for another freaky body-snatching cloud.
Not a trace of it in sight. Was it all her imagination?
For the life of her she couldn"t bring her heart rate down or stop the
pounding in her head. “What the hell…?” she faltered.
A hand slipped underneath her shirt and rested on the center of her back.
With a sudden intake of breath, she jerked forward, pressing the cleft of her breast
harder into the cold stone.
Wait, she knew this touch.
To her left, particles swirled in the air then gathered to form her beautiful
dark lover. Stooped next to her, he ran his fingers up her spine to massage the base
of her neck. The throbbing headache gradually dissipated.
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“What has you so troubled, Angel?” he asked softly.
“You won"t believe what just happened to me,” she shrilled in rapid cadence.
He pried her arms from around the post. “Try me.”
She stiffened. “No wait! What if it comes back?”
“It won"t,” he promised. “Now, allow my touch to soothe you and tell me
what happened.”
Her body went lax against her will. “A cloud, purple cloud,” she babbled in a
trembling voice. “It, it came out of nowhere and snatched me up, took me on this
scary sky ride, across some lights, I think were people then I was at a temple—”
“A temple? Where, what temple?”
“I dunno, I dunno. There was this guy, it was weird, I felt connected to him.
Something"s wrong, Demetri.” She began to shake. Tears trickled down her cheeks.
“I feel like I wanna go to him, but he told me I wasn"t supposed to be there. And
then the other lights…”
He scooped her up and carried her into the bedroom where lit candles
hovered mysteriously in the air. As she buried her face in the crook of his neck, she
took deep whiffs of his incredible scent. The softness of the bed and the soulful
voice of Sade welcomed her.
“Every time I think my life is totally screwed, you come around and make
me feel like I"m in heaven,” she said snuggling against him.
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God, why couldn"t it be like this all the time?
Demetri drew back to look into her eyes and cupped her cheek with the
palm of his hand. “It could be like this all the time,” he whispered.
With the artificial light shining around him, something slightly different
about his appearance was revealed. His skin, which had been a smooth porcelain
tone before now held a tinge of color to it. It almost looked like his cheeks were
flushed.
“Demetri, was I imagining things?”
“I"m afraid not. It was a drift cloud that took you, Sharayna.”
“Drift cloud?” she faltered.
“A teleportation portal. A stream or layer in a dimensional zone left by
Andausians with teleporting abilities, also known as Drifters. It"s a supernatural
fingerprint, a way to track where they"ve been and where they"re going. I assume
from what you"ve told me, you unconsciously summoned the cloud in your need to
connect with the priest.”
“What? He"s a priest?” she gasped in shock.
“Yes, an Andausian priest, a true follower of God. You were in Osaka, Japan
and the priest pushed you back out for good reason. You were not prepared to face
the demons surrounding him, not like this.”
“Japan? So you"re telling me, I rode all the way to Japan from here?”
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“No, but your mind did. You were forced out before you were able to
physically teleport, which I am grateful for,” he finished on a sigh. “It"s a form of
mental teleportation. The cloud allows you to see where you"re going before you
get there.”
She shook her head. “Damn, this is all so freaking confusing. Drifters?
Andausians? Anything else I should know?”
“All of your questions will be answered in time.” He placed his hand on her
forehead.
A warm, tingly sensation emitted from his touch and spooled throughout
her limbs. She sharply inhaled.
“I have no idea what the outcome will be, but I must draw out your spiritual
“Whoa, hold up now. I"m not ready…” Her voice trailed off.
Avoiding eye contact with him, she dragged her hands down her face. No
matter his ability to pull her into this sea of serenity, where everything was
fantastic, she knew the priest was in trouble and so were the other lights she saw
in her mind.
But what could she do?
“This is too much to take in, in one night. I feel like I"m in a non-stop
whirlwind of some twisted world.” She groaned in frustration. “Listen, you are
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wonderful, beyond my wildest dreams, but—you told me there"s a demon inside of
me and I feel like what you"re about to do is gonna make it worse.”
“I know you"re afraid and confused, but I"m here to help you get through
this, Sharayna. I want to show you something that will help you understand my
place in this world, part of the reason I"m determined to release what"s trapped
within you. Read my mind.”
“No, uh-uh.” She stood up on her knees and inched back away from him.
“Believe me, I already know your place in the world and last time I read your
mind…uh-uh, boy, you"re not gonna do that to me again.”
A wolfish smile curled his lips. “It must be done.” He took her hand and
pressed her palm to his cheek. “I want you to feel it?”
Bound by his sweetly spoken command, Rayne closed her eyes. Pure rapture
flowed beneath his skin. Her nipples hardened and stung, her clit ached to be
touched. Her breathing hitched as he drew her closer to him. She slipped her palm
around his neck. His hands circled her waist then slid over the curve of her ass.
The temperature between their bodies rose to a blazing inferno. His veins
began to pulsate beneath her touch.
She felt the blood, sensed it—the new evil blood that coursed through his
being. This blood aroused her, called to her. It evoked a yearning within her, which
kindled a ravenous fire. She wanted it. Her lips quivered with the need for a taste.
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Digging his fingers within her hair, he inhaled deeply, pressing his lips
against her temple. “Feel it,” he whispered.
Suddenly, gut wrenching screams entered her mind followed by images of
unfamiliar faces, tortured faces, bloodless faces. Gasping, she withdrew her hands
and attempted to pull away, but he locked his arms around her waist and held her
against him.
“Embrace it,” he demanded hauntingly.
Her mind was swamped with panic, but she couldn"t erase the need to have
him inside of her. She felt so damn twisted. “You killed them.”
“I did,” he responded softly, teasing the few strands of hair hanging along
the side of her face. “You knew I would before I left you tonight.” The flames from
the floating candles flickered violently with his words. “You knew I needed to,
didn"t you?”
Not able to form words, she shook her head. Would it always be this
complex while with him, torn between being scared shitless and horny out of her
mind?
“You scare the piss out of me, Demetri,” she managed
to breathe out.
“But I intrigue you, yes?”
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He cupped her ass cheeks and pulled her against his rising erection. She
whimpered, grabbed onto the lapels of his jacket and wrapped her legs around his
waist.
“Did you feel it? Their dark souls and their evil deeds? Their fate was to die
in my grasp, beneath the sting of my bite,” he growled, clutching her tightly.
She felt it alright, every bit of it; even his caring touch to the young girl he
saved. She began to tremble. Not in fear, but in mind-numbing lust.
“You want me inside of you, deep inside, filling you, loving you,” he crooned,
his lips gently teasing hers.
“Yeah…please.” Her head fell back in uncontrolled rapture. “Make love to
me, Demetri.”
Demetri placed a soft kiss on the underside of her chin, fighting the urge to
release his incisors. “Oh, my love, your seductiveness is to be marveled at,” he
whispered, pressing her back into the plushness of the bed. “Let me draw it out,
your soul"s force, and in the process allow me to unite my demon with yours.”
Her compliance was given to him through a desperate sob.
His methods were a bit mischievous, but he had to do it. He knew once he
revealed his previous kills, the demon vampire inside of her would come forth, and
she was indeed a magnificent creature.
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She yanked at his jacket. “Get naked,” she commanded in a sultry tone. “I
wanna see all of you.”
At her request, he shed his clothes with snap of his fingers.
Hooded chocolate eyes ran down his physique and stopped at his engorged
cock. Her mouth parted then closed. Small whimpers meant as words seeped out
incoherently. She licked her lips and brushed the tips of her fingers over the
pulsating head of his shaft. He restrained a groaned when sparks of delight from
her touch streamed through the length of him.
“Oh baby,” she moaned. Her glazed eyes met with his. “Was your daddy a
blacksmith, because goddamn boy, that piece of steel you got there…”
A silent moment passed before he erupted in ridiculous laughter.
“That is the biggest, beautifulest dick I have ever seen in my life. Wow.
Seriously though, that"s a third leg, man. How much do you lift with that thing?
Damn, I"ve never been scared of a shaft before, but, whoa boy…” she said beneath a
giggle. “Know what? I"m gonna work with it. You rock it and drill it however you
want to, baby. I"ll hang with you „til I go comatose, but just let me stretch real good
first, okay.”
Demetri found himself laughing so hard, his gut hurt. The woman
overwhelmed him with joy. He slumped into her embrace and planted his lips over
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hers until their chuckles and giggles turned into moans of pleasure. Once again, he
released drops of his blood into her hot mouth to infuse her desire.
She rolled her hips beneath him in slow easy movements, massaging the
stem of his restless staff with her burning core as their tongues fondled one
another.
Nipping at his lower lip with sharp fangs forming in her mouth, she palmed
his rear end and pulled him deeper into the warm haven between her thighs.
“Sharayna, this will not be the moment we make love.”
“Why,” she whined, squeezing her legs around him. “You want to. I know
you do.”
“Yes, my love, more than anything right now, but this bed won"t hold the
force I"d spill into you, neither would the floor beneath us…” With his tongue, he
made a wet trail from her lips to her tip of her chin. “And most importantly our
union would wake the neighbors. I would take you to a place where we could be
alone, but the water demon next door would track us, then I"d have to do away
with him.”
Her eyes stretched wide. “OhmyGod, did you just say you"d fuck me through
the floor. A"ight, big sexy, I wanna see you do it. I dare you to,” she challenged with
an impish grin.
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Smiling, Demetri scraped a sharp nail down the center of her fitted tank top.
The fabric separated to expose her dark golden brown skin. Round succulent
breast boldly bounced out to greet him. Amazed, he stared at her round areolas
and hardened nipples. He brushed the pad of his thumb over a pebble and she
shuddered.
This would undoubtedly be a test of strength and will.
“We may not be able to truly fulfill our desires, but our demons will unite
before the night is over.”
Eagerly, he grasped one of the plump mounds and took the tiny dark
morsels between his lips while gently strumming and kneading the other. Through
gasping breaths, she released husky moans and grabbed his hair to lock him in
place. He rolled and flicked his tongue around the delicious bundle of flesh then
hungrily sucked on it.
The thin cotton shorts did little to suppress the heady scent of her rising
arousal. It made his head spin. He bit back a growl and pressed his body into her.
He curled his fingers around the hip of her shorts and yanked them off her. She
jerked and released a startled squeal. The tinge of fear in her eyes diminished when
he rocked his cock against her in slow back and forth movements.
She dug her fingers into his shoulders. “Oh God, please don"t make wait,
baby.”
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He wanted so badly to give into her pleas, but couldn"t allow his desire to
make love to her hinder what was more important—releasing her spiritual force.
He had to work fast before she shattered his resistance.
Battling his own need to be inside of her, he moved onto the other beautiful
globe and indulged her until she shivered uncontrollably beneath him. He slid
down her body, lapping at her simmering flesh. Her sounds of her tantalizing
ecstasy rose.
He felt the submerged wave of her power trying to break free of a spell, but
where was it.
Running his hands over every muscle in her powerful legs and silky smooth
skin, he desperately searched for the marking he knew resided somewhere on her
gorgeous body. Every natural born demon had a symbol on their body to indicate
their base form. If he could find it, he"d be able to link with her force.
“What are you doing?” she asked, staring down at him with her brows
arched.
“I"m searching for your birth marking.”
“Oh,” she chirped. “On my back.” She swung one of those stunning limbs
over his head, rolled onto her stomach then swept her hair to the side. “I think the
tail of my tattoo kinda covers it up, but if you look real close, you"ll see it.”
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He grabbed his stirring member and gulped back a moan. Down boy. The
bountiful curves of her body were phenomenal and torturous to resist. For a
moment he couldn"t speak, nor move.
“Do you see it?” she murmured, looking back at him. The dark cocoa gleam
in her eyes was slowly engulfed by deep gold. “What does it mean?”
The beauty was shifting. Excitement spooled up within him.
“No darling, I"m thoroughly distracted by your glorious derrière right now.”
Leaning in, he planted soft wet kisses along her succulen
t backside. He
slipped his hand between her thighs and brushed his fingers across her smooth
slit. She was incredibly wet and ready for the taking. The ripe scent of a blossomed
demon in heat diminished his mental control.
Arching her back, she wiggled her behind. “Is that right, D"breezy?”
Unable to resist the craving to feel her from the inside, he delved two fingers
between moist folds and into her snug cavern. Her heated core clenched onto him
possessively. Her breaths came out in quick spurts. Anxious to heighten her
pleasure, he dragged his tongue along the cleft of her derrière.
“Ooo, you"re a nasty boy,” she purred, splaying her thighs and bowing her
back. “I like nasty.”
Endless trickles of unparalleled energy traveled through his arm and
cascaded through him, a force stronger than his. He let go of the chesty moan
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dangling in the back of his throat. She had no idea what she was doing to him, or
what she was capable of.
Power. The woman was raw power from the inside and out.
“My God, Sharayna!”
He had never called the Almighty"s name out in vain, not even when he was
human, but now he found the need to call out to him for the overwhelming flow of
energy that streamed through him. At the nape of his neck, the searing mark that
now resided there slithered down his spine like a snake.
In the smoothest movements he could conjure, he eased his fingers out of
her then plunged them back in. She moaned with each stroke, gratifying him with
thrusts of her own. The sound of her wet sex sucking greedily on his digits
serenaded his senses.
“Ohh Demetri, you know how to work this pussy, don"t you?”
He added another digit to expand her soft fluttering tissue then reached
beneath her hip with his other hand to glide between her folds and caress her slick
pearl. “You tell me, sweetheart.”
“Yeeah, ooo damn boy, that feels so good.”
As she balled the sheets up in her tight grasp, she cupped his massaging
hand and dug her head into the bed to muffle her kitten like moans. The more he
pleasured her, the closer he came to replacing his fingers with his cock.
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