High Stakes (Vegas Vampires #1)(39)
Author: Erin McCarthy

"You know, this can only end in sex," he told her as she flattened her palm on his forehead in an attempt to hold him down on his back.

"That’s what I’m hoping," she said, breathing hard, br**sts brushing his chest.

If he wanted to, he could send her thirty feet across the room with one push, but he wanted to fight fair, and on her terms. That didn’t mean he couldn’t take it to the next level, though. On his back, Alexis on his lap, he reached forward and grabbed the fabric of her tight T-shirt. With just a little yank on his part, it split into two pieces, resisting only a bit at the neckline before completely giving way.

"What the " Alexis exclaimed,then moaned when he cupped both br**sts, flicked open the front latch of her bra, and kneaded the firm, warm flesh.

Eyes glazed, pupils dilated, a thin sheen of moisture on her upperlip, she leaned down and kissed him with hard, eager movements. She nipped his lip with her teeth, which shot desire through every inch of his body, while she ground her spread thighs on his erection.

They kissed with hot, tangled tongues, her ni**les beading under his thumbs, and the air was filled with their excited breathing, the rapid race of their hearts, and the seductive flow of Alexis’s blood through her plump veins. He rolled her onto her back, and she kicked him in the thigh. "No, I want on top."

"Then take it," he told her, desire thick in his mouth, and arousal reaching a fevered pitch. It had been hundreds of years since he had wanted with this desperate level of intensity, this slam-and-take instinct.

When she got turned on, her eyes went the most amazing shade of aqua. They were that color now, cloudy with passion, and spark- ingwith sensual confidence.

"Okay." She tried to turn him, but he kept himself stiff, hovering over her. Dropping his head, heflickered his tongue over her nipple.

There was a tiny shudder from her, a pause as her eyes fluttered shut, but then she gathered herself and yanked at his shoulder, try- ingto roll him. Legs clamped around his thighs, she tugged and swore while he laughed.

"Nice try.-"

"Bite me." Then she stopped struggling. "Shit, I’ve got to stop using that expression." Letting go of him, she wiggled out of the remains of her shirt and slid her bra off her shoulders.

Ethan ripped off his shirt. "I’ll take that as an invitation."

Alexis clapped her hand over his mouth."To bite? I don’t think so."

He nipped her finger,then sucked it in between his lips. She jerked beneath him, her eyes rolling back as he drew her into the hot moisture of his mouth.

"That’s not so bad," she admitted.

"That wasn’t a bite. That was a nip and a suck." He took the tip of her wet finger and swirled it over her nipple. "When I bite, you’ll know it. You’ll feel it everywhere, like a thousand tongues caressing all over your body, and you’ll beg me not to stop."

A moan ripped from her. Then she was unzipping her jeans and trying to shove them down one-handed. "If you bite me, 1 won’t become a vampire, will I?"

"No." Ethan gave her some assistance, pulling her pants down inside out. He didn’t even stop to regret the passing of dresses and pantaloons when her bare body was revealed to him. He swallowed the excess saliva in his mouth.

Alexis was incredible. Curvy and feminine, that wonderful modern combination of physically fit, with defined muscle tone, but allwoman , rounded and contrasting. A woman who made himfeel like a man.

She was kicking violently at her jeans, still trapped on her an- kles, and the jerks did interesting things to her br**sts. He took one into his mouth, stilling her. Oh, yes. She was sweet and salty, her tight nipple tantalizing and teasing his teeth.

Too soon.It was too soon. Yanking back, Ethan bent down, disposed of her pants, and ran his hands up the length of her soft, supple body. "You are beautiful, you know." Brushing over the curls at the apex of her thighs, he added, "Golden. I want to eat you." He pressed a kiss right on the dewy mound.

Alexis was surprised she didn’t climax right then and there, and all thoughts of waiting to have sex were banished. They were doing this now, hard and fast. She groaned and pulled him by the hair back up to her mouth. Ethan brought out the violent in her. But between the talking, and the show, and the electric sparring, she was feeling inhaled by an intensity of feelings for him.Swallowed, urgent, desperate, like she would do anything to get him inside her. Like nothing would be enough until he was.

Between hot kisses, she murmured, "Get your pants off." Groping at his waist, she tried to find the snap on his pants, but it eluded her. So she settled for a killer squeeze on his tight butt.

His taste was tangy, like salsa, and his tongue did delicious circles around hers. But then he pulled back, forcing her hand to fall off his backside. Alexis gave a groan of disappointment, and he settled back down against her.

With no jeans on.

Holy vampire erection.It was nudging right against her, big abd thick, and oh, my. "Where did your pants go? Did you vapor- izethem or something?"

Ethan rocked his hips, grinding their bodies together. "No. You blinked. And while you were blinking, I took them off."

That was kind of scary."Show-off." But she wasn’t all that upset when she resumed her previous position and got to stroke all over his bare butt.

"No, just desperate for you."

That was a good thought."Condom on, too?"

He paused. "No."

"Well, get to it, speedy." She didn’t want to think about the reality of it, but she had to face it. Lord only knew some of the places his stake had been buried in the past nine hundred years, and she didn’t want to find out anytime soon.

Ethan stood up, completely and gloriously naked.

"Where are you going?" she asked, panicking that he didn’t have condoms. She certainly didn’t.

"I have one in the pocket of my jeans, but I threw my jeans a little farther than I meant to."

One?Like that was going to be enough. And where the hell were his jeans, the hallway?

Almost.They were dangling off the minibar , clear on the opposite side of the room. Considering Alexis had never even seen him take the pants off, there was an element of freak-out to that, but she decided to ignore it.

Especially when he retrieved a condom from his wallet—which made Alexis briefly wonder what else was in a vampire’s wallet— and sheathed himself. When he turned, she decided any and all questions could wait until the end of the session, because that thing was coming at her.

"Hail to the chief," she said with enthusiasm, moving her legs restlessly on the thick carpet.