into a grin.
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“I think I’m in love with you,” she teased, bringing her hand up to tangle in his short black hair.
His face was buried in her chest and his chuckle shook both of them. “You just think?” he teased back. “I must have been a little off then.”
She laughed then slapped at his shoulder. “Someone is going to come out here and see us.”
“Let them,” he murmured then licked at her breasts, making her shiver in renewed desire.
“Oooh, that feels good,” she whispered. His cock began to harden again inside her, warming her flesh. “Insatiable monster,” she hissed then laughed when he bit down gently on her nipple. “I can’t believe I just did this,” she said, more to the ceiling than anyone in particular.
Marcus chuckled and rose up on his palms to smile down at her. His grin deepened the lines around his eyes and she reached up to gently trace one. There was a look of possessiveness in his gaze that startled her and she held her breath, wondering why it thrilled her like it did. Narrowing her eyes, she tried to think of something else. The last thing she needed to do was fall for a man she’d only meant to be a one-night stand and that’s all this was.
He’d probably slept with God knows how many women. Why hadn’t she thought of that before? My God. They hadn’t even used a condom. What had she been thinking?
She wasn’t like Rebecca. She couldn’t just cast a spell and protect herself from pregnancy or anything else for that matter.
His smile faded somewhat as he watched her. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing,” she replied quickly. “I was just wondering how old you are.”
She wondered at the sudden insecurity that flashed across his gaze. “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”
“Try me,” she whispered.
He stared at her for a long moment, gauging her maybe, and she tried to read the emotions shining in his stare. With a devilish grin that made his eyes glow he shook his head. “A man has to have some secrets, sweet.”
Tonya snorted. “I always thought it was women that were supposed to be mysterious.”
She’d couldn’t remember the last time she’d felt so alive, so satisfied, and deep down she hated to let it go. Marcus raised his hand and touched his fingers to her forehead. With a soft smile he slowly dragged his fingers down her face. Her eyes became heavy, tired, and before she realized what had happened she fell fast asleep.
Marcus stared down at the beauty beneath him. Her dark blonde hair and deep green eyes made a heavenly combination and contrasted perfectly with her tan complexion. She was short, maybe about five foot four with curves that made him 25
sweat the second he saw her but there was more to her. She was spunky, fun-loving, sweet.
What he’d felt as they’d joined had been unlike anything he’d felt before. At first it had surprised him that he’d connected so deeply with a mortal. As he was a half-breed vampire he hadn’t thought it was possible. Maybe that was something he could thank his mortal white-witch mother for because this was a connection he didn’t want to lose.
Sadness filled him as he thought of his mother. He hadn’t seen her in over four hundred years. She’d died when he was forty. Two days later his father returned, offering to teach him how to use his vampire powers. His mother had made his father promise to stay away until her death, to give her time at a normal life with her son.
Although he hadn’t been there physically, he’d supported them financially. A fact he’d found out at his mother’s death.
He was an unusual half-breed, something his father loved to point out. He had the immortality and the fangs but lacked the need to feed. Tonight with Tonya had been the first time he’d felt the desire to bite someone, to become a part of them. Although he didn’t need blood to survive he could be deadly when provoked and had torn more than one throat of an attacker