Into the Darkness (29 page)

His puzzled stare told her he didn’t understand.

“Never mind.” She opened her mouth and touched her

tongue to the tip of one fang. By the wideness of his eyes, she

guessed he’d thought his friends were only joking.

With one last glare at Chessa who gave her a thumbs-up

sign, she led him to the dance floor.

They stood apart for a moment, and Natalie reached out to

put her hands on his shoulders. “It’s all right. You can touch

me.”

His arms pulled her close and despite the energy of the

music, they shuffled on the floor for a turn or two.

“What’s your name?” she asked.

“Jason. Yours?”

“Lisa,” she lied, not sure about who might be listening in.

“You know, I need to be higher.” Another blank stare, and

Natalie sighed. “Pick me up. I’d like to kiss you.”

“Oh! Sure.” His eagerness made him a little awkward as he

gripped her waist and hauled her up his body.

Natalie draped her arms around his shoulders and bent to

whisper in his ear. “Closer. Let me wrap my legs around your

waist.”

His Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed, but he brought

her body closer. When her breasts brushed his chest, they

both shivered.

She grinned, sharing a moment of communion with her

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nervous meal. Slowly, she raised one leg at a time and gripped

his hips. Now that her crotch pressed against the placket of

his jeans, he got the idea.

His hands glided down her back and cupped her ass, giving

her a squeeze and gentle roll of his hips, and they both finally

caught the rhythm of the music.

They slid together, sinuous as snakes, rubbing chests,

grinding their groins together, building a friction that melted

Natalie’s inner walls and had his cock straining hard against

his jeans.

When his eyelids dropped to half-mast, she bent and kissed

his mouth. His opened beneath hers. His tongue was cool and

tasted like rum. She sucked it, earning a moan that gusted

into her mouth.

Natalie trailed her mouth to his jaw and down his throat,

tonguing his clean skin until she found the vein. She sucked

the skin above it, lulling him for a moment, drawing out the

excitement for her own gratification.

When her teeth pierced his flesh, he gasped and strained

away, but only for a second when she continued to feed. Jason

groaned deep in his throat and gripped her ass hard, pushing

her up and down his clothed cock quicker than before.

As blood seeped around her fangs and into her mouth, she

remembered to seal her lips tight over his skin and suction.

No use letting any of his precious gift stain their clothes. Her

bite was just deep enough to puncture the vein, not sever it

as she had Gerard’s.

She could sip him like a smoothie, drawing deep to pull

blood quickly into her mouth, and resting in between to let

them both savor a respite in the buildup.

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She opened her eyes and watched the other couples around

them, no longer shocked by what she saw. She was part of it.

Neck deep in it. Their fervor only added to her own, and she

knew places like this could become an addiction.

Her gaze swept the room until she found Chessa who’d

pressed a huge, muscled behemoth onto his back on a bench.

She straddled his hips and held his arm to her mouth as she

drank, and he rutted helplessly upward.

Natalie smiled around her mouthful. She guessed Chessa

liked being on top.

Her gaze continued to sweep the room as Jason shuddered,

his cock jerking and rubbing frantically against her as he

neared his release.

One particular man snagged her attention. He was beautiful—his skin a creamy chocolate, his hair jet black. His body,

although slender, sported an impressively wide set of shoulders which a woman in a short, dark skirt gripped so hard her

knuckles whitened. She’d hooked her thigh high over his hip,

which raised her skirt, baring her bottom to everyone near

enough to see. With her head flung back, she issued an invitation for him to nibble at her throat.

His hands clutched her generous buttocks and squeezed,

easing her closer as he bit, absorbing her momentary jerk of

shock by pumping against her.

Natalie realized his trousers were loose and his cock likely

deep inside the woman’s pussy. Her own pussy clenched and

liquid pleasure seeped to wet her panties. She ground harder

against Jason.

The dark man’s eyes opened, and his gaze pinned hers. Sinfilled delight danced in his eyes. While he drank and fucked

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his host, he challenged Natalie, silently urging her toward

her own release.

It was as though he’d slid inside her body. Each rough motion of Jason’s hips felt like a fluid glide. And although Jason

still gripped her ass, she felt more hands caressing her back,

rubbing over her breasts, fingering her clit until she cried

out, lifting her mouth from Jason’s neck.

Jason’s trembling brought her back to earth. His legs shook

so hard she felt sure they’d both land on the floor in a heap.

Giving the dark man one last questioning glance, she licked

away Jason’s wounds. “You can put me down, now.” Once her

feet touched the ground, she was ready to be away.

“When can I see you again?” he asked, his arms still encircling her body.

Now that she’d had her fill, she found she had no interest

in him. Her belly was full, the urgency quenched. “I’ll see you

around.” She stepped away, forcing him to drop his arms.

When she turned toward where she’d last seen Chessa, she

found the dark man planted in her path.

Instantly, her arousal reawakened. “How do you do that?”

“Do what?” he asked, his glance seeming to catalog every

one of her features, one by one.

When his glance fell to her breasts, she fought a losing battle to keep her nipples from beading against the thin silver

fabric of her blouse.

“May I?” he asked, his tone polite, but his raised hand indicated a more shocking intent—it hovered above her breast.

Don’t let a Revenant get a bite,
Chessa’s voice intoned in her

memory. But she’d never said anything about not enjoying a

touch.

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She breathed deeply, lifting her breast to his palm.

His hand didn’t squeeze, just lay there, warming her flesh.

“Now, we can get to know each other,” he said. “I haven’t

seen you here before.”

Natalie remembered to lie—just! She swallowed to moisten

her suddenly dry mouth. “I was turned just last week.”

“Was your lover Chessa?”

Natalie blinked at that question. He knew Chessa. Must

know she was a Born. “Yes, she made me.”

“You don’t seem her type. She likes cock.” His hand lifted

from her breast, then trailed down her tummy to the waistband of her jeans. His fingers traced the edge of the rough

fabric, rubbing back and forth, grazing her belly and making

it tremble.

Natalie’s breath caught at the intimacy of his touch. Why

was she allowing him to do this? His aroma was delicious,

heady—a combination of spice and citrus—and sex. They

were close enough to scent each other. Close enough to share

a moment of mutual arousal. His nostrils flared and his palm

flattened against her stomach. His fingers slipped beneath her

waistband to touch her curls. “My name is Fernando. Yours?”

With her breaths becoming ragged, she gasped, “Lisa.”

“Really?”

“Uh-nnnnh,” she moaned, as his long fingers reached the

top of her sex and rubbed the hood protecting her clitoris.

“Dance with me,” he commanded, pulling out his hand and

turning her in his arms to fit her bottom against his rigid

shaft.

Her waistband gave, loosening, and his fingers delved

deeper, sliding between her lips, stroking into her cunt. Her

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head fell back against his chest, and she found their reflection

in the mirror. His darkness was a shadow next to her pale,

luminous skin.

His cock pressed against her in time to the beat of the

music and she undulated, curving her belly to bring his hand

deeper between her legs, urging him to stroke his fingers in

and out.

“Sweet, so sweet,” he whispered against her hair.

“Hey there, Fred.” Chessa stepped in front of Natalie and

placed her hand over Natalie’s crotch, halting his movements.

Anger tightened her features.

Natalie wanted to scream. She’d been so close. Chessa’s interruption reminded her of rules she wanted to forget just

long enough to let his fingers fuck her into orgasm.

“Chessa, do you want to join us?” Fernando asked smoothly.

“Your lover is very, very near her release. Would you rob her

of pleasure?”

Chessa’s glance dropped to Natalie, and she leaned close

and sniffed, all the while her glance held Natalie’s immobile.

She lifted a hand and cupped her breast. “She’s a bit of a slut.

You can see why I have to keep her on a short leash.”

Natalie bit her lip. With Fernando’s fingers stroking deep,

and Chessa now pinching her nipple, she feared she’d shatter

into a million pieces.

Chessa lifted her gaze to Fernando and tilted her chin.

Holding his gaze, she lifted Natalie’s shirt and unclipped

her thin bra, exposing her to the room. She stepped closer,

her thighs pressing Natalie’s wider. Her hands cupped her

breasts, plumping them, thumbing her nipples until they

drew tighter, harder.

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“She’s my treat,” Chessa murmured and bent to suckle one

nipple, her tongue curling around it while her lips drew painfully hard.

Natalie gasped, and her head rolled on Fernando’s chest. A

wash of fresh cream bathed his fingers.

When Chessa’s teeth bit the tender skin of her areola, Natalie jerked and cried out, unable to stop the rocking motion

of her hips as she rode the fingers shoved deep inside her, and

Chessa drank from her breast.

Her orgasm buckled her knees. If not for Fernando’s hand

anchoring her crotch, she’d have slid bonelessly to the floor.

Chessa laved her nipple, her ministrations quick, efficient.

When she lifted her head, she wiped the back of her hand

across her mouth to sweep away a trace of blood. “You may

let her go, now.”

Fernando pulled his hand from her clothing and tugged

Natalie’s head back by her hair. His mouth came down hard for

a kiss that promised this wasn’t the last time they’d meet.

“See you.” Chessa grabbed her hand and dragged her from

the room, back through the bar. Natalie tugged down her

shirt, leaving her bra dangling inside. When they stood outside the bar, rain pelting their heads, Chessa leaned close. The

anger on her face cleared, and she grinned. “Not bad.”

“What did you mean by ‘not bad’?” Natalie asked as she drew

a fresh T-shirt over her head, feeling a little awkward at flashing skin at Chessa after what had happened between them.

Chessa bent at the waist to rub a towel over her dripping

hair. “You think on your feet,” she said, her voice muffled,

until she threw down the towel. “You remembered not to

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give away your name or what you are. Even under Fred’s considerable powers, you didn’t betray yourself.”

“Oh,” Natalie said, feeling a little disappointed and not

really wanting to know the reason why.

“And you tasted delicious.”

Natalie blushed at Chessa’s sultry tone while her nipples

tightened. “Was that necessary?”

“Oh, yeah. Fred and I go way back. Knows me too well to

believe I would turn you without a really good reason.”

“I think he doubted you were my lover. He said you liked

cock,” she said, lifting an eyebrow, not believing she was having this conversation.

Chessa flashed a grin. “My first preference, sure. But you

will find that we vampires aren’t that fussy about how we get

off. Don’t get too wound up about it. You did good.”

“Why do you call him Fred?”

“Because he hates it.”

Natalie flopped on the mattress on her back and laughed.

“That was the wildest thing I’ve ever done. Well, other than

raping Rene.”

Chessa’s eyebrows shot up. “You had to rape him?”

She tried to fight a smile, but gave up and grinned. “He

didn’t hold out long.”

Laughing, Chessa flopped down beside her. “That sounds

like our Rene, all right. Stubborn to the end. He doesn’t think

he deserves happiness.”

Natalie turned toward Chessa. “Why is that?”

Chessa’s breath bled slowly out. Her lips pursed and she

looked as though she fought herself whether to tell her or

not.

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“You can trust me, Chessa,” she said softly. “I only want

what’s best for Rene. Whichever way this turns out.”

Chessa rolled onto her side, and rose on her elbow. “You

know he was married?”

She nodded.

“His wife died in a car crash, sitting right beside him,”

Chessa said slowly. “I think he won’t forgive himself for not