“Pure vampires are,” he replies, brushing his lips across my neck with a groan. “Lucky for you, I’m not one.”
My breath falters from my lips. I feel as if I’m going mad from all the unknown things hovering between us. “What are you? Please just tell me.”
His hand presses against the small of my back, urging my body forward. Then he guides my head back until I’m staring up at the star kissed sky and leaving more of my neck exposed to him.
“I already told you that right now isn’t the best time to explain that.” He lets out a husky groan.
I clutch onto his shoulders as my knees start to buckle, trying to figure out how in the hell this is my life now. “Considering you just bit my neck, I think you owe me an explanation.”
“Mmm…” He sniffs my neck, brushing his nose along my skin. “Maybe I do.” He grazes his teeth against my neck again, then pulls back slightly. “What I am… I guess you can say my kind are sort of like vampires, but instead of drinking blood, we feed off power and souls.”
My fingernails dig into his shoulders. “What?”
He tenses, his fingers stiffening on my back. “You need to calm down… I’m already having a hard time not devouring you as it is.”
My audible gulp echoes across the night. “I’m trying to but with what you’re saying…that you feed off power and souls… What sort of creature feeds off power and souls?”
I’m trying not to panic. I really am. But the more I think about all the possibilities of what he could be, the more worked up I get.
“I’ll answer your questions later,” he murmurs, but I can feel his lie through the link. He gives me no time to react, though, his lips returning to my neck. “I’m sorry,” he whispers then his teeth pierce into my neck again, this time all the way to my vein.
Sparks of lightning crackle across my skin as warmth and coldness simultaneously sweep through my veins. He must've bitten some hidden pressure point on my body that is releasing my power. Either that or he has some sort of ability to unleash my powers. Whatever the heck he’s doing causes lightning to hum across my flesh. My power of wind pours out of me next, causing a breeze to circle around us—in us. A whimper escapes my lips as the sensation becomes too much and I struggle to breathe evenly. His hold on me tightens, his teeth sinking in deeper, as if he’s desperate to dig out all of my powers. And somehow he does, ice glazing across my flesh and wrapping me in coldness. But then fire surfaces, blazing over the chill and sending heat scorching through me.
Porter groans as rain pours down on us. A shudder rolls through me as he pulls me closer and devours more power from my neck. All of the five elements collide, bursting through my body at once and I cry out in…
Pleasure?
Pain?
Fear?
I’m honestly not sure. All I know is that it’s too much. I feel like I’m going to combust from the wonderful, out of control sensations exploding through me.
“Hang on,” Porter breathes into my ear.
“Please,” I plead, although I’m not even sure what I’m begging for.
He groans, clutching onto me, his fingers digging into my flesh. “Just stay with me for a little bit longer, okay?”
I grasp onto him tighter, trying to do what he said, but the sensations become too much. Dizziness swirls around me. A slam of a heartbeat later, darkness takes me over again.
Skylin
When it comes to sexual experiences, I’m absolutely clueless, which is probably pretty obvious seeing as how a kiss from me could kill anyone other than an elemental enchanter. But Nina loved telling me about her sex life, even if I didn’t necessarily want to hear about it, and I’ve heard enough of her stories to know that occasionally after she had sex, especially when she didn’t know the guy very well, there was an awkward moment where she wasn’t sure what to say or do afterward. She also told me about a couple of times where she walked out of a room after hooking up with some guy at a party and the people nearby gave her these knowing looks, like they knew what just happened. And while Nina is pretty confident, she said it made her feel kind of uncomfortable.
But anyway, my point is, when I wake up after passing out from Porter feeding off my powers, I wonder if maybe I’m experiencing that uncomfortable feeling Nina talked about. Not that Porter and I had sex or anything, but some of the stuff I felt when he fed off my power…
I shudder as the lingering sensations coil through my body
But yeah, anyway…
Blinking a few times, I take in my surroundings, trying to push past my discomfort and figure out where I am.
r /> From what I can tell, I’m lying on an unfamiliar wooden floor, and Max, Porter, Easton, and Foster are standing around me. As I realize this, I grow even more uncomfortable.
What if they’re all aware of what Porter just did to me and how it made me feel? Not that I think it’s the same as having sex, but I did moan a few times… And now that I think about it, I may have even begged for more right before I passed out…
Oh my god! I want to crawl into a hole and hide!