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I lifted my head to look around the room and found Erick seated on the wide windowsill of the castle bedroom. The moonlight was drenching him and the entire room in a soft bluish-silver glow. Trying not to startle him, I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and got off the bed as quietly as I could. I got a robe from the back of a nearby chair and donned it over my short night dress. Erick was in black sweatpants and a grey tee that hugged his body like second skin, and his features were all hard angles and lean muscles in the moonlight. His head was turned away from me, so I went to call him, but his hands came around my waist at that instant, pulling me down on his lap as I tried to fight back a squeal. "You heard me." Of course, he did! He was a vampire after all. Erick chuckled, turning towards me and wrapping both arms around my waist. He buried his face in my hair while I wrapped my arms around his shoulders. "I heard you even before you woke up. Your breathing changed. Did I wake you? "I couldn't feel you next to me," I answered truthfully. "How long was I out?" "A day." His grip tightened. "But that's good. I was injecting you with my blood to lessen the effects of the venom. It's best if you sleep through the entire process." Erick pointed towards the bedside where a now empty blood bag hung from a stand along with IV tubing wound in several circles. "Will I become like them, the Ancients?" I asked, scared for the first time. I was finally past the initial shock of knowing that I was in transition. "No, you'll still be you." He lifted up his head and placed a small affectionate kiss to my forehead. "Just a bit stronger, meaner, and sexier." I giggled, tucking my head under his chin and breathing in the dark chocolate with a hint of spices that was his scent. "You smell like dark chocolate." "Oh?" I frowned and looked up at his face. "You didn't know?" "Vampires can't distinguish other's scents. To us, we pretty much smell the same." He tucked a few stray strands of hair behind my ear. "But we're also the most dangerous of predators in this world. Our scents are adapted to lure in our prey." "And by prey, you mean innocent little girls with big blue eyes and short dresses?" I smirked. He kissed me instead, drowning me in a pool of sensation that made heat travel to my core, and parted only when I was limp and breathless. Then he whispered into my ear, "I think it's time you find out exactly how I devour my prey." There was something so seductive in the way he pronounced the word prey. He dragged the Y in such a sensual way that it rubbed over my skin like the most delicate of caresses. With his mouth back on mine, he picked me up in his arms, and the next instant, I felt the soft bed sheets on my back and Erick's legs on either side of mine. He drew back, only to return a second later minus the shirt. He bit my lower lip lightly, drawing a gasp from me. He took advantage, thrusting his tongue inside to tangle with mine. His hands prolonged the torture by rubbing my nipples through the thin silk of my night dress. I heard a ripping sound, and cool air brushed my skin, making my nipples bud. I realised too late that I wasn't wearing panties underneath, but the thought was lost on me as Erick pulled my bottom lip between my teeth and released it with a sucking sound. His hands wandered down my body, over my breast, and down my belly button, only stopping when they reached my hips. Jerking up as if startled, he looked down where his hands were, and I instinctively squeezed my thighs tighter. The previous time we made love, my lower body was underwater. This time was different. This time, he could perfectly see me. I wasn't used to being this vulnerable. Somehow, it felt more intense and too raw with need. However, I knew that no matter what happened, Erick would never hurt me in any possible way. I shut my eyes tight as I felt Erick return to kiss down my neck. He hesitated just for a second near my jugular vein but continued further down. He stopped at my breast, moulding and pinching my nipples with one hand while he engulfed the other nipple into his mouth. Suddenly, he bit lightly on the areola. My eyes rolled back into my skull as my back arched off the bed. It only placed my nipple deeper into his mouth, making his fangs sink in. I gasped and threw my head back. A scream got stuck in my throat. It was too much. I felt like I was about to burst under the onslaught of sensations as Erick drank from my breast. Erick only made two deep suckling noises before he released my breast and licked around it to seal the wound. He didn't stop,though. Instead, he trailed feather light kisses down my body, between my breasts, over my stomach, and stopped short of the light curls at the juncture of my thighs. His hands came up under me to touch my hips, and with one light thrust, he lifted my lower body off the bed and into his mouth. I squeezed my eyes tighter and felt the sheets rip slightly under my fisted hands. I couldn't stop the sounds that were ripped from me as I felt Erick's tongue swirl around the sensitive bundle of nerves. My back arched off the bed as his tongue lowered and parted my damp pleasure folds to lick my most intimate flesh. There was only so much I could withstand without breaking down, my body having reached its limit. A scream tore from my lips as I wanted to crawl away but get even closer at the same time. It was too much. It felt too real and too sensitive. I didn't even have enough words to describe the pleasure that kept building in my stomach. "No... S-stop!" It was a breathless protest, one I was sure I didn't want him to obey. And he didn't. Instead of stopping, he kept lapping at my womanhood and moved both his hands up the side of my body to my breasts. He pinched both my nipples the same time I felt a hint of teeth at my most intimate flesh, then I was shattering into millions of pieces. My mind went completely blank. Erick only gave me enough time to recover before I felt the blunt head of his cock rub at my quivering entrance. One hard thrust and he was inside me, riding the waves of pleasure that melted my bones and turned my blood to honey. I couldn't believe I was already going to have another orgasm after the one I just had. My inner muscles contracted around the hot, hard length of him even as that feeling grew in my stomach again. Soon enough, I found myself having my second orgasm today. The world exploded around me in a rush of noise and sensation. I vaguely remembered hearing myself screaming and the ripping sound of the bed sheets, but I was too far gone to care. I remembered hearing a faint masculine roar. It was Erick calling my name as he came inside me. His seed was warm as he ejaculated into me. Pulling out with care, Erick came over me to press a kiss to my forehead as my body still quivered from the aftermath of my orgasm. His hands loosened my hold on the ripped bed sheets and intertwined its fingers with mine. He used more of his weight on me as he rolled over and collapsed on the bed next to me. I then opened my eyes to look up at the beauty of his face. His hair was plastered to his forehead, and his eyes were lit with the glow of the beast within. I could see his extended fangs... and a hint of blood on his lips. Oh! He did bit me... down there. I knew I should be ashamed and embarrassed, but I didn't feel any of that. All there was is a bone-deep satisfaction of being claimed by my husband. I untangled our fingers and ran my hands up his arm, against every ripped muscle up his broad shoulders, and into the soft hair at his nape. I had the satisfaction of feeling him shudder. Getting a firm hold, I brought his head down to mine and crashed my lips to his. "Are you okay?" he asked, raising himself on his elbow after we parted. "Does it hurt anywhere?" I honestly couldn't describe how it felt to talk to him about this right after what happened, but it wasn't uncomfortable. It was like we've bonded on a different, more intimate level. "I'm okay," I answered him while pulling the covers over my chest. Maybe I was still a little uncomfortable being naked around him, but it was only a matter of time. "I'm glad." He gave me a small smile, adjusted my pillows, and pulled the covers around me properly. He lay back down on the bed beside me and put anarm around my waist. I snuggled deeper into the pillows and placed my hand ontop of his. Then I closed my eyes and let peaceful slumber take over me.