J.R. Ward the Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8 - J. R. Ward [600]
“Oh, yeah.”
When there was a gentle tug on his hair, he knew she was playing with the curled ends, and he was glad he kept it as long as he did. Even though he had to tie the heavy black load back when he went out to fight, and the shit took forever to dry—so long, in fact, that he had to use a hair dryer, which was too frickin’ girlie to believe—Beth loved the stuff. He could remember many a time she had fanned it out over her naked breasts….
Right, slowing that train would be a good plan. Much more of that kind of thing and he’d have to mount her or lose his damn mind.
“I love your hair, Wrath.” In the darkness, her quiet voice was like the touch of her fingers, delicate, devastating.
“I love your hands on it,” he replied roughly, “in it, anything you like.”
They passed God only knew how long just lying side by side, facing each other, her fingers twisting and turning in the thick waves.
“Thank you,” she said quietly, “for telling me about tonight.”
“I’d rather have some good news to bring to you.”
“I’m still glad you told me. I’d rather know.”
He found her face by touch, and as he ran his fingers over her cheeks and nose to her lips, he saw her with his hands and knew her with his heart.
“Wrath…” Her hand settled on his erection.
“Oh, fuck…” His hips jacked forward, his lower back going tight.
She laughed softly. “Your language of love does a trucker proud.”
“I’m sorry, I—” His breath jammed in his throat as she stroked him over the boxers he’d worn for her modesty. “Fu—I mean—”
“No, I like it. It’s you.”
She rolled him over and mounted his hips—holy shit. He knew she’d gone to bed with a flannel nightgown on, but wherever the thing was, it wasn’t covering her legs, because her sweet, hot core rubbed right on his hardness.
Wrath growled, and lost it. With a sudden surge he threw her on her back, shoved the Calvins he rarely wore down his thighs, and drove into her. As she cried out and scored his back with her nails, his fangs fully elongated and throbbed.
“I need you,” he said. “I need this.”
“Me, too.”
He didn’t spare her any of his power, but then, she liked it like this sometimes, raw, wild, his body marking hers hard.
The roar when he came into her shook the oil painting that hung over their bed and rattled her perfume bottles over on the dresser and he kept right on going, more beast than civilized lover. But as her scent flooded his nose, he knew she wanted him just as he was—every time he orgasmed, she came with him, her sex gripping his and pulling at him, keeping him deep inside.
With breathless demand, she said, “Take my vein—”
He hissed like a predator and went for her neck, biting hard.
Beth’s body jerked under his, and between their hips he felt a welling warmth that had nothing to do with what he’d left behind inside her. In his mouth, her blood was the gift of life, thick on his tongue and down his throat, filling his belly with a furnace of heat, lighting up his flesh from the inside out.
His hips took over as he drank, pleasuring her, pleasuring himself, and when he had his fill, he lapped at his bite marks, then went at her again, reaching down and stretching up one of her legs so he could get even deeper as he pounded hard. After he came in another rush, he palmed the back of her head and brought her lips to his throat.
He didn’t get a chance to voice a demand. She bit him, and the instant her sharp points punctured his skin and he felt the sweet sting of pain, he orgasmed again, more brutally than all the others: The knowledge that he had what she needed and wanted, that she was living off of what beat through his veins, was erotic as fuck.
When his shellan was finished and had closed the wounds by licking them, he rolled over onto his back and kept them joined, hoping to—
Oh, yeah, he got good and ridden. As she became the master, he went to palm her breasts and found that she still had her nightgown on, so he whisked it over her head and tossed it to who-the-hell-cared. Finding