Part 14 (1/2)
”I never make threats I'm not prepared to carry out.”
”The h.e.l.l you don't.” He tightened his fingers around her shoulders. ”I know who and what you are, but you'd better realize who I am as well. I've spent the last fiftysome years hunting rabid vampires and have lived to tell about it. I do not scare easily, Tatiana.”
She jerked away from him. ”I'm asking you for the last time to leave us alone.”
”Why?” He stared down at the unconscious man lying at his feet. ”Is he your bloodl.u.s.t?”
She moistened her lips. ”You should know enough about vampires to know if he were my bloodl.u.s.t, I wouldn't have been with you earlier.” She stroked his cheek. ”Now will you leave us alone?”
”I'm not going to leave so you can f.u.c.k him!”
She slapped him so hard his head snapped back on his neck. ”Don't make the mistake of forgetting who you're talking to, Jason. I'll f.u.c.k who the h.e.l.l I like.”
The urge to slap her back nearly choked him. He stepped back, leveling a finger at her. ”And don't you make the mistake of thinking I'll allow you to slap me like that again.”
She sighed and shook her head. ”Please.”
”I'll wait inside, but I am not leaving.” He glared at her. ”And you had d.a.m.n well better not f.u.c.k him. I'll be watching and I swear if you do, I'll kill him and rip him into a hundred little pieces. You are my woman and I'll be d.a.m.ned if I'll share you with anyone else.”
He clamped a hand against the back of her neck and glared into her eyes. ”I'm warning you, don't you try me or I'll spank your a.s.s raw and then f.u.c.k it so hard you won't be able to sit on it for a week.”
Although her blue eyes sparkled with annoyance, to his surprise, she leaned forward and pressed her lips briefly against his. Before he could enjoy the contact, she'd jerked away from him.
He turned and walked back inside. For a moment he stood staring at her as she knelt beside the blond. Then he shrugged and went back into the bedroom. If she really were his woman, he was going to have to be able to trust her not to sleep with other men when they were separated. Breathing deeply, he stretched out on the bed and closed his eyes.
Tat kneeled beside Tim's sprawled body and stroked his jaw. ”Are you all right?” He opened his eyes and sat up. He worked his jaw slowly. ”Who the f.u.c.k was that?”
That was a good question. Who was Eric, or Jace, as he now insisted on being called? ”What difference does it make?”
”It makes a lot of difference.” Tim rose, pulling her to her feet. With his hands on her waist, he jerked her against him, grinding his hips against hers.
She felt his c.o.c.k. He was aroused, but rather surprisingly, she was not.
”You're my woman and I want to know what he's doing here half-dressed. Were you f.u.c.king him?”
She pulled away from him. ”Who I f.u.c.k is none of your business. You had your chance with me and you blew it.”
He stared at her. ”If I were you, I'd rethink that statement. If you think I can be so easily dismissed, you're wrong.” He shook his head. ”I'm not the man I used to be.”
She nodded. ”So I noticed.”
He smiled and slid his zipper down. ”I'm more man than I've ever been.” He exposed his c.o.c.k. It was long, thin, fully erect. ”I need you, baby.”
Recalling the number of times he'd hit her special spot with his sweet c.o.c.k, she bit her lip. She had needs too, but he wasn't the one she wanted to satisfy them. ”It's over, Tim.”
”Oh no it's not. It can't be.”
”It's been over since I realized you couldn't handle who and what I am.”
He touched her cheek. ”I was a fool, but I told you I took steps to make myself worthy of you.”
She recalled his blood tattoo, which had required large amounts of vampire blood. ”You've changed one of the things I loved most about you, Tim-your humanity.”
He flushed. ”I'm still human.”
”Technically?” She shrugged. ”I suppose you are, but you're not the man I fell in love with, and I am no longer in love with you. If you're all right, you should leave.”
He stared at her. ”You're asking me to leave while allowing him to stay? You think he's human?”
”I know what he is.”
He shook his head. ”Oh, I don't think you do. I'm telling you, Tatiana, if you don't watch yourself with him, you'll find yourself biting off more than you bargained for. You're better off with me.”
She stared at him, frowning. He was so different from the man she had once loved. He looked exactly the same, but all the warmth and goodness she'd so prized had been replaced by a cool arrogance tinged with a hint of threat that she found highly annoying.
The man who had broken her heart no longer stirred her physically or emotionally. ”I can take care of myself.” She gestured toward the patio doors. ”Goodbye, Tim.”
He narrowed his gaze. ”I'm warning you. If you do this, you'll be sorry. He's involved in some heavy s.h.i.+t and you can't trust him.”
”I'll take my chances. Now please don't make me ask you to leave again.”
He gripped her hand. ”I need you. If you send me away now, it's going to be bad news for both of us.”
”Goodbye.”
He his narrowed. ”Fine, but the next time we see each other, it will be under different circ.u.mstances. When that happens, remember that it could have been different if you hadn't been thinking with that hot, insatiable p.u.s.s.y of yours instead of your head.”
She clenched her right hand into a fist and pressed it against her side. If she gave in to the impulse to hit him, a slap wouldn't be enough. She'd grab him by the b.a.l.l.s and toss him off the balcony. ”Get out-now!”
”You can't begin to realize the trouble you've gotten yourself into.”
She grabbed him by his collar and shoved him toward the doors. ”Get out now, or else.”
He righted himself and turned to glare at her. ”You'll regret this.”
”If you make me tell you to leave again, you'll be dead.”
He turned and left.
She followed him through the foyer to the front door. ”Do yourself a favor, Tim, don't come back,” she said and slammed the door in his face.
”b.i.t.c.h!” He hissed the word through the closed door.
She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, leaning back against the door. What the h.e.l.l had she ever seen in him? She shook her head. Why waste time thinking about him when a handsome hunter with a thick, pleasing c.o.c.k awaited her in the bedroom?
Smiling, she pushed herself away from the door and headed for the bedroom and the s.e.xy hunter waiting there.