Then he licked my skin, and I moaned.
“I want to try it.” I was going crazy.
But Russel leaned back and brushed his lips over mine.
“Kiss me, Eddie.”
3
A BITE
EDDIE
Oh wow.
I’d never been kissed like that. So careful and soft, yet focused. The tender nips grew in intensity until he prodded at the seam of my lips with his tongue and tilted my head back. My mouth parted, and his tongue touched mine. He tasteddivine. Better than any cocktail, any dessert.
He didn’t even have to bite me, and I already felt as if a magic aphrodisiac was coursing through my system. Could the venom from his saliva affect me already? But vampires couldn’t intoxicate people just by kissing them.
When he broke the kiss, I chased after his lips in a daze before I caught myself.
“Sorry.”
“You’re irresistible, Eddie.”
He traced the vein along my throat with a fingertip, and I gulped.
“Will it hurt?” I breathed, feeling childish for asking that.
“A little at first. Then not at all.”
Watching my face intently, he brought my left wrist to his lips and kissed my skin there.
His mouth hovered right above my wrist when his fangs descended. They were smaller than I’d expected but sharp like needles.
He waited, holding my gaze, his fangs only a breath away from my skin.
This couldn’t be real, could it?
Seeing the two white tips near my flesh, imagining how they would break through my skin, pierce a vein…
My cock gave a needy throb. Did I… like this?
Really? Of all the things in the universe, this?!
But my body screamed a resoundingyes.
Those fangs about to bite me were the most arousing thing I’d ever seen.
I’d always been wary of vampires. When the cool kids at college used to go to interspecies parties, I stayed behind, finding excuses. If it hadn’t been for Sheri’s relentless nagging, I would have never ventured into a dinner club. A book on prejudice between the predator and prey species my boss had recommended to my team lay untouched on my nightstand. Not that I had time to read after working overtime nearly every day, but maybe I avoided opening it for other reasons I didn’t want to analyze.
Had I been afraid of vampires or of my own subconscious desire?
And now I was here, a second away from being bitten. I could still stop it from happening.
Russel’s golden eyes shone brighter as his fangs touched my skin. The softest contact, a tease.
I swallowed a needy whimper. “Do it.”
