Cooper's Passion: Scanguards Hybrids #5 (Scanguards Vampires Book 17), page 16
Again, she lifted herself on her knees, and Cooper helped her by lifting his butt off the mattress so she could pull his pants and boxer briefs down sufficiently to free his cock and balls from their prison. She lowered herself back onto his thighs and wrapped her hand around his cock while cradling his balls in the palm of her other hand.
“Fuck, Babe!”
She noticed him clench his jaw and press his head into the pillow, while his cock pulsed in her hand. “Definitely very hard,” she murmured. “Are all vampires like you?”
“How?”
“Always hard, with endless stamina, skillful, and adventurous?”
“Probably. Everything we feel and do is more intense. We have more stamina, and getting hard with you in the room is just automatic. I’ve been hard from the moment I first saw you.”
She pulled her lower lip between her teeth, his confession sending a spear of heat through her core. “So that’s why you didn’t free yourself when I arrested you.”
“Yes.” He glanced down at his erection. “’Cause I was hoping that maybe you and I could pleasure each other.”
She tugged on his cock, moving the thick shaft up and down in her hand.
“I guess I was right,” Cooper added on a moan, his long, dark eyelashes fluttering.
“I’m glad I arrested you,” Anita whispered and lowered her head to his groin. “So I get to do this.”
She licked over the head of his erection, before she closed her lips around it and slid down on him as far as she could.
“Fuck!”
Cooper’s curse was accompanied by his hips jerking. She put one hand around the base of his shaft, before she lifted her head a few inches, until only the thick head of his cock was still in her mouth. Then she took him deep again and began sucking him in a slow and steady rhythm, holding him firmly at the root and brushing her fingers over his balls. Cooper’s moans bounced off the walls in the small room, accompanied by the sound of the rattling handcuffs fastened to the metal headboard.
The sound of a door opening, and somebody gasping made Anita release Cooper’s cock and whirl her head in the direction of the door. A young woman stood there frozen, staring at them in stunned surprise.
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“Lydia!”
In shock, Cooper stared at his sister, while Anita scrambled to pull on the duvet and managed to cover his midsection with a corner of it, her face as red as the blood that thundered through her veins. Her embarrassment was impossible to overlook. Cooper didn’t care about his sister seeing him half-naked and in the middle of a sexual act, after all, vampires had a high sex drive, and his sister knew that better than anybody else. For a while, she’d gone through men like underwear, trying on a new one every day. But Anita had probably grown up with other sensibilities when it came to sex.
“I’m not sure why Mom asked me to check on you.” Lydia motioned to him and Anita. “By the looks of it, you’re doing just fine.” She smirked. “Better than fine.”
It was no surprise that their mother was responsible for this rude interruption. “It appears Mom still has trust issues.”
Lydia tipped her chin toward the handcuffs. “I can see why.”
“That’s just for fun.” He looked at Anita. “Anita, this is my older sister, Lydia. Lydia, this is my, uhm…” He rattled on the handcuffs. “… my keeper.”
“Hey, Anita,” Lydia said with a grin. “Don’t mind if I don’t shake your hand, but…” She tossed a pointed look at the spot where the duvet covered his groin.
Anita’s face turned even redder if that was possible. “Uhm, hi, Lydia, nice to meet you.”
“How about you tell Mom that I’m perfectly fine, and she doesn’t need to worry about me,” Cooper suggested. “As you can see, I’m in good hands.”
“Do you want me to give her all the details?” Lydia asked, still not making a move.
“Not necessary. Bye, Lydia. I would say, stay and chat, but as you can see, this is not a good time. I’m a little tied up right now.”
Chuckling, Lydia looked at Anita, giving her a once-over. “I hope my brother isn’t behaving too selfishly.” She winked and turned on her heel. “Have fun, guys.”
He heard Lydia leave the house. Anita was already jumping off the bed.
“Oh my God,” she cried out, breathing irregularly and fanning herself with both hands. “Your sister saw me giving you a blow job. Oh my God! What are we gonna do now?”
“Continue?” Cooper asked with a smirk.
“Are you crazy? What if your mother interrupts us next? No, no! I have to get out of here.”
“Easy, Baby. Breathe. Nothing happened. My sister doesn’t care.” He pulled on his restraints. “But if you don’t want to stay here, then uncuff me, and we’ll go back to Wesley’s house.”
Anita looked as if she didn’t know what to do, turning on her own axis twice, before she seemed to realize what she needed to do. She pulled a key out of her handbag and unlocked the handcuffs. When he was free, Cooper rose and pulled his pants up and zipped up. Then he put his arms around her.
“It’s okay.”
“This has never happened to me.” Slowly, Anita’s breathing settled into a steadier rhythm. “Your sister is beautiful.”
“You’re more beautiful,” he murmured into her ear and pressed a kiss to her cheek.
“She doesn’t look like you or your parents at all.”
“She’s adopted.”
“Oh. Does that mean she’s human?”
Cooper shook his head. “No, she’s a vampire hybrid like me. Her parents were murdered the night she was born. So my parents raised her as their daughter.”
“That’s so sweet of your parents to do that.”
“They are good people. You’ll see when you really get to know them. My mother is a very loving woman. She almost lost my father when they first met. That’s why now when something happens to the people she loves, she’s like a tigress.”
“What happened with your dad?”
“He, Wesley, and Katie were the three siblings of a witch. They were supposed to be the three most powerful witches in the world: the power of three. But another witch captured them and was about to harness the power for evil. So my father decided to kill himself to destroy the power.”
Anita gasped, staring at him wide-eyed. “Oh my God!”
“He stabbed himself, hoping that my mother would reach him in time to save him. She did. She had to turn him into a vampire.”
“So he’s now a witch slash vampire?”
Cooper shook his head. “The powers of a witch can’t live in a vampire’s body.” He opened the closet and pulled an old T-shirt out of it and slipped it over his head. “Wesley is the only one who still has his powers and practices witchcraft. He’s actually very accomplished.”
“And your aunt, Katie?”
“She’s almost completely human.” He motioned to the door. “Let’s go.”
In the kitchen, Cooper grabbed his jacket, snatched his car keys from the table, and took Anita’s hand.
“Are you okay to drive?” Anita asked.
He leaned closer. “Baby, I was well enough to have sex. I’m well enough to drive.”
In the car, Cooper made a call to headquarters to check in and report that he’d seen an unknown vampire lurking in North Beach. None of the other staff on canvassing duty had reported anything of note yet. Nobody had seen Janet or the suspect.
Cooper disconnected the phone and gave Anita a sideways look. “There’s no need for us to go back to HQ tonight. It’s best if we rest for a while. It’s late anyway. You must be tired.”
“Just a little. So much happened tonight. I’m too wound up to sleep right now. Tell me more about your family. You said that Katie is human, but if she’s your father’s sister, I assume she’s much older than she looks.”
“She still has the genes that identify her as a witch. That’s why she ages only incrementally. But even if she were one hundred percent human, she wouldn’t age at all, because she’s blood-bonded to a vampire.”
“Blood-bonded? What does that mean?”
“Luther, her vampire mate and husband, shares his immortality with her.” He glanced at Anita, wondering how much about the blood-bond she was ready to hear.
“Are you saying he turned her into a vampire like your mother did with your father?”
“No, not at all. Katie’s still human, but there’s a ritual that bonds a vampire to his mate. They drink each other’s blood, and through this bond, Katie stays young and won’t age, unless Luther dies.”
For a moment, Anita contemplated his words. “Wow. I never thought there’s such a thing. I mean, in the lore, a vampire always has to turn the human to bestow immortality… But if that’s not the case… If you don’t need to turn somebody… and you can still be with that person…” She looked at him from the side, suddenly silent.
Cooper took her hand and squeezed it, glad that he’d told her that there was a way they could be together, while not putting any pressure on her to make a decision. He pulled Anita’s hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles.
When he gazed into her eyes, he saw affection shining back at him. There was no fear left in them, no apprehension, no horror. The Anita who looked at him now was the woman who understood him. The woman he wanted to be with.
“Yes, a human can be with a vampire and be very happy. I have friends, other vampire hybrids, who’re bonded to human women. I’ll introduce you to them, if you want to talk to them… you know, to find out what it’s like to live with a vampire hybrid.”
Anita took a deep breath. There was a short pause, before she spoke. “You said to your mother that you loved me.”
Cooper slowed the car and turned into the driveway of Wesley’s house, before looking at her. “It shouldn’t come as a surprise to you. I told you before that I’m falling in love with you. But I don’t want you to feel that you have to make a decision about me, about us…” He pressed the garage door opener and waited for the gate to lift. “I would have chosen a more romantic situation to tell you that I love you, but I had to make sure my mother knew not to hurt you.”
Anita leaned over the divide between their seats and put one hand on his nape, pulling his head to her. “I’m glad you said it. It helped me be less afraid.” She brushed her lips over his in a featherlight touch. “And more hopeful.”
“Hopeful about what?”
“That we might have something… that this is developing past a one-night stand.”
He smiled. “Anita, this was never a one-night stand to begin with. At least not for me. Any man lucky to have you in his bed just once, is a fool if he lets you get away. And I don’t mean that in a stalker kind of way.”
“I get that.”
She pressed her lips to his, and he accepted the invitation and kissed her tenderly, before he severed the kiss. “We’d better go inside.”
He drove into the garage, and the gate lowered behind him. They got out of the car, and Cooper took Anita’s hand as they walked into the corridor from where a staircase led up into the house. At the bottom of the staircase, Anita suddenly stopped and turned to him.
“Something wrong?” he asked and glanced around to ascertain if they were still alone. They were.
“Yesterday, when you brought me here, I’d forgotten my handbag in your car. When I came down to get it, I thought I saw Virginia disappear in front of my eyes. There.” She motioned to the end of the corridor. “Is that a vampire skill? To disappear into thin air?”
Cooper chuckled. “Virginia isn’t a vampire. She’s a Stealth Guardian.”
“A what?”
“A preternatural creature sworn to protect humans from demons. She can make herself and others invisible, and she can walk through walls. That’s probably what you saw.”
He didn’t elaborate why Virginia had walked into the room at the end of the corridor, where a portal was located that allowed her to teleport to other locations in the world within seconds. It wasn’t his secret to share, and the existence of the Stealth Guardian portal had to be kept a secret from outsiders. However, he hoped that Anita would soon become a trusted member of their extended family. Sometime very soon.
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Anita could barely digest the news that vampires and witches existed, but the fact that creatures who could make themselves invisible and walk through walls lived among them, was on a whole other level of out-of-this-world unbelievable. Yet, she had to believe it, because that’s what she’d witnessed: Virginia using her Stealth Guardian powers.
Anita looked in the mirror in the bathroom between her room and Cooper’s. She didn’t look any different from this morning, yet she felt different. She was falling in love with a vampire. Tonight would be the first time she slept with him with the full knowledge of what he was, and the thought both excited and scared her.
She opened the door and walked into his room. Cooper sat in bed, his chest naked, the duvet covering his lower half. He turned his face to her, and she noticed how his eyes began to shimmer golden as he gazed at her. She wore a thin, very short nightgown with spaghetti straps and a plunging neckline that reached halfway to her navel, barely covering her breasts.
“You look gorgeous,” he murmured, his words beckoning her to approach.
Barefoot, she walked to the bed, her chest lifting with every inhale. She was fully aware of her body now. Her nipples were hard, and she felt the fabric chafing, while Cooper’s gaze dropped to her breasts as if they were powerful magnets meant to draw a man’s attention.
“Lift the duvet,” she demanded.
Cooper complied instantly and pulled the duvet to the other side of the bed, laying himself bare. Anita sucked in an audible breath. His cock stood erect, hard and beautiful, the head almost purple from the amount of blood in the veins snaking around the shaft.
Anita pushed one spaghetti strap off her shoulder, causing the fabric that had covered one breast to drop. Cooper’s cock jerked in response.
“Tease,” he murmured.
She smiled and pushed the other spaghetti strap off her shoulder, making the nightgown slide down her body and pool around her feet. Cooper ran his eyes over her naked body, before their gazes met. Slowly, without haste, she slid onto the bed and straddled him. His hands were on her waist instantly, and she lifted herself on her knees and reached for his cock.
He let out a moan, and she brought his cock to her center, its tip already nudging at her moist folds, before she let go of it. She lowered herself by half an inch, and felt the bulbous head part her nether lips.
“Fuck!” Cooper hissed, while he held her hips in a vise grip.
“Too much for my sensitive vampire lover?” she asked, bringing her face to his, enjoying a surge of power. The power a woman had over a man.
“I’m trying my best not to lose control,” he gritted through clenched teeth.
Anita brushed her lips over his. “Tell me what that’s like… to lose control…”
He let out a ragged breath, while he thrust his cock an inch deeper into her. “Don’t toy with me, Anita. I’m seconds away from my fangs emerging.”
A spear of heat charged through her core, and she realized that it wasn’t fear but excitement that filled her.
“Why don’t you show them to me?” She could barely believe what she was asking him. Had she lost her mind?
“Are you sure?”
Was she? “Yes.”
They locked eyes, and slowly, his lips parted, and she saw two beautiful rows of even white teeth. She blinked, and his two canines lengthened and changed their shape, turning into two razor-sharp fangs.
Anita swallowed hard, unable to tear her eyes from the sight. She lifted her hand to his face, wanting to touch them to confirm that she wasn’t hallucinating, when Cooper suddenly snatched her wrist, stopping her. The action made her drop her hips, and she impaled herself fully on his cock.
Anita gasped, and Cooper echoed her.
“Fuck!” he cursed, pressing his head against the headboard, breathing raggedly.
“I’m sorry,” she murmured. “I only wanted to t—”
“—touch them?” he asked, completing her sentence. “I know.”
Something akin to disappointment flooded her. “You don’t want me to?”
He let go of her wrist. “I do, but you should know first what that does to me.”
Curious, she drew her head back. “What do you mean?”
“If you were to touch my fangs…” He hesitated. “Or lick them, it would feel to me as if you were sucking my cock. That’s how intense a pleasure it is.”
Anita stared at him, fascinated. “Your fangs are erogenous zones?”
He nodded. “Do you still want to touch them?”
She shook her head. “I want to lick them.”
“Fuck, Babe. This is gonna kill me for sure.”
But Cooper didn’t push her back. Instead, he placed his hand on her nape, caressing her skin and making her shiver, while he pulled her to him gently. She moved her face closer until her lips were hovering over his.
“Be careful,” he murmured, “they’re very sharp.”
She heard the warning, but it didn’t matter. She wanted to experience this, wanted to know what it felt like to lick a vampire’s fangs, to play with fire. Because that’s what she was doing: tempting fate. But she couldn’t back away now. She wanted this.
Cooper remained motionless, his breath shallow, waiting for her to take action. Anita cupped his face, and licked her tongue over his right fang. Cooper’s cock jerked inside her, and a moan dislodged from his chest. Encouraged by his reaction, she licked over the other fang, eliciting the same reaction. A feeling of power surged through her at the knowledge that she could give this powerful man pleasure by simply licking his fangs.
Without thinking, she began to kiss him, not caring that his fangs were still extended, and that she could easily cut her tongue and lips on the sharp instruments. Cooper moaned into her mouth, kissing her back, his fangs grazing her lips. All of a sudden, she felt herself being lifted off him, and before she knew what was happening, she lay on her stomach, and Cooper pulled her hips up. Before she could brace herself, he plunged his rock-hard cock into her from behind, the sheets beneath her absorbing her surprised gasp.
