Forbidden Alliance: A Werewolf's Tale (Forbidden Alliance Trilogy) (27 page)

He
worked his mouth down
the length of my
neck
and across my shoulder in a combination of feathery kissed, teasing swipes of his tongue, and playful nibbles
with his front teeth
before he
slid
the strap to my tank top off of my shoulder.
A soft moan
of contentment
rolled from the base of his throat and it, in turn, vibrated my body slightly, turning me on even more.

“Simply beautiful,” he murmured before tenderly kissing the newly exposed flesh.

I
could feel
his fangs
as they brushed across my shoulder and collar bone as he
went
,
and it
caused my eyes to roll back in my head and my back
arched
off of the bed
from
the desire coursing through me
. It was a
struggle
to find an outlet, to somehow get the vampire controlling my body in ways that it had neve
r been controlled before… it never
wanted to be controlled
before but it did now, but only in the ways that Tanis could control it.

I had
never felt or experienced anything like
it
before; it made my head swi
m and my heart race
, and more than once I have to
fight the urge to roll
him over and rip his pants off, to sink my teeth into his warm flesh,
to leave my mark upon his beautiful body so the world would know that he was mine and only mine.

Denying the primal longing was the hardest thing I had ever done.

When
Tanis’ velvety hands ventured under my shirt, softly caressing
up
my stomach, his nimble fingers tracing each small muscle group
, my eyes snapped open and my
body
automatically tensed. I
laid there
without moving
,
reluctantly
waiting
for him to
continue up my rib
s
to my breasts
, but he didn’t.
Instead, he slid down my body and
turned his attention
to
stomach and teased me with his
mouth.
The
tip of his tongue
circled
my bellybutton, and each
completed
circuit drove me
completely insane
with desire, be
fore he turned his attention to
each
muscle indentation
and placed feathery kisses
along each
.

One of my hands pushed against the
headboard
while the other knotted in his hair, aggressively directing him along my body without meaning to, and when he softly bit the front of my hip, I inadvertently moaned
...
rather loudly.

Tanis
chuckled and unknotted my hand from his hair and I pouted.
“
Duckie, are you trying to get me killed?” he teased.

“Nu huh,” I
pouted and quickly
shook my head.

He
crawled up on top of me and
stretched his body
along
mine before softly kissing
my lips.
“What
ever
am I going to do with you, me Duckie?” he
whispered as his eyes moved over my face many times
.

“You could keep doing what you were doing because it was awesome,” I
strongly
suggested, and he buried his face against
the side of my
neck and shook with contained laughter.

Or not.

“Oh shut up,” I
mumbled and
slapped his ass.
“It isn’t funny.
That was amazing.”

“No, you are amazing,
” he whispered and caressed down the length of my neck with the tip of his nose,
he
then trailed soft kisses across my shoulder.
“
Duckie, I have
never met
someone
who makes me forget what I am, and remember who I was,
as
you do.
I have
never felt more alive or human than I have in these past
few
days
...and that is solely because of
you
.
I
..I cannot even put into words... Duckie, I
love it,”
he whispered before
brush
ing
his lips
against mine again,
causing me to squirm under him—anything to get closer to him
, but he didn’t seem to get it
.

When I didn’t say anything, he nodded
his understanding.

“
The hour is late,” he murmured, his eyes moving over my face once more.

“And you’re half naked and all wet,” I
countered, well aware
at
what he was hinting at
,
and I
wrapp
ed
myself around him in a feeble attempt to hold him hostage.

He
shook his head in amused disappointment.
“That I am,” he agreed.

I cocked an eyebrow.

“
What are you subtly trying to tell me, Duckie?”
he asked so softly that it caused my eyes to flood with tears.

He was a vampiric demon and didn’t even know it.

“Stay,” I
pleaded
, caressing t
he wet hair off of his forehead, “w
ith me...p
lease.”

His beautiful eyes worked over my face many times
. “I am sorry, Duckie, however, t
hat is no
t
very honorable
.”

As much as I loved his old world charm, it was annoying as hell when I was trying to get laid.

“This is the twenty-first century,”
I pointed out.

Tanis
cocked an eyebrow. “You do not say,” he mused.

“I do, and
I’m not about to let you out of there
without a fight,” I confidently informed him.

A smile filled his face. “Well, when you put it like that, how can I possibly
deny such a
n invitation
?”

Nearly
four
hours of holding Jay Dee in my arms was more than had I expected to get.

Hell, everything I got was more than I had expected to get.

First, she
permitted me to enter her house, knowing that
only
my lack of invitation was keeping me from being able to enter, and the invitation couldn’t be revoked
once given
.
I got to kiss her, and she kissed me back, a few times.
I got to touch her unbelievably soft body, caress it, and hold against mine.

I didn’t sleep…
I couldn’t!
All I could think about was the
barely clothed
woman in my arms and how
I
wanted to keep her all to myself for the rest of eternity.

Never had I thought like that about anyone before, and it flooded me with guilt that I was even contemplating taking young woman’s future away from her by sinking my fang
s into her soft, light
ly
tan
ned
neck
, simply for my own selfish reasons.

It’d be a cold day in hell when I would ever, seriously, contemplate turning someone, but it didn’t keep the thought from entering my mind a time or two hundred while I caressed her velvety skin and indulged in the warmth of her caress and the
taste of her mouth.

It truly was heaven on Earth in the middle of the reservation, surrounded by sleeping werewolves.

Eventually,
Jay Dee
fe
ll asleep curled up next to me with
her head on my chest,
and her
thick
mane of hair
caressed
my skin with each breath she took
, causing an intense arousal to the likes of nothing I had ever known before
to swell in my loins
. She had thrown
her leg across my
thighs
in an attempt to keep me from leaving—she didn’t have to worry about that, I wanted nothing more than to stay the night with her—and her
fingers
absently caressed
my ear
in her sleep
.
To my pleasant surprise,
Jay Dee
talked
in her sleep
a few times. It was
nothing I could
completely understand or put context to
, but the wide array of facial expressions made it more than clear what she was feeling
:
happiness, pain, fear, joy, and contentment.

I could relate because
apparently there
were a mere reflection of my own feelings at
that
moment
.

Watching her sleep was an entirely different experience.
I had
never watched anyone sleep before, and it wasn’t something
I would
do again, unles
s it was Jay Dee I was watching, but hearing
her
softly
m
oan my name while I caressed my fingers across her bare thigh
,
and
the way
she
tremble
d
under my touch, was
beyond anything I had ever experienced in my very long life
.

My
pants
stayed on,
to her dismay,
as did
her knickers
, which took all of my
combined centuries of discipline and restraint to achieve
, but as she had said, she wasn’t that kind of
girl
, even though her actions and begging made her seem like that kind of
girl
.

And that was what ultimately made me deny her pouting and whimpering, her large, puppy dog eyes
,
and long
,
batting lashes.
I
didn’t want to do that to her;
make her question or
feel like something she wasn’t
simply
because we had both gotten caught up in the moment.

It should have earned me bloody sainthood.

However
,
none of that was nearly as hard as leaving her before sunrise.