Disclaimer- The 'ardeur' belongs to L.K Hamilton; I'm just messing around with it. Pendergast belongs to Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child; I'm just messing with him too. Kel & Brett belong to me.
PART 10
He couldn't be human, not with that glow, not with those eyes and his coloring, but he wasn't a vampire because she didn't believe in them. But as to what he was, maybe an incubus or an angel. Because this- his gentle touch- was heaven.
She felt the air around him change, felt it become thick and heady. Then he touched his lips gently to the bite on her stomach, breathed out and she felt a tingling that had nothing to do with his hands on her. The next thing she knew, he was kissing her lips and hugging her to him, the bite no longer visible on her skin.
"It worked," He said. "I've never used it on anyone but myself."
Kel hugged him back, kissed his lips, chin and neck. "It's not even sore. Is it only external wounds or-"
"Just external wounds I'm afraid." She saw him eyeing her underneath him. "May I take your clothes off?"
Kel let her eyes roam over his pale body kneeling over her own, at his pubic hair that was somehow paler than the hair on his head, at the scars and at his muscles. Then lastly at his erection, large and thick and ready for her to touch him again.
"Yes Aloysius, please." She said, reaching out to him and again they kissed.
….
Kel had that same honey and milk skin tone that I had seen earlier everywhere, she didn't have any tan lines or any blemishes. Her breasts were small and fit perfectly in my hands. Her skin was the same color everywhere but her nipples which were erect and pink and I wanted desperately to kiss them. I wanted to suck them, to leave my mark on them like I had left on her neck. But I also wanted to take my time, so I settled for putting my hands on them, pinching the nipples carefully with my fingers.
Kel's hands moved over my shoulders and down my back as we kissed, her legs tangling around the back of mine. The ardeur had been sated within minutes of my entering her, it was easy to satisfy most of the time, but my body wasn't satisfied yet. I kissed her hair as we moved against each other, our bodies joined if not our souls.
….
The feeling of Aloysius inside her was indescribable, for once in her young life she was at a loss for words and analogies. The softness of his skin, the power in his muscles… the absolute pleasure of his body inside her own… Words escaped her and she gave into to those instincts she usually kept barricaded in her mind. She bit and scratched at his skin like a cat in heat, wanting to mark him like he had her, needing to find someway to express the pleasure she was feeling and moving with his thrusts just wasn't enough.
"Kellie," He murmured and even though she hated the full version of her first name, the sound of it passing his lips was sweet. "Kellie,"
She kissed him, wrapping her arms around his neck. Then the heat of his skin suddenly flared, too hot on her own skin and he moaned loudly, coming deep and hard inside her. She came herself, body lifting off the bed to get better contact with his. Then he fell to the side of her, smiling he gathered her in his arms.
Kel stretched languidly in his embrace and he licked the side of her neck. Her hand touched his left forearm, turned it toward her and she frowned.
"I didn't notice this earlier," She mumbled sleepily.
….
I laid still next to her, heart calming from a frantic beat to a steady pound. Kel stretched as I took my tongue happily across the side of her neck, licking off the sweat. I felt her fingers find another of my scars then she turned my arm to get a better look at it.
"I didn't notice this earlier," She mumbled. "Did…you do this yourself Aloysius?"
I looked at my left forearm, at the scar so much fainter and neater than the others. "When my family was killed… I wasn't myself, not at all. I tried to end it, to take my own life but I couldn't do it, I didn't want to any more, but by the time I realized this I had already lost a lot of blood." I paused, seeing that night in my mind's eye and I quickly banished the image away. "I was staying with my friend Charles, he found me and I was taken to a hospital before it was too late."
Kel touched her lips to the scar and then to my own, I lingered in the kiss as long as she let me. Then she smiled. "Sweet dreams Aloysius." Another kiss and then she slept curled like a cat against my front.