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"Tell ," he said between kisses

"What?" her voice cracked She tried to pull away, but his grip tightened, holding her against hih her For a"This was mostly based on the fact that I refused to feed from you, correct?"

"Yes," she said slowly

He nodded against her neck and pressed another tender kiss "What if I told you the reason I refused to feed froy, but because your blood and your blood alone is est weakness? What if I told you that in the last hundred and ninety years I have never come across someone whose blood drives me to distraction, that just the h to send me into bloodlust That I have to stay away fro else on this earth and that it takes everything I have not to go into your rooht and take y?" There were several other questions floating in her head at the y then…then he was telling her so

He chuckled as he peeled one of her arht her hand between theainst the front of his boxers and e and very hard erection His deep ulped as she yanked her hand away and he allowed it as he wrapped his arue ran from her neck to her earlobe He took her earlobe into his y"

Madison soed to pull her head back Ephraier she wasn’t sure, but both scared her His eyes were red again

"Let o, Ephraim," her voice shook

He shook his head "No"

"Ephraio of nored her and leaned down to kiss her neck again These weren’t innocent little pecks any hot open mouthed kisses to her neck She could feel the tips of his fangs brushing against her skin with each kiss His hands were rubbing her backside slowly A s Ephraim’s hps to jerk forward

Just a bite A little taste That’s all he wanted She felt so warm and soft in his arical It was just a tease, just a sa His mouth found her pulse He suckled the area before the tips of his fangs pressed gently against her skin Just a taste then he would stop he told himself

"Don’t say that I didn’t warn you" She’d been swept up in his kiss and touch until she felt the two sharps points at her throat Human or not he was a runt she brought her knee up hard between his legs

He roared in agony as he released her She pushed him away and ran for the door too afraid to look back She threw her door shut and locked it and then dove under her bed, praying as she went that the boogie man wasn’t real

Chapter 8