Mate With Me

“Jacob, please, help me. I need you so much.” Straddling his hips, she grabbed his cock, held it up, and slowly lowered herself onto him, worried that this first penetration would trigger a bad memory. As soon as his cock slipped inside of her, her pussy responded with a gush of pleasure, her body accepting his cock as quickly as it had rejected Mason’s. The feel of him stretching her, filling her wasn’t anything like the painful thrust of Mason’s unwelcome intrusion into her body.

Just as she was beginning to despair of Jacob rousing enough to join her, she saw his hands twitch, watched with hope and pleasure

blossoming inside her as his hands came up and went unerringly behind her to clasp her buttocks in a tight grip. Even though his eyes remained closed, his chest heaved with a deep breath as his hips lifted, thrusting his cock deeper inside of her.

Hunger and heat pulled Jacob from a dark abyss where he felt nothing into a chasm of light and sensation. He fought off the urge to open his eyes, wanting to wallow in the pleasure of this dream world for as long as possible before returning to cold reality. Soft lips rasping over his sensitive nipples sent a jolt of pleasure straight down to the head of his straining cock, accompanied by the sound of Grace’s soft voice. Now he knew he was dreaming because there was no way his Grace would be sliding her plush, naked body over his, no way she’d be tormenting his nipples as she told him how much she wanted him to reciprocate. It wasn’t possible that his Grace was moving her mouth down his body, her lips leaving a heated trail in their wake as she ventured lower. A soft kiss on his abdomen made him recall feeling the excruciating slide of a blade being buried deep, reminded him the way his depleted state had made him too slow to respond to the second attack.

His dream became even more surreal when those soft, plump lips closed over the head of his cock, that tongue tentatively, erotically exploring every inch of his engorged flesh, igniting an uncontrollable fire that would be impossible to put out before long. Jacob’s heart started beating again, his lungs filling with air, his body warming as soft, round thighs straddled his waist and an even softer pussy slowly enveloped his straining erection in liquid heat, her wetness the only thing keeping his cock from burning up.

Awareness surfaced with the sound of her broken plea for him to help her, and as his hands filled with the softness of Grace’s buttocks, he had to at least consider this was no dream. Opening his eyes, he could no more prevent a physical jolt of shock at seeing his mate sitting on his cock than he could the lowering of his incisors. It’s a fucking dream, he sternly tried to convince himself as he lifted her then slammed her back down on his rigid shaft, his balls wasting no time drawing tautly, his palm adding to the pleasure with deep, scorching pulses that mimicked those of her vaginal walls closing around him.

Needing to take control, even if it was only a dream, Jacob flipped them over, his glowing eyes now looking down into Grace’s startled, aroused blue orbs. The feel of her soft arms and thighs wrapping around him followed by her softly whispered yes, confirmed his original belief he was dreaming. There was no way his shy, fearful, reluctant mate had seduced then welcomed him into her body with such uninhibited abandon. Disappointment warred with relief as he drew back and thrust in again, burying himself to the root in her moist heat. As much as he would give for this to be real, he was so far gone with lust and burning hunger, there was no way he could be as gentle with her as he knew he would have to be their first time together.

Mind appeased, he let the pleasure and need consume him, fucked her with short deep jabs, intent on gaining release and nothing else.

Grace relished his return to the living as much as her body was accepting and relishing his hard possession. He hadn’t said anything, and she suspected, from the wary, disbelieving look that had changed to first disappointment then relief, that Jacob wasn’t quite aware this was real. That was okay, she thought as she wrapped her limbs around him, there would be time for them to explore each other under better circumstances. Now, it was imperative she give him what he needed to survive, and that included her acceptance as well as her body.

“Yes,” she whispered in his ear, her body screaming with need her mind had spent the past few weeks shying away from, terrified of the pain, each thrust taking her out of reality into mindless pleasure. This time, with this man, with this vampire, there was no pain when he ejaculated, only head to toe, body enveloping ecstasy that spiraled even higher when he sank his teeth into the side of her breast, the storm now raging outside in tune with the storm of pleasure bombarding her senses. That she was feeding him the nourishment he needed to survive was a heady aphrodisiac that sent her tumbling headlong to a higher plane she never imagined existed.

The moment he sank his fangs into her succulent flesh and tasted the sweetness of her blood, Jacob’s body grew taut with pleasure and renewed strength. His orgasm burst through his consciousness, the pleasure so powerful he knew it had to be real. Taking a few more much needed swallows of her precious blood, he closed his pricks with a swipe of his tongue, slowing his thrusts as the remaining tremors of his climax slowly ran down. The gush of her release followed by the spasming of her pussy milking his cock, told him he hadn’t been so far gone that she hadn’t enjoyed their first time together.

Unfortunately, his body was still healing from his wounds, and now the approaching dawn was forcing his body to shut down again just as he realized this had been no dream. Giving in, he reluctantly rolled off of her and had barely laid back when the darkness overcame him again, only this time he knew it would be the temporary sleep of his kind following injury, not the self-imposed death spiral he had been attempting before his mate pulled him back.

Chapter Sixteen

One minute Caitlin was standing outside in the tour office parking lot, having just seen the six tourists safely on their way back to their hotel, and the next she was dizzily clinging to Luc and standing in the wide foyer of a palatial plantation home. “What the hell?” Pushing away from him, she looked around at the unfamiliar glossy tile floor and wide sweeping staircase that would put Scarlet and Rhett’s grand staircase to shame and knew she had never been here before. “What have you done? Where are we?” She was really, really trying not to panic at suddenly finding herself in a strange place.

“Relax, Cat.” Luc let her back away from him, admiring the way she was trying to hide her fear and was coping with the traumatic events of the evening. Her independent, strong-willed nature was battling with common sense trepidation and disbelief in dealing with the revelation that her lovers were vampires. “This is our home. We’re just a few miles outside of the city. This place has been in Damien’s family for generations and sits on over twenty-five protected acres. You’ll be safe here, which is why I brought you.”

“Safe from what?” Caitlin had no trouble remembering the soulless creatures who had attacked her, and was honest enough to admit to the obvious differences between them and Luc, Jon and their friend, who could possibly be dying right now because he had come to her aid. That didn’t mean she was going to roll over and become some kind of vampire groupie or sex slave, even if her body betrayed her by responding as if that was a grand idea. “And exactly how did you get me here?” She was still trying to orient herself from everything going gray before landing here with dizzying rapidity.

“What’re you thinking?” Luc asked softly, his eyes lingering on her hard nipples. Her white, low cut blouse did nothing to disguise the way her body was reacting to the nearness of her mate, something she couldn’t run or hide from no matter where she was. His own body was primed and ready to go, liking the way she looked in the calf length skirt as much as he liked how she filled out a pair of tight jeans.

“Damn it, Luc, I don’t care what this connection is you and Jon seem to think we have, I’m not going to become some vampire’s pet. I want to go home. Now. And not the way you brought me. Don’t you have a car?” One part of her was surprised at her bravado in facing down a paranormal being that she had always assumed were figments of Hollywood’s imagination and legendary folklore rumors of the unexplainable. But growing up in the bayous of New Orleans where children’s bedtime stories and school essays consisted of voodoo spells, vampire myths and ghosts, all of them steeped with enough historical fact as to make one consider their merit, it wasn’t too much of a stretch of her imagination to learn some of it was true.

Luc knew he’d get nowhere browbeating her, so he tried applying logic. “It’s late, Cat. Why don’t you stay and get some rest and we’ll explain more to you when we rise this evening.”

“Luc and I will be happy to

tuck you in,” Jon said from behind her as he came down the stairs with Damien. A battle with rogues always left him ready to fuck and hearing Caitlin arguing with Luc only got his blood pumping hotter. “Caitlin, this is Damien LaRue, our leader and your host. Damien, Caitlin O’Brien.”

Great, just what she needed, Caitlin thought with a touch of hysteria, another cream your panties vampire to distract her. “Nice to meet you, Damien, no, Jon, you can’t tuck me in and Luc, I still want to go home. In a car. I’ve always been safe at the bar. That is until you two showed up.”

“Well, you’re not now,” Damien replied, his tone short and clipped, answering for the twins. They didn’t have the time to woo another reluctant mate, not if Isabelle was ramping up her attacks. “I would think you would know that after what almost happened tonight. My best friend is dying because of his mate’s refusal to accept him or the danger all of you are in. You’ll stay here and allow Jon and Luc to accompany you to and from work until we find a way to rid all of us of this threat. After that, you’ll be free to return to your home.” Damien turned to head back upstairs and spend some much needed time with his own mate, but his conscience got the better of him on the second riser. Pausing, he glanced back around at Caitlin. “I give you my word that you’re safe here from all of us, and nothing will happen between you and your mates without your consent.”

Caitlin wasn’t sure how, or why, but Damien’s reassurances were more convincing than Luc’s. Maybe it was the grief etched on his face that made him look so human and vulnerable that had her nodding her head so easily in agreement, or maybe it was a small sense of guilt over the dire condition of their friend, a condition he wouldn’t be in if he hadn’t come to her defense, that was making her give in. She looked at Jon and Luc, glad that Jon’s eyes held a hint of green mixed with brown that Luc’s amber eyes didn’t have, giving her a way to tell them apart.

“Fine. I’m assuming you sleep during the day like I do?” she asked dryly with a lift of her brow. She figured she was either tired or shell shocked, or both, if she was joking with them.

“Which means we can be with you twenty-four seven.”

“Luc,” Jon groaned as Caitlin’s eyes lit with fire. “He’s just goading you, Cat. You’ll have our room to yourself, unless, of course, you want company while you’re sleeping,” he finished hopefully. Having had his mate once had only whetted his appetite for more, and he was sure Luc felt the same.

“I’ll pass. Mind if I turn in?” She was afraid if she lingered in their company much longer, she’d give in to her body’s demands and their cajoling. She had already made a grave mistake fucking them once; she wasn’t going to compound her error by doing it again, no matter how much she wanted to.

“Come on,” Luc instructed, taking her hand and leading her up the stairs.

Jon chuckled behind them as they walked down the long wide hallway to their room at the far end, Caitlin suspiciously glancing in each open doorway they passed. “Were you expecting coffins instead of antique four posters?”