Love at Stake by Victoria Davies

met you.” His hands shot out to catch her arms. She allowed him to pull her back up his body so she straddled him once more.
    “That makes two of us.” Her hands twisted behind her as she searched for her bra clasp. Her lover waited with hunger clear in his gaze.
    The scrap of black fabric slid down her arms to leave her bared to his view. Lucian groaned before reaching out to cup her breasts.
    Pleasure spiked through her as his palms grazed her nipples. She clenched her teeth at the sensations, which were far more intense than anything she’d felt before. When his thumbs flicked her nipples, she thought she’d fly from the bed.
    “Easy,” he murmured. Grabbing her waist, he flipped her over onto her back.
    Abbey gasped when he caught one nipple in his mouth. The heat of his tongue playing over her skin was almost too much to bear. She writhed under him, rocking her pelvis against his. With a last lick he turned his attention to her other breast, teasing the sensitive flesh as she threw her head back. Her own harsh pant filled her ears along with the wordless pleas falling from her lips.
    Lucian rolled his hips against hers, pressing his erection into the intimate vee between her thighs. A cry escaped her throat. She looked up at the dark ceiling but couldn’t register anything she saw. The pleasure riding her body blinded her to everything but his touch. And she needed more. Much more.
    “Lucian, please,” she begged. “I need…”
    “I know.” His fingers pressed against her panties.
    Abbey almost rocketed from the bed.
    “Again?” he whispered wickedly against her ear.
    “Again,” she agreed. “And again, and again.”
    His finger trailed along the fabric of her panties before stripping them from her legs. This time when he touched her, there was nothing to separate them.
    She looked up into his blue eyes and saw the telltale red rim around his irises. When a vampire’s true nature came to the surface, his eyes bled red. That Lucian’s eyes were changing told her as nothing else could that she affected him as much as he did her. For a man who prided himself on his control, there was no greater compliment than to be the one who made him lose it.
    A clever finger teased along her slit and coherent thought fled. He traced along her slick folds with maddening gentleness.
    “More,” she demanded.
    “As you wish.”
    His finger delved into her and she cried out against his lips. Lucian swallowed the desperate sound and continued his sensual torture.
    The steady thrust of one finger was joined by another. When his thumb ran over her clit, there was no stopping the animalistic moans bursting from her body. He made love to her with his fingers the way she wanted him to do with his cock. Helpless, she rocked against his hand, grinding herself onto him.
    “Lucian,” she cried. Close, she was so bloody close.
    “Not so fast.” His fingers slowed to an easy rhythm.
    She moaned in protest, wiggling to try to get him to increase his pace. She needed more. She needed fulfillment.
    “You promised no complaints,” she said.
    “Humans.” He chuckled. “So impatient.”
    “Finish this or I’ll never forgive you.”
    His lips brushed against hers. “As you wish.”
    She watched her lover stand so he could strip the slacks from his body and fought the urge to lick her lips. When his cock jutted free, her breath caught in her chest. Lucian was a big man in all ways, and for a moment she feared she wouldn’t be able to take him all.
    But when he turned his gaze back to her, a slow smile curved her lips. No man had ever gotten her as hot as he did. They would fit.
    “We need a condom,” she said, trying to think logically when everything in her urged to jump and damn the consequences.
    “No need. Vampire-human couplings can’t get you pregnant,” he said, climbing back into the bed with her. “And my kind can’t catch or carry any mortal disease.”
    Handy. “Okay,” she said as his hands ran up her