Chapter 18

We rode back to the airport with virtually no spoken communication.
We kissed we touched and we shared happiness between us with our blood bond. We took the same helicopter back to Shreveport. After reaching the airport in Shreveport we climbed back into the Escalade and headed home. "Eric, I am so happy, I never thought I would ever get married. We will actually get married, right?
"Lover, you tell me when and we will be married. We would be married tonight if it was your wish and we had enough time before dawn. I told you when I was cursed by the witches that I would give up everything and spend every day with you. Neither of us have to give up much and we can still spend every day or well night together for as long as you will have me."
"I really would like to have a nice wedding, nothing too fancy, but a nice wedding with my brother and our friends."
"Lover, I have lived for over 1000 years and never thought I would wed, I am sure whatever you have in mind will be the most perfect night for both of us." He glanced at me with a sincere smile and ran his fingers lightly down my arm and goose bumps covered my arm.

We pulled into the garage and Eric came around to help me out of the SUV I wrapped my arms around his neck and he pulled me to him and we shared another slow long deep kiss. He scooped me up in his arms and carried me inside. We continued to kiss as he carried me upstairs taking two or three steps at a time with his long muscular legs. "Lover," he breathed into my mouth, "we don't have much time before dawn." And quickly he carried me back down the flight of stairs to his day chamber. He sat me down and I felt the urgency in him growing through our bond. But my great 1000 year old Viking vampire was actually nervous about our pending copulation. I could feel this as clearly as any emotion I have ever felt.
I put my hands on either side of his face and stared into his eyes, "What's wrong Eric. Are you having second thoughts?" I was feeling a little afraid how he might answer. "No, that's not it at all, Lover," and he gave me a slight smile. "I have actually never made love before."
"What are you talking about after all the times we have been together?"
"We have been together and it has been great. I have known how I felt about you and how you say you feel about me. Now I have asked you to marry me and you agreed to bestow that honor upon me, this will be our first time to make love."
"Oh, Eric that is so sweet. I am so honored to be the first and last person you will ever make love to," I was completely sincere. I had never thought about it that way before. This master vampire had just pledged his life to me, a human, this was sure to cause us problems somewhere, but right now he was nervous about making love to me. This night had been perfect so far and I know us being together would top the night off. I leaned up to his mouth and gave him a gentle kiss and pulled away. "If you want we can wait until our wedding night before we are intimate again." I flashed him a smile and a couple of long bats of my eyelashes.
"Lover, unless we are to be married in the next ten minutes there is no way I will be able to keep my hands and other body parts from you." He returned the smile. I began unbuttoning his shirt and slid it off into a pile on the floor. He pulled my dress over my head and returned to kissing me slowly and deeply. I fumbled with his belt finally unbuckled it and undid his pants and slowly slid his pants past his hips and let them fall to his feet. He lifted me and cradled me into his arms and moved to the side of the bed. He gently laid me down on the bed continuing to kiss me and then he moved down my neck and kissing his way down to my breast. I arched my back and he slid his hand behind and with ease, unfastened my bra from behind and slid it off and dropped it onto the floor. He began gently massaging my breasts moving his mouth from nipple to nipple being sure they both had adequate attention. I was stoking his shoulders and running my hands through his golden hair. He began moving down my stomach with kisses as light as air but not yet removing his hands from my breasts. He reached the top of my white thong panties and slid one hand down my side never breaking contact and under my hips. He reached behind me and grasped the back of the thong gently pulling it down and off my feet and tossing it near my bra. Never at any point did he completely break contact with my skin. He kissed back up my stomach, between my breast, and back up my neck and found his way back to my mouth. I could feel his readiness between us. He slowly moved up between my legs and I was so anxious to feel him inside of me. He pulled away from my mouth and looked at me our eyes fixed on each other's and he slowly slid inside of me never breaking our gaze. It took him three attempts before he was able to push himself all the way into me. Slow rhythm and with each stroke completely filling me up. I was gently moving my hips up to meet his and within minutes we were in sync meeting each other's thrusts and never breaking our gaze into each other's eyes. Our rhythm sped up and the thrusts became harder, harder and faster and then Eric threw his head back moaning in the language I didn't understand at the same time I was screaming "OH MY GOD, ERIC!" After reaching our climax together I lay there in the afterglow of successful love making thinking to myself that was exactly what had just happened. There wasn't any moving into different positions, none of my clothes were destroyed and even though he had fed from me earlier I never even saw his fangs tonight. We made love to each other. We laid in silence and contentment. My vampire was wrapped around me and I snuggled into him and we drifted off to sleep.