Zero to Love (24 page)

She moaned.

Gritting his teeth against the need to blow, he slid out, then moved in with a methodical thrust.

She wouldn’t let him go slowly. With a jerk of her ankle against his back, she yanked him in.

His mind splintered in pleasure as she fed from him. Body pistoning, he slammed into her again and again. When heat rushed up from his balls, he let go.

Cum jetted from his cock. His release triggered hers, and the heavy clamp of her ass on his cock ripped a roar from him. Waves of lust mingled with love for this woman—his queen. His One.

As he came back to himself, he lowered her legs and slipped free of her body. He started to move off the bed to go after a warm cloth for her, but she let him see her mind.

She wanted him to lie beside her and cradle her body while they slept.

He tumbled onto the mattress beside her and enveloped her in his arms. Tucking her face against his neck, she breathed his scent.

Happiness pooled in her brain.

“You’re okay with the transition, then? You’re not unhappy to be one of us?”

She shook her head. “Never. I knew it from the start. The juice, then the strange women showing up… You don’t mind that, do you?”

“No, baby. It’s what you need. Besides, it’s sort of hot.”

She giggled.

They drifted for a moment, and her mind flipped through the events of the day. Being kidnapped by her brother and Nick and thrown into the car, hell-bent for some secret place where they planned to hide her. Then the car being thrown by a powerful Free Will, skidding off the road and into a parked car.

“If you’d been injured—” he started.

“I wasn’t.” Her mind skipped ahead to the moment when Arafa had snuffed out Nick’s life. Sadness filled her.

Monroe skimmed his hand down her spine. “I’m sorry, baby.”

She tightened her hold on him. “And I’m sorry about Adams.”

His throat closed off. The man had been a great friend to him. Steadfast and reliable. “I’ll never forget him.”

“Never,” she whispered.

This led to worries about her brother. Monroe lifted her chin, using a forefinger, and met her gaze. “We’ll restore him. He’s safe with Amy right now, and I’ve got Hale working with him to fill him back up. We’ll go to Elijah, and you can work with him too as soon as your energy is restored.”

“Wonder who depleted it.” She smiled, and it was a ray of light slanting in on his dark existence. Without her, he would have nothing, be nothing.

The roots of their bond projected deep into each of their minds. To cut it free from one would kill the other.

Unwilling to ever let that happen, he drew her flush against him. The tips of her breasts hardened against his skin, and his body throbbed to life.

She brushed her lips over his, drinking in his thoughts and feeding him erotic ones in turn. “What happens if we never leave this bed?”

He nipped her lower lip, delivering the sting she’d needed so much before her transformation. She gasped, and he fed off her emotion. As he gazed deep into her eyes, he saw himself there, a bright sun in her mind.

Waving a hand at the door and the women who waited in the room beyond, he grinned. “We’ll order food in.”

Laughing, she flipped atop him and ground her wetness into his hardening shaft. “First, I believe we can feed each other for a long time.”

He claimed her mouth in a tongue-dueling kiss and let her see his mind—a myriad of numbers combined with love.
A long time, my One.

Loose Id Titles by Em Petrova

The HOLLIS BOYS Series

Outlaws of Love

Trail of Lust

Wild, Wild Hearts

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The MINDCHANGER Series

Zero to Love

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THE QUICK AND THE HOT Series

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Em Petrova

Em Petrova lives in backwoods Pennsylvania, where she raises four kids and a Labradoodle puppy named Daisy Hasselhoff and pays too damn much for utilities. She loves to write gritty characters with lots of heart and is well-known for scorching, panty-soaking erotic romance.