His Captive Mortal (A Vampire Romance)

After we catch our breath, I finally speak. “I don’t know what to think of all this, Aurelia,” I say, the weariness of my sleepless days sounding in my voice. “But I do know that you are mine. Nothing can change that fact.”

Aurelia’s body begins to shake, and I tighten my arms around her, smelling the salt of tears. The depth of my response to her pain answers any remaining doubt I might have had about her or us. I couldn’t walk away from her no matter what challenge we faced—even having Anka between us.

Charlie

Anka can’t hurt me again, even if she lives on through Aurelia. My little fairy loves me with a heart big enough to heal all wounds. My eyes burn as I kiss her, releasing my last reservations. I stand, lifting Aurelia to straddle my waist and carry her to the shower, where I turn on the water and step in.

The droplets run over our heads, cleansing away burnt smell from the crisped vampires. Knowing Aurelia had the power to destroy me so easily and yet still surrendered, making me her master makes me ache with love. I pull off my shirt, soaked now, and toss it over the curtain rod. Running my hands across Aurelia’s shoulders, I worship the magnificent curves of her lithe body. I pick up the soap and run it over her skin, lathering circles around her breast, down the cleft of her ass.

Control slips away, and I shove her up against the shower wall, pinning her there and forcing a knee between her thighs. “I need to be inside you, Aurelia,” I murmur in a dangerous voice. “Now that you’ve released me from the curse, I might need you ten times a day. Or more.”

Her mouth opens, and she arches into my hands, water running in rivulets down her golden skin.

I bend my knees to fit my cock to her cunt, sliding into her without needing to prepare the way. I tuck my palms behind her shoulders to cushion the shock, then begin to thrust hard, trapping her between my body at the tile wall. My fangs lengthen, and I long to strike again, but hold back, knowing I can’t drink from her every time I have my way.

The wall seems too hard to slam her body against, so I wrap her in my arms, keeping close and using my muscles to protect her from the force of my passion.

She lifts one leg and wraps it around my waist, changing the angle of her tunnel. I pound into her until she gasps, “May I—?”

“Yes,” I choke, losing control and finding my own peak at the same moment she convulses against me.

Chapter 14

Aurelia

Charlie traces us back to my place after our shower. When he sees the bruise appearing on my cheek from where the vampire smashed me against the wall, he hisses, baring his teeth. Pushing me to sit on the bed, he vanishes, and I start to curse before I hear him in my kitchen, opening the refrigerator door. He blurs back, holding an ice pack wrapped in a kitchen towel. I jerk my head back instinctively when he tries to touch the bruise, so he presses the ice in my hands. “You do it,” he says softly, still looking grim over it.

He picks up the dresser he overturned and replaces it. “Sorry,” he mutters. He stands with his hands on his hips and looks around. “What are we going to do, Aurelia? A fairy doesn’t belong in a hole in the ground. You need to live in nature with room for a big garden, so you can do things fae do with plants.”

I blink, surprised.

“Let’s buy some land and build a house. With a basement for me and a light-filled ground floor for you.”

I tremble, hardly believing how well he seemed to understand me and my desires. “Do you...how would we pay for it?”

“I have lots of money,” he says dismissively.

“What about my job? How will I get there?”

He considers me. “I have a car you can drive. I won’t make you quit, but I think I’ll have another discussion with Edith to reduce your hours. Or perhaps I’ll get a job there too.”

“What?” I laugh.

“Yeah. Why not? I was good with that kid.”

I giggle. “I can’t decide if you’re serious.”

“I don’t know—why not? What else do I have to do? I might as well be of some use in this world.”

I gape, hardly able to assimilate it all. “So...does this mean you’re my boyfriend?”

He grins. “I am most definitely your boyfriend, along with your vampire, lover and master.” He moves closer and wraps his arms around me, sliding his hands down to cup my ass. “Do I get to meet your friends now?”

I bite my lip. “I suppose I’ll never be able to tell them, will I?”