Three Days of Night (12 page)

He continued to finger me with one hand while he brought his other to my lips. I took his index finger into my mouth and he growled. There was life and death and magic in the hands that touched me. And love.

Love is not a word I would have thought to use when referring to someone who was barely more than a stranger to me. But I loved him just the same. Not more, but in a different way than I loved Morgan or D or anyone else. The djinn completed a part of my soul I hadn’t known was missing. An injury I was never aware of had been healed. From that moment on, I could not exist without him.

“Let go of your control,” he whispered.

His voice brought me back to some semblance of reality. It took me a moment to realize what he was talking about. Ever since I’d become a vampire, I had always held back with my lovers. In order to prevent harming them, I had never completely let go, even with Morgan.

My breathing grew more labored as he continued to move his finger inside my pussy. He was relentless. He wanted me to talk while he did this? I could barely even
think
.

“Aren’t you afraid I’ll bite?” I finally managed.

“I don’t mind.”

That made me pause. “Really?”

“But you should know that my blood will give you power like you’ve never imagined. It’s sort of like that super tonic that made the holo screen news a few years ago.” He laughed. “Think of it as steroids for vampires.”

I couldn’t stop myself from laughing. Maybe I’d been around Morgan too long to miss a bad pun.

“Are you offering me a djinn and tonic?”

“I’m offering you whatever you like.”

Chapter Eleven

It was incredible. To just let go with no fear of hurting the man I was with. I felt the slight burning sensation that let me know my eyes had turned red. I looked down at Hud and let all of my passion become visible in my eyes. I don’t know how to describe it. But when I want to I can make people see how I feel with just a look. I think it’s one of my vampire “gifts.”

“Does this frighten you?” I asked about my eyes.

“No.”

He put both hands against my butt then and urged me forward until I straddled his face.

“Ride me.”

He didn’t have to ask twice. I ground my pussy into his face, imagining that his long tongue was a cock. I ran my fingers through his hair and held his face in position while I moved. From his groans of pleasure, I believe that he enjoyed this.

He pushed gently against my thighs and I moved back so that he could speak.

“Take me now.”

This wasn’t the kind of comment I was used to hearing from a man.
Me
take
him
? I liked that. I moved slowly down his body, letting my breasts tickle against his abdomen. I kept eye contact as I reached between our bodies and took his shaft in my hand. A slow smile curled his lips as he watched me try to take him. I could feel myself stretching to the limits. I moved slowly, giving my body time to adjust. All the while, I moved up and down on the tip of his cock, making his shaft wetter each time. And having him watch me was such a thrill. I’d never been with another immortal before. My fears were gone. I had no shame, no hesitation and absolutely no inhibitions.

A ripple of pleasure caused my back to arch and sent chills across my flesh. I licked my lips as I ground my hips against him, letting my fangs show in a provocative tease. He smiled and that was all the encouragement I needed. The only thing better than sex or biting someone was doing both at the same time. But not yet, I needed a little bit more first.

Slowly, I worked up to a fevered pitch. Our bodies glistened with sweat as Hud ran his hands up over my thighs, stopping with a firm grip on my hips. He urged me to move faster as he said, “Call my name.”

I knew that he meant his full name. However, before I could comply with his request, he elaborated.

“I’ve never heard a woman speak my name before you.” He groaned, thrusting into me and lifting me from the bed as he spoke. “It’s so sexy.”

“Am I the only woman to ever even know your name?”

“Yes, now say it. Scream it for me.”

“Ahihud.”

He sat up suddenly, wrapping my legs around his waist as he held me there, face to face. His kisses were a gentle promise against my lips.

“Ahihud.”

“Whenever you’re ready,” he whispered.

I was more than ready. I brushed his hair to one side, pressing my lips firmly against his throat, above his jugular. “Ahihud,” I moaned once more, just before sinking my fangs into his neck.

We came together as I took his blood. Through our connection, I could feel his release just as strongly as my own and it was more than I could take. I felt absolutely
alive
again.

“What was
that
?” I gasped, falling back onto the bed.

Hud collapsed beside me. “My blood. It links us together. It gives you a part of my power and it gives me a part of yours.”

I was still in the throes of ecstasy. I moaned and thrashed about on the bed, unable to stop wave after wave of orgasm as it wracked my body.

“Not many people can handle djinn blood.” He traced his fingertips down my abdomen and I curled up, screaming his name once more. “The few vampires who have tasted it in the past have died from pleasure.”

“Are you trying to kill me?”

The rest of what I meant to say was lost in another gasp.

He laughed. “Of course not. I can make it stop when I think you’ve had enough.”

“Bastard.” It was a half-hearted insult. “Has anyone tasted your blood before? Were you the one who killed the other vampires?”

“No. You are the only one.”

I’d spent a lifetime in shadow, waiting for his light. An eternity of darkness, longing for his touch. He was all that I could think of in that moment. My heart’s desire, every erotic fantasy. He was good and evil and everything in between. In an instant he was my addiction, the drug I couldn’t live without. He was everything to me and I would have done anything to be the same to him.

I cried out his name again, arching my back high off the bed. Only his palm on my abdomen brought me back to the mattress. I had heard the expression before, but what did “dying of pleasure” really mean? To die, for all of one’s senses to be suddenly gone. What would remain? Surely this feeling would go on, stretching out into nothingness for all time.

I could feel his body close to me and wanted to wrap myself around him, but I didn’t have the strength.

“Ahihud,” I whispered.

“I think you’ve had enough.”

At a glance I saw his smile, and then I had to close my eyes again. It was too much effort to look at him. He whispered something softly against my lips. He spoke in a language I didn’t understand. But that didn’t matter. I could feel the meaning behind his words. The instant his lips touched me I went still.

“It is finished,” he whispered.

Ahihud wrapped me in his arms and I began to cry. I was broken and he had fixed me. So many years of grief rolled off like water. All of the family members and other loved ones I had lost over the years … and Mark. Especially Mark. Having to watch him die was the hardest thing I’d ever done. I still missed them all, but I no longer grieved for them.

It was such a relief that I couldn’t stop crying. It wasn’t like before when I had cried with Morgan. These were not great heart-wrenching sobs, just involuntary trails of tears. A burden I hadn’t realized was so heavy had just been lifted. I felt like I could fly.

I snuggled closer against his chest, pressing my face into the curve at the base of his throat.

“Thank you.”

My words were a murmur against his skin, damp from my tears. He ran his hands up and down my back, softly stroking, encouraging me to be at ease. His gentle touch tugged at my heart. Words I both feared and cherished began to fall from my lips.

“I love you. I honestly love you. I thought you were so full of shit before, when you said that to touch you was to love you.” I paused to sniff and wipe more tears. “But you were right. I do. I can’t help it.” I pulled back a little, but didn’t have the courage to look him in the eye just yet. “I know you said that I should just fuck you all. But I can’t. There is something more than that inside when you touch me.” I sat up, putting a hand over my heart as I spoke. “Fucking doesn’t feel like this.
This
is more like—”

“Making love.”

His voice was so soft. If the look in his eyes was just as tender, I wouldn’t be able to finish what I had to say. So, I still didn’t look at him.

“I’m not trying to make you uncomfortable. I’m not trying to make you anything at all. But what I feel is so strong.” I started crying again. “It’s so strong. If you think I’m crazy, that’s fine. Like I said, I thought you were full of shit. Everything really was made clear when you touched me. I want to be with you. But Morgan and D, they’re a part of me too. I want you all.”

With that I did look up. And when I met his eyes I felt foolish for being afraid to do so before. Everything I felt was looking right back at me in his expression. He reached for me and as I fell into his arms he whispered, “As you wish.”

After a moment he asked, “What is your desire?”

I loved that. I could really get used to a sexy, all-powerful being asking me to tell him my desires. You’d have thought I could come up with something really good by now. I looked up at him, relishing the way a smile spread slowly across his full lips.

“I’d really love a bath.”

The djinn laughed as he released me and rolled to a sitting position on the other side of the bed. His backside was just as much a work of art as the front.

“You’re a good person, Vivian.”

He rose and walked around to where I still lay. I took the hand he offered and found that although I was wobbly, I could stand better than I’d expected.

“What makes you say that?”

I tried to take a step and my knees gave out. Hud caught me and swept me into his arms in one fluid movement. I rested my head against his chest as he carried me toward the door.

“You have someone like me here with you and when asked your desires, you only want a bath.”

He laughed again and I looked up.

“You’re not carrying me out into the hallway!?” My tone was incredulous. Surely he didn’t plan to carry me out butt naked.

He shrugged and even with me in his arms the movement looked graceful. How did he do that?

“You asked for a bath. If you enjoy such things, I’m sure you’ll find my chambers more accommodating.”

“Fine, but can’t you just?” I snapped my fingers. “You know,
magic
us there?”

His smile was devastating.

“You mean as opposed to carrying your naked ass down the hallway when you haven’t the strength to stop me?”

I was afraid he meant to do it anyway. Then, in an instant our surroundings changed. I had expected it to be something like teleportation. But it was nothing like that. Even though teleporting off and on planets was occasionally necessary, I had always hated it. I despised that freeze-dried feeling it gave my insides. This really was magic. We were in my room and suddenly, we were not. Everything felt the same. Hud’s chest was just as solid as it had been beneath my palm moments before. And the room seemed to be just as solid, only now it had changed.

Hud carried me toward the bed and my jaw dropped as I took a look around. I had never seen a bed or a bedroom so large. An entire palace could have fit in there by my estimation. The floors were a beautiful white marble that reminded me of D’s skin. Everything was made of gold, the bed frame, fixtures that I could see, everything.

But it was the bed that kept drawing my attention. In fact, I found it difficult to look away. The covers shimmered, just like Hud’s skin in the moonlight. The enormous mattress was half covered by pillows of different shapes, sizes, and textures. All were either some shade of blue or gold. As if it didn’t already steal the show, the bed was elevated by six steps. It sat on the right hand side of the room like a grand throne in the midst of the most decadent surroundings I had ever seen.

I had not spoken since entering his chambers and when I found my voice all I could manage was, “Wow.”

“Glad you like it.”

Hud took the six steps up to the bed as if he weren’t carrying my extra weight. When he sat me down I couldn’t resist the urge to stretch out across the shimmering fabric.

“This feels like your skin.” I sighed and rubbed my face against the bed. “Just as smooth.” Then a horrible thought occurred to me and I sat up. “Please tell me this isn’t made from the skin of others like you.”

His laugh was soft, yet it rumbled throughout the room.

“Of course not.”

He didn’t elaborate further and I didn’t ask what the covers actually
were
made of. When I fell back against the pillows I looked up at the canopy and gasped. It looked like the entire universe could be seen there. When you looked at the bed, the canopy, like the covers was a very dark shade of blue. So dark that at first glance you might think it was black. But the underside of the canopy, the side you looked up at from the bed, well, it was remarkable. I was looking up at a billion stars, at comets and planets twirling on their axes. Entire galaxies were right here, at my fingertips.

When I stretched upward to touch it, Hud’s hand curled gently around mine.

“It isn’t real,” he said softly. “It’s only an enchantment.”

I didn’t believe him. “But you can make it real.”

“Yes.”

I relaxed back against a giant blue pillow and decided to drop the subject. I knew when I was looking out into real space or not. If he didn’t want to tell me the purpose of his canopy, well, I guess that was his business.

“I thought we were going to take a bath?” I asked, turning my attention back to the djinn.

He looked magnificent standing there beside the bed. The curve of his hips was almost as inviting as the look in his eyes. I slid forward and rubbed my face against that curve.

“I love your body.”

As I spoke I reached around and took his ass in both my hands, squeezing gently. I rose to my knees, rubbing my way up his body as if my flesh could memorize the feel of every inch of his.

“I could touch you forever.”

He rubbed my head as if he were smoothing back my hair. “Relax, Vivian. You’ll have your chance.”

At his words I pulled back. Really? Forever with this body, this face? I smiled. That was doable.

“Are you cold?” he asked.

I thought about it for a second and realized I did have a chill.

“A little.”