Which gave us lots of time to ourselves.
The sex was fucking incredible. I’d never been with the same woman for more than the few days of breeding season, but Harper grew more responsive to me. Not less.
I figured out exactly what made her come, and learned that she wasn’t interested in being fucked on her back. I didn’t ask why, but we both knew.
His fangs were on a chain around her neck.
Neither of us tried to make it more or less than what it was.
And with every day that passed, I tried a little harder to come up with an excuse to keep the thing between us going after we were back in the tower.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
harper
I wasin a sex haze when we finally drove back to Vast.
Sex.
Haze.
I hadn’t been bloodlusty in two entire weeks. I bit Rhone every time I started to feel it, and he made me feel so much better.
Now, I understood why Nolan was always healing one of Oren’s bites.
For a few days, I'd felt normal again.
Human.
Alive.
It was addicting.
I was a little crushed to know that it was going to end, but I'd been mentally reminding myself that there was an expiration date to my bliss since the first day.
It's temporaryhad been on repeat in my mind all day, every day.
Whenever Rhone wasn't inside me, at least.
Okay, sometimes when he was inside me too. The alternative was getting completely lost in him.
Rhone had made it clear that he wasn't going to take a mate. He wasn't an option, but he was still possessive.
That was going to be a problem.
Because now that I'd had a glimpse of what it was like to be mated as a turned vampire, I wasn't settling for anything else.
If I took a mate, I could survive.
If I didn't, I was going to start fading again.
And I was done with that.
Really fucking done.
I texted Bloom on the way home.
Me