“No,” he said. “So how do I deal with this, Delilah? It’s my nature, the monster in me for the only time in my life since I was a kid controlling me. I don’t understand it and I don’t know how to fight it except to keep away from you. Or go to The Biltmore and talk to these fucks and hope they aren’t what I think they are and can give me some answers as to how I can deal and keep you safe.”

“What if they’re not nice vampires?”

“I got two choices…give into the urge and rape the woman destined for me or go to The Biltmore and find out.”

“Or you could just fuck me,” I blurted, and the room went wired.

Shit.

“Do not,” he said simply, but both words were harsh and grating, hurting my ears.

Man, oh man, he needed to fuck me.

“You go and you get hurt or dead and Jian-Li loses you, Xun, Chen, Wei.” Me, I thought but didn’t say. “That’s better than us having sex?”

“Rutting, Delilah.”

I felt a rush of wet saturate the area between my legs.

God, again, strange, but that also turned me on.

“Okay, rutting,” I whispered.

“I could hurt you,” he stated.

“Try not to do that,” I replied.

“What if I can’t control it?” he asked.

“I…I don’t know,” I answered.

“And you’re still willin’ to take that chance?”

I widened my eyes at him but said nothing.

“I can smell you,” he whispered.

Fuck.

“Abel.”

“You want it.”

“Um…” I started and stopped, finding that fact titillating, so much so, more wet hit between my legs.

“You cannot know, you’ll never know, but I don’t think you get what hanging on by a thread means, Delilah. I’m doin’ that right now. And right now, you say one word, ‘go,’ and you won’t see me again until I got it together. You don’t say that word right now, it happens.”

I should say “go.”

I should.

But something deep in my heart knew I actually shouldn’t.

So I didn’t.

I stared at him, heart slamming in my chest, and said nothing.

“Fuck,” he snarled, surging from his chair, and in a flash, he was on me.

In another flash, I was whipped around, knees in the bed, nightshirt torn over my head, palm in my back, shoving me to my hands in the bed.

Oh God.

Then my hips jerked violently as he tore my panties away.

I bit my lip to bite back a moan because that was so…damned…hot.

Then he drove inside, filling me. Oh man, oh God, I was so fucking full. There was pain from stretching to accommodate him, but mostly it was pleasure since he was huge.

My head shot back and there was no holding back the deep moan that tore from my lips.