PS03 - Tall, Dark & Heartless (51 page)

his reason for breathing.

"Shhh, it's okay, Caine," she whispered soothingly as she brushed her lips against his, offering him comfort and he

greedily took it. He brushed his lips against hers, but had to force himself to pull back before he lost himself in her. They

needed to talk and he really had no idea where to start.

"Just say the words, Caine. It's okay," she promised as she reached up and cupped his face in delicate hands.

He looked down into her beautiful violet eyes, the most beautiful eyes he'd ever seen and felt himself relax. "You were

closer to dying than we thought, Danni. The cancer was probably already spread throughout your body and it was probably

only a matter of days, weeks at the most," he said, this time forcing his mind away from the accompanying pain that knowledge

brought and continued. "I should have given you more blood during your change, but I didn't have enough, baby. It's my fault."

"No, it's not," she said, offering him comfort when he should be the one comforting her.

"Yes, it is, Danni. I should have taken better care of you. I should have known something was wrong. If I hadn't pushed

you out of my life you would have come to me and we could have tried to find a cure. We could have cured this damn thing

before I changed you so that-"

"You would have changed me anyway?" she asked in a watery voice.

"Yes," he said, leaning down and brushing his lips against hers before adding, "because I would have fallen in love with

you that much sooner, Danni, and I wouldn't have been able to part from you."

She let a little sexy gasp against his lips that had him grinning. "You love me?"

"Mmmhmm," he said against her lips, moving to continue the kiss when of course Danni decided to pull back and punch

him in his shoulder. It stung like a bitch, but of course he didn't let her know that as glared down at her.

"What the hell was that for?" he snapped. "I tell you that I'm in love with you and you punch me?"

"No, you asshole!" she snapped right back, getting into his face. "That's for telling me that you love me
after
you had

another woman in your arms!"

He couldn't help but roll his eyes at that. Like he'd want another woman when he had her. That was fucking ridiculous, he

thought as Danni muttered something about his balls, but thankfully didn't go for them, and turned to leave, but enough was

enough. She wasn't leaving him, not now, not ever.

She let out another one of those adorable little squeals as he grabbed her by the hips and dunked her beneath the water so

that he could rinse her hair out and rinse himself off. Once that was done he ignored her rather violent sputtering as he sat down

on the flat rock and pulled her on his lap until she was straddling him.

"Let me go, you jerk!" she snapped, moving to push away from him, but he wasn't having that.

"She was only a meal, baby. I had to feed off of them throughout the night so that I could feed you," he explained, not

mentioning that he'd busted his ass all day and night protecting her and the pack while Jax got his energy back. When the moon

was high enough in the sky and the pack had shifted, he'd spent several hours hunting down deers, coyotes, and anything else he

could catch. He drained them until one of the fucking werewolves took a hissy and tried to steal his kill. They learned quickly

to wait until he was done draining the animal before they tried taking it away from him.

Lazy bastards.

Danni narrowed her eyes on him even as she settled onto his lap, slapping her hands onto his shoulders to help keep her

balance. "Did you sleep with any of them?"

"No, and I wasn't even tempted, baby," he said, pressing a quick kiss against her forehead. "Now, if you're done

interrogating me, it's time for you to eat, baby," he said, gripping her hips and pulling her closer as he tilted his head to the

side.

She nibbled her bottom lip for a moment before asking, "Will this kill the cancer?"

"I don't know, baby," he said softly. He prayed like hell that it did, but if it was changed along with the rest of her body

then he really didn't know what the cancer would do.

"So, I could spend eternity dying of cancer?" she asked, her voice cracking at the end and making him wish like hell that

she hadn't suffered, knowing that she was dying of cancer all alone. He should have been there for her.

"I don't know, baby, but we're pretty sure that you'll be fine as long as you keep to a strict immortal diet for a while. You

can drink human blood, too, but it really doesn't do that much," he explained, leaning forward to press a kiss against the tip of

her nose. "Now, quit stalling and drink. I went through a lot of trouble to make this meal for you," he said teasingly, hoping it

was enough to get a smile, even a small one, from her.

She rolled her eyes even as she blessed him with a sweet smile. "Yeah, fighting off a horny shifter is really a lot of work,"

she said, laughing as she leaned in and pressed a kiss against his neck.

"It was dangerous work, Danni," he said solemnly, earning another soft laugh from Danni.

"Do you need help getting your fangs down?" he asked as she continued to press little sexy kisses against his skin.

"I think I can manage," she murmured against his skin before she ran her tongue over his pulse and just like that he was

hard.

She chuckled against his neck as she moved her leg and repositioned herself until she was only straddling his right leg and

when she sat down he couldn't help but groan in appreciation.

"Do you really love me, Caine?" she asked between kisses. Her hand slid down his chest, teasingly caressing each muscle

as she started to drive him out of his fucking mind.

"
Yes
," he hissed out when her hand bypassed his straining erection and softly skimmed over his balls, causing them to pull

up tight.

"So, you'd miss me if I was gone?" she asked in a casual tone as she skimmed his balls again, but there was no mistaking

the uncertainty in her voice.

"I'd die without you, Danni," he admitted to her seconds before she released an erotic little moan and sank her teeth into

him.

He had to grit his teeth and squeeze his eyes shut as he fought against coming then and there as she reached between his

legs and cupped his balls. Her touch felt so damn good, he thought as he dropped his head back, careful not to interrupt Danni

while she fed.

"Take as much as you want, baby," he said, sliding one of his hands from her hip to her ass as the other made a little trip

of its own to cup one of her large breasts. He'd made damn sure to overfeed and was still uncomfortably full from the last

shifter so he knew that she could take as much as she wanted and he wouldn't have to worry about weakening or being sent into

bloodlust.

She moaned against his neck as she fed and he wasn't sure if it was his blood or his touch that was giving her so much

pleasure. He decided that as long as she was enjoying herself that it didn't matter. He pinched her pebbled nipple between his

fingers and gently tugged on it. When she let out a hot little moan against his neck he did it again as the fingers from his other

hand gently skimmed between her cheeks, wishing like hell that she'd sit up a little so that he could play with her slit.

Danni didn't sit up, but she did move. Her hand slid up to his cock as she slowly rotated her hips, grinding herself on his

leg. She pulled a loud growl from his lips as his fangs slid down and his vision burned. Even through the water he could smell

how wet she was, could feel it. That knowledge had his cock swelling in her hand as she slowly stroked him, matching the

erotic movements of her hips. As good as it felt on his leg, and goddamn did that feel good, he wanted her riding his cock just

like that.

He licked his lips as he released her breast and grabbed her leg, carefully pulling it over his leg so that she was once

again straddling his lap, her knees on the rock on either side of his legs.

Danni slid her fangs from his neck, lapping up the blood before she pulled back, but he didn't let her go far before his

mouth was on hers. His tongue found hers and tangled as she continued to stroke him.

When she gave his piercing a little tug that had his cock jumping in approval he decided that two could play this game.

She had him close to begging, but in a minute he'd have her screaming for him to fuck her.

Chapter 43

She nearly swallowed his tongue when she felt his hands slide over her thighs. Who would have thought that such a

harmless little touch would cause her heart to speed up and her breath to quicken?

When his hands closed in on the place that ached for him she thought she'd die from pleasure. She whimpered into his

mouth and her hand stilled on his erection he glided his thumbs over her slit and when he parted her folds she may have cried

out into his mouth.

He rewarded her by deepening the kiss as the pad of one thumb found her entrance and the other found her clit. His

movements were slow and steady as she struggled against the urge to shift her hips and take his thumb inside her. He felt so

good, she thought as she ran her tongue over his before she wrapped her lips around it and gently suckled, earning a sexy growl

from him.

"Mmmm, I think it's time for you to sit up, Danni," Caine said in an erotic whisper against her lips that had her throbbing

for him and more than ready to end this torture. She couldn't wait to feel him slide between her legs and could almost feel his

piercing sliding inside her as she rode him.

So when he pulled his hands away from her completely she was left a little confused. Seconds later his mouth followed,

leaving her panting, confused and shaking with need.

"What's wrong?" she asked, proud that her voice worked when all she wanted to do was scream at him to get back to

business.

"Nothing's wrong, baby," he said, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her closer so that he could take one of her

nipples into his mouth. The move forced her to relinquish her hold on his erection. That was fine because she really should be

holding onto his shoulders so that she didn't fall back.

"W-what are you doing?" she asked, licking her lips as his hold on her tightened and she discovered that she couldn't

move, which of course meant that she couldn't lower herself onto that erection that was teasing her. It was so close, but not

close enough.

"Worshipping my mate," he said around her nipple as one of his hands flattened against her back and slid down and over

her bottom. When he managed to slide one long thick finger inside of her from behind she couldn't help but sigh and sag against

him as she wrapped her arms around his head and hugged him to her breast.

As she tilted her hips back to take more of him she couldn't help but wonder if this was real. It was too good to be true,

too perfect. She was in love with Caine and by some miracle he loved her as well. She didn't know what the future held or how

this cancer that didn't seem to want to go away would affect her, but for right now everything in her world was absolutely

perfect.

It got even better a moment later when Caine removed his finger and pulled her down onto something much larger. When

she felt his piercing slide against her walls she hissed in a breath and tilted her hips to take more of him. Caine was forced to

release her breast so that she could move lower, but he seemed pleased once she was comfortably seated on his lap with his

erection snuggly held inside her.

"I love you, Danni," he said as he leaned in for a kiss.

"Love you, too," she mumbled as his lips descended on hers.

This kiss was slow and sweet and no less intense than the ones before it. She cupped his jaw in her hands, enjoying the

feel of the early morning whiskers that teased her palm, as she slowly rode him, barely lifting off of him as she made love to a

man for the first time in her life. There was no doubt in her mind that this was love. This was intense and beautiful and she felt

like everything in her life had led her here to this moment.

When she felt her orgasm building up she tried to ignore it, tried to put it off for a little while longer so that she could

enjoy this for a little while longer, but there was nothing she could do to stop wave after wave of pleasure as it shot throughout

her body. She squeezed her eyes shut as her breath caught in her throat as a powerful orgasm rocked her body, leaving her

helpless to do anything other than to hold onto Caine tightly as his name was ripped from her lips in a loud scream.

"
Danni
," she thought she heard Caine growl as she felt him swell beyond what her body should have been able to handle

seconds before she felt him release inside of her. The sensation of his hot release and the way his cock rubbed her in all the

right ways sent her over once again.

"Love you, Danni," Caine said as she collapsed against him. "Love you so damn much, baby."

Since she was gasping for air at the moment and couldn't very well be expected to answer him she settled for nodding.

She took the kiss he gave her forehead as acceptance of her gesture of her undying love for him. It was a heartfelt gesture after