Brock (5 page)

When he lifted his head from her
, she looked up at him and rubbed her hand over his furred chest. While her fingers curled into him, she felt his body beginning to shift beneath her fingers, and watched as the cat seemed to merge into the man. As his mouth formed, he kissed her. His body, now fully a man, laid over her until he was covering her.

“I want you with every breath I take. I can smell your heat and want to take you right now.”
She moaned when he rocked into her.
“Em, please say something.”

“Take me.”
He lifted his head and looked down at her as she moved her hand down his chest to his waist and beyond. When he shifted for her, she wrapped her hand around his shaft and moaned again when he rocked into her. “
Please. I don’t have…I’ve had sex, but I’ve never…I need you to help me know what to do
.”

“
If you had any more experience, I’d be a dead man right now
.” She smiled at him. “
If I enter you, take you, I’ll mark you. And when I do, I’m going to bite you and claim you too. My cat is beating at me to just do it, but I want you to be sure this is what you want. We’re moving very fast
.”

She
wrapped her legs around his thighs and rocked upward as she pulled him down to her mouth. Every part of her body wanted him to touch her, and she was pretty sure he’d get to that with her soon too. When she bit his lower lip, she tasted a slight coppery taste of blood and moaned. He cupped her ass, and she felt a moment of panic at remembering how large he was.

“
I won’t hurt you
.” She nodded and felt his hand slip down the back of her pants. “
But these have to go
.”

The
feel of her pants ripping made her rock up to him again. When he shifted his body, she felt for a moment that he was leaving her, but he pulled her ruined pants from her. Her panties were the only thing keeping them apart.

“
I want to taste you until you come down my throat
.” She nodded, suddenly dizzy with need. “
And then when I’ve had my fill, I’m going to eat you again and again until you can’t move
.”

“
Please
.” He moved down her body and took her nipple into his mouth and suckled hard. Every nerve ending in her body jerked to attention as he tugged at her other one. When he laved his tongue over the valley between her breasts, she curled her hands into his hair and held him to her as he suckled at the other one. She rocked up to each of his downward strokes until she felt something racing over her quick and hot.

“
Come. Come, baby, so I can drink in your smell
.” She bowed up, not sure what was going to happen when her body exploded. Her climax had her grabbing for him to hold on, sure she was going to fly away. As he moved more down her body, she was trembling. He lifted his head as he suckled at her navel, and then when he rolled his tongue there, she moaned at him again.

“
Are you sure
?” In answer she wrapped her legs around his chest. “
I guess you are. I’m going to enjoy this. And I’m going to make sure you do as well
.”

His tongue entered her
, and she nearly came apart again. As he moved his tongue in and out of her, she felt him enter her with his finger too. His mouth devoured her pussy; he ate at her lips and suckled her clit. Every time she was close to release again, he would back off and move to her thigh, nipping and kissing her until she was able to breathe again. Brock was making her wild for him, and when he moved to her clit again, she grabbed his hair and begged him to let her come.

“
Then come for me, love. Come hard and let me drink from you
.” She rocked upward and saw stars dance behind her lids as she let go. His growl made her think of his cat, and she came again, so lost in the thought that she nearly begged his cat to take her. As he began to make his way up her body again, she could see her cum on his mouth, his lips swollen from his intimate kisses. When he took her mouth, she felt his tongue dance with hers and she could taste her on him. When he was at her entrance, she moaned slightly and looked up at him.

“
I’m sorry, Em, but this will hurt
.” She nodded. Then she screamed in her mind the moment he pushed into her. The pain was incredible and tore through her as if he’d ripped her apart. When her mind seemed to calm, she realized he was speaking to her, soothing her with his hands as he did so. When she opened her eyes, just then realizing that she’d closed them, he wiped at her tears on her cheeks and kissed her gently.

“
I’m so sorry. I knew that you’d be tight for me and thought to get it over with quickly. I was so wrong. I’m so sorry
.”

“
I’m…it hurts, but not that bad
.” She tried to smile at him. “
You’re very large, aren’t you? Much bigger than
—”

He kissed her again and smiled at her. “
Never bring up past men to me. I would hate to have to go and hunt them down and kill them. And while we’re on the subject of past men, I’m happy to say that none were larger than me
.”

She giggled
silently in her mind, something she couldn’t remember doing for a long time. When she shifted her body beneath him, hoping to show him how much she wanted him to move, she stilled when he did.

“
I’m going to roll to my back and take you with me. I want you to ride over me, but don’t move until you’re ready. This way you’ll be able to take me as deeply as you want and
….” She shifted again, and he moaned. “
You keep that up and I’m not going to last until I get you above me
.”

When he rolled
, she was suddenly sitting upright, and he was beneath her. She put her hands on his chest to adjust her legs and was shocked at how fantastic it felt like this. When she rolled her hips forward again, he put his hands at her hips and held her. She ignored his hands as he tried to hold her still and rocked forward again.

“
Baby, you’re going to make me come before you if you keep this up
.” She moaned at him when he sat up. His cock was so deep in her, and when he sat up, he touched her clit in ways that had her wanting to take more of him. As soon as he suckled at her nipple, she wrapped her legs around him. He grabbed her ass and helped her lift up and down over his cock.

She was coming again, the speed of it running along her skin and veins so fast that she threw back her head and let it take her.
He bit her again, this time deep in her shoulder where her arm attached. Leaning forward, she tasted his skin, licked the same path that he’d take until she was at the juncture of his neck and shoulder. His command to bite had her licking her lips to taste him. She sank her teeth down around his muscle and came so hard that she saw the darkness come up and take her.

Chapter
5

Gilbert Cole woke. He reached out to see what had disturbed his sleep and couldn’t find anything wrong within his house, and nearly closed his eyes again when he felt her. His daughter, Emma…she had taken a mate. She’d fucking taken a mate without his permission.

He roared out his anger as he flew from his bed.
How dare she? How dare she take a mate without his consent? He reached to her and knew that she was blocking him again. She had much to pay for when he caught up with her, and if what he thought had happened just now had, she was going to pay such consequences that she may beg him to change her from the pain he planned to inflict on her body.

Moving to the upper levels of
their borrowed home, he found that his sons were still asleep, and that the one that had been hired to watch them while they rested was sleeping himself in the kitchen. He moved to this room without touching the floor, wanting to sneak up on the man and show him what happened to one that did not do as they were told. But he stopped just short of entering the room, knowing that the sun still shone in that room.

A memory came to him then, one from his own maker just before he left them this last time.
“Do not kill those that watch your rest. They are all that comes between you and the sunlight.”

Sage advice
, but the man had fallen asleep and needed to be shown the errors of his ways. As he waited for the sun to lower enough to allow him to enter the room, he felt his sons begin to wake. Steven was first to rise and made his way to the upper levels, as Shawn and Erwin did a few minutes later. Wilfred was already gone from his bed, and Bert, as he’d been called most of his life, wondered for a moment if he had stayed out too late and had found the sun. Wilfred was not happy about the current arrangements. But then he was rarely happy anymore.

He wanted to kill everything that moved. Any and all humans
, as far as he was concerned, should be food for them and nothing more. Bert, too, felt this way, but they’d been cautioned about killing where they lived. Drinking from the humans was possible, and actually the preferred method of living with them, but his sons and him, especially Wilfred, had wanted more and had killed several humans recently, and that had the authorities asking questions of everyone. It was much more fun to kill than it was to simply drink.

His son touched his mind just as the sun was low enough for him to enter the kitchen. Wilfred sounded as if he was drunk and
Bert wondered about that. Alcohol couldn’t hurt them, but it no longer gave them the buzz it had before.

“
I’ve had the most fucking fantastic meal I’ve ever had.”
Bert felt his son’s joy and was jealous of it, hot hatred jealous of it.
“You have had nothing until you’ve drunk from a shifter. And, Christ, they fight you for it. It’s like…it’s like a meal and a show.”

“
Where are you? I demand that you come home this minute. The watcher sleeps instead of keeping us safe, and you’re off killing.”
His son laughed, and he wanted to murder him.
“Your sister has taken a mate. It’s imperative that we find her before it’s too late.”

“Too late? I’m pretty sure if she’s taken a mate
, it’s already too late. The fucking whore will have a kid in her belly, and we’ll be shit out of luck before it’s born.”
The drunkard feelings he’d gotten from his son had been replaced with hate. He’d never cared for his sister before they’d been changed, and now….

“What has she taken between her legs?
A human? Another vampire?”
Wilfred laughed bitterly.
“She wouldn’t take the last one we put there; what would she be doing with another one between her thighs? Not that it matters; whatever it is, he’s a dead man. He just doesn’t know it yet.”
Bert hated the way his son referred to Emma as if she were nothing more than a whore that had been born just to piss him off.

“I don’t
know what it is. Only that he’s claimed her. It would have to be something other than human, wouldn’t you think?”
Wilfred didn’t know either.
“I wish that Jimmy were here. He could answer these questions instead of us trying to figure them out on our own.”

They’d each
felt the moment he’d been killed. They didn’t know what had happened or what caused it, other than the profound grief that he’d been gone from their lives. It had actually taken them a week to figure out what they’d felt at the time, and it wasn’t until they’d stolen into the library and looked up some information in a few books that they finally came to the realization that he was gone. Of course they’d been women’s books, but that was all they could find. He was pretty sure that Wilfred had read them all. He went on for days how the vampires in the books he’d read had been portrayed as romantic and full of goodwill.

“I’m nearly there now.
I think you’re right. We need to step up our game and bring the bitch home. She needs to be changed like us and join the family or die. I’m sick of hearing about her and how she’s gotten away.”
Bert agreed with him but said nothing. Emma had fooled them all enough. She’d gone along with them so willingly…well, not willingly, but she’d finally said she’d accept her duties and let one of them change her. Erwin had given her the idea to let her choose who it would be.

As soon as the door flew back on its hinges
, the man from the kitchen came out. Bert had been startled so badly that he lashed out before thinking. As soon as his fangs sank into the man’s throat, he knew his mistake. He’d been warned, and now he was feeling the raw pain of his blood filling his mouth.

It was hot and felt poisonous as it coursed through his body.
He couldn’t stop from drinking from him as he lifted his head, because the vein had been torn open, and his blood sprayed him in the face. The man clawed at him, his nails dug deeply into the flesh of his face and tore at him, but Bert was already staggering away. Even as the man dropped to the floor, his blood surrounded Bert’s bare feet and burned him. Crying out, Bert lifted his body high from the floor, but it did him little good. He was burning; he was in so much pain that he was screaming over and over from it until he passed out from the pain.

When he woke, Bert didn’t know where he was. His body ached
, and he felt a hunger like none he’d ever known. When he looked around the bed, there were two women. One was tied to his bed post, the other to his bed, her hands and legs tied to the head and footboard.

“Drink from them so you can heal. You look like shit,
Dad, and I can’t stomach it much longer to be in this room with you.” He looked at Shawn as he lounged in the chair. “Wilfred said to make you drink from them or he would end you. He’s pretty pissed at you right now.”

He looked at the woman who was tied to the bed.
Christ, she looked delicious. His fangs dropped as his son moved toward them. He looked at Shawn as he opened his pants and jerked the one at the post to his cock. He could have her for now, but he was going to get his fill from them both. And this one was going to get the fucking of a life time while he was at it.

Pulling the sheet off her
, he looked down at her nakedness. His cock thickened, and he leaned down and bit into her breast and let her blood fill his mouth. Her screams were muffled by the gag at her mouth, so he tore it off. Like Wilfred, he liked a show with his meal.

Her begging to be let go only made him harder.
He moved between her legs and bit her again on her pussy. Her blood filled his mouth even as his tongue filled her. She was getting wetter. When she cried out, he lifted his head and looked at her, feeling her blood and cum drip from his mouth. Lifting her up, he tore the bonds from her ankles and rolled her over. Slamming his cock into her ass, he relished at her screams until he felt his balls tighten. When he lifted her up to his mouth by her hair, he sank his fangs into her throat and drank deeply of her.

Shawn cried out behind him
, and he turned. He was coming all over the bitch that was his, and he snarled at him. As he pulled from the dying woman on the mattress, he moved to the foot of the bed and rammed his cock down the other woman’s throat. He was deep, too deep for her to breathe, but he didn’t care. She wasn’t going to live long enough anyway for anything to matter. As soon as he felt her struggle less, he took her wrist and tore it open, spitting the flesh on the other body. He drank his fill of her as well. When a cock nudged his ass, he leaned over just enough to give Shawn what he needed. As soon as his cock entered his ass, Bert came hard down the woman’s throat, and he held onto her post as he was fucked hard as she bled out.

Shawn leaned over him when he came
, his teeth grazing his skin but not breaking it. They were of the same maker and didn’t think they could feed from one another, but Christ, the things that Jimmy had taught them about sex and each other had gone a long way to them being sated more than they’d ever been. When Shawn pulled from his body, Bert did as well from the woman. Both of them would have to be taken care of, but for now he wanted to bask in his bliss.

“You’re still marred up.”
He looked at Erwin, who had entered. “I guess that part of what he told us was true. We can’t kill our watchers.”

Bert went to the mirror and looked at
his face. He’d been surprised the first time he’d seen his reflection and had said as much to Jimmy. He’d laughed at him for nearly ten minutes until Bert, in a fit of rage, had tried to attack him. He was frozen on the spot, not able to lift a hand against him.

“You can never harm me unless I have done you a great injustice.
And other than making you all children of mine, I’ve done nothing to cause you harm.” He’d told them that the house they were now staying in was his and would be until such time they were one hundred years young as a vampire. Then he would expect them to move out on their own. He also told them that there would be money for them to use as well. They never got to see any of that because he’d left them to their own devices shortly after that. That had been over eight years ago.

His face was marred
in a new scar sort of way. Large scars made his cheek look like he’d had acid poured over it, and his hands and arms were no better. His feet were still tender and looked raw and ravaged. He turned to his sons.

“Do you think this will recede?”
Neither of them would look at him, and he turned back to the mirror. He knew it wouldn’t as surely as he was standing there. He saw Wilfred and Steven come into the room as he was pulling on a robe and Shawn was wrapping the women in the sheets from the bed.

“We
will find her soon. I know that she’s in Ohio somewhere because Jimmy had told me before when I contacted him about her. He said she’d stay there for a while before moving toward Florida. He thought she’d think she was safe in all the sunshine and we couldn’t touch her.” Wilfred glared at Steven when he snorted. “You have something to add, or do you want to stay here and wait for hell to break loose?”

“What do you mean?”
Steven looked at him when Wilfred didn’t answer him, and he shrugged. “Christ, Wilfred, what have you done?”

“How the fuck was I supposed to know who she was
? She smelled good, and I was hungry. And her friends, too, smelled like sex and….” His eyes glazed over for a second. Then he looked at him. “At least I didn’t kill our watcher. Now what the fuck are we supposed to do before we get Emma back here to fucking do what she’s told?”

He’d killed nine teenagers
, all of them from prominent families. The news had run nothing else since the bodies had been discovered. Wilfred had torn them up so badly that they were having difficulties identifying which body part went with the other. Bert discovered this when he went to the scene and witnessed firsthand his son’s destruction. He watched as policeman after policeman went to the bushes and puked up their meals and then staggered away. Bert hadn’t realized that Wilfred had such rage in him until that moment. They left before sunrise, moving to another town closer to Ohio. At this rate and the way Wilfred was acting, they would be lucky if they made it to Ohio. His son had gone over the edge and was quickly becoming a problem.

~~~

Jules sat down next to him, and Brock hugged him. They’d been late to the party, and he told him again how sorry he was. Jules told him not to worry about it.

“She’s the reason you were late?”
He nodded toward Em as she helped their mom set the table. “If so, then I have no choice but to forgive you. She’s beautiful.”

She was too. Her blond
e hair was tied back in a pony tail that hung to her waist. She’d put other ties around it at different lengths to hold it, she’d told him. He’d been so mesmerized by watching her brush it out after they’d gotten out of the shower that he’d taken her back to bed and made love to her again. He needed to curb himself though. He knew she was sore.

“
She’s nervous about being around you all. She seems to think that one or all of you are going to pounce on her about her becoming my mate.” Jules looked at him oddly. “She’s a little insecure. Okay, a lot insecure. But if you knew her story like I did, you’d understand completely.”

Jules laughed and handed him a package. He’d been handing them out since they
’d gotten there. He took it and set it aside. He needed to ask him something.