Charlotte & Sebastian (5 page)

Chapter Nine

Charlotte waited for Sebastian to make a move. He'd either make love to her or reject her again. She knew which one she'd rather go along with but she'd understand if he did say no.

As an added incentive, she moved her pelvis harder against his and let out a breathy sigh as a sharp tingle of pleasure ran through her body.

That spicy scent filled the room and she breathed it in greedily, her body reacting of its own accord. Her fangs throbbed in time with her pulse as a need like she'd never experienced raced through her body.

Maybe it was time to take things into her own hands.

Taking a handful of his shirt in both hands, she wrenched sharply and smiled as the material tore in half revealing his toned body. Her eyes drank him in and she bent to run her tongue up the centre of his torso, going slower over his abdominals, and heard his breath catch. Charlotte moved over to his right nipple and circled it slowly, nearly laughing as his hand tangled in her hair and pulled her up his body so he could kiss her. He seemed so sensitive to her touch. Sebastian's tongue demanded entrance to her mouth and she parted her lips on a moan and then moaned again louder as his tongue teased her own before she felt it lightly touch one of her fangs and she gasped as her body shuddered in what felt very close to an orgasm.

He pulled back and grinned at her. “The things I want to show you,” he said, his voice rough, “do to you. Every sensation is heightened and some parts of your body are hyper-sensitive, like your fangs.”

Eyes at half mast, her body feeling equally relaxed and turned on she leaned close once more and nibbled at his jawline. “Show me.” Watching his eyes flare with heat, she felt a wicked joy fill her.

Sebastian's hand moved leisurely up her side, his fingers feather-light, until he reached her breast which he cupped in his palm and squeezed with just enough pressure for it to border on pain. Strangely, it turned her on even more. She sucked in a breath and watched him through lowered lashes.

In a flash, he reversed their positions and then scooted down her body to press his open mouth to her breast, his tongue circling her nipple through the thin fabric of her negligee. His teeth nipped at the bud and she arched into him, her fingers finding hand holds in his dark hair and urging him to give her other breast the same treatment. He didn’t disappoint and she found herself going crazy with need. After several minutes, he pulled back and stared at her with blazing blue eyes.

He gripped her hand in a firm grip and brought her wrist to his lips. She watched him through her lashes, wondering what he was about to do now. Sebastian lightly pressed the wet warmth of his tongue to the thin skin of her inner wrist and she jerked in his grip as ripples of pleasure sliced through her body. Then she felt one of his fangs drag across her skin and her eyes rolled back in her head, her body slumping forward onto his.

He guided her head into the hollow of his neck and pressed his cheek to her temple, “Pulse points are the most sensitive points on your body that aren’t related to sexual activity.” He lifted her arm higher and ran his tongue over the crease of her inner elbow and she gasped again. “It's the same for every vampire.”

Just to test that theory, she pulled away from him and brushed her thumb over his wrist and watched his eyelids flicker closed. When they opened again, they were that blue colour she was starting to love. She'd have to remember to ask him about that at some point. “It only works between two vampires.”

“
That's good. I didn’t want to have to kill Adrianna for getting to do this with you.”

He chuckled and shook his head. Then he grew serious and urged her to scoot up his body so that he could kiss her. “Enough lessons for now. I need you, Charlie.”

“I'm all yours,” she told him.

Placing his hands on either side of her face he kissed her again, this time with more passion and her fingers clutched at his shoulders. Sebastian pulled her back beneath him and straddled her waist as his fingers deftly worked over the lacy material of her negligee to undo the tiny buttons that held the material together.

“Rip it off,” she whispered against his lips.

“
No.”

“
Sebastian! Rip it off!” She demanded, angrily.

Pulling back, he stared down at her for a second before his lips curved into a smile.

“What are you smiling about?”

“
Your eyes; they're purple.”

She blinked. “What?”

“They're purple. Now let me undo these buttons. I've waited a hell of a long time to get you in this thing to just go and rip it off you again.” Pressing his lips to her mute ones, he began to undo the buttons again.

Her eyes were purple? Purple? “Why are they purple?”

“You keep asking me why mine go that icy blue colour? It's when I feel intense emotion. Mine go blue, yours go purple.”

Charlotte fell silent as she went through the numerous times she'd seen him with those icy blue eyes and realised he was telling the truth.

The slide of fabric followed by warm air against her skin brought her back to the present and she blinked Sebastian back into focus. He grinned triumphantly at managing to get the buttons undone and then his gaze fastened on the body he'd revealed. He swore under his breath, “You're beautiful.” She smiled flirtatiously and heard a low growl leave him before he bent his head and kissed her hungrily.

Charlotte wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back with just as much passion.

Things heated up quickly then and before she realised they were both naked and on the bed.

Sebastian's lips ran down her throat, his tongue teasing the pulse that beat just below the surface as his hands skimmed down her waist to grip her hips. A purr of pleasure built in her throat as he continued to nibble on her neck and she gripped a handful of his hair in her fist to hold him in place while her other hand roamed down his chest and abs to circle his erection. He hissed in a breath at the contact and nipped harder at her neck causing her body to quake with a different kind of need.

“Oh God,” she breathed as the need for him to take her blood roared through her, almost like a physical pain. Tilting her head back and to the side, she bared her throat to him.

Charlotte felt the brush of his nose against her skin and then the light skim of his lips against her ear. “Not yet,” he whispered.

His body moved down hers and straddled her knees. His eyes ran over her naked body hungrily, causing liquid heat to run through her veins. “Touch me.”

Sebastian's gaze met hers as he got up on his knees and moved Charlotte's legs from under him, pushing them up towards her chest and then spreading them wide open.

If she'd still been human, she was sure she'd have been humiliated beyond belief at the wanton pose but right then, as a vampire, she was so turned on, she didn’t care.

Moving his body back between her spread thighs, he lowered his body into contact with hers and the weight of him and feel of him was amazing. Her legs wrapped around his waist and she hooked her ankles together. He wasn’t going anywhere any-time soon.

Her action had brought his pelvis close to hers and his impressive erection was pressed into her stomach. Charlotte flexed her hips as best she could in her current position, to try and get a little friction going between their bodies but it was proving impossible.

Sebastian moved his body a little lower and she felt him slide against her. She gasped as her hips flexed at the same time creating the friction she'd been after. “Yes...” she moaned, and let her head drop to the side as he continued to roll his hips, teasing her.

His wrist was right beside her head and she could see his vein clearly. Her fangs throbbed with the urge to pierce his skin and taste the blood underneath. She was so very tempted to lean across the small distance separating his hand and her mouth and do just that.

“
Charlie?”

The sound of her name on his lips had her head turning to meet his gorgeous blue eyes. And then she felt him pushing into her and clawed at the man above her, wanting to go a little wild with him.

Grabbing his neck she pulled Sebastian's mouth to hers and kissed him hungrily. He returned it and cupped her cheek in a gentle caress. Charlotte almost snorted, wanting, needing fire and lust not love and rainbows. Her hips bucked beneath him trying to set the rhythm and after several seconds Sebastian stopped her movement with his hands and stared at her questioningly, “I've waited way too long for this to let it happen fast, Charlie. I want to savour it; savour you. Don’t rush me. Please?”

Staring into his eyes, she was mesmerised by the emotion in them and nodded. She would probably have agreed to anything he asked of her in that moment.

Sebastian kissed her then and rolled his hips, going deep. A breathy sound of pleasure left her, her fingers scraping down his back with each deep thrust. The tingling pleasure flowed through her body like a rising tide, and with everything heightened beyond belief she wasn’t sure if she'd live long enough for it to peak. Her body twitched and pulsed.

“
Breathe, Charlie. We're almost there,” warm, guttural words spoken into her ear every few minutes as she bowed and twisted beneath him. Then she felt his warm panting breath against the dewy skin of her throat. A soft kiss, then the pinch of fangs in her skin and slight suction.

Then she screamed his name as she orgasmed.

Chapter Ten

Charlotte felt lovely and warm, snuggling even deeper under the covers.

A groan rumbled in her ear and goosebumps erupted all over her body as the sound did naughty things to her. “That's a great way to wake me up,” Sebastian drawled huskily in her ear. “Do it often, won't you?”

She couldn’t help but laugh and turned in his arms to place her hands on his chest and rest her chin on them, a grin still on her face as she glanced up at him.

Sebastian reached down to brush a stray lock of hair from her cheek in a tender move, “There's no way I'm giving you up.”

Although puzzled by his words she smiled, then she grimaced when her stomach pinched painfully. She moved into a more comfortable position on his body but it didn’t help one bit. It felt ten times worse than any period pain she'd ever had and that had been painful. “Ow,” she mewled.

“What is it?” Sebastian asked immediately, pushing up on his elbows.

A burning fire was working its way through her body, leaving an almost unbearable pain in its wake. Her fingers clawed at her throat, chest and stomach, going deep enough to draw blood. She felt no pain from the self inflicted wounds.

“Shit!” Seconds later she was cradled in Sebastian's arms, leaning against his chest as he held something to her lips. She turned her head and pushed it away. “Charlie,” he said softly, his lips pressed to her ear, “this is your body telling you it needs blood. You need to drink this.” She shook her head slowly, silent tears coursing down her cheeks. “I know how you must be feeling; I didn’t want my first taste of blood either but you have to drink this.” He tensed at her back before continuing, “You'll go mad if you don’t, like Lucien when he killed your family.” Charlotte stiffened in his hold, holding herself rigid at his suggestion she would end up like that monster. “You'll only want human blood and the people on the other side of that door are your friends, Charlie. You
need
to drink this.”

With great reluctance, she took the bag of blood from his hand and eyed it with disgust. It felt slightly warm in her fingers and she had to suppress a shiver.

“Pierce the bag with your fang and tilt it. As soon as the blood hits your fangs your body will know what to do and before you realise, it'll have gone.”

She raised a brow dubiously but did as he directed, letting her sharp fang pierce the bag cleanly and then tilted it until she felt the liquid against her fang. The rational side of her brain shut down and she was all animal, gripping the plastic in needy hands and slurping at the blood like it was water on a hot day.

When it was all gone, and she'd gotten herself back under control, she pulled away from Sebastian and dropped the blood bag like it was infected with the plague. Charlotte could feel something dripping down her chin and wiped at it with the back of her hand and stared in horror at the dark blood smeared across her skin.

“
Charlie...”

She half turned and met his gaze. “I'm a monster.”

“No!”

Charlotte ignored him.

Last night everything had seemed fine, like she could handle being a vampire. That had been before the realities of having to drink blood to survive had sunk in properly. Now she wasn’t so sure. Knowing that it had come from a human...she shuddered. “I can't do this.”

Sebastian's hands caught her face, “Yes, you can. You can do this. You
have
to do this; for me. I can't give you up now I've had you in my arms; in my bed. Please don’t ask that of me because I can't do it.”

Struggling with her conscience, she rested her forehead against his and drew in a shaky breath.

His hands rubbed up and down her arms in a comforting manner. “Do you feel better now?” Charlotte nodded and stood upright to meet his gaze. “Then we need to start training you. I told the Director what happened while you were out of it, during the transition between human and vampire, and he's fine with you still working here. You just have to show him you have control over the more feral side of your nature before you can go on any more assignments.”

“
That's fine,” she told him calmly. She understood perfectly. The Director couldn’t have a blood thirsty vampire on the payroll when the job of the Agency was to take down creatures like her.

The loud clomping footfalls of heeled boots came closer to their location and she saw Sebastian wince. “One more thing. Your friend doesn’t believe me about turning you into a vampire and thinks I have you locked away for...
nefarious
reasons and insists on seeing you for herself.”

“
Nefarious reasons?” She asked, curious.

“
Blood and sex.”

“
Oh.” Her cheeks flushed with the blood she'd recently consumed as she realised that was more or less what they'd been doing. Only she was a vampire now, not human, and it was her that had drunk some blood, not him.

A loud, insistent knocking started at the door, “Open up, leech! If you've harmed one hair on Charlotte's head I swear I will turn you into ash so quick...”

Frowning at her friend's threat, she crossed the room quickly and pulled open the door. Sarah blinked at seeing her and then scanned her from head to toe, her eyes taking in every detail. Her face went pale and she took a step back. “He was telling the truth; you are a vampire.”

Raising a hand to try and calm Sarah, she was upset to see her friend stumble away from the touch and lowered her hand back to her side. “I was dying. He gave me the option to continue living and, maybe selfishly, I agreed.”

“You chose this?”

She dropped her gaze to the floor, unable to look at the disgust on the other woman's face. A woman she'd once considered her friend. “I'd hardly say I had a choice. Life or death? Not much of a choice,” she pointed out. “I'm sure that most people in that position would have done the same and chosen to live.”

Sarah took an angry step forward and Charlotte glanced up to meet her gaze, her senses flaring at the hint of danger in the air. “Not if they knew they'd have to kill innocent people to survive, they wouldn’t!”

Letting out a sigh of nonchalance, she leant against the door frame with her hip and crossed her arms over her chest. “If you want to believe that I won't argue with you.”

The other woman let out a snort and pointed her finger in Charlotte's face. “Stay the fuck away from me now, Charlotte.”

She focused on the finger in her face and the anger radiating from its owner and felt her control slipping. This woman wanted to hurt her, she could sense it like a flavour on her tongue. Charlotte's body was tense and ready, despite her casual pose, for whatever this woman might have planned.

“I wouldn’t trust you to have my back any more, you're likely to want to stick your fangs in it now you're like that leech in there!” With another insult aimed at Sebastian leaving her lips, Sarah turned on her heel and stormed off down the corridor, her body stiff with her anger.

Charlotte watched her leave, her mind and body equally pissed at the woman who used to be her friend. The insults to herself she could deal with but Sebastian? He'd only done what she'd asked of him. He wasn’t a monster.

She felt his presence at her back and relaxed into his chest. His arms came around her immediately and she felt his lips at her crown, “You okay?”

A rush of air left her and she nodded. “Yeah. You mentioned training before?”

Sebastian grinned against her hair, she could sense it more than feel it, “Uh huh. If you're in the mood we can go right now.”

“
Go where?” She asked with a frown.

“
The roof of course. We aren’t likely to break gym equipment up there like we would if we tried what I have in mind in the actual gym.”

Her mind whirred with possibilities but came up blank. Just what did he have in mind?