Page 19 of Grayson’s Challenge

“Yes,” she murmured.

She wanted this. Wanted to feel his fangs break her skin and sink deep into her.

“Fuck!” he hissed, before he dipped his face to her neck, licked over her vein, and drove his fangs into her.

A bolt akin to an electrical charge shot through her body, threatening to incinerate her from the inside. She felt his heartbeat echo her own as waves of pleasure crashed over her, drowning her in sheer bliss, making the rest of the world and all her problems vanish. In that moment, only the two of them existed.

She’d known that being bitten by a vampire was pleasurable, but she’d had no idea that it could be more pleasurable than being the one who did the biting.

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Grayson carried Mona into his bedroom and placed her on the bed, both of them naked now. Her blood was coursing through his veins, and he could still taste her on his tongue. He’d never tasted anything more tempting than her blood, and was glad that she hadn’t stopped him when he’d extended his fangs to drink from her. In fact, she’d invited him, teased him by offering her neck to him.

He pulled her into his arms, her body partially draped over his.

“You were wilder than yesterday,” she murmured, her sweet breath ghosting over his skin, making him shudder with pleasure.

“You like it when I’m wild?”

“Mmm.” With her index finger, she painted small circles around his nipple. “I liked your bite.”

He put two fingers under her chin to tilt her head up so he could look into her eyes. “I loved biting you. Your taste is… out of this world amazing.” There was no other way to describe it. Though he loved human blood and would always have to drink human blood, Mona’s was on a different level altogether.

“You made me come really hard when you bit me,” she admitted.

Her eyes shimmered golden, the green color in them gone. And though he knew she was satisfied, he also knew that this wouldn’t be the last time tonight that they would make love. They both needed this to drown out the problems with their families and the stresses of their lives.

Grayson slanted his lips over hers and gave her a featherlight kiss. “I hope you’re not planning on sleeping tonight.”

She smiled. “Not if I can help it. But if I do fall asleep, just wake me.”

“How would you like me to do that?” He ran his hand down to her ass, caressing her tenderly.

“I’m sure you can think of something.”

She wrapped her hand around his cock and tugged on it. His semi-erect shaft pumped full with blood in a matter of three seconds.

“Mmm, that’s perfect.” He enjoyed her soft palm caressing him and closed his eyes for a moment. “Tell me about yourself, Mona. What do you want from life?”

She suddenly stopped moving her hand up and down his erection, and he added, “Keep going, babe. I can multi-task.”

She let out a soft laugh. “You sure about that?”

Suddenly, she increased her tempo, and he put his hand over hers to slow her down. “Temptress. Now talk to me. What do you want out of life?”

“Independence,” she said while her hand returned to the leisurely rhythm of earlier.

“From your family?”

“Yes. I want to make my own decisions, chart my own course. I don’t want to be judged by anybody just because they think I should be a certain way because of who my father is. It’s hard to do that in a place where everybody knows you and your family.”

“To them you’ll always be the little girl they saw grow up, not the woman you’re now,” Grayson said.

“Is it like that for you too? Is that why you applied for a job far away from here?”

He knew the job in New Orleans was dead in the water. After the blow out he’d had with Samson and Cain, he had no chance in hell of getting the position. But he didn’t want to admit that to her. If what he had with Mona turned into something serious, they could go wherever they wanted, far away from their families.

“Yes, everybody sees me as a spoiled younger version of my father. And my father treats me more harshly than any of his employees. I have to work doubly hard to prove to him that I’m leadership material. It’s frustrating, because all I ever wanted was to be like him. And now, it looks like I’ll never be able to meet his high standards. I might as well start all over again somewhere else.”