SweetHeat (5 page)

Warmth flushed her cheeks as she ran a snapshot of the fantasies she’d been having of both males. She chose not to answer his question, opting instead to move to a safer subject.

The latest chocolate design in the box.

Leaning over, she slid the box in front of her and lifted the lid.

And froze.

Inside the box lay a life-sized chocolate cock, complete with an intricate weave of veins and plum-shaped cockhead. She certainly couldn’t miss the two puncture wounds halfway up the shaft.

Vampire bites.

She drew in a deep, steadying breath. Spicy musk scent poured off him and mingled with the dark chocolate, wrapping around her like a seductive glove. Her fangs throbbed with intense excitement. Her body tensed harder in raw awareness.

“What do you think, Julie?” he asked with a low growl lacing his otherwise soft voice.

“It’s getting late,” she found herself whispering, finding it quite difficult to keep her eyes off the giant cock.

She could barely breathe. Could barely keep
herself
under control.

“Perhaps you should try it? See what you think?”

Try it? Why did she think he meant more than just licking it and sucking it and taking it down her throat?

“I’m late for an appointment.”

“A date?”
Was that anger lacing his voice?
Annoyance blazing in his eyes?
Did he think he had a claim on her?
Now that thought certainly made her pussy cream warmer.

A sheen of perspiration blossomed across her forehead. She needed to get away from him.
Needed to collect her thoughts.
Her composure.

Surely he could smell her arousal because she could.

He stared at her, knowing amusement flashing over his face.

Yep, she definitely needed to get away from him and stay away from these hot males.

With trembling hands she replaced the lid on the box, concealing the delectable contents.

He stood.

“Okay, I’ll let you go.” He paused and then said, “This time.”

This time?

He headed for the door, all six feet three inches of jam-packed muscled vampire male.

Oh she wanted him. Wanted him so bad, she almost called out.

At the door he stopped and turned around.

She stopped breathing as he spoke.

“Let us know if that size works for you.”

Sweet vampires!

Julie frowned as he closed the door behind him. Lifting the lid off the box, she gazed at the chocolate cock, realizing what he meant by that remark.

Long and thick.
Fang marks along the shaft.

But not any shaft. A cock made to the dimensions of their own cocks.

Julie licked her lips and forced herself to replace the lid.

Oh dear. What were those two vamps up to?

* * * * *

“Do you think Julie liked the chocolate cock you brought over earlier?”
Zander
muttered from the other side of the metal laboratory table they sat at while waiting for a trial mold to cool.

“She likes it. It certainly got her thinking about what we’re up to concerning her,” Caleb replied as he doodled on a sketch pad. He was trying hard to keep his mind on their job of coming up with another design. But it was difficult to think of work when the only thing on his mind was Julie. Her office had been filled with her intoxicating, fiery arousal scent. Almost overwhelming him to the point where if he had just a little less self-control, his fangs would have fully unsheathed and he would have been splaying her out on her office desk, taking her, biting her and making love to her.

He’d noticed too upon entering her office that she’d just woken up from a nap. And he knew now that she had indeed been asleep shortly before he arrived on his surprise visit. Knew it because
Zander
had confessed what happened during his sex fantasy.

Right after disconnecting the mind link with his brother, the body link kicked in and Caleb felt
Zander’s
arousal roar to an almost out-of-control frenzy. He’d been sorely tempted to pop back into that shower fantasy
Zander
had conjured because he swore his twin, and himself for that matter, had never felt so aroused. Now he was sorry he hadn’t reconnected because his brother confessed that Julie had actually willed herself into
Zander’s
dream fantasy, whether she knew it or not.

But he was sure she’d figure out their mind connection, sooner or later because the more they were exposed to each other the stronger the link would become.

“The chocolate is ready. Let’s see how it turned out, shall we?”
Zander
grinned as he flipped the chocolate-laden white plastic mold onto the freshly cleaned lab table.

After a couple of gentle taps, he lifted the plastic and revealed his latest creation.

Caleb’s eyes widened in appreciation at the erotic pose of a chocolate female with curly, shoulder-length hair, a perfect nose and enhanced cheekbones. Small chocolate fangs peeked out from between her slightly parted lips. She looked a hell of a lot like Julie and she stood sandwiched between two males who looked like
Zander
and
himself
. “Well done, brother,” Caleb complimented, feeling his fangs elongating and the throb of arousal shifting through him as well as his brother as they studied the erotic pose straight out of their sexual fantasies.

“She’s too passionate to be with
Vampira
,”
Zander
replied coolly after a long moment of silence. According to the research on
Vampira
, they only take in females they are sure to be cold like themselves.”

Caleb nodded. “I have to agree. From the mind fantasies we’ve experienced with her, she doesn’t fit the profile. Those females are supposed to be genetically defective, cold and emotionless to males and driven to power and wanting to be alone. So why would they take her into their clique? Surely they knew how vulnerable she would be if she ever met up with her fated males?”

“Maybe they didn’t expect we would ever meet?”
Zander
pondered.

It was the same answer Caleb kept coming up with.

“Despite that,” Caleb countered, “They would know she would be unable to deny the attraction between the three of us and that would make her a high risk.
Vampira
is very thorough in their homework about their females before accepting them. Either someone screwed up big time, which I highly doubt, or maybe the
Vampira
females aren’t as cold as they want everybody to believe.”

Zander
grunted and picked up the erotically shaped chocolate for a closer inspection. “Well, if that’s the case, those females are living under a whole lot of false security.”

“And that would also mean Julie truly is as passionate in the dream world as in reality.” At least that’s what Caleb was hoping.

Over the centuries he and his brother had hurt badly for their missing mate. They’d been told on their mating day she had disappeared. Most likely run off because she needed her independence. Her father had tried many times to home in on her, but to no avail.

So the two of them sought sexual comfort with many females, both vampire and human. They were highly sexed and demanded satisfaction as well as gave it on a daily basis. They had gone so far as to try to find their own mates, but weren’t successful due to their mind link. Not having a woman or a female handy when the other was having sex was excruciating. They could feel each other’s arousals and orgasms despite shutting down their mind link so they decided to search for one mate for the two of them. Unfortunately that angle was unsuccessful as they couldn’t feel passionately about the same female.

That is, until seeing Julie stepping out of that limo in Maine. Since then, they hadn’t been with any female, let alone looked at one or even craved having sex with anyone other than her.

She was their fated mate and they would take her as soon as she realized the three of them were meant to be together. They wanted her in real time.
Needed her fully and unconditionally.
They wanted her as they wanted no other. It was as simple as that.

Waiting for Julie to go to sleep every night so they could join her through their three-way mind link was driving both of them insane.

“I need to be with her and the longer we abstain, the more painful it gets,”
Zander
complained.

Caleb had to agree there. Every time he saw or spoke to Julie or visited her in her dreams, it grew increasingly difficult to pull away from her. The pain was literally physical now and not just emotional.

“I’ve reached the point where if I see any male so much as looking at her I want to kill him,”
Zander
growled.

“Easy, bro, your fangs are showing.” Caleb winked.

“Then I’m glad I’m your linked brother or I’d have to fight you to the death for her,”
Zander
replied.

Caleb knew
Zander
was deadly serious. If they hadn’t shared this mind and body link and fallen in love with the same female, he’d have to kill his brother. It happened more often than not in the vampire world. Most blood vampire brothers without links fought to the death for the same female they craved but had no desire to share. “I consider myself lucky then because I know I’d have a good fight on my hands,” Caleb stated, feeling his brother’s tension ebb as he licked the female figure on his chocolate creation.

Man, they were both lucky they’d fallen in love with the same female, even though she didn’t know. Not yet anyway.

But she would.

Very soon.

Chapter Five

She should have left the chocolate cock in the
office,
Julie mused as she lifted the heavy item out of the box and laid it on her kitchen table.

The cock was definitely as big as
Zander’s
and Caleb’s cocks. At least as huge as she’d envisioned them in her fantasies.

She should do the smart thing and melt the chocolate in her saucepan and get rid of the erotic delight. It reminded her of what transpired in the office with Caleb shortly after she’d awakened from her scorching shower fantasy dream about his brother. But had that really been a dream? She’d tasted his blood in her mouth. That hadn’t been her imagination, had it? And her pussy had been
spasming
softly as if she’d just climaxed in reality.

How had Caleb known she was still in her office? Had he smelled her arousal all the way from the labs? She knew males had a powerful sense of smell when it came to aroused females but from two floors down?

Julie shook her head in denial.

No, he probably took a chance and dropped by with full intentions of leaving the cock on her desk. He most likely had no idea she was still there.

He said they’d made the cock especially for her. Not for the erotic line?
But for her?

What about the comment he’d made before leaving.
Let us know if the size works for you.

She could feel the currents of desire building as she wondered what those two vamps were up to. But no matter how much she craved it, she could never be with them. Not in reality, anyway.

She eyed the kitchen clock.
Midnight.
She should get to bed now or she’d be dragging herself in late again tomorrow. But if she went to bed, her sexy vamps would be there in her dream world waiting to fuck her all night long.

Julie closed her eyes and sighed into an erotic tremble at what awaited her tonight. She wished those fantasies were real. Wished
Zander
and Caleb could be her mates.

She certainly had felt something powerful and sensual zip through her the instant she’d entered the conference room for the interview several months ago. Had she hired them because of her sexual attraction toward them?

Lately she’d been toying with the idea of making her dream fantasies a reality. But toying didn’t mean doing. She couldn’t mate with them. She’d lose
Vampira’s
protection. Lose the vaccine, which prevented her sire from homing in on her. Lose her ability to walk in sunshine.

She loved her beach house too. Nestled on the ocean shore just outside of Aphrodite, Florida, the yellow-painted, one-story, three-bedroom, board-and-batten home with the pale green shutters made her feel as if she belonged somewhere. She also enjoyed the sunshine beating down on her body as she jogged along the sandy beach every morning before getting ready for work.

But her routine had all changed since meeting those two males. She found herself thinking of them way too often during waking hours.
Dreaming about them every night.

She was tired and aroused continuously. Truth was they were ruining her life. Or they would if she acted upon her lust for them. Surely that’s all it could be.
Just lust.
Right?

Somehow she didn’t think so. Over the decades she’d met males—vampires and humans. Some she’d been attracted to but never like this.

What she felt for these two vamps was intense. This blood-pounding excitement and wild desire was how she imagined she would have felt for a mate. This is how it should have been when she was younger, had she been allowed to be free and choose her own mate or mates as the case would be.

Yes, this sexual attraction would certainly prompt her not to run had her intended mates been
Zander
and Caleb.

Julie frowned, left the chocolate cock lying on the kitchen table and headed into her bedroom. Who said that she—after acquiring her freedom and independence, after becoming rich and powerful—could not have it all?

She should have a male lover who adored her and the offspring she had always wanted. But
Vampira
had forced her to put aside some of dreams in order to fulfill her other dreams.

Why had she been so naïve in thinking she couldn’t have it all? Why had she simply accepted
Mati’s
imposed rules and not used her friendship with the female and tried to change the rules from within?