Total pages in book: 72
Estimated words: 65871 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 329(@200wpm)___ 263(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 65871 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 329(@200wpm)___ 263(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
Anya
I sink into his arms, truly horrified as the depravity of all I have suffered is finally able to be felt. The vampire toyed with me, called me his daughter, while torturing my kind. He has been defeated, but I am still uneasy. Alexei has rescued me, but are we truly safe from the machinations of an ancient evil that does not need to draw breath?
I bury my face in Alexei’s neck. I want to believe this is all over, but I can’t quite bring myself to actually imagine it. I know things are not this simple. You can’t just rush in, kill a bunch of vampires, and imagine that it is all going to be fine.
“We’ve got to stake him,” I say. “We’ve got to stake him and cut his head off. Or he’ll come back for me again. He’ll come back for me, and he’ll take me away again. I don’t want to be taken. I don’t want this to ever happen again…”
He holds me so incredibly tight I can barely stand it, but I need him to hold me like this. I need him to keep me in his arms for the rest of my life. I don’t ever want him to let me go.
CHAPTER 16
Alexei
The priority is getting Anya home, and that is what I do first. There is plenty of scope in the pack for handling those who have been subjected to Dom’s torture. Many of our number are engaged in the rehabilitation of those who were held captive.
Anya is timid on her return. She clings to my side, and is afraid to be left alone. I have to reassure her that the creature who dared command her mind and take her from me will never rise again. She is the safest female in the world now.
“Alexei.” She presses close to me, our loins burning with desire for one another. We are reunited, but we need to be truly restored. I need to be inside her, and she needs to be claimed.
I kiss her deeply, thoroughly, and I lay her down on the bed. I am tender with her, I am soft with her. It is not what either of us want, though. Even in her freshly rescued state, Anya is not the type for gentle loving. She needs to feel my strength and my domination. She needs to be reclaimed from the experiences still lingering in my mind.
“Fuck me,” she begs. “Please.”
She is wet with arousal, coming from adrenaline and relief, the intense chemical cocktail of sensations that can only come when one has suffered. There is something perverse about it all, but I do not resist it. We both need this.
I slide inside her, my thick cock stretching her wide, giving her what she needs so very badly. Our flesh joins in a sacred grip, and we are finally reunited with a mutual moan.
The vampire put his claim on her in some way, and now I am taking her back. She is not some pseudo-daughter to be kept in a windowless room and dressed in anachronistic clothing. She is my mate, and I want to smell the scent of sweat and pheromones mixing as we fuck.
“You got yourself into trouble a long time ago, didn’t you,” I growl, tracing my thumb over her lower lip. “You ran away from me, and you ate something you shouldn’t have eaten.”
I see guilt in her eyes. I know this is a little harsh, reminding her that all we have been through originated in her reckless actions, but I can’t give her the fucking she needs if we simply sink into relief and pretend that all of this was some unfortunate plot from an evil vampiric genius.
Dom fucked with us, but that is because Anya’s actions made it possible for him to do so.
“Never again, Anya.”
“No,” she whispers. “Never again.”
I can feel her pussy clenching me, gripping me tight as if it never wants to let me go. She is desperate for me, just as I am desperate for her.
“You listen to me now. You obey me now,” I tell her, moving deep inside her with long, loving thrusts. “But no matter what you do, or what anybody else does, I will always come for you, Anya. I will always save you.”
Anya
Those words are true. I feel them to my core. Alexei is devoted to me in a way that no other creature on the planet ever could be. He loves me with a fierce dedication that erases every other obstacle.
I surrender to his cock, his kiss, his body, his mind. I give myself entirely to him, and I feel the last cold lingering fingers of the vampire’s control slip entirely from my mind. This is not just a physical reclaiming. We are not merely two lovers reuniting after a period of separation.