Page 21 of Sweet Dreams

The venom in my saliva wouldn't be enough to satiate the still torn bond between us, but it sure as Hades was going to make her aroused. I’d probably thrown the power into another level by touching her so much, too. No doubt her body was humming with lust by this point. And, sandwiched between several other movie-goers, I was trapped next to the object of all my desires as she dripped with need.

Leaning back in my chair, I attempted to rearrange the hard shaft of my cock. I had been suffering with this since the moment I’d walked into the Salus Glen Times and she’d wrapped her arms around me, but now, after I knew for sure what she tasted like, what she smelled and felt like when she was most excited…I was hard as steel. But, I needed to get used to that. I was completely set on doing this correctly. In dating her, courting her, as if she were one of my people. We would attend activities, I would bring her food and gifts and yes, when she is ready, I will spend as much time as possible on my knees or belly between her thighs. The bond would be insatiable. The stronger the need, the stronger the tie, and after these years apart, I needed to be sure that she was completely ready for life with me.

Because another aspect of all of this stemmed from the fact that we were working within a bond I’d already sheared apart.

And, that I would have to tell who I was now. The man from her dreams and, also, decidedly not human.

I hoped my tongue might make up for some aspects of that. But as for the others? I had no idea what Lulu would think.

“Z?”

I jerked out of my thoughts, my eyes moving from the screen in front of us, to the woman at my side. “What is it?”

Her throat worked and I became momentarily distracted by the movement. But then, she was leaning, her lips so close to my ear I could feel her breath. “I think I need to step out for a minute, okay? I’ll be right back.”

My jaw fell open, surprised as she was already up and moving, her body moving quickly down the row. Fuuuccckkk. I stood, apologizing as I wound my way after her. My bigger body garnered more hiss complaints and by the time I got out of the theater, she wasn’t anywhere to be seen. I took a deep breath, letting her scent tell me where she’d gone.

I caught a taste of her immediately, turning to go through the exit door and pushing it open. The back of the building was shrouded in darkness. For a moment, I thought I’d gotten in wrong, but then I saw Lulu, her back to me as mumbled words filled the small alleyway.

My ears twitched.

“Get it together, Lu, this is insane,” she was saying, her words rushed.

Clearing my throat so as to not scare her, I approached her. “Lulu, are you okay?” I asked her softly. I knew that right now, my venom, which was less powerful in my glamour, was probably making her crave all kinds of things. And, while I knew that I shouldn’t get too close, I couldn’t stop myself.

My mate.

She needed me.

“Lulu…I’m here.”

In a breath, she had twisted, her arms sliding around my shoulders as I moved up to hold her as she knitted herself up against me.

“Oh God, Z, I feel like I'm going crazy. But, oh my God, if you could feel this.” Her eyes were blown dark and hungry as they found mine. “I can't stop thinking about you, about our kiss. About how badly I want more.”

“Shhh,” I tried to shush her, “It’ll pass, it’s okay.”

“I just, God, can I hold you like this, just a little longer?” Her voice was high-pitched, her hips wriggling against my pelvis as I attempted to hold her off of my body. My cock ached.

After a minute, she mellowed against me, her soft sniffle of confusion tearing at my heart as I tried stroking my thumbs over her ribcage. “I’m so sorry, I know you don’t like to be touched. I just felt like I had to, like being close to you was the only thing I could do.”

My head flopped back, a long groan rattling up my chest. Call it instincts, call it stupidity, call it whatever you damned well pleased. But, fuck, this torture. She thought I didn’t like her touching me, when in fact, every brush of her body on mine sent me into a world of bliss I hadn’t known existed before now.

I couldn’t let her continue to think that about me. Assumptions were no longer allowed in this relationship. Because that’s what this would be. A real relationship. I would make sure of it.

She was fucking mine.

“I lied to you, earlier.”

Her body stilled, “What? When?”

“When I told you I don’t like to be touched.’

I felt her face crane around, looking for my eyes, but I couldn’t give them to her yet. I hid my face in the soft fall of her hair as I kept stroking those delicate muscles on her torso. “I was afraid, Lulu. I was terrified that if you touched me too much that this would happen. That I would be lost in it. Because all I’d want then would be you touching me. I would be addicted, intoxicated.”

Gritting my teeth, I pulled back to look down at her. Her eyes were watery, the gold flecks in their depths staring hard into mine. “Oh.”

“And, you know what,” I said, a dark laugh on my lips, “I was right.” I leaned in, letting my nose brush against hers.