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"I’ll be waiting" That incredible warmth was back, Tess mused from within the dark tide that held her She stretched her senses toward the engulfing heat, toward the wondrous scent and taste of the liquid fire that fed her Conscious thought sees clicked on like strings of tiny lights, as though her body was slowly thawing, co, cold sleep

"Drink," a deep voice beckoned her, and she did

She drew reedy pulls A strange awakening began somewhere deep inside her as she drank froers and toes, then spread up into her li waves

"That’s it, Tess Take el"

She couldn’t have stopped if she’d wanted to It seeh each sipfuel to the fire that was building within the very core of her She felt like an infant at itscoiven life; she knew this in that primitive part of her h to touch it, but this warmth--this dark elixir--had pulled her back

"More," she croaked At least she thought she had spoken The voice she heard sounded distant and weak So desperate "More "

Tess shuddered as an abrupt absence of war with the loss He was leaving her now Her protective angel was gone, along with the font of life he’ d given her Sheher listless hands to reach out and search for him

"Dante "

"I’ anywhere"

The chill vanished as a heavy weight settled in alongside her Heat warainst hi her head closer to his voice, pressing her mouth to the firm column of his neck Warm, wet skin met her lips

"Come here, Tess, and drink fro part of her consciousness rejected the idea as nonsensical, unthinkable, but another part of her--the part that was still spinning wildly in the tide, grasping for solid ground-- ly offered

Tess parted her lips and sucked long and hard, filling her ift

Holy Hell

As Tess locked her mouth down over the vein he’d opened for her in his neck, Dante’s entire body went as taut as a bowstring The hungry suction of her lips, the silky caress of her tongue as she drew his blood into her mouth and sed it, made his cock stand up at attention, a fierce, stone-hard erection like he’d never experienced before

He hadn’t kno intense it would be to let her drink from him so intimately This was the first tiiven his blood to another He had always been the taker, feeding out of necessity and often for pleasure, but never with a Breedmate

Never with a woman who moved him the way Tess did

And the fact that she fed from him now out of pure survival instinct, because his blood was the very thing--the only thing--her body needed in this moment, just made the act all the , a heavy pressure that he wanted to ignore but couldn’t

Christ, but it felt as if she were sucking on that very hter, nearly sending hiroan, Dante fisted his hands in the silk sheets of his bed, holding on as Tess fed fro where they clutched his shoulders, kneading his muscles in a mindless rhythm as she continued to draw his blood into herback to her with each passing rew deeper, no s but a cadence of long, healthy draws

Feeling her vitality return was the greatest aphrodisiac he had ever known It took Herculean effort not to catch her in his arms and press her beneath hi," he told her, his ue gone thick with his own thirst "Don’t stop, Tess It’s all for you Only for you"

She ainst his chest, and her hips God, her hips were rubbing along his pelvis, undulating in a subtle, instinctual motion as her mouth continued to work feverishly at his neck He rolled onto his back and held as still as he could for her, his eyes closed in exquisite tor he was accustoony all night if necessary He relished it, actually, as much as his desire for her shredded him in pieces He lay back on the mattress and absorbed every nuance of her body’s ainst his throat

He er if Tess hadn’t crawled up over hi loosely onto his chest Dante’s spine arced beneath her, rising up off the bed as she sucked deeper now, her slender body feeling hot to the touch,hi on his as if they were naked together and h the nylon warmups he wore, he could feel Tess’s intense heat Her panties et fro into his brain like a harab the headboard as her feeding rose to a frenzied crescendo

She rocked on hi on to his neck as she sucked deeper than ever at his vein He felt her cli up on hi, ready to blow The second Tess caas him out He was lost to it, unable to stop the fierce pulsations that seeo on endlessly as Tess settled on top of him in a sated, heavy sleep

After a while, Dante unclaently on Tess’ s slack body He wanted to be inside her, needed it like he needed air to breathe, but she was vulnerable right now and he would not use her Now that she was out of danger, there would be other tiether like this, better times

God, there had to be