Blood Instincts

Myah wet her suddenly dry lips. Keep him talking and don’t piss him off. That was the smarter move here. “H-how do you know me?” He shrugged and his mouth caressed her cheek. Had he been stalking her for a while? Her breaths sped up – a combination of what he was doing to her as well as the thought that he’d planned this for a reason other than theft. When his lips brushed her throat and the cold air he released through his nose whispered over her ear, she wanted to moan. His tongue traced the soft depression beneath her lobe, then his lips traveled the curve of her neck. Her body warmed. Mouth agape, it took a second to recognize she wasn’t repulsed. Far from it. Little by little, she realized her fightor-flight response had turned to desire. He still held her immobile though. As she resisted, kicking out at him, he slipped into the softness between her hips. A bulge that shouldn’t have been there, pressing into her again. Instead of incapacitating her wrists on the mattress, he held her hands in his. She clutched his larger ones in return and had no idea why she experienced such a response to him. Suddenly, she was willing, felt urgent.

“You want me,” she stated. Why it’d spilled from her mouth, she had no idea. It wasn’t like she had any intention of encouraging him, his impressive erection aside.

His laugh was self-derisive. “But that’s not why I came.” He used his teeth to scrape against her neck gently. Myah shuddered with a foreign anticipation. “Please,” she whispered. Her entire body grew increasingly warm beneath his ministrations. What on earth was happening? She should be fighting back, or at least bide her time until she could locate a weapon. But the flashlight inside her bedside table wouldn’t hurt him. Besides, it wasn’t like she could reach it with him holding her down. Damn it. The man groaned when he inhaled hard, his face in her neck. The sensation tickled her skin. Welcome warmth moved through her body. As he nuzzled her, her eyes automatically closed, head tilting in response as if to supply him better access. Part of her, the sensible half, stiffened in horror. No! What was she thinking, letting him do God knew what to her?

"Pl-please," she found herself saying once more.

"Please, what? Please stop or would you like me to continue?"

Her brain seemed to stall out. "I..ah, I don't know."

He chuckled. "It appears we're in the same strange mess."

She couldn't manage a reply.