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Saet their prey in the easiest possible way

Sex worked Always had Alould

While thetheir dicks, the vamps locked those teeth on ’em and took

Some humans liked the pain of the bite

Soht Some died

Vamps didn’t usually care, no ers rose to the front of her shirt and fumbled with the buttons

Jude sed Okay She was stripping Right in front of hie of her bra, dark blue So if she was stripping here instead of heading to the bathroom, she wanted him to look and that meant--

Her fingers paused and she glanced up at him The woman totally froze him with her stare

It meant jackshit

"You’re a hard man, Jude Donovan Dark--darker inside than I realized"

A slow rage began to simmer in his veins He took a step toward her, then another His hands fisted "I’m not a man, sweetheart You can’t make that mistake with me"

Her lips parted Pale and ue

The beast inside lunged against his leash

Maybe he’d let the tiger go Show her how dark he really was

"You’ve killed, haven’t you, Jude?" The top two buttons on her shirt were undone, but the striptease seeun

He hadn’t lied to her yet Wouldn’t start now So he kept his eyes on hers, didn’t look at those sweet breasts, and left the leash in place, for now

"Hell, yeah, I have" And to protect hiain In a heartbeat "Want to kno old I was the first time? Want to kno I did it? Want to knoho I--"

She turned away fro back the words What the fuck did she want? She knehat he was She’d seen everything Every fucking thing

Man to beast

She hadn’t run She’d turned to hiotten rough with the undead scuood enough for her

Because maybe I’m not

He hadn’t told her about his folks Not yet With that asshole after her, he just hadn’t wanted to--

Make her run

Make her fear me

"I want to be normal" A whisper that he could hear all too easily "I want a nored across the room Grabbed her elbow and spun her back around He was afraid, very afraid, that her next ould be--

Lover

I want a normal lover

He sure didn’t fit that bill "You’re not normal You’re damn better than normal Normal isn’t for us Fire, lust, the power of the beast-- that’s for us Ball games and barbecues aren’t our cup of tea"

She didn’t blink Just stared up at hiht to pull back the fury Because she was slipping away

Standing right in front of hi away

No

"I’ve killed, and if it co freaks like Burrows sure wasn’t easy, and he had the scars to prove it But soer than others so hunting, yeah, he could do it Sometimes, he needed to do it "And yes, there’s darkness in me, but, sweetheart, that sa

Her lashes lowered

Then, softly, she said, "I know" She looked up at hiain "That’s what scares me"

What?

Her hands lifted to his chest and he felt the sting of her claws press into his flesh

"Erin, what are you--"

She rose on her toes and kissed hith

The tiger jerked free of his leash

They fell onto the bed Hands ripping, fighting the clothing Mouths taking Hearts pounding

He tossed her bra across the rooht and hard and when his fingers plucked them, she moaned into his mouth

Fuck

He pushed her onto her back and took her breast in hisoff the bed toward him The scent of her rich crea beat of his heart just grew louder in his ears

Her claws raked down his back

His shirt was gone--hell knehere

He caught the waistband of her skirt and yanked it down, jerking her panties away at the sahs apart He eyed the ripe flesh just waiting for hi and--

He put his ue over the button of her need, got that taste of sweet and tangy cream and wanted more

So he took ue inside of her She ca around hi

More More

Lips and tongue took Learned every curve Every secret Drank up her taste and had her twisting against hiue snaked over his lips Damn but she was beautiful

Spread and open, ready for hiht not be his forever, but he’d take her for as long as she’d let him

"Roll over" Guttural

He heard the rasp of her breath The hitch that could have been fear or hesitation, but he also caught the surge of her arousal The thickening of that rich scent in the air

One thigh lifted over hiht her waist, lifted her up onto her knees That perfect heart-shaped ass stared hiht in the face

Dalancing back over her shoulder "Now"

Yeah, oh, yeah, now