McKenzie, Cooper - Saving Chloe (Siren Publishing Classic) (6 page)

“Because, sweet Chloe Templeton, for six hundred years I’ve been looking for the woman who would give my life meaning. When ye moved into this house, I found her. You are the woman I’ve spent my life looking for. You are the woman I will spend the rest of my life with. You are the woman I will love, protect, and cherish for the rest of eternity. You are my mate.”

“Shhh, sweet Chloe, it’s all right. I’d never hurt you. You are my mate, my reason for being. No, little one, I’m going to love you from now until the day we turn to dust together.” He laid her on the bed then crawled back onto the mattress and crouched half over her.

Chloe looked at him, still in shock by his announcement. “You can’t love me. You don’t even know me.”

“I know you, little one. I’ve been watching you since you moved in. You are a beautiful person with a caregiver’s soul who can’t seem to say no to anyone who uses the word “need” in a sentence. You’re gentle, kind, and giving to everyone. That’s how you’ve gotten into such trouble with those human vampires. You don’t know how to draw the line and refuse. That’s what I’m here for. I will protect you from them. I’ll protect you from everyone and everything, including yourself.”

“Show me,” she demanded.

Declan lifted his head and looked at her. She watched as his eyes turned from pale blue to deep crimson, and his eyeteeth elongated until he looked like a vampire from the movies.

She made a whimpering sound, and just as quickly, he transformed back into the Declan she had an ever-growing hunger for.

He cuddled her close, soothing her with gentle strokes up and down her back. As she lay in his arms, she felt more conflicted by the minute. Her brain screamed that he was crazy, and she needed to run away from him as far and as fast as she could. Her body countered with a demand to love him until neither of them could move.

Her muscles grew so tight that when he brushed a kiss over her left nipple, her brain shut down, leaving only the body’s hungry demand for the man. Lifting both hands, she threaded her fingers through his silky hair.

“I need,” she whispered, not sure what she was asking for, but certain that only he could provide it. The news that he was a vampire was shocking, but even more so was the need for him that fear had not quenched in the least.

“I know, little one. I’ll take care of you. I’ll take care of everything. All you have to do is relax and enjoy.” He murmured the words around her nipple as his free hand touched the inside of her knee.

Chloe shifted on the bed and spread her legs as he trailed his fingers up the inside of her thigh. He stopped just an inch away from her open, wet pussy. He shifted and began kissing, licking, sucking, and nibbling his way down her body.

She began to pant when he stopped and worshiped at one breast as his fingers plucked at the other.

“Like that, do ye, luv?”

“Mmmm.” It was all Chloe’s brain could come up with as a response.

She slid one hand under his hair and grabbed at the base of his skull as he turned his body over. She couldn’t help but giggle when his tongue circled her belly button before dipping in and swirling around the small crevice.

In the next minute, her breathing hitched as two fingers brushed up her center, parting her pussy lips as they made their way to her clit. They circled the knot of flesh but did not touch it directly.

“Declan, please,” she begged. She spread her legs even wider and arched her hips up, hoping to force his touch on the nerve center. “Need. You. Now.”

“Shhh, darlin’,” Declan said as he shifted to lie between her thighs.

She lost hold of him as he kissed his way from navel to clit. When he reached the top of her mons, she pulled her knees to her chest, spreading them even further apart. She sucked in a breath when two fingers slid into her at the same moment he swirled his tongue around her clit.

“Mmmm, you taste delicious,” he said.

Every word sent a little puff of breeze across the knot of nerves, fanning the flames of her need, desire, and want even further. She panted harder when he added a third finger.

Her orgasm threatened to roll over her like a Sherman tank, and she fought with everything in her to keep from coming. She would not lose control. She could not lose control. She had to keep it together, for she had no idea what might happen if she ever really let go.

“Declan, please,” she cried softly.

Needing to hold onto something for control, she wrapped her arms around her legs and hugged them even tighter to her chest. That pulled her hips off the bed, pushing her clit further into Declan’s mouth.

He received her unspoken message and began to suck hard at her clit while filling her with his fingers, twisting and turning his hand as they moved in and out.

She continued fighting, panting, and making little sounds as she tried to hunch her hips into him even further.

“Relax, darlin’. Stop fightin’ yer need ta stay in control and come,” Declan ordered gently.

All at once, he slowed everything down. His fingers inched in and out of her as he split his attention between lapping at her flowing juices and gently suckling and nibbling at her clit.

“I can’t,” she panted, trying to move her body faster, harder against his hand and lips.

“Why not?”

Declan twisted his fingers to scrape them back and forth over her G-spot as he took her clit between his lips and sucked hard.

Chloe screamed as the orgasm she’d been trying to fight consumed her like a forest fire in dry brush. She cried out and came again when Declan bit her just above the top of her slit. She felt him sucking at her skin and felt something else, as if a connection was being built between them.

She whined when he pulled his teeth from her pelvis and slid his fingers out of her cunt. She sighed when the head of his cock brushed the wide-open mouth of her pussy. She sucked a breath when he slid full length into her without stopping, until she felt his balls brush against her ass cheeks.

Opening her eyes, she looked into his as he leaned over her with his head just above her left tit. Releasing her legs, she reached out and grabbed his arms, needing to hold onto something as she felt her arousal build again. He began to ease his cock out until just the head remained inside, and then slowly slid it back in again.

“More,” she begged. “Harder. Faster. More.”

“No,” he said, though his hips did move a fraction faster as he slid out, and then in again. “Now tell me why you didn’t want to come?”

Chloe opened her eyes again, wondering why she kept closing them.

“I can’t lose control,” she said softly.

Chapter 7

Declan pushed in and out twice more before stopping again. “Why not?”

Chloe stared at him. “How can you talk at a time like this? I thought once a man reached this point, all he could think about was getting off.”

Her eyes went wide when his eyes flashed red and a fierce, dark expression crossed his face. A moment later, it cleared, and then he leaned close enough to kiss the center of her chest. “Oh, I’m thinking about that all right. But I’m also wantin’ ta know why ye don’t want to come. Now spill.”

Instead of talking, Chloe began to rock her hips up and down. At least, she did until Declan took hold of them and held them still. “I’m waiting,” he said, sounding as if he had all the time in the world and wasn’t balls-deep in wet, squirmy, highly aroused woman.

“I can’t come,” she finally admitted softly.

“Horseshit. Ye jes’ did. And ye will again in another minute or so,” Declan said as he pulled his hips back and slammed them forward.

That lit a new fire in Chloe, which immediately roared out of control. In less than the minute Declan had predicted, she stood on the edge of a vortex looking orgasm in the face once again.

“Relax, darlin’, let go and fly,” Declan said.

His hips began to piston in and out faster and faster, sending them both higher and higher. She continued to fight off completion until he reached down and pinched her clit tight.

With a cry, she threw herself into the orgasm at the same moment he roared his own release. Letting go of everything, she allowed herself to float on a peachy-lavender cloud of completion. She roused only enough to whine when Declan pulled his cock from her and left the room, but she couldn’t get her mind to cooperate enough to worry about where he’d gone.

She wanted to get up and go find him, or at least call out and ask him where he was going, but nothing worked, and all she could do was make whimpering sounds.

“Shhh, darlin’, I haven’t gone anywhere,” he said a moment later when he returned. He’d brought a warm cloth and spent a moment cleaning her up before lying down next to her once again and pulling her back into his arms.

Chloe smiled as she nuzzled into his chest and drifted back to sleep again.

* * * *

She woke next with her head on a pillow instead of Declan’s chest. She heard Declan talking, but she didn’t understand the language. Opening her eyes, she saw a naked hip and thigh just inches from her nose. Feeling the need to mark him as he’d now marked her twice, she leaned forward and sucked a bruise up on his skin.

He never stopped talking but dropped one hand to tweak her earlobe in a “That’s enough, I’m busy” motion. But Chloe wanted more. Lifting up, she rested on one elbow and kissed her way across the crease where leg met body until she reached his rapidly expanding cock.

She heard his breath hitch as she took the head between her lips and began to lick at it. Then she slowly took in more and more of his thickening length, laving it with her tongue. She began to bob up and down, sucking and licking as she did so, needing to give back even though she knew she wasn’t good at giving a blow job.

At least that’s what her ex-husband had told her.

She continued until she heard Declan click off his cell phone and drop it on the nightstand. She smiled when his hands came down and took hold of her head.

“Ye nearly cost me a million euros,” he ground out as his hips began to flex forward.

“Sowwy,” she said without taking his cock from her mouth.

Chloe shifted so she lay between his legs, again without losing hold of his now-iron-hard shaft. As she began to move faster and suck harder, the fingers of one hand cupped his balls and began to gently knead them, earning her a groan of appreciation.

“Oh, darlin’, that feels so damn good.”

She pulled off his cock and looked up at him. “I’m not hurting you, am I?”

“God, no, luv. You’re perfect,” he said. “But ye don’t have to if it’s distasteful.”

Chloe shook her head and took him back into her mouth, sliding down as far as she could go without choking. Sealing her lips around him, she began to ride up and down his length, doing everything she could remember reading that a man liked. Declan groaned and moaned, and his hips snapped up until he roared his release. She gloried in the taste of the vampire and swallowed everything he had to give her. Once he finished, she laid her head on one thigh and held him gently in her mouth as he softened.

“Damn, that mouth is wicked.”

He sounded happy and relaxed. His words were slightly slurred as he combed his fingers through her hair.

Finally she released him and, after kissing the slit, rolled to once again lie beside him. “Did you really like it?”

He slid down so they lay nose to nose. “Ye’ve had very poor lovers in the past if they didn’t praise you on all your lovemaking skills. Yer a treasure, Chloe. Yer my treasure,” he said before leaning in and kissing her until she was breathless.

“Unfortunately,” he continued after he pulled away, “I must go home now and deal with a work problem that has come up. Can I see you tonight?”

“Of course,” she said, trying to keep the disappointment from her tone. She had hoped he would stay so they could continue until she had to get up and go to work on Monday.

“Why don’t you come over about seven, and we’ll snuggle on the couch and watch a movie,” he suggested.

“I’d like that,” she said as he rolled out of bed. He was dressed in less than a minute, while she still lay on the bed, too relaxed to move.