Raging Passions (11 page)

Ripper didn’t let go. Past his Offspring he saw Rage kneeling next to Caden. She scraped the lip of the vial along the front of the body armor, catching Ripper’s blood and adding it to the potion. The liquid inside turned a watery black with what looked like glittering metallic red confetti swirling inside.

Ripper’s will
reached
out to her, crushing around her chest until she couldn’t breathe. He was
Summoning
her to him with all his strength.
Fighting the power of his magic sent splinters of a migraine into her skull, but Rage refused to surrender.

“I am not yours, Ripper. I never loved you and never could. My heart has always belonged to Caden.” Rage drank from the vial. It tasted like cherry cough syrup but she chugged it down anyway. The migraine vanished so quickly that she swayed with a sudden dizziness. Caden wrapped her in his steadying arm. The magic from Ripper’s Summoning evaporated like cemetery fog, leaving only the creepy memory of its existence in its wake. She held up the empty vial. “It is over.”

Ripper’s grip slipped from Dean and Shade’s throats. The pair stepped back out of reach. Pain and weariness paled Ripper’s features and drew the muscles of his face so tight that his pale skin seemed paper thin. Ripper’s wounds still bled. They would take several minutes more to close and stop the blood loss. He would need to feed heavily for the next few days and rest to fully regain his strength, but for now he was defeated.

“We should execute him,” Dean stated flatly. “End this for good.” Keeping his aim steady at the vampire’s head, Dean looked not like the rakish flirt she always thought him as, but a leader.
A force to be reckoned with.
Because he’d been rebirthed he was already free of Ripper’s influence.

Shade was not. His dark eyes were fixed upon Ripper.
His body too still.

“Oh no.”
Rage shoved Caden away from Shade. “Get back!”

Slowly Shade tilted his head. An evil-looking smirk tugged at his lips. “Don’t worry about me, Rage.” Silver reflected over his eyes and hid his irises, a sign of the Kinsmen. During the battle of wills with Ripper, Shade had finally fully embraced his vampire nature. As a Kinsman, his master held no further sway over him.

While they’d been distracted, Ripper had side-stepped closer to the motorcycle. The engine revved and tires squealed. He zigzagged around across the length of the warehouse to a door on the other side. Dean and Caden both fired their weapons but Ripper evaded the fire and was gone.

Chapter Nine

Just riding in a car all night was exhausting, but they needed to get as far away as the waning night would allow them. Caden and Dean arranged for the four of them to take up residence in an Executioner Clan safe house far from the radar of the Blood Runners. The converted old hotel made a wonderful hideout. Caden drew the blackout curtains over the sliding door leading to a balcony. Rage stripped and climbed under the blanket. The pillows were too soft. When Caden’s toasty body snuggled up behind her, as naked as she, Rage was only peripherally aware of it.

Her sleep was deep and healing. Wrapped up in Caden surrounded her in contentment. The warmth of his hands cupping her breasts roused her from her slumber hours later. He spooned perfectly behind her legs, butt and back. The words of love he murmured into the soft curve of her neck sent shivers tickling across her flesh. Rage giggled despite her efforts. As he gripped her breasts harder in two massive handfuls, Caden caught her earlobe between his teeth.

Excitement stole her breath. Rage curled her bottom back into Caden’s lap. She could feel the length of his shaft along the crevice of her butt cheeks. He released one breast so he could lift her cheek up enough to slide the head of his cock to probe at her ass.

When she started to turn her head, Caden bit more firmly on her earlobe. She shivered as she exhaled. He reached past her to the bottle of lubrication on the nightstand. She heard the cap flick open and then snap closed. Caden never released his bite, even though she felt him shifting behind her. With slow insistence the knob of his well-lubricated cock head pried open her asshole. Each time the muscle tightened, he stopped. As they relaxed, he glided inches deeper. Gradually Caden delved the full length of his cock inside her. They’d done this a few times before, years ago. The sensation was a different kind of pleasure.

As slow as their breathing, Caden pumped in and out of her tight bottom. Rage closed her eyes. The enjoyment eased steadily higher. The snug grip on Caden’s cock had him growling hotly into her ear. His pace steadily quickened until he released her ear only to bury his face into her flow of hair covering the pillow. Her pleasure was there, but not the same as an orgasm. She smiled, feeling Caden lose himself in her.

He kissed her neck in feathering kisses as he drew himself free of her tenderly. When he disappeared into the bathroom, Rage rolled onto her back and stretched the lithe length of her body. As she climbed out of bed, Rage snatched a tee shirt from Caden’s open bag and slipped it on.

Night had fallen. She pushed the curtains aside and opened the sliding glass door. Rage stared out at the Cincinnati skyline across the Ohio River and wondered how long it would take for her to become accustomed to it. She was just beginning to realize the reach of the Executioner Clan. They were not territorial like most clans. The cool breeze through the window tugged the knee-length camouflage tee shirt she wore, so it seemed painted against the front of her body, revealing the shape of her beneath it. From behind her, Caden wrapped his arms around her waist. He drew her back into him so her bottom curled into his warm lap. He wore nothing at all. His hands rubbed down her thighs and back up to her hips, working her against him as he grew harder.

“Do you think the Blood Runners will keep looking for us?” She glanced back at Caden’s handsomely rugged face. What she really meant was would Ripper come for her again. Would he leave the Rocky Mountains to hunt for his lost Offspring in the heart of the Midwest?

“Possibly,” he admitted, and she suspected that he answered her unspoken fear and not her spoken question. “But we have the support of the Executioners to keep you safe.”

“You mean ‘keep us safe’, don’t you?”

“Of course.”
He cradled her closer and kissed her cheek. “Ripper has no hold on you now. No way to home in on you. Besides, you are coming into your own power.
Becoming a Kinsman.”

Rage turned and Caden loosened his hold enough to allow her to face him. With her arms around his neck, she embraced him against her. Through the shirt her breasts pillowed against the muscles of his chest. The thick pillar of his cock resisted as her stomach trapped it between herself and Caden’s hip “About that…” She studied his expression, certain that a telltale sign would answer her more than his words when she asked, “How can a relationship last between a human and a vampire? I will eventually outlive you.”

Caden snorted a laugh.
“Yeah, right.”
At her confusion, he clarified, “With the exception of maybe a handful of Kinsmen, most vampires die younger than if they had stayed human. That is universal, not just among the Blood Runner Clan. Let’s face it, as a Kinsman and a Summon we are neither one likely to see much more than a few decades. It is a violent and uncertain life we’ve fallen into.”

He kissed her pouting lips. “Regina, don’t worry about anything tonight. Live fast. Fight hard. And make love to each other as often as we can. That should be our motto.”

The rough skin of his hands glided up her outer thighs, drawing up her shirt as he went. Gripping her hips, Caden walked her back to the bed they shared, kissing her all the way. He stopped just long enough to rid her of the shirt before laying her down on top of the down comforter. With his hands hooked behind her bent knees, he drew her legs around him, opening her to him.

Caden lowered his mouth to kiss the sensitive spot just below her navel. Rage gasped his name as he licked and then kissed and then sucked on her lower belly. “You tease,” she laughed shakily.

“No. I just prime you for more.” Caden winked before going down on her again. This time he kissed her outer pussy lips until they grew hypersensitive to the slightest touch. The lips parted for Caden as he licked up her slit. Rage stroked his hair as she watched him work with single-minded obsession.

His lips puckered around her clit, sucking until she squirmed. Then he swirled his tongue in some mind-blowing acrobatics.
“Oh Caden!”
When she lifted to him more forcefully, Caden dipped his head even lower. The clever curve of his tongue stroked against her as he licked inside her pussy. He lapped at her moisture until Rage gave a full body tremor.

“Not quite yet, my love.”
He kissed the inside of each of her thighs then her tummy, and then in a line up to her heart. Each nipple he laved lovingly. When they were tightly pert, demanding more attention, Caden climbed the rest of the way over top of her.

The soft pillow of the mattress supported her as Caden’s body pressed her into it. Her love and her heart soared with the passion that she felt in him and that echoed in her. Caden was so gentle and caring, she felt tears sting in her eyes at the very thought of him loving her like this, so truly and deeply, as they had always been meant to be.

The thick head of his cock pressed to her entrance, but did not yet penetrate her. “I love you, Regina. I can’t promise tomorrow, but I can give you tonight and every night God gives me.” With the slightest push of his hips, just the head of his cock dipped inside her ready passage. Rage moaned and raised her hips to force him deeper.

Caden flinched forward just a tiny bit in a tease. Then he plunged deep into her and there he remained, nestled into her depths, holding her so she enclosed the full length and breadth of him. She gasped and clutched tightly to him.

With a long, slow slide, Caden’s cock drew back and almost slipped free of her. Flexing his hips, he shoved himself back inside. He moaned into her mouth as she gasped. Taking his time, he pumped into Rage, making her hotter and wetter with her enjoyment and need. With each fresh thrust into her body, he charged her with passion and love. She could feel the building excitement burning trails through her like a wild fire preparing to spread until she exploded.

“I love you, Caden,” she whispered, crying with the joy and pain she felt. The joy of his love and the loving he gave her body at this moment. The pain of having missed the years of love they could have had.

He covered her mouth with his and their passions built and tore through them both. Rage gripped him with her arms, with her legs, with her core, and with her love. Her love and orgasm flooded through her as she gave herself to Caden completely. With a shout, Caden’s body flooded her with his cum. He pumped into her over and over and he seemed trapped in the pleasure and unable to stop himself. When he finally spent himself, he collapsed on top of her, her pussy still holding his cock as her arms and legs still held his body.

Right here and right now Caden completed her as she’d never been before. She felt whole.
Fully herself.
Fully loved.

Rage kissed Caden, long and deep, not letting her pussy release him even as he softened within her. At last she smiled up at him. At this moment the world seemed utterly perfect. “I feel like there is nothing we can’t have. Nothing we can’t do. No challenge we can’t defeat. You complete me in ways I never knew I needed.”

Caden smiled back. His index finger traced a line from her temple down to her jaw. “Perhaps that is why your eyes are now silver.”

He kissed her once more and she embraced the moment as she’d accepted herself, every part of herself.
Vampire.
Woman.
Lover.
All rolled into one and all given wholly to the man she loved.

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