“You haven’t seen anything yet,” she told him and he growled at her. She noticed his hazel eyes were flecked with gold. She smiled and continued to kiss quick soft kisses along his chest, slowly moving down towards his stomach. James leaned back moaning softly but let out a loud growl as she took him in her mouth. “Damn,” he groaned. Lily relished the sound of his heart pounding and his erratic breathing flooding her ears as she pushed him closer to the edge.
James let out a loud animalistic growl then pushed her away from him. Before she could react, he grabbed her by the arms and pulled her up to her feet and against him. His eyes were now completely golden brown as he pushed her back up on the counter top. “Mine,” he growled at her sounding more animal than human and sending shivers throughout her body. “All mine,” he growled again then smashed his lips against hers and frantically impaled her.
His tongue devoured hers in a hot tangled dance as she hugged him with her legs and arched her back to press against him. When the kiss broke Lily was no longer sure what was up or down as James’s frenzied pace was quickly driving her to the edge. He nipped her shoulder growling fierily and she wrapped her arms around his neck tangling her hands into his hair. Lily pushed into him more moaning his name loudly as she was so close to the edge.
“You’re mine and only mine Lily,” he growled again biting the bite mark on her shoulder and she cried out as she climaxed feeling him bite down harder as he reached his own. Lily panted in quick, erratic breaths as she continued to hold onto James tightly waiting for the world to orientate itself. James growled softly nuzzling into her neck and holding her just as tight as she was him. Oh God, that was amazing, she thought, realizing that it had been without a doubt the most incredible sex she had ever experienced in her life.
James wasn’t sure how long they had stood there holding onto each other waiting for their racing heartbeats to slow. He nuzzled into Lily’s neck and breathed in deeply her scent letting it wash over him. This woman and how she made him feel was truly astounding. He thought last time was good, but this had been so much better. “James let me get up,” she told him attempting to shrug his arms off of her, but he only pulled her closer.
He smiled as she growled with clear frustration and attempted to pry off his arms. In this little bathroom, there was no Xavier, no vampires, no hybrid business, just them and he wasn’t ready to let go of that yet. He kissed her neck softly, ignoring her. “Seriously James we have more important things to deal with than your libido,” she snapped at him and he groaned in complaint.
“No one will miss us for a few more hours,” he told her and she attempted to punch him in the gut, but he had expected as much and caught her fist before she had a chance to hit him. “You’re starting to get very predictable Lily. Might want to work on that,” James teased her and she huffed at him.
“James, am I seriously going to have to hurt you?” she growled at him. He sighed, realizing that the moment was now gone.
“Fine but when this is all over you’re going to be all mine,” he told her with a kiss on the cheek, letting her go and grabbing his clothes.
“Whatever James,” she replied as she grabbed her own. When they had finished dressing she turned and gave him a hard look. “Don’t get your hopes up because seriously, you and me, not happening… ever,” she told him then left the room. James smiled with skepticism. We’ll see about that one, he vowed silently following her out of the room.
He still had his smile when he knocked on Dorin’s door. When the door opened he forced the smile off his face and entered the room. “Let’s get this over with,” James said bluntly, sitting in one of the chairs.
“I will have to take more than usual; she’s coming with me to the Aequivalere headquarters here. It’s overseen by the vampire Queen Hazar,” Dorin explained unsheathing a small dagger. “It’s necessary,” Dorin added once he saw James skeptical expression. “The Aequivalere need to see that Lily isn’t a crazed mass murdering beast like ninety-nine percent of the hybrids before her,” Dorin explained sitting next to James.
“If they can see she is intelligent and rational, well maybe we should just settle for sane and sentient being, the Aequivalere will protect her against any order, King Silvano. That is if Lily can keep her mouth shut, of course,” Dorin finished and James gave the vampire a small smirk.
“Why are you helping her so much?” James grunted when Dorin sliced into his arm with a silver dagger. The vampire scoffed as he collected the blood that fell from his arm into a black container.
“It’s not for her, I can tell you that,” Dorin replied and James gave him a questioning look.
“Then what’s it for?” he asked and covered the cut on his arm with a small towel. Dorin seemed really hesitant and he really didn’t expect the vampire to answer.
“My brother,” Dorin said slowly. “When I was made vampire I didn’t listen to the advice of my maker to leave my family. She warned me that I was dangerous, but I didn’t listen and one night, crazy with my blood lust, I attacked my brother and by the time I came to he was quickly dying. I loved my brother more than anything in this world so I did the only thing I could think of, I made him like me,” Dorin explained and James nodded.
“What I didn’t know is that my brother had become a lycan after discovering his love was a lycanthrope. Valeriu became a hybrid but like Lily my brother learned to control the duality of each beast. He never once took an innocent life and lived for a hundred years in peace until King Silvano, whose hatred for hybrids and anything not pure blood is famous, discovered him and hunted him for another hundred years until he murdered my brother,” Dorin went on.
“So you’re trying to prevent history from repeating itself?” James asked, leaning back in his chair.
“Something like that. Why don’t you want Lily to know that it’s your blood I’ve been giving her? It might help you since yours is the only blood that seems to fully appease her hunger,” Dorin asked back and James gave him a weak smile.
“It wouldn’t help,” James told him, feeling the light headedness start to pass. “It doesn’t take a genius to figure out she’s got issues with trust and if she knew it was my blood she’d been drinking then she’d reject it and me even more,” he finished and Dorin shook his head side to side. “What’s this queen like?” James asked, wanting to change the subject. Dorin wasn’t so bad, for a vampire, but he really didn’t want to discuss the details of his relationship with Lily to Dorin.
“She is different than all the other vampire kings and queens, not only by her willingness to work with the Aequivalere but her manner of dealing with the problems and obstacles that present themselves in her path. A lot of rumors follow her, though. I believe the most popular is that she is a powerful witch, that uses the humans not only as a food source but for wicked blood magic too,” Dorin replied with a small smile.
“And you’re taking Lily to see her?” James demanded with concern and Dorin laughed loudly.
“You should know not to believe rumors James because what I’ve heard about you isn’t pretty either. My favorite being that no one could locate your victims because you ate them,” Dorin replied and James had to give him that one.
“Well if you think she’s trustworthy,” James told him but he wasn’t sure. Dorin nodded that he did in response and James left the hotel room. James found Nick, with a four others that he assumed were of his pack and Lily, leaning over some maps.
“I don’t get these maps at all,” Lily complained, frustrated. James looked over her shoulder looking at the maps. He didn’t understand them all too well but understood that they were contour maps, not only did it show rivers, streets, and paths but also the shape of the land. “I’ll take cocaine and heroin any day,” she complained, James started to laugh as the others gave her looks of disgust and surprise. “No I am not a junky,” she snapped. “When I actually had a life I was a forensic chemist,” she explained.
“You don’t look the scientist or law abiding type,” Nick asked with a teasing tone and she glared at him.