Total pages in book: 94
Estimated words: 88235 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 441(@200wpm)___ 353(@250wpm)___ 294(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 88235 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 441(@200wpm)___ 353(@250wpm)___ 294(@300wpm)
The place where his lips touched her skin seemed to tingle and she gasped but didn’t move away as he repeated the tender kiss and added a gentle lick as well.
“You know, you never told me exactly how you can do that,” she whispered breathlessly as he continued down her cheek. “I mean, uh, heal me with your tongue.”
“I’ve had a special serum that allows me to heal my mate from any wounds she might get.” Chain murmured in her ear. “It comes in handy—at least it has since I met you, beautiful Victoria.”
“But…but I’m not your mate,” Vicky protested, her voice coming out breathy and uncertain even to her own ears.
“No…” Chain drew back for a moment to look her in the eyes and she saw that his were burning with lust, though that crooked little smile of his was twitching the corner of his mouth. “No,” he repeated. “Not yet.”
Then he went back to healing her, using long, slow laps of his tongue interspersed with gentle kisses that sent shivers and tingles through Vicky’s entire body.
The whole time he was healing her cheek, she kept telling herself that she needed to be careful—that they had to take things slow and not jump into anything. But when the big Kindred began licking the sensitive side of her throat, all her sensible thoughts flew out the window and she couldn’t help the low moan that escaped her lips.
God…oh, God! Her neck and throat had always been one of Vicky’s most sensitive erogenous zones. The feelings she got when Chain lapped and kissed her so gently, his mouth on her sensitive flesh and his warm breath in her ear, was almost enough to make her come it got her so hot. Her nipples felt tight and seemed to throb as the warm water lapped against them and her pussy was suddenly aching and wet with need.
“Chain!” she heard herself moaning. “Oh my God, if you don’t stop I’m going to…going to…”
“Going to what, beautiful Victoria?” he murmured, pulling back to look in her eyes again. When he saw the state she was in, his own eyes widened. “Didn’t know your neck was such a sensitive area, sweetheart,” he murmured. “I’ll have to keep that in mind in the future.”
“Why?” Vicky demanded breathlessly. “What…what are we going to be doing in the future?”
Chain gave her a slow smile.
“What would you like to be doing?”
“Getting to…to know each other better,” Vicky said, trying to sound stern. “Before we, uh, do anything foolish.”
“Why is it foolish to want to be with the one you love?” Chain asked softly.
Vicky felt shock run through her. She’d been with Kevin for over a year before he’d said the L word and everything she’d read and seen about modern men talked about how careful they were not to say they loved a woman too soon because they were so commitment-shy.
Well, apparently, Kindred are not modern Men, she thought, feeling dazed.
“Chain, you can’t say you love me yet,” she protested. “We don’t even—”
“Know each other?” he finished for her, raising an eyebrow. “No, but we will. After all, I’ve already met your family and they seemed to approve of me.” He grinned.
“Melli and Jodi are sweet girls but of course they’re going to approve of you—you’re gorgeous,” Vicky told him. “They’re too young to know you ought to get to know a man first before you jump in the deep end.”
“It looks to me like we’re already in the deep end,” Chain said, giving her another crooked smile.
“Ha-ha.” She put a hand on her hip, feeling the water swish around her with the motion. “You know I’m not talking about the pool.”
“Neither am I,” he murmured and pulled her close for a long, breathless kiss.
“God, Chain,” she moaned softly when the kiss finally broke. “If you keep this up I won’t be able to resist you.”
“Good.” His grin was wolfish this time—hungry for her, Vicky thought. “Because I don’t want you to resist. I want to touch you and kiss you everywhere tonight, Victoria. Want to taste your sweet pussy and make your honey flow for me, just as it did back on Priima Belle.”
“We shouldn’t,” she protested but her voice sounded weak in her own ears. “I mean, we ought to take things slow.”
“I can go slow if you like.” Chain spread out a towel on the side of the pool and lifted Vicky so that she was sitting on the edge, with her legs spread. “As slow as you want me to,” he promised, looking up at her with that hungry light shining in his blue eyes. “Just let me show you, sweetheart.”
Vicky looked at him uncertainly.
“You really want to that much? I thought maybe…maybe you were just putting on an act on Priima Belle to fool them into selling us the other half of the T’lix-Kruthe.”