Vampire Food 08: He Smelled Like Peach Pie Read Free

trying to do? I have a bond with you. I trust you and I have no qualms about giving myself to you. If nothing else, I know that you will give me complete pleasure. I don’t want my first time to be with someone who feels the need to conquer me because I’m a virgin. I don’t want a man who is going to pleasure himself and leave me hanging. I know that won’t happen with you.”
    Salt knew that there were many young and inexperienced vampires in the caves. The governors had surrounded themselves with newling vampires that wouldn’t question them or challenge them. They had made sure that they controlled their hunger through coalesce with equally inexperienced and weak vampires. Mia was probably right in her concerns that they would act like rowdy young men with a desire for conquest. Many of them also had limited experience with sex and that would make a difference.
    None of that changed the fact that he was still torn about sleeping with Mia. Given a choice he would have said no, but Em had been right that somewhere deep in his mind, he had wanted this with Mia. He had wanted to be her first and make it special for her. Salt knew from the expression on her face that if he continued to deny her, Mia would go to someone else. He didn’t really want that either.
     
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    Becka was twirling his hair in her fingers. He really disliked it when she did that. He snatched her hand and moved it away from his hair. “I really have to head back to my own cave.”
    “But I’m not with child, Russell. I would know. I would be able to feel it. Your seed did not take my egg. I feel nothing but the warm glow of after sex. I think we should go to sleep and try again when we wake up.”
    “I think that you should go to sleep, and I should go back to where I belong.”
    Becka sat up, pursing her lips sadly. “I can’t believe you. I have given myself completely to you and still you reject me. How can you choose a vampire over one of your own kind? What is wrong with me, Russell? Is it my twisted tooth? I will have it fixed. Is it that I’m not skinny enough? I can lose weight. Tell me and I will change it.”
    He rose to sit opposite her. “This is not something that you can fix, Becka. I love Em. You know that. You have known that from the beginning. This is not a matter of having a relationship. It is a matter of having a child. I never offered you my heart. It is not available to be given away.”
    “You know that the other shifters look down on you because you are with a vampire woman. You are a strong alpha, yet you lose respect because of your choice in mates.”
    “I really don’t give a shit. I never cared what others thought of me, and I’m not going to start now. I don’t want a position as alpha of any clave that I’m not already a part of. Just because it involves three vampires and my mate is vampire, makes them no less of a family to me. I have all the respect I need from them.”
    “But you are superior to them.”
    Russell was stunned by the comment. He never would have imagined hearing those words from Becka’s mouth. “How do you figure that? We are of equal strength and mindset. If anything, they run faster than I can, no matter what form I take.”
    “But we are not limited to only walk during the darkness. That is a weakness that can so easily kill them.”
    His nostrils twitched in anger. Was it a comment or a threat? “They don’t die easily and anyone who thinks they do had better change their attitude or live somewhere else. You’re right. I can walk in the sun, but if any harm came to my mates, I can also hunt during the sun. I would not hesitate to track down their betrayer and tear them slowly apart.”
    Becka swallowed hard, fear showing in her gaze. “I…didn’t mean anything by that. I only meant that you are stronger.”
    “I think that you had better keep that opinion to yourself, Becka. It would not be looked upon too kindly here. If anyone else shares your notions about