Chapter 63

P.O.V. Ebon

I was so tired of resisting...

So tired of trying to be strong, that for a moment, I decided to follow what my heart wanted and what it begged for - Lyall.

I surrendered to his kiss and before long we were both wrapped around each other in a way that was so hot, it boggled my mind.

Lyall was my sworn enemy, but at that moment he was just the man I was madly in love with.

We had gone to that place to have a fight, so that I could practice a few blows and release some of the energy I had stored up, but now, the only duel that existed was that of our tongues, which didn't seem to want to part.

“Be mine once more,” Lyall said as he took off my clothes. ”Yes, make me yours again.” I replied to the man who squirmed at my words and seemed to catch fire even more.

“Come on, I'll find somewhere for us to lie down, I don't want you to be uncomfortable,” Lyall interrupted the kiss as he told me, but I wasn't in the least bit inclined to stop, I was afraid of losing my nerve, so I wrapped my arms around his neck and said, ”I don't want to go anywhere. Do you want me to give up?”

“Not a fucking chance!”

Right there, on that floor, with only the moon shining down on us, Lyall showed me that it's going to be practically impossible to live away from him. I know I have to resist, but being in his arms is a path of no return. When he fills me, fusing our bodies together, I think I'm going to die of pleasure and in an unprecedented way, I feel happy...

“If I let you go now to light a fire, will you still run away? I'm afraid we'll freeze to death,” Lyall broke the comfortable silence that existed between us.

I don't know how long we'd been like that, naked, cuddled up in the middle of nature, catching our breath after having loved each other a few times.

“Light the fire while I shower. I'm dirty and hungry.”

“Ebon,” Lyall pulled me up as I stood up, ”the water in that stream must be freezing. Are you so sorry to be with me that you want to die?”

“I'm not made of crystal. I can be stronger than you think,” I smiled sideways and stood up for good.

“I'm not calling you weak, I'm just being logical. Don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't be able to handle myself if something happened to you.”

“I'm a vampire. And although I get warm in your arms, my blood is as cold as ice.”

I walked and waded into the stream until I was completely submerged. I needed to wash in those crystal-clear waters. I needed the peace of that place.

The silence under the water was nice, so I stayed there for a moment while I caught my breath, but I was startled when I was pulled in.

“What are you doing in here? Damn it, Lyall! Don't be so impulsive!” I said when I saw that the hand holding me was his.” Your blood is warmer than humans, you'll freeze to death in here.”

“No, I won't freeze if my body is on fire.” He said, and damn, he was so hot, I think he was capable of heating that water.

I didn't think twice about returning his kiss and jumping into his lap, fitting our bodies together so easily that they seemed to have magnets guiding them.

The pleasure I felt in that place was surreal. It was as if those waters had some kind of magic. I can't explain it, but I couldn't hold back the moans that came out of my mouth.

“Ebon... if it goes on like this, I won't be able to resist...” Lyall said between moans.

“Don't hold back... I want more...” I replied, as if I were in a hallucination of pleasure. My body didn't respect me and the only thing I could do was give in.

Lyall was inside me, and as he held my waist, guiding my movements up and down, I felt something change.

I felt him get bigger and stronger, which brought a scream of pain and pleasure and when I looked into his eyes, I realized that he was partially transformed and his fangs were exposed.

“My... My Ebon... My companion...” He spoke as he began to sniff my neck and I knew exactly what he wanted to do.

“Ebon, we'd better leave, I think I'm losing control...” He whimpered as if he were a puppy away from its mother.

“Don't stop. Keep going... Go all the way!” Driven by an unexpected madness, as I moved even harder on his lap, I turned my neck and left it exposed for him, who didn't hold back and dug his teeth into me and marked me.

It was as if I could feel the blood coursing through my veins. As if I could feel the air circulating in my lungs while all my nerves twitched in an explosion of pleasure. It was all so strong, but I still wanted more and I also bit my partner's neck, being hit again by the same wave of pleasure, but it was too much for me and I just blacked out.

***

I was startled awake by the sound of sticks breaking, as if someone was moving nearby, but I soon changed my focus when I saw how I was doing.

A small fire was burning in front of me. I was lying inside a sleeping bag, which was positioned on top of a large enough rock next to the stream, but I wasn't alone. He was there, entwined with my naked body, with his head resting on my neck and one hand holding one of my breasts.

“Mine,” he whispered in my ear as he sniffed my neck.

“I don't remember how I ended up here,” I said to him, who turned to look me in the eye.

“You passed out after tagging me.”

“Branded you?” I asked, still unable to remember what had happened.

“Ebon, let's get something to eat and talk calmly. How's that?”