Dark Caress (The Fallen) (6 page)

Bottom line, Elementals and the Fallen
had a long history of not getting along. The war proved that they had a lot of work to do if both wanted to live in peace.

The Fallen went to an interior computer panel. He typed in a code on the screen. A metallic hum started. Dark opaque glass lifted from the ground,
and an opaque panel slid across the roof. Amber watched every piece of sunlight disappear.
Now, that was awesome
, she thought.

The Fallen opened the door to the garden and waited for her to walk through. The enclosure was now protected from the sunshine that blasted fiery rays. Natural lights running off sol
ar energy illuminated the pathway.

Bright red roses filled the garden. Ivy wa
s woven along within the cracks of the old stone pathway, mixing with the shrubbery. The fresh country air was replaced with a cool draft of air-conditioning. Amber looked around. It was then that she realized that the roses had come from his garden. Tears misted her eyes. No one had ever given her flowers before.

Stone sculptures of angels killing demons were positioned around the outer edge of the garden.

“Wait here.”

The Fallen went back to the corridor.

One sculpture’s beauty drew Amber. White marble sparkled under the soft glow of light. Amber reached out, running a finger along the blade the angel held. She let her fingertips move over the wings. What would it be like to be one of the chosen and have it all taken away?

She sensed him behind her
, but she never heard him approach. Kane had a way of moving without being heard. Amber angled her head to see him. He was beautiful, and she wanted him.

Kane was
more attractive than she remembered. Her breath caught on an almost painful yearning to be with him. His hair was damp, and his strong jaw freshly shaved. There were two white strips over a healing cut on his brow. He was by far the most beautiful vampire she’d ever met. Amber couldn’t ignore the way her body wanted to respond when she was so close to him. Under all that beauty, there was a lethal, deadly quality that would and could strike first if he chose. Amber knew that there was no going back now that she was within his circle. That should have scared her, but it didn’t. She felt safe when she was with Kane.

“
I’d like to make you an offer,” he said.

Amber swallowed twice and felt her mouth go dry. Her heart hammered. “What kind of offer?”

“I would like to have you as my lover.”

“Why would a Fallen want a woman like me?”

His gray eyes focused on her in quiet contemplation. “I like what I see.”

He paced to a rose bush and snapped off a bloom in gentle appreciation. She watched as he brought the bloom to his nose. Lust zipped through her
pussy when she saw his lips caress the petals. The response was swift and quick between her thighs. Her core clenched, and her pussy lips wet. Amber fought for control of her body’s response. How was he doing this to her without even touching her?

“Stop it!”

Their gazes locked. “Is that what you really want?”

Flutters rippled over her sex
. She couldn’t block the need to release. A moan slipped past her lips as her pussy contracted hard. “Yes.”

“I don’t think you want me to stop,” he said. “I know you don’t have a lover. You haven’t had one for a long time.”

Amber knew she had trouble keeping a man. They tended not to like the fact that the female in the relationship was a cop. Men just didn’t like dating cops. They were afraid to go out for a drink for fear of her arresting them for DUI.

“I have
had many lovers over the years,” she lied.

“I know you don’t.”

How could she begin to tell him or anyone about the slave tattoos warning all men to stay away? By all accounts, she was damaged goods.

“I choose not to
be with men,” she said.

“
Are you afraid to love?”

“No. I just chose not to.”

She could love. She just didn’t want to put her heart out there. She wasn’t a heartless woman. It was just too hard to put herself out there when she was damaged. He continued to mentally manipulate her sex. Amber felt her panties wet as her pussy pulsated. She closed her eyes and bit her lip, trying to keep from coming. Things intensified when her eyes closed. She could feel flutters ripple over her clit that felt so much like the tongue lashing he had given her last night.

“Kane. Oh, I’m
so
close.”

“I like keeping you on the edge.”

Amber’s gaze flared as he teased her clit with gentle strokes of his mind. “What do you want of me?”

“You’re Elemental.
You’ve made a vow to love. I want you to love me.”

An Elemental’s vows were their guide. Some led their lives by vows that were sexual in nature but not all.
Most would want to know which element she could control. She suspected that he didn’t know she could manipulate water.

“What do you know of an Elemental’s vows?”

“I know more than you think. I know that an Elemental takes three vows when their powers blossom and that the ceremony is rich with your Elemental history. I know that as you grow more powerful, you take on more vows.”

Amber turned away as the past came slamming back. She didn’t want to ever forget. Tears misted her eyes.
“My grandmother...”

White ceremonial candles were lit in circle around Amber’s bare feet. Her white tunic came down to her knees and blew gently with the wind. Her grandmother stood outside of the circle saying the prayer of nature. She dipped her hands in water, sprinkling the water into the circle as Amber declared her vows.

“I take the vow to love, the vow of tranquility, the vow of seduction.”

Amber kneeled within the circle, brushing her fingers over the grass turning the
water into ice. The ice caught the dewy grass, spreading beyond the circle. Her grandmother kneeled down before her. They were mirror images, one older and one younger. Her grandmother reached out and caressed her cheeks.

“You will be the one to bring peace to our kind and the Fallen.”

Amber awakened on a gasp. She had forgotten her grandmother’s words.

“Amber?”

“I had forgotten.”

“It’s easy to forget what we are called to do.”

She shivered at the way his gaze went from the top of her head to her feet. It was no secret that Kane was an experienced male.

“I don’t have much time. I have to get to work,” she said.

“Do you wish to leave?”

“Yes.”

“I’m not stopping you, Amber.”

She really didn’t want to leave
with her body so twisted up with need. Amber wanted more time with the Fallen leader to explore how good they were together. She watched Kane’s lips caress the rose, and her pussy fluttered in response. He licked his tongue out, flicking it across the sweet edge of the rose. She cried out as her clit throbbed from the connection. She was no longer in control of what happened next, and she loved it.

“I can make you do anything I want.
Would you like me to go there, Amber?”

His words were whisper soft, and
the meaning was a powerful seduction to her sexual side. The question was too tempting to answer honestly now. She wanted to go there with him. “I don’t have time for romance today.”

“As you desire.
There won’t be any romance.”

The urge to obey
Kane was hypnotic and overpowering. She loved the way his lips caressed the rose and her pussy responded. He was simply amazing. Amber found his abilities striking and attractive. He continued to impress her with the things he was capable of doing. Amber found herself wanting more from Kane.

****
Undress.

Kane whispered the thought through her mind. Amber’s mind was strong
, but he was stronger. Her hands were shaking as they reached for the hem of her shirt. She fought not to pull the fabric over her head, but quickly lost. Kane rewarded her obedience with another lick upon the rose. She cried out as her pussy pulsed with the need to come. Her cotton blend T-shirt came over her head to reveal her black lace bra and slave tattoos. Kane sucked in a harsh breath as his throbbing cock punched out hard against the fabric that held his prick prisoner. She had been enslaved. Kane released his hold so that she could cover the tribal markings visible above the top of her cargo pants. There would be time later to find out more about those markings that shamed her.

“Nice.”

Amber’s long lashes fluttered in surprise. She really didn’t think she was beautiful. He sensed her thoughts as he heard the beat of her heart tick up and the sound of her blood running south to her pussy. He growled in approval. It wouldn’t be long before her pussy was wetter and ripe for the taking. Kane watched as she removed her Glock from her cargo pants and set her with her T-shirt.

The light fragrance of her arousal permeated the air between them. Her gaze dropped seductively to the bulge in his pants. She licked her lips and slowly worked her eyes up over his body, flashing those golden Elemental eyes. Kane’s cock flexed
hard, drawing his balls up tight and making pre-cum weep from his dick. Kane felt his fangs tighten down on his jaw at the memory of lapping her pussy skipped through his mind.

“Why do you want me?” she asked.

“Why wouldn’t I? You’re exquisite.”

Her mouth dropped open
and closed. “My breasts are too big, and my hips are too wide. I’m not the type of woman you would want. I’m a cop with a bad attitude.”

“A cop
who likes to wear sundresses on her day off,” Kane said. He licked his lips, moving them over the rose. “I like curvaceous women.”

She bit her lip.

Kane closed the distance between them, caressing her cheek with the back of his fingers. He lifted the rose to her lips. “You don’t believe me?”

“I don’t understand why a Fallen like you would want a
n Elemental like me.”

“Like me?”

She flustered and worried her lip as he dropped his hand to the back of her neck to massage her erogenous zone. She reached up cautiously to touch his face. She smoothed her fingers over the sharp edge of his jaw. “You’re so beautiful. I don’t know why you’re fucking with me.”

Anger surged through his body before he could temper it down. “I’m not fucking with you.
I want you. I’m going to have you.”

Kane released the
psychic hold he had on her. He circled her arm behind her back and put his lips to her ear. When they moved this way, it felt as though they were dancing. Kane felt out of control from the rush of having her body so close to his.

“I can’t fall for you.”

“Too late. You are falling for me.”

The corners of her lips turned up. She was
obviously attracted to him. “I’m not.”

Kane slid his hand down, unzipping the fly of her
cargo pants. He groaned as he brushed his fingers over her silky panties. “Your pussy is wet for me.”

Her fingernails bit into his shoulders as she held on. He wrapped his arm tightly around her waist. Kane slid two of his fingers beneath her panties and groaned as they moved over her pussy. Cream dripped over his fingers. He rubbed her with his fingers and flicked her clit with his thumb. Amber cried out as her orgasm crashed through her body. Kane held her tight as he fingered her pussy. She tilted her neck, offering her pulse. Kane dropped his lips to her neck, licking his way over the hungry beat of her heart. He kissed her vein as his cock thumped wildly against his pants.

Kane pushed his fingers inside, sending another orgasm pulsating through her pussy. The need to bite her was an overpowering desire he couldn’t ignore. He couldn’t take her blood wine. He didn’t want to scare her off. Kane was a Dom. He wanted Amber for more. He wanted her as his sub.

“Tell me you want me,” Kane ordered.

“I need you. I want you.”

He wrapped
his arms around her. “I know you do.”

Dark energy s
wirled up from their feet. He felt Amber holding on to him tightly. Everything swirled up like a great tornado and then quickly settled into place. Amber had her eyes pinched shut tightly. The side of her face was buried in one of Kane’s shoulders. Kane opened her mind.
Holy cow, they had just dematerialized. What a rush. What a wild ride.
She didn’t want to step away from. She loved it.

Open your eyes, Amber.

Slowly, she pried her eyes open and her head away from Kane’s shoulder.

“That was amazing,” she said.

“I’m glad you enjoyed it.”

“Did we jump
time, too?”

“No,” he said. “That’s one of the few things I can’t do.”

“That was an incredible feeling.”

“It is, isn’t it?”

“How?” she asked.