind to break into.  Get dressed, Cherise. 
Strax!!” 
Cherise remembered the term.  Icelandic for immediately.

CHAPTER TWELVE

             
Gunnar had taken care of all security concerns for his boss’s stronghold.  He’d redesigned and tightened everything since the slaughter in Canada last year where two vampires, including a first blood, had been killed.  And he had a lot to protect here.  This had been his home for forty years.  He cared about everyone who lived here.  And there was the woman who’d changed his life, the woman he would give his life for.

Luckily, David did not know him right now…so he wouldn’t suspect anything.  He didn’t look much older than he had when David Patric disappeared over thirty years ago.  That’s because when a human drinks the blood of a first vampire, they not only stop aging, but their own body changes.  He was nearly the size of a vampire, even though he was still fully human.  She hadn’t brought him over, made him vampire, because there were cases when people did not survive the process.  They were too in love to risk it yet, but someday, he knew they would.

Until then, he hoped like hell he would still be able to be with her.  He’d never expected to be in love like this, ever, in his lifetime.  Gunnar had been orphaned by age fifteen…and gratefully so.  His father and mother had fought viciously, physically, for the first ten years of his life.  After his mother left then, his father had several girlfriends who had sexually assaulted Gunnar, and then he had been beaten by his father for “stealing” his women with his young firm body.  Then dad died by the hand of one of those women.  No.  He’d never expected to
ever
be in love.