Red Awakening: (Red Knight #2) (5 page)

“Adrien, where are the plates?”

He shrugs his strong shoulders as he strolls over. He opens every cupboard and the further he gets down the kitchen worktop, the more he slams, bangs, and mutters in frustration.

“It’s fine, I’ll find something to use.”

“No it’s not. I specifically told Sara to get everything you’d need,” he stresses.

Okay, this is getting a little out of hand. The full fridge that’s going to rot away when there are starving people out there in the world. The hundreds of herbs and spices only I can eat, and his stress level over some missing plates is way over the top.

“Adrien, she’s a vampire and doesn’t really need to eat off plates,” I say. “Perhaps it slipped her mind. It’s nothing to worry about.” I bend and pull out two placemats from beneath the sink. “Look, these will do.”

“Elizabeth, we’re not going to eat off those. It’s a ridiculous idea.”

“Yes I am, and so are you.” I put them next to the carton of eggs. “You need to relax; try to be a little more human.”

“Fine,” he grumbles, walking to the door to go and fetch the rest of my things.

I see a digital radio beside a small black coffeemaker. Music might help me unwind, get our first meal on the go, and make this seem more real. I flick on the button and see the small green lit screen on aux usb, track one.
Oh yeah, this is more like it
. The silence has now been drowned out by some melodic dubstep. Music that reminds me of The Mill. I turn up the volume and whisk away, as Adrien goes through the panel doors with my boxes. I tilt my head to have a nosy at his firm backside, feeling lucky and loved. 

I’ve managed to make meal number one in our new home. Okay, I’m serving it on black placemats, and it’s a tad charred around the edges, but I’m sure it’s edible.

I set the dining table, open a bottle of wine, and place Adrien’s egg only omelette down while calling him. He walks through, peering down at my attempts to garnish what looks crap with a sprig of parsley, amused.

“Wine?” I ask.

“Hold on, I have a better bottle than that.” He heads into the kitchen.

“So there’s a wine cellar here?” I ask as I take a seat.

He returns and pops the cork out of one of his vintage bottles.

“Unfortunately not. Although I may look into turning your closet into one, as soon as you don’t require it,” he says with a smile as he sits down.

He rotates the placemat, scrutinising his dinner. God, I feel bad for making him eat with me, when he clearly doesn’t want it. I try not to draw much attention to the fact I’m not so keen on eating mine either, as I move it around with my fork, noticing just how cremated it is. After all, a chef must be able to eat his own food. Just to prove that point, now I’ve got it inside my mouth, and the burnt bits are sticking to my teeth.

Adrien cuts off a small piece and reluctantly hovers it near his lips.

“It’s fine Adrien,” I say. “It’s bloody awful.” I spit it out into my napkin.

“Oh thank fuck.” He giggles.

“Do you not miss it… food?”

He takes a sip of his wine. “No. It was strange at first, not eating, but it’s one less thing to worry about.”

“What about everything else?” I lean over the table. “Like the clothes and the music. You seem relatively up to date with everything.”

“I definitely do not miss the clothes: itchy, smelly, damp, and dirty,” he frowns. “And the music, well, I’ll listen to anything, and whatever year it is, that just seems to flow with the present time. Can we please change the subject?” He gazes under his brow, annoyed. “It’s a lost period for me. I’m with you now, and I really don’t wish to discuss it.”

Oh crap, I thought it was a good conversation topic. When I was living at Cates and stayed with him, what did we talk about then?
Hmm, that’s right Liz, you didn’t talk of much, you were too busy, getting busy
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“All I’m saying is, this is our time.” He takes my hand and stands up from the table. “This is all I want to think of… Dance with me.” He pulls me up to my feet and coils me into his arms, fast like a yoyo.

I rest my head on his chest. Goose-pimples travel down my spine as we sway body to body to the sound of Justin Timberlake’s, Mirrors. Each beat he leads perfectly. His back slinks in time, and I can’t help but caress his supple firm curves with my fingertips.

“It never occurred to me,” he breathes in my ear. “When I came here to take over, that what I am would become irrelevant.” I brush my cheek against his chest, thinking how sublime this all is.

Suddenly, he lifts me high, spinning me around playfully before carefully placing me back down onto the floor.

“Now.” He fingers my fringe aside, and like always I swiftly sweep it back. “I still have that very difficult issue to deal with.” His lips press, deviously. “The one I messaged you about earlier.”

Oh my, I shouldn’t be looking, but my view has fallen down to his crotch. It’s extremely bad of me, especially when I’m trying to be the demure dance partner. I redden and heat, gradually gazing up to his eyes. He seems to like the fact my view was drawn to his downstairs area. His jaw is doing that sexy tense grind, which tells me he’s horny as hell.

“The hard problem?” I say, daringly.

“Yes,” he almost growls.

He lifts me aggressively so my legs lock and link tight above his hipbone. He’s kissing me ferociously. Animal like. Primal. God, I freaking love how strong he is. He cradles my ass and carries me, while avidly devouring the sensitive skin on my neck. I sigh high with delight.

My arms are wrapped behind his head. He’s looking intensely into my needy frantic eyes. I swallow to try and rid the hard knot in my throat, but it doesn’t work. I’m like a wound-up toy in his arms, and I need unwinding. I want to be twisted, turned, and manipulated for pleasure. I want to be unravelled from deep within, and feel his power inside of me.

He bends and lies me on the white couch, standing over me as I grip the cushions above my head, gasping for him. He stoops over the arm and I splay my legs wide for him. His knees slowly land between my thighs, and his presence makes me leak painfully in my panties. His eyes, oh they’re so hungry, more ravenous than usual. I let out a moan as his fingers brush over my sex.

“So Elizabeth, are you prepared to make this home; you know what we must do don’t you?” Wow, he’s so unyielding tonight.

“The room christening?” I utter, all squirmy and hot.

He lowers, wetting my lips with his, then presses his head upon mine, firm.

“And do you have the stamina?”

“Yes,” I say, nearly choking.

He’s kissing me again, greedily, and I am too turned on right now to wait. He pulls at my waistline and my desperate fingers help him to release me. His index finger runs firm under my shirt. Fuck, he’s just ripped it apart like tissue, and buttons fly like confetti. This is getting a bit destructive, but I’m liking it. I’m liking it a lot.

He sweeps the scattered buttons from my bare belly, and threads his arm under my curving back to claw at my spine.

“Where to start first.” He moves his hand under my black lace bra and flicks open the clasp. “Where Elizabeth?” He bends and kisses my nipple, making me flinch as his tongue teases.

I can’t think straight. All I want is him inside me. He’s placed the image of us fucking in every room inside my mind, and we haven’t even got going yet. I shut my eyes as he stands up and takes off my boots, one at a time.

“You’re not answering me?” He pulls his sweater over his head, his expression too calm, and his muscular frame taunting the hell out of me.

Adrien, please don’t make me talk. Just let me touch your skin
, my head yells as I lick my lips.

I use the backrest to lift my body as he tugs down my grey jeans and damp panties. He drops them onto the floor. These small things usually look clumsy, but when he does it, even if it is to simply slip a sock from his foot, it’s the damn sexiest thing you could witness.

“I have something,” he says, walking across to a wooden box on the shelving unit.

My mouth dries. I can’t close it. His back muscles, I want to tongue. He so delectable. I’m here all naked and wet, and his patience for sex is driving me crazy.

Holy shit. He’s just pulled something red out from the wooden box. He’s twirling it in his hand and is now pulling it to tease me. He turns with both hands wrapped around it, his knuckles white. I angle up further in excitement.

“Remember?” He lets the blindfold and rope hang from his fingers.

I gape at them. Yes I remember. Killiecrankie. The room. The shit-hot foreplay and sex. The rest I want to forget.

“Come with me.” He walks toward the glass panel doors.

I frown. What the fuck is he doing? Do I follow? I would absolutely love to experience the high I got last time, but it messed him up way too much. I can’t stand the idea of our new home being tainted, because his thirst becomes more intense than the passion.

I get up regardless and follow, tugging my torn shirt over my bare breasts. He’s waiting for me by the door to the left of the master bedroom. With a sly fleeting glance, he opens and I watch him enter. I hover on the spot for a second, wondering whether to refuse, until his hand shoots out to seize mine, pulling me inside.

I’m a little confused by all this sexual mysteriousness. The room I’m standing in is basically a bedroom, a little smaller than the master-suite. There is a normal looking black king-size four-poster, with no hooks or sinister looking objects. And the deco is very similar to our room, grey, but with a damask feature wall behind the bed.

I grab a soft brown fluffy throw that hangs over a chair to cover myself, and see something a little more ominous. The leg of each bedpost, has been bolted to the floor with heavy duty metal brackets.

My thin eyes land on Adrien. He drops the red rope on the floor and approaches my confusion. He hands me the blindfold, then leans over to reach behind the bedpost against the wall to unclip something. Something metal sounding.

Holy crap, he’s holding a chain connected to a handcuff. This is a lot more intimidating than being bound by silk rope. I catch a quivering breath. What has he got planned for me? To be horny, nervous, and bloody bewildered at the same time, is exhausting.

“This bed is for you,” he utters, studying my every move. “And these.” He holds up the heavy handcuff. “Are for me.”

“For you?”

“I want you to take control, Elizabeth.”

“You want me to lock you to that bed?” I look at the posts and gulp.

“These are made with reinforced steel, and have been buried in concrete.” He pats the solid post. “These cuffs, I have only ever got free of when I was awakening.” He strolls to me in silence.

Wow, I wouldn’t have even thought something like this would make me feel all roused. But he wants me to play with him, and he won’t be able to stop me. I moisten my lips with a slim view on him. He’s breathing rapidly. He wants this badly.

“One question… why?” I ask.

“I need you to. I need you to know when I used you in that room. When I tasted you. It was a moment I couldn’t control. I took advantage dominating you, and I need you to know that we are equals in this.” His fingers softly journey up to stroke my hair. “You’re going to use me in that bed, and do what you will. I want to see your masterful side, Elizabeth.” I blink slowly. “Fuck me however. Touch me where you please. Let yourself go.”

His touch slips away from my neck and he goes to lie on the bed. I look down at the blindfold he’s left in my hand, but I don’t think I can use it. I love his eyes, they will tell me if I’m pleasing him correctly.

I let the soft throw and my torn shirt fall from my shoulders, onto the floor. His vision stays on me as I crawl on the bed and up to his strong right forearm. He places his wrist inside the cuff, submissively, and I fasten. He yanks the chain, making sure he can’t get free. I open my legs wide and cross over his ribcage. My sex rubs against his abdomen gently, and it feels so good.

I suddenly come over all afraid I might screw this up, as I secure his left wrist in the cuff. He wants me to take charge, when he knows he’s more dominant than I. Maybe this is a test. I have to concentrate on his pleasure. To make him verge before it’s time, the way he does with my body.

“Blindfold?” he whispers.

I inhale deeply and think.
Okay Liz, he’s the master and you’re the trainee. Time for a little role reversal.

“We don’t need one,” I cringe as I speak. “You’re also not in the right position.”

I tear down his pants with force to find he’s commando today. Smooth. Hard. Mine. My eyes take in his huge erection.

“I’m ready,” he grins. “What next?”

“I want you to sit up.”

I eye his tempting arousal as the urge to jump on him clouds my will. I’m finding this hard, but don’t want to disappoint him.

“Well-well-well,” he grins. “You are kind of enjoying this too much.” He shuffles up the bed so his back is propped against the panel. “You’re going to need to move these chains if you want to stretch me. Pull them up and they will lock into where you see fit.”