She lifted her head and tilted to the side, giving me full access to her neck. “That’s what I want, Curry. It’s what I need so we can be closer.”
I shook my head, but knew it was useless to keep saying it. I couldn’t stop any of this from happening because I was feeling the point of no return as it erupted.
I didn’t think it was possible, but I felt Chansey tighten her grip with her arms and legs as she said, “Do it now. Please, do it now and make this unforgettable.”
I looked at the artery in her neck and without hesitation, I quickly pierced it. I covered the wound with my mouth and greedily drank with zero control from the woman I adored.
Drinking from Chansey was an experience I’d never encountered. The guilt I felt from the ecstasy of drinking my Agápe’s blood made me imagine she was actually enjoying it. I imagined feeling her intense love for me as I took part of her body inside myself. Instead of hating me for what I was doing, I imagined I felt her love for me grow because of it.
I was a sick bastard and this had to stop before I hurt her.
“Don’t stop yet. You’re not hurting me and being this close feels so amazing,” I heard Chansey whisper.
Drinking from Chansey while I made love to her was amazing and then I felt this eruption of love from my heart, my mind and my body that left me dumbfounded.
I came to my senses and realized what I had just done to Chansey, so I injected a coagulant from my incisors where I pierced her skin and artery and I jerked my mouth away from her neck. I scooted away from her and slid off of the edge of the bed before I stumbled across the floor in shock of what I did to my wife.
I stood across the room and started at her on the bed. “I can’t believe I did that. I’m so sorry I hurt you, Chansey.” I didn’t know anything else to say as I balled my fists with anger at myself. I wanted to put them through the wall.
She sat up and slid across the bed so she could come to me. “You didn’t hurt me, Curry. I wanted you do it. I was rather determined to make you, in case you don’t remember.”
“You can’t blame yourself for my dangerous mistake,” I argued.
She reached up and grabbed my face, forcing me to look at her. “It was amazing and it was not wrong and you’d see that I’m right if you’d stop and think about it. We connected in a completely different kind of way. I felt every ounce of your love for me and you felt mine too, didn’t you?”
She was right and I couldn’t stop the smile that spread across my face. “I felt your love for me and I feel how happy you are right now.”
She was still holding my face. “We’ve been joined in a way we don’t understand yet, but I’m anxious to see what happens next.”
This was no random bite and our new bond meant something, but I had no idea what. The lunar eclipse was a possible precipitator, but knowing what possibly brought it on didn’t tell me what it meant.
I needed to talk to Sebastian, but I couldn’t in front of Chansey. I would have to wait until she was asleep, so I didn’t decline when she asked me to come back to bed with her. The sooner she went to sleep, the better, but I knew my little vixen didn’t have sleeping on her mind when she asked me to come back to bed with her. To think otherwise, would have been foolish on my part, but sleeping wasn’t what was on my mind either; it was my fear of biting Chansey, again.
It took some work on Chansey’s part to convince me to make love to her again, but she succeeded, and I seriously doubted I would ever be able to refuse her again after the astonishing experiences we had. My urge to bite her and her urge to be bitten didn’t resurface the second time, or the third, but the unknown of what happened between us scared the hell out of me.
Our new bond was mind-blowing and it brought a whole new experience to the surface when we made love again. Not only did I experience my own feelings, but I felt Chansey’s as well, and it made everything double the pleasure.
After I convinced Chansey she needed to rest because we would need an early start to catch our morning flight, she turned on her side and nuzzled into me to sleep. When I was certain she was asleep, I eased out from under her and grabbed my phone from my jacket pocket and went to the kitchen to call Sebastian.
He answered on the first ring, “Don’t freak out, Curry.”
“Don’t tell me to not freak out, Sebastian,” I said a little too loudly. I lowered my voice and continued, “You have no idea what I just did to my wife.”
“I know what you just did to Chansey,” he argued.
“I’m not talking about that. Something besides that happened,” I informed him.
“I know that you bit Chansey and you drank her blood. Now you share the most phenomenal bond anyone has ever experienced and it can’t be broken, even by death.”
“How the hell did you know that?” I asked.
“That was the final stage of completing your Agápe bond with Chansey,” he explained.
He knew. He knew all along and didn’t warn me. I felt myself begin to shake with anger. “Why the hell would you not tell me that?” I yelled furiously.
“Curry, what would you have done if I told you? Honestly?” Sebastian proposed.
“There would have been no way that I would have gone through with it. I would have been too scared of hurting Chansey,” I admitted.
He laughed and said, “And it would have been the biggest mistake of your existence. Look at what you would have missed with your wife. Only vampires with Agápes get to experience intimacy from the human and vampire perspective simultaneously. Now you both will have that experience every time without the necessity of drinking from her.”
“It will be like that every time?” I asked.
Please say that it will be. “Yes, every time. And the bond isn’t limited to intimacy only. You’ll always be able to feel her and know her emotions.”
I thought of how I imagined reading her thoughts while I was biting her. Maybe it wasn’t my imagination. “You mean li
ke reading her mind? I almost thought I could read her thoughts when I was drinking from her.”
I wasn’t sure I wanted to read Chansey’s thoughts. She could be quite the little spitfire, so that might cause some problems. “You can’t read her mind, per say. If her emotions are really strong about something, you can figure out what she is thinking because of that strength. You were probably picking up on her thoughts when you drank from her because they were so intense and you had a direct line to her through her blood.”
What did the bond mean for Sebastian and Ella? “You said that the bond couldn’t be broken by death.”
Sebastian answered, “The bond between a vampire and his Agápe can never be broken. My bond with Ella is different than when she was living, but I still feel her all of the time. She is never apart from me.”
I wasn’t sure that didn’t make things harder. “Doesn’t that make it worse for you? To feel her without having her? Without touching her?” I asked.
“It was at first, but I have come to cherish our connection. I live for it. I live for her because she asks it of me.”
“I’m sorry I yelled at you. I felt betrayed, but I see now how right you were for not telling me,” I apologized.
“I understand and I completely expected your anger, so I was prepared,” he explained. “Don’t you have a wife you need to be getting back to?”
“I absolutely do,” I agreed. “Thank you, Sebastian.”
“My pleasure, Curry. Enjoy the rest of your honeymoon.”
Oh, I planned to enjoy the rest of it, starting right now.
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We got an early start the next morning so we could make our eight o’clock flight for Nassau. As we sat waiting in the airport for our boarding call, she looked at me and smiled. Curiosity got the best of me so I asked, “What? What has you smiling so big?”
She nibbled her bottom lip. “I was just thinking about last night and you were so right for wanting to wait. It was so special and perfect. Thank you.”
I leaned over and kissed her nose. “I’m glad we waited, but if the wedding hadn’t been moved up, I was going to give in soon. Despite what you may think, my will isn’t ironclad.”