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Chas opened his eyes The rooht cast over the furnishings

He sat up, still feeling the re sat on the table where he&039;d left it and the scent of stale hops permeated the chamber

Narcise slept next to hi of sleep, of her Fully clothed Out of reach

A rush of desire flooded hi to push it away He couldn&039;t allow his thoughts to go along that route Too dangerous, too degrading

She was a practiced seductress Aside of the fact that eroticis with the Draculia, he&039;d seen evidence of it when he came in upon her little tete-a-tete with the servant Philippe

The poor sot had been out of his mind with desire and needand the devil of it was, he had no idea as happening He had no control over hihtened and he settled on disgust He&039;d not fall prey to that sort of lure He&039;d never allow himself to be used thus, to lose mastery over hied her up against the wall last night and threatened to kill her He would If she ever turned those lulling, coaxing, burning eyes on him, he wouldn&039;t hesitate to do it

He slid off the mattress, one of those rare people who hardly felt the effects of overi in the back of his head, but other than that, and the need for a drink of water, he felt as he norh it really was entleht of the sun before noon

Yet, despite the early hour and the large amounts of wine and ale he&039;d consu fro the way he&039;d had to fairly thrust Narcise away after getting so close to her in that moment of fury Too close

Especially when, after the surprise, her eyes had narrowed in interest and admiration

He used the cha-and then the water in the basin to wash his face and rinse his es of stale drink Then he turned back to the bed

The shift Narcise had taken to wearing as a night rail gapped away fro delicate collarbones and the shadow of other delights deeper still

Chas pivoted away, opting for the chair to finish his sluainst his when he shoved her against the wall, his face close to hers

That had alshe was just there, in front of hiers curling into the flesh above her breasts just before she shoved him away His caution was just that e of what she&039;d been doing in the chaered in the back of his one on before he interruptedould have happened if he had not

And as much as he&039;d attempted to drink himself into oblivion, he was fully aware of his body&039;s response to her, his attraction to and curiosity about her

Why did she have to be a vaer and he abandoned the idea of slu to sleep there He&039;d fallen intoontothe bed before she had last night, and she obviously had no qual next to him, and so why should he be concerned?

He cli that the blankets were still warm from where he&039;d lay moments earlier, but that her hand had crept away from her cheek and now lay just beneath his pillow

All thoughts of sleep fled as he settled down next to her, his face very close to hers, but yet distant enough that he could focus on her features A soft, warm scent filtered from her hair and skin and he found it difficult to dismiss

He found her i her ti today, and the chamber continued to be filled with indistinct shapes except in a rectangular patch beneath theBut Chas could soe of Narcise&039;s dark lashes and the little accent line at the corner of her mouth And he noticed, for the first time, a tiny beauty mark at the corner of her left eye

Before he could stop himself, he reached and settled his hand, open, onto the cascade of hair falling over her shoulder Slowly he traced its shtly, lightlyhardly more than a feather touch Her warmth seeped froave a little tremor in her sleep, she didn&039;t waken

Chas touched her again, sliding his fingers around a coil of hair that had fallen in front of her shoulder and hung like a corkscrew Curling it around his finger, he rubbed the lock between two finger pads, then let it fall back against her bosoun to swell and pound all that much harder, for he knew she couldn&039;t enthrall hi Which , that insistent pull of attraction-was real And it was strong

He just hoped to God it wouldn&039;t destroy him, for he didn&039;t think there was any way to turn back

She felt the sa attraction; he&039;d seen it when he interrupted her feeding on that youthful servant yesterday She&039;d had the boy, but wanted him Chas

It was in her eyes when she saw hi twisted his belly Yes, she wanted him, but he could never allow her to take from him as she&039;d done with the footman He wouldn&039;t lose that control, he wouldn&039;t ever slip into that er and need that he&039;d experienced at Rubey&039;sthat night where he was out of his mind with pleasure, with the need to have his blood freed, sopped up, drawn

Chas sed the thick lump in his throat Even now, a month later, the shame and humiliation made him ill How could he have become so base, so depraved as to allow a servant of the Devil to control hireater one Narcise was beyond beautifulshe was also intelligent and brave And she&039;d stayed with hi

For God&039;s sake, she&039;d even violated himbut to save his life

What a turnabout that was for a Dracule

A deep little treh him and he closed his eyes No Not her

And yethe could not keep froers, his attention to her

It wasn&039;t until he brushed a swath of hair back from her temple and cheek that Narcise stirred She opened her eyes, and as soon as they focused, sleepiness fled They flashed ith surprise and then apprehension as she started with a slight joltand then her expression shifted just as quickly into confusion

His heart pounded and desire shivered in his belly

Her eyes were colorless and dark in the shadows, and he looked into the he could think to dohe eased closer, sliding his hand around beneath her ear, and covered her e of pleasure bursting in hi her lips, curving into theainst hers in sensual little circles

She an to turn her head away, but he slipped his fingers tighter around the back of her neck and pulled her close, turning the kiss deeper and ue into her war on her lips, using the tip of his tongue to tease the corners She tre on his chestnot to shove hiainst the wall, but digging her fingers into the cloth there

He wanted her, but he had no urgency, and their kiss went on and ondeep and long, and then gentle and seductive as they explored the taste and texture of the other

When she twisted her face away at last, he saw that she was crying That a little trickle had slipped from the corner of her eye and slid into the hair at her teht him and he pulled away sharply "What is it? Narcise?"

Good God, he hadn&039;t expected this-fro, seductive woman like her

She wiped the tear away and turned her incredible blue eyes onto hiht now that he could see how they brimmed with pain and sorrow, but she curved her lips into a little s time"

"I&039; an unexpectedly soft unfurling inside him It had been very easy to think of her as a hard, calculating wo-any man in her path But the expression in her face could only be described as heartbroken

Her lips twisted wryly "It&039;s not for you to be sorry" Her gaze flickered away for an instant, and Chas began to ease back

She looked at hiain"

He obliged, happily, despite the niggling worry in the back of his s about her that weren&039;t obvious

Her lips, so full and soft, covered his and drove all worries fro a bit of salt froet whatever it was that rieve

Meanwhile, his free hand slid to the front of her che it, he slid his hand down the front of the gapping bodice as he trailed gentle kisses fro the slender curve of her jaw

Her breathing changed when he found one of her breasts, closing his fingers around it and cupping its weight in his palentlyher body closer to hi hot and too heavy, but he was loathe to release her and take theed her bodice open more, down over her shoulders, so that he could slip south and close his ed with salt and ue around her sensitive nipple Around and around, darting and sleekly teasing

Narcise arched into hisone of his breeches-clad thighs between hers in a sensual slide He sucked harder, rhythed her hips closer

When he pulled away to tear off his shirt, sitting back on his haunches, he saw her eyes burning, glowing red and orange and the tips of her fangs showing beneath her upper lip A shaft of desire stabbed hi into his flesh, of the bursting release of si into his shoulder or neck or arreedy and sensual, just as she had to that poor servant boy, and he forced hi the teust , desire and lust weakened him, and he nearly pushed her ahen Narcise reached for his bare shoulders, closing her fingers around hiainst her breasts

She pulled hiht he&039;d spent at Rubey&039;s, bitten and dragged on in a whorl of red lust His body craved the release, his cock full and ready, the feel of the blood flowing freely into her hot mouth, the pain and pleasure of her

When Narcise&039;s hand found the buttons on the placket of his breeches, Chas felt his whole body stiffen in expectation and control She slipped her hand down the loosened waistband and closed around his throbbing erection, using her thumb to tease its tip just as he had done to her swollen nipple

Somehow, her chemise had slipped away, and next went his breeches, and they were flesh to flesh His dark Gypsy skin, textured with hair, sleek with ainst her soft ivory curves He felt her readiness, da in her eyes as he parted her legs and pulled her on top of him

She eased herself into place and his eyes fairly rolled back into his head as they fit together in a shaft of pure pleasure Narcise shifted her hips, rocking a bit, and he felt hi up into that coil of releaseand then she leaned forward, her eyes glowing, her fangs exposed

Chas&039;s heart thuh his body as she shifted over hi his torso as she bent over hi her close even as he knew he should be pushing her awaybut the lust had taken hold, and the red heat caught hiainst hiainst his chest, her face buried in his throat He wanted that sharp, stinging pain

No, he thought, but he wanted it nevertheless As they strained and shifted against each other, hiswarined the slide of her into his skin, i into her mouth as he would burst inside her

"Narcise," he gasped, the lust rising higher, tighter, the bed rocking and shifting beneath them Bite me Take ht she was about to pull away, but then her lips arainst his neck Desire flared inside hiue, slick and hot, traced the tendon, the side of his neck

He athered her closer, tipped his head to the side, baring his throat and shoulder Please

Don&039;t No

Please