Reclaiming Angelica (9 page)
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Authors: Zena Wynn
Tags: #erotic romance, #Shape-shifter, #Multicultural, #vampire, #paranormal
When Angelica came back to awareness, Raul had rolled them
to the side. He lay curled around her, his penis still erect and deeply
embedded. He stroked her breasts, hips, and thighs, petting her while he
murmured, “Mine. Finally mine,” over and over like he couldn’t believe it.
Soothed and exhausted, Angelica drifted into a contented
sleep.
The silky glide of Raul’s penis leaving her inner depths
woke Angelica out of her light doze, and she rolled to face him. Raul caught
her close, nuzzling his face in her neck. “I love you, baby. You have no idea
how much. Please don’t ever leave me again.”
“I won’t,” she promised, cupping the back of his head. “I
only did it to get your attention. I was tired of the secrets between us.”
He lifted his head to look at her. “Why can’t I sense that
you’re a vampire? Normally I can smell them.”
“My mother is human. The vampire gene is recessive in me.
I’m a little faster than the average human, a little stronger, and occasionally
need blood, but mostly I read as human.”
He mulled that over. “That explains it, I guess. How often
is occasionally? I never noticed you feeding.”
“Once or twice a week. Less if I feed really well. Besides,
you’re gone a lot. It was easy to hide. All I had to do was wait for you to
leave,” she admitted.
He winced. Yes, he had spent a lot of time away from her in
an attempt to hide what he was, and all along she’d known. What a waste. That
brought up another issue. “If you knew all along I wasn’t human, why didn’t you
tell me you weren’t either?”
“Why did you freak out so bad earlier?”
Raul instinctively tensed at the reminder of his earlier
behavior. No more secrets, he reminded himself. “I was afraid if you knew what
I was, you’d leave me, and I couldn’t risk losing you. You’re my mate. I love
you too much. It would destroy me to lose you.” He thought of his father’s
suicide.
Your uncle lost his
mate, and he’s still here
, his wolf reminded him.
The thought made him pause. While Uncle Joey definitely
mourned the loss of his mate, he didn’t seem suicidal. Maybe the loss of a mate
didn’t automatically mean the death of the survivor. It took balls to deal with
that sort of pain and still keep going. He was beginning to understand why
Uncle Max had called Poppa a coward. Poppa hadn’t gone after Momma and brought
her home where she belonged, even though he had obviously known where she was.
And he hadn’t loved his son enough to stick around.
Angelica tapped him lightly on the jaw to get his attention.
“I love you. Knowing the truth wouldn’t have changed that.”
“Yes it would.” He told her about his parents and what
happened to his family when he was a child. As he finished, Raul shook his
head. “Humans fear us. You can’t love what you fear.”
“I’m not human,” Angelica reminded him.
He narrowed his eyes. “But I didn’t know that, did I?”
Angelica dropped her gaze to his chest. “I was afraid to
tell you. Vampires and shifters don’t have the best relationship under normal
circumstances. I couldn’t be sure how you’d react.”
He lifted her chin with his forefinger. “As long as you love
me, I don’t give a damn about you being half vamp.”
“I’m glad.” She smiled, and her eyes glimmered with the
sheen of unshed tears.
“So you’re coming back home where you belong?”
Angelica bit her lower lip as her gaze slid sideways. “I was
kinda hoping you’d move in with me. The house is so much nicer and larger than
this place.”
He quelled the urge to instantly reject the idea. Raul could
tell the house meant a lot to her. “What about the guys? I can’t leave the
pack.”
She drew circles around his nipple. “The house really isn’t
that far from here.”
He grabbed her hand and held it still. Her touch was
destroying his ability to concentrate. “It’s in the middle of a human
subdivision. How long do you think it will take for someone to notice that
we’re not exactly human?” A thought struck him. “You didn’t buy that house, did
you?”
Angelica squirmed. “The price was too good to pass on.”
He felt a sinking in his stomach. “Damn.”
“I want kids someday, with you. There’s no room for babies
here.” Her eyes pleaded with him to understand.
The idea of children with Angel was a kick in the chest.
Raul had known she was his mate from the moment he met her, but hadn’t thought
beyond claiming her and hiding what he was. He cleared his throat. “Yeah, kids
would be nice.”
Kids with Angel would be fucking fantastic.
“So we can live in the house?” she asked hopefully.
Inwardly he frowned. It was his job to provide their home,
not the other way around. A man took care of and provided for his mate and pups
and saw to their safety. Raul thought quickly.
The properties on either side of the apartment complex were
up for sale. These buildings were built during a time when building zones
weren’t as stringent, and it wasn’t strange to see duplexes, quads, and
apartment complexes in the same neighborhood as houses. The property on the
left was a two-story duplex. The one on the right was a ramshackle house with a
huge yard. If they also purchased the empty lot in the back of the house,
they’d own the whole block, and the pack would be near for extra security.
“What about this? We buy the house and lot next door, tear
it down, and build to suit on the land. We can stay in your house while it’s
being built, then rent it out for extra income. The guys will be happy to each
have their own place. Eventually, they’ll find mates and the pack will grow.
I’ll speak to them about purchasing the rest of the properties on the block. We
can fix them up and rent them out as well. This way we control who our
neighbors are, and it gives us room to grow should there be a need.”
Angel drummed her fingers on his chest while she thought.
Finally she sighed. “I really love that house, but I understand your need to be
with your pack. You are alpha, after all. Can we afford it?”
Raul smiled. “Yes, the business is doing well. Between the
two of us, we’ll have no problem financing a loan. Property values are real low
here. Overall, I’d wager it will be cheaper for us to build than to buy the
house you’re in now.”
Angel rose gracefully to her knees and straddled him.
“Speaking of families, I need to introduce you to mine and soon. After that
stunt at the club tonight, the word will be out about our relationship. My
father won’t be pleased to see I’ve bound myself to a wolf, but once the deed
is done, he’ll have no choice but to accept it. My mother will bring him
around.”
He stroked his finger over the mating mark on Angel’s
shoulder. “This says you’re mine, and there’s not a damn thing he, or anyone
else, can do about it.”
Angel shrugged. “That’s a shifter mark. We vamps have our
own mating process.”
Raul scowled, not liking the sound of that. “What exactly
does that mean?”
“It means in your world, this mark signifies me as belonging
to you. In my world, I’m considered still available. Just as humans have their
marriage ceremony to signify a mating, vamps have their process.”
He rose to his elbows. “You’re mine. Whatever we have to do
that makes that apparent in both our worlds, we’ll do it. And speaking of
marriage, we’re still getting married so find your engagement ring, wherever
you stashed it, and put it back on,” he ordered.
She laughed. “The wolf’s out of his cage now, isn’t he?”
“Damn straight.”
Angel rocked her hips back and forth, her slick lips sliding
up and down his shaft until it was a rigid pole between them. “Our mating
process is rather simple. I think you’ll like it since it involves blood and
sex.”
Raul smiled, already liking the sound of it. “Whatever you
need to do to me, baby, I’m yours.”
“As I said, it involves sex.” She rose, angled his penis for
penetration, then sank down, slowly engulfing the shaft.
“Yes, sex,” he hissed, loving the feel of her tight, slick
cunt clenching around his aching arousal.
She rode him slow, eyes closed, back arched. He angled
forward and sucked one pert nipple while pinching the other. Angel moaned.
Taking her moan as a sign of encouragement, he slid a hand
between them and lightly rubbed circles around her clit, gradually drawing
nearer to the bud until he stroked it directly.
Her breath caught. She began to pick up speed, rising and
falling fluidly. He was her mechanical bull, and she rode him with exquisite
grace. A flush rose from her chest to her face, a signal that she was getting
close.
“Sit up so we’re chest to chest,” she instructed.
Hating to give up his prize, he licked her nipple one last
time before complying.
“When I…come, I’m going…to bite…you. Don’t…come…until I do,”
she gasped. “When I strike…lock your canines…into my shoulder…and drink. Don’t
stop until I do,” she finished in a rush. “Oh God! So close.”
She rode him harder, faster. Raul grabbed her hips, pulling
her down as he pumped up. He knew his woman and what it took to push her over.
He used his knowledge ruthlessly. It didn’t take long for her pussy to clench
tightly around his shaft even as she sank her fangs deep into his neck.
“
Shit
!” His wolf
raced to the surface. Without a thought, Raul sank his canines into the mating
mark he’d left, and drank. The orgasm that rocked through him tore the breath
from his lungs and caused him to see stars. His muscles locked while his hips
pumped furiously. He came so much his seed overflowed Angel’s vagina to soak
his balls and inner thighs, and still he kept coming. Raul felt half-dead and
completely drained by the time Angel lifted her head and ordered him to stop
feeding.
She licked the blood lingering on his lips before thrusting
her tongue in his mouth and tangling hers with his in a hungry kiss. When she
trailed her mouth down his jaw to his neck, then nibbled on his ear, Raul
caught her face in his hands. “I never thought I’d ever say this to a woman,
but I need a moment, honey. You totally drained me.”
Angel laughed and hugged him tight. “It’s the blood loss. I
took a lot. You’ll feel better in a moment.”
It was the year’s worth of cum he’d spurted into her, Raul
thought ruefully.
She cupped his face and kissed him again. Amazingly, Raul
felt his cock twitch. Dumb bastard didn’t have enough sense to stay down.
“You’re mine,” she said, grinning. Happiness caused her eyes
to glow.
“Forever,” he agreed.
Raul had set out to reclaim his mate and instead found
himself claimed. Funny how life worked.
Zena Wynn
Reclaiming Angelica
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