author's note: this series is originally from my tumblr archive, so pardon awkward typos and strange pacing. I did polish it up best I could, to fit better to the story. previously this installment wasn't a part of burned hearts saga, but it did fit well as an introduction so why not? But, this series is p much finished so I'll be posting every other day until I reaches the end.

get ready for the crazy ride.

also, the cover is by the wonderful artist named fenrae-l. def recommend throwing her some money sometimes.

warnings: explicit sexual themes/scenes and some bloodplay (because vampire). kiddies, get out, you're not invited.

Prologue:
to love, cherish, and worship

"Welcome one and all, and witness Adrian and Kagome as they pledge their dedication to walk the night together."

Sharp nails scratched red lines over her naked thigh, shredding the irritating layers of laces. Pulses of his love's heart thudded loudly into his ear, as his teeth danced over it. Her moans were tantalizing.

He tore the collar of her dress out of his way, provoking a gasp as the red welt formed on her skin. He hurried to ease the stings, his broad tongue sweeping over the bruise. A groan tumbled from his chest, and his eyes fluttered close at the taste of her skin, "Enticing, my love, as you always are."

Blunt nails dragging down on his back drew a shuddering sigh, what a tease she was. "I could say the same for you, dear husband." She murmured into his golden hair, before a delighted giggle breathed into his ear at the last word.

"Don't I like the sound of that…" He thudded his hands onto the dresser he set his wife on and rested his forehead on her bruised shoulder, "Oh, my Kagome. You certainly made it all the harder for me to contain myself."

Kagome, still smiling, peered into her new husband's eyes, "Why should you? I have faith in you, Adrian." Tenderly she swept a thumb across his skin, not at all flinching at the eerie and unnatural temperature in his body.

Wood peeled from his fists, and fangs glinted in the dim candlelight, Adrian gave her a wicked smirk—the kind that had Kagome shivering with excitement, "Then may you forgive me for what I will do to you, my love—I don't intend you to leave the bed when the night returns."

"I wouldn't expect otherwise." Kagome lost her sharp breath, as hot knives sank into her shoulder—a sensation she wasn't unfamiliar with. A knee rose from the start, and she whimpered a moan, when a claw returned to her sensitive thigh he earlier drew five trails of blood from. "Ad-Adrian!"

Everything tingled so loud it took all of her effort to cling to her husband, his teeth deep into her flesh. Blood flowed freely from his hungry mouth, staining her wedding dress. Whatever venom that crept from Adrian's fangs had her wheezing and her thighs tingling with uncomfortable heat.

Her faith kept strong—she knew her husband wouldn't dare to change her. He was simply taking a little piece of her, in exchange for his marks and his strength to remain strong throughout the night under his unforgiving attention.

Trust was essential.

"Stand now as ye will stand forever…"

Everything was numb, in the most delightful way possible. Kagome blearily opened her eyes, when she felt a shift from her skin and a blood-warmed tongue followed. She tightened closer to Adrian, unbearable needs were festering from inside her impatient core. She clenched her jaws and scratched her nails against his diamond-hard skin, willing herself to be patient longer—her husband could be quite cruel sometimes.

He was quite fond of setting her on edge, as well leaving himself to be desperate.

Leaving them both to want each other all the more.

A squall fled her lips at the sound of thunderous ripping and surprise stinging from the snapping, dulled from his venom. His claws swept through her heavy skirt and shred them onto the carpeted ground. Her corset and underclothes were the next to follow, leaving her all bare to his eyes save for tongue-smeared stains from his bite. Adrian's eyes dimmed red with his lust of his wife, his hands pulling Kagome's thighs to his hips, "My, my love," he purred at Kagome's shuddering at the hard object pressing against her damp core, "you looked quite appetizing."

"So are you." Her words were strangled out. With dazed eyes Kagome pulled her husband in, her lips flushed against his. His teeth were large and his mouth tasted strange and metallic from drinking from her neck, but she still loved him the same.

Adrian returned his love fiercely, tasting all that his wife was. The nips from his fangs cut into her swollen lips, the rich flavor leading him to grind his tightening trouser harder against Kagome. Frictions were feeding to his lust, his needs to have her. To be inside of her warmth.

But, not yet.

He was still hungry to taste rest of his wife.

Kagome's begging cries made his notions far more difficult than he wanted it to be, but Adrian's wills were nothing less than formidable.

"Be patient, love," Adrian parted from her red lips, clicking his teeth, "there's just one more thing I'd like to do to you."

With a glare, Kagome trembled. She understood. At his loosening hands, she parted her legs wider and her face was heated. It was far from her first time with Adrian, but yet, he found with an odd glee, she was shy still when he asked for a taste. He grinned, his knees dropping to the floor, and saw a pretty petal that glistered before his sight.

What a good and willing wife she was.

"Will you, Adrian of Tepes, the son of the Dark Count, declare your loyalty and your heart for the rest of eternity, to her, your bride?"

Flinching at the twin knives pressing against her folds Kagome clenched against the rim of the furniture. She gulped when her husband's large hands wrapped around her hips, his nails picking at her skin pink. Stray thoughts brought Kagome to wonder just how many red marks she'd wear the following morning, if she gets up at all.

Those thoughts vanished as quickly as they came at her sudden gasp—Adrian's tongue flicked at her clit, sore from inattention and unmet needs. Her body was, once again, flooded with indescribably white pleasure. "A-Adrian!" Kagome bit down on her bottom lip, her hands twitching to tangle in his golden mane.

Her throat swelled with muffled cries, her hand firmly clasping over her mouth, as she could feel tongue pushing and rolling against the insides of her aching core. Overstimulating her and teetering her on the edge that Adrian refused to let her fall off from. Her eyes watered as everything were set on fire.

What a cruel man he was.

She felt his amusement before she heard him. Distinctly she thought she heard a sound of fabric sliding against the fabric. But, she still burned, her toes curling.

"I do."

Stopping just short before she could find release, Adrian separated himself from his wife's tart taste and flickered out his tongue to taste the remaining flavor on his lips. He chuckled at Kagome's hissing curse, "Patience, love, have patience." A long string pulled into his hold, loosening his unforgiving trouser. The leather fabric gave away to his unsustainable member, "I am as eager as you are."

"A-Adrian…" Kagome bit down on her palm, when his hand darted to glide over her swollen jewel—teasing it almost mercifully. Clawing into the skin of Adrian's wrist as if to keep it there she caught the glimpse of his wanton, straining for her. She whimpered.

Adrian grabbed her chin, his sun-eyes were now dark, and breathed, the air was spicy of lust, "Let's do this proper, love." He pulled her into a deep kiss, his teeth drawing more tiny slices into her lips.

Her lungs running on empty from his stealing her air, Kagome released her grasp from his cruel hand and wrapped her arms around his head. She pulled herself closer, desperate to feel the radiating heat from Adrian's lust.

Kagome missed the hand that was painfully teasing her to the edge, feeling nothing but void there. Before she could whine large arms developed her small body and wrapped her tight against Adrian's now naked chest. She was sure he could feel the pounding heart under her heavy breasts and the brushes of hardened pink pebbles rubbing against his skin. He brushed his lips against her bruised neck and peppered kisses. Kagome giggled softly at her husband's affection, briefly distracted from her latest angst, before she stopped a moan at the solid flesh pressing in between her rear.

Next thing she knew, the softness of feather mattress folding against her back. The bed creaked at Adrian's sudden movement. Sharpness danced over her swollen lips again, "My love, are you ready?" Hardness poked at the entrance, rubbing against the fluids that flowed freely from her eagerness and Adrian's cruel teases.

"Will you, Kagome of the wanderers, the holy guardian of a curse, declare your loyalty and your heart for the rest of eternity, to him, your groom?"

Kagome managed to suppress her upset pout, "What do you think?" She scratched against Adrian's broad back, her impatience making her body to quake.

"As ready as I am." He chuckled against her lips, before he took it, his tongue danced with hers. With a shift of his hips and drifting a hand from her back to her wiggling hip and gripped it, he was developed wholly in her. Through her lips Adrian shuddered at her cry.

Each and every sound his beautiful love made only served him to want to never see her out of his bed again.

And by the lord was she tight, her wet sheath pulsing over his hard flesh.

Starting with a slow rhythm, he separated himself from Kagome's lips, so to allow her to breathe. Satisfied with her daze Adrian hadn't forgotten rest of her flesh, parting his embrace to compress a shifting breast in his hand. He flickered and rolled his thumb over her sensitive pink pebble and watched her contorted expression.

His throat went dry at the sweltering sight in front of him, Adrian's breath hitched when Kagome's heat tightened over all of his sensitive spots. Unconsciously he sped up and strengthened his thrusts. Kagome strained out a long moan, craning her head back against the pillow. Her arms fell backward, thudding against the downy object.

The white pleasure was building, her eyes nearly blinded with beading sweat and the attention her husband was inflicting on her. His cock rubbed against that spot that had her toes hurting from pressing so hard against her soles, had her lungs seemingly very short on air and her heart beating like a hummingbird's wings.

The prickling sensation from Adrian's fangs across her rising breasts hadn't helped. At every sweep of his tongue tasting the sheen layer of her sweat, she quivered and clenched deep into the pillow. Kagome hadn't noticed that he moved.

Her hips were turned with a push of large hands, a leg rising to perch on Adrian's shoulder, and her eyes shot wide at the new change in the stimulation. She couldn't cry out, her lungs still burning for air, and her jaws dropped open at the explosion that boomed throughout her tired body.

Kagome could only manage a breathless squeal, as waves of heat draped over her frame and washed over her.

"I do."

Adrian wasn't done, and he was merciless. At the slacking of her body, he pulled a hand and circled the clitoris. Kagome's nails tore apart the fabric of the pillow and muffled her crying at his hastening, ruthless thrusting. The groans Adrian was straining out, vibrating throughout her leg, had her clenching and readying herself all over again.

He was so close to snapping into halves, to empty himself into his love–his mind filled of nothing but Kagome. Adrian shivered, the soft and tart smell of her brought him nothing but joy and his cold heart burning with an unbelievable amount of possessiveness, lust, and love. Such thoughts brought him to clench onto her hip and leg, drawing more lines of dewing red. These thoughts led him to pepper kisses onto her calf.

To want to love her.

His testicles tightened and Adrian fluttered close his eyes, the coils of lava rippling throughout his loin. He dropped aside Kagome's leg and draped himself over her, completely closing himself into her. His fangs sank into the same bruised spot of her shoulders, grasping her deep and immobilized her. His venom had Kagome snapping her eyes wide open and grabbed onto his back, her nails clawing into his skin. She squealed at another sudden explosion of her climax at his action.

Immediately after Adrian stiffened and slamming a claw deep into the mattress under them. His own blinding release had him groaning loud, his spent racing throughout from his body and into her. Breathing deep from his nose Adrian realized the favor of blood was sating desert of his throat and parted himself from his wife's well used shoulder, his mouth bloody.

Feeling empty he slacked himself over Kagome's still form, save for her rapidly rising chest, minding his weight to avoid crashing her. Such a small thing she was. Adrian rested his forehead on the ruined pillow next to her head, ignoring her whimper to depart his body.

Adrian wasn't done—he promised her she wouldn't leave his bed, so he kept himself inside of her warm sheath.

"Are you well, love?" Adrian hummed, finally sweeping clean of his lips from Kagome's blood.

Kagome turned her head to stare at her husband, too tired to even bother glaring, and huffed, "You're insatiable." A sharp moan fled afterward, when a shift of her hips startled a sensitive spot inside of her.

His chest rumbled with laughter, Adrian rose his head to look straight into her stormy eyes, "Only for you, love, only for you."

Quiet for several seconds Kagome quirked a small smile, "I should've known better, my dear husband. This is our first night of being wedded. Of course, you'd be too eager." Mustering strength revived from Adrian's bite she rose her arms and loosely wrapped them around his neck. She sighed, her eyes warm, "…I love you."

Adrian closed in on her well-loved lips, "I you, love, I you." He palmed her hips and chuckled at her groan at the shift of his position. "Ready to renew the night?"

"And I shall be yours for all eternity."

They would never be apart.

edited as of 12.20.17, to the best of my ability