He rocked into her, already hard and aching in his jeans. She moaned breathily against his lips, the soft puff of air driving him out of control.
Payne snarled and kissed her again.
She tensed.
They weren’t alone.
Payne lifted his head and slowly turned it to face the intruder. An incubus stood in the open doorway of one of the rooms down the hall to his right, naked as the day he had been born, his hand on his cock, slowly stroking it. The sure look in his blue and gold eyes, the way he smiled right at Elissa, and the fact that she reacted, pushed Payne over the edge.
He dropped Elissa, teleported to the man, grabbed him by the throat and slammed him hard into the doorframe, knocking the breath from him.
Payne stepped into him and roared in his face, baring his fangs and tightening his grip on the man’s throat at the same time, digging his claws in to draw blood. The incubus choked and grimaced, and grappled with Payne’s arm, trying to prise it away from him. Payne snarled again, getting in the man’s face, ensuring the dark haired male knew he was treading on thin ice and that he wouldn’t get a warning next time he turned on the charm with Elissa.
“Payne,” Elissa whispered and he refused to heed her command. He couldn’t let this male think that a female ruled him and could easily bring him to heel.
Payne tightened his grip, throttling the male who had challenged him. He growled, flashing fangs again, his eyes red and sharp, his vampire side fully in control. “Mine. Understand?”
The male frantically nodded.
Payne released him and then landed a hard right hook on his jaw for good measure, sending him crashing onto the wooden floor. It took all of his willpower to force himself to step away and not level a hard kick at his stomach while he was down.
He turned to face Elissa.
She stood with her back pressed against the wall. There was a nervous edge to her beautiful face and her heartbeat, but the scent of desire continued to roll off her and her enlarged pupils said that his display of aggression, the things he had said, and his possessive behaviour had aroused her.
He growled back at the man and then stalked towards her. He was barely within a metre of her when she threw herself into his arms, hers instantly looping around his neck and dragging him down to her. She kissed him hard, dominating him this time, and he wanted to take her back to their room and forget their treasure hunt.
He dragged her against him, bending her to his will, taking control of the kiss and telling her without words that he had meant what he had said. She was his now, and he would challenge any male who tried to change that.
Sounds came from below them and his focus shifted there, his vampire hearing picking up fragments of a conversation between two males. One mentioned a visitor, his voice familiar. The man who had escorted them to the room. His grandfather’s assistant. Had his grandfather returned?
Payne drew away from Elissa and focused his senses on the world outside. It smelled faintly of sunshine, but in a lingering way that signalled it was close to sunset. Daylight had come and gone. They had failed to take advantage of the time they’d had to search the mansion for his grandfather’s rooms, too lost in each other to notice the hours slipping past.#p#分页标题#e#
The deep unfamiliar male voice sounded mildly surprised as he responded and then mentioned something about resting before they met. Payne pulled in a slow breath, using it to steady himself and the nerves that were beginning to grow out of control inside him. His grandfather. His heart thumped against his chest, hard and fast, the tempo increasing as he thought about how a meeting between them might play out. He would do his best to control his urge to make his grandfather pay for everything his mother had suffered, and all he had been through too, not because he didn’t want to kill the man, but because he had to keep Elissa safe. If he attacked the male who ran this den, he would cause the other incubi to retaliate. He would place Elissa in danger.
“What is it?” Elissa whispered, her eyes enormous and fixed on him.
“He’s here.”
She tensed in his arms and stared along the hall, the wavy fall of her chestnut hair masking her face and her heartbeat sounding rapidly in his head. Her fear blasted off her in strong waves, crashing over him and drawing his vampire side to the fore again. He was hungry. Payne’s gaze dropped to the creamy curves of her breasts in her black halter-top. His heart accelerated.
She caught him staring and her frown was chastisement enough. He apologised with a wicked smile, and a touch of pink coloured her cheeks. He still loved it whenever he made her blush like an innocent. She couldn’t know what it did to him, how it tugged at not only his protective instincts but his constant hunger for her, otherwise she wouldn’t blush so easily. She would try to control it from fear of him biting her again.