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  Devin had a lot of nerve saying these things to her now after avoiding her countless times and then telling her, just outside in the hallway, to leave.

  “I can do anything I want,” she informed him. “I don’t know what you mean by your mate. Have you been drinking?” God, she wasn’t interested in any guy who had problems like that, no matter how good looking he might be.

  “I’m a vampire,” he told her with a straight face. “You’re my mate, which means we are meant to be together. For a lifetime.”

  Her eyes widened for a moment, and then she realized he must be joking. She laughed. “Vampires aren’t real.”

  Stepping back from her, he frowned as he folded his arms across his chest. “I’m very much the real thing. Do you want proof?

  “Sure, show me proof,” she agreed, going along with his nonsense. Why shouldn’t she entertain this for a minute? It wasn’t as if he would really show her a pair of fangs.

  Chapter Five

  “Are you sure?” Devin asked Krishell one last time.

  “Yes, I’m positive. Prove to me that you are a creature of the night.” She waved her hand at him to continue.

  Slowly, Devin opened his mouth and allowed his fangs to fully descend.

  Krishell’s eyes grew round as saucers, and he sensed her panic set in a second before he grabbed her, preventing her from running out the door. She struggled against him as he held her closer.

  “Shit! You are a vampire,” she screamed. “God, please don’t hurt me. I don’t want to die. I promise I’ll leave you alone for now on. I’ll find a different place to live if you want me to. I won’t tell anyone about your secret.”

  His heart clenched at the fear in her beautiful voice. The last thing he wanted to do was make her scared of him or what he was. “Krishell, calm down,” he coaxed as held her face and looked down into her tear-filled eyes. “I’m not going to hurt you. Baby, I love you. I would never do anything to harm you.”

  She stopped fighting as his words seemed to penetrate the wall of fear surrounding her, and slowly her expression changed from fear to curiosity until she stared into his eyes without fear.

  Being this close to her felt like perfection to him, and he wanted to make love to her, but he had to move carefully so he didn’t scare her away from him a second time.

  He had already confessed part of his secret, but the rest would have to come out very carefully. If it didn’t, she might try to run away from him again, and he wouldn’t allow that to happen. He refused to lose her after he just found her.

  “How can you love me?” Krishell questioned, skepticism clear in her voice. “You barely know me. Besides, weren’t you trying to make me leave you alone? Your behavior doesn’t sound like a man…uh…sorry…a vampire in love to me.”

  She obviously wouldn’t let him forget how badly he had spoken to her. Now was the time to start proving his devotion for her. “I’ve loved you from the moment my father allowed me to know who you were. He had known about you for years, but he couldn’t tell me about your existence until you turned twenty-five. I never thought it would take me two extra years to find you. Over the years, haven’t you felt as if the other half of you was missing?”

  Placing her hands on his chest, she pushed him away and eased around him, moving further into his living room. Looking back over her shoulder, she asked, “How did you know that?”

  He was pleased that she didn’t try to leave again. He could work with this. She was willingly to listen to what he had to say.

  “I know because we’re destined to be together. Only I can fill that void in you. And you in me.”

  Twirling back around, she watched him from across the room. “I’ve listened to you, and I’m not into this vampire and mate stuff. However, I will keep my promise to you about keeping your secret. I’m also woman enough to step aside and allow someone else who might find this situation very sexy to step into my place.”

  Devin had to admit his woman had spunk. He was going to love spending the rest of his life with her. Closing the distance between them, he pulled her into his arms until her breasts brushed against his chest. He lowered his head and ran the tip of his tongue along the skin on her smooth, silky neck. She shivered, and he smiled. “Are you trying to tell me that you are no longer attracted to me?”

  “Yes,” she whispered softly.

  He could still smell her desire for him, and he wouldn’t stop until she told him the truth. If she wanted to play games, he would play right along, because he always won everything. He wasn’t about to lose the most important prize in his life.

  Easing his hands down Krishell’s body, he brushed his thumbs over her nipples. “If you don’t want me, why are your nipples hard?” He rolled them between his index fingers and thumbs, causing her to let out a soft gasp.

  “I’m cold,” she lied. “Your condo is freezing.”

  “Let me see if I can’t warm you up.” He stepped back and grabbed the hem of her shirt. Removing it from her body, he tossed it on the floor. “You are so beautiful.”

  Bringing his mouth down to her nipples, he sucked the right one into his mouth. Slipping one hand underneath her skirt and past her damp underwear, he worked two of his fingers inside the warm, slick wetness of her vagina. “Are you positive you want to give me away to someone else?” he asked as he raised his head and held her desire-filled gaze with his.

  “I—”

  “What is it, sweetheart?” He continued to rock his fingers in and out of her body as she fought to give him an answer. “Tell me you want me. Admit you care for me. Let me make you mine forever.”

  He sensed her trying to fight off the veil of desire and ecstasy surrounding them, but he was going to pull her in even deeper. Taking out his fingers, he thrust them back into her even further than before.

  How could she think about pushing him away when he made her feel this good?

  “Yes… I want you,” Krishell whimpered as her small hands pulled at the front of his shirt. “Please make love to me.”

  Chapter Six

  Devin swore he felt as if everything he had been craving just got handed to him. This was what he’d wanted since he first laid eyes on her in person. An indescribable feeling came rushing over his entire body as he stared down into her big brown eyes.

  Yes… Yes…

  His mate finally agreeing to let him make love to her was Krishell’s first step in accepting him as her mate. She hadn’t given him her total acceptance in becoming his for a lifetime, but he would make sure she would before the night was over. He hadn’t come all of this way to lose her now.

  Tonight was going to be a turning point for both of them, and he prayed she was ready for it

  “Baby, you don’t know how much I have wanted to hear you say those words.” He swung her up into his arms and carried her out of the living room and down the hallway to his bedroom. Pushing the bedroom door open with the toe of his shoe, he continued on inside, stopping by the foot of the bed before sliding her down his body until her feet touched the floor.

  “Why are your lights on?” she asked as he stood her in front of him.

  “I’ve never liked walking into a dark bedroom,” he answered as he took a step back from the bed.

  Before he finished undressing Krishell, he took in the sight of her smooth, creamy brown skin, high, full breasts and lightly toned stomach. She was a sight to behold, and he planned on making love to her for the rest of the night and well into the morning.

  To keep himself from moving too fast, he kissed her softly on the mouth as he stroked her smooth, bare back with his hands. He gently picked her up and laid her in the center of the bed as he continued to plant kisses down her neck, over her breasts, pausing to suck each hard nipple into his mouth, and then he moved downward until he came to her skirt.

  He made quick work of her remaining clothes until she lie naked. The sight of her made his cock grow another inch inside his gym shorts.

  “You are so perfect,”
he whispered, slipping off the bed to remove his clothes. Standing perfectly still, he watched with masculine pride as her gaze wandered over his body.

  * * * * *

  Krishell didn’t want to stare like some nervous virgin. She’d been with two other guys before, but neither one of them looked like Devin. His beautiful body was all hard and muscular in all the right places. There wasn’t a love handle in sight. Hell, fat was probably too scared to even think about forming on his towering frame. Everything about Devin screamed nights filled with sex.

  What if she didn’t live up to the other women he’d been with in the past? She had already admitted to herself that none of her past boyfriends lived up to him. What man could ever compete with Devin Diamont? He was in a league of his own.

  She rose up on her elbow. “You have the body of a Greek god or something. It’s all tight and sculpted. I mean, it looks like you spend hours and hours at the gym.”

  He chuckled as he rejoined her on the bed. “Thank you, but I’m more interested in your body than I am my own right now.”

  She leaned back as he spread her legs and slid between them. “How do I know that you aren’t just telling me this to get what you want?” she teased, trying to push some of her doubt to the back of her mind, but some of it still lingered there, making her worry if she was really ready to accept Devin as he wanted her to. Could he handle if she only wanted to make love to him? He seemed so sure of their future together, but she wasn’t actually on the same page. What if he wasn’t telling her everything?

  “Sweetheart, I would never lie to you. I want you so badly my cock is harder than it has ever been in my whole life. I couldn’t fake what is brewing between us.”

  Closing her eyes, she cursed herself for speaking her thoughts out loud. What happened to the confident woman who was going to seduce him into having dinner with her tonight? Did she just disappear once their clothes came off? She could only imagine what he must think about her now. He was probably wondering if he had enough patience to wait while she figured all of this out in her head and cursing whoever made her his mate.

  “Krishell, open your eyes and look at me,” Devin demanded in a low voice.

  Slowly, she opened her eyes and found him hovering over her, staring down into her face.

  “I wouldn’t lie to you about how I feel about you. All women from my past were forgotten the second I learned about you.” He kissed her softly on the mouth. “I swear to you that you have nothing to worry about from me. You are the only woman I want.”

  Wait one minute!

  Something clicked in her mind as she gazed into Devin’s eyes. How was it possible that her thoughts just echoed from his mouth? Was he reading her mind? Did he have that ability and she wasn’t aware of it?

  The notion lingered in her head and just as she was about to address it, Devin pulled her away from her drifting speculation back over to him with a sexy, teasing grin.

  “Wouldn’t you rather be doing something a lot more fun than bringing up people from our pasts?” he asked as he moved his mouth down her body, pausing at her right nipple to run the tip of his tongue across it then blew on it.

  She moaned at the sensations that raked through her body as Devin’s warm mouth and tongue toyed with her sensitive nipples. What he was doing felt so good…so right… so amazing!

  “Oh, my God,” she whimpered as he continue to give her what her body needed. Maybe this was why she was so drawn to him. Her senses knew she craved this even when her mind wasn’t aware of it.

  She bit down on her bottom lip as he grabbed her legs and spread them apart. Her heart jumped at the dark, almost predatory look in his eyes as he pushed inside of her.

  “Wait…wait for one second,” Krishell gasped as her pussy clamped down on his cock. He was so big, thicker and longer than anyone else she had been with before.

  “Sweetheart, I’m sorry. I didn’t want to hurt you.”

  She shook her head. “You didn’t hurt me. I just wasn’t prepared for how it would feel to have you inside of me. I just needed a few minutes to prepare myself for it.”

  “Are you ready now?” He turned his head and brushed a soft kiss against the side of her shoulder and then looked back at her.

  In Devin’s eyes she saw all of the emotions he felt for her shimmering there. She couldn’t have denied him any longer if she had wanted to. “Yes, I’m ready.”

  The sentence wasn’t even completely out of her mouth before Devin thrust in to the hilt, causing her to cry out from pleasure and pain. Holding her legs down to the bed with his large hands, he continued to work his cock in and out of her.

  She’d never felt anything like it before. He seemed to be all over her at once. His skin brushed her skin as his mouth sucked and nibbled at the side of her neck.

  Devin’s love making skills were more intense than any of her past lovers. For a spilt second, the intensity of it took her by surprise and she thought about asking him to slow down, but she changed her mind as her body started to love every single minute of it. His thrusts continued to get harder and harder, but Krishell wasn’t scared of him. In fact, she couldn’t get enough of his love making.

  Chapter Seven

  Krishell moaned deep in her throat when Devin’s incisors sank into the tender skin at the side of her neck. It didn’t hurt as much as she thought it would. In fact, she never knew something could feel so frightening and utterly sexy at the same time.

  Her senses jumped to life like a volcano shooting toward an explosion. Waves after sinful waves of hot sensations skimmed over her heated skin, pushing her well-worked body up into the universe as her senses searched for the ultimate pleasure only Devin could give her.

  Running her fingers through Devin’s thick hair, she wrapped her arms around his neck as he pulled out his long, thick cock and thrust back inside hitting her g-spot, while making his bed move underneath their thrashing bodies.

  “God Devin, what are you doing to me?” she asked. She didn’t know how much longer she could hold on and not come. It was as if her body had a mind of its own and was trying to keep up whatever spell Devin cast over her.

  Removing his mouth from her neck, he ran his tongue along the bottom of her ear. “Let go. Tell me what you want from me. I need to hear the words. Give me what I desire from you most, sweetheart.”

  All of the doubts she’d been harboring were gone. Devin was the man for her. He was her mate. She didn’t want to spend another moment without him in her life. Her heart, body and soul was his, and she couldn’t let him go if she wanted to. There was an emptiness only he could fill in her.

  “Make me yours, Devin,” she cried out, practically begging him. “Take anything you need to make this last forever.”

  He stopped moving. “Are you sure?” His voice was deep and sensual. His eyes took on an unearthly glow as he stared down into her face.

  Even while her mind and body screamed for him to move, to make her come, to continue the exquisite torture of his lovemaking, she sensed his deep need for an answer. She touched his beautiful face with her fingertips and said, “Yes, I’m sure.”

  Devin ran his nail across his wrist, drawing blood then brought it to her lips. “Drink this. You must do it.” A small drop of blood slid down his arm, dripping on the sheet next to them.

  “What?”

  “I’ve tasted your blood. Now you must drink mine. It will bond us. If you want me to continue, you have to drink it.” He lowered his wrist to her mouth, waiting for her to do as he asked.

  “I—”

  Cupping her chin in his hand, he pressed his wrist against her open mouth, and she sucked the sticky fluid as it slid down her throat. Her craving for Devin grew even stronger, hotter, almost as if it were taking over all of her senses.

  A low growl escaped from Devin’s full lips. Minutes seem to tick by while she grew more and more accustomed to the spicy taste of him.

  “Very good, sweetheart,” he whispered as he removed his wrist and repla
ced it with his mouth. Grabbing her leg, he wrapped it around his waist and resumed thrusting, hitting all of the right spots.

  Just as she thought it couldn’t get any better and couldn’t take any more, she arched her back as her orgasm raked through her. “Oh… Yes…Devin… Oh…my…God!” Pleasure she’d never experienced before took over everything she knew.

  It didn’t stop Devin; in fact, it seemed to drive him even harder. She was positive she heard him growl the word, Mine.

  He thrust into her a couple more times, filling her to the hilt right before he came. Minutes later, he planted a long, lingering kiss on her mouth before he pulled out and tugged her against him.

  “Sweetheart, go to sleep,” he whispered against her ear before he fell into sleep.

  She stayed awake, wrapped in his arms, overwhelmed by a mixture of emotions of pleasure, need, longing, and lastly, fear.

  What in the hell had she just done with Devin?

  Did he really expect them to be together for the rest of their lives?

  She gasped as a shiver of fear set in. She drank the blood of a vampire! Not one of those kinds of “vampires” from the movies or hit television shows. But a real, living, breathing vampire who now lie in bed next to her.

  How long would it be before she started to sprout fangs?

  Shit! Panic like she’d never know before welled up in her throat. Her heart lurched in the middle of her chest as the reality of the situation set in. What was she going to do?

  Chapter Eight

  Two nights later

  “How much longer are you planning on hiding out at my house?” Krishell’s best friend Ashlynn asked.