Chapter 28
Eric looked around the wintry landscape. It was empty as his mind and his heart. No. His heart really wasn't empty. It was filled to bursting with anguish. The kind that ripped thin threads of fire down your insides. That took the blood out of your body and left you feeling sick and weak. He loved her and that love would be something he carried with him even after death.
But it was an useless emotion. There hadn't been hope for them when he was alive and much less now. He sank down boneless onto the log again. A look of uncertainty settled on his already troubled countenance.
"Do you know what that is?" he asked quietly nodding towards the green box in her hand.
"A Cluviel Dor" she answered without hesitation.
"You say it so simply as if where a mere thing of fancy. No my mistress, it is far beyond that and its power exceeds anything you can imagine."
Sookie sat down next to him. Her leg touched his bare one and the contact sent chills up her spine. "I know it can grant any wish."
"Why then would you give it to me?"
"Because I cannot stand to see you suffer anymore."
"I won't suffer anymore. There is nothing here that could hurt me."
The woman looked around the barren landscape. "There is nothing here."
"There is peace."
"And loneliness."
Eric shrugged and turned away from her. "The loneliness is bearable. I don't aspire to more than an end to what has been my life."
Sookie carefully placed the Cluviel Dor on the log next to them. Without hesitation she moved to touch him. Her hands rested against his curbed back and she pressed her face against the cool skin. "You deserve so much more than that Eric. You deserve everything that has been denied to you. You don't have to alone anymore."
He closed his eyes and tried to reign in his feelings to no avail. Even now she made ache with need. He'd quenched down his passion before but with her so close and willing there was nothing he could do against his own traitorous body.
"Sookie… please leave" he begged.
Her soft lips traveled down the bent on his spine. "No." she said against his pale skin.
It was too much. Eric hissed and maneuvered his body so he was facing her. "If you don't I will not be able to control myself."
Sookie studied his eyes, then touched his lips with her fingertip and rain it along the full, sensual lines as if she memorizing its shape. Eric shuddered and slid his arms around her and pulled her closer. She opened her legs and straddled his tights. Their bodies locked into each other as did their gazes.
A hot flush raced through her caused by the fact that she could feel the rise of his passion at the juncture of her legs. How frightening and exhilarating was this budding yearning. She wiggled a little and wrapped her own arms around him. "I want you to make love to me." She said softly.
He brushed the tip of her nose with his lips tenderly, tentative. "I dreamed about you like this."
She smiled lazily. "You dreamed about me?"
"Every day. In my dreams I wasn't your slave but your lover and you yearned for me as much as I did for you."
She licked her lips in anticipation. "I do. I yearn for you."
He kissed her and it was a gentle, slow, arousing glide of his tongue on hers, as if he were experiencing for the first time the sweet and succulent taste of forbidden fruit and finding it delicious.
Sookie closed her eyes as the blood rushed through her body into a hot pool as she felt his length expand against her sex. It was blissful. The sensation of him was intoxicating and she opened like a flower to the sun. Holding her breath, she slid closer to him. The act brought a tortured groan from him, a rich growl that was as primitive as it was sensual. He likes that, she thought and she wiggled some more to please him. He responded in kind.
Her hands had wrapped themselves around his neck but she let them slid down his back. His kiss ended abruptly and she pulled back.
There were crimson tears in his eyes. "Don't stop. Please don't stop. It's been so long since anyone touched me."
Sookie complied. A shiver ran through him, his face tightened with the agony and ecstasy of her caresses, filling her with a euphoria that made her heartbeat quicken. She marveled at the play of his muscles beneath her strokes. He gasped. To his hips… he groaned. To the tops of his hard round buttocks that flexed in reaction to being molded by her delicate hands. He trembled. He buried his face in her neck and clutched her to him.
He lifted them both off the log and with one fluid movement he had laid her down on a patch of new snow. Sookie sank into the crystalline softness marveling that she could not feel the cold. It was truly marvelous.
Eric pulled at the ends of her oversized shirt until she was free of the garment. The vampire felt his insides tighten at the sight of her exposed body. She was so beautiful and for this magical moment she was his.
Her legs spread invitingly and her head fell back. She allowed herself to drift with pleasure as he began to explore her. His shaking hands over and around and up and down her body, skimming her breasts, her ribs, and her waist, to her legs and in between. Sookie purred with pleasure.
Then his body slid slowly, gently into her, filling her up by degrees, stretching and driving. She tensed. He eased. A hot piercing, exhilarating ache shot through her.
"ERIC!" she cried as he began to move inside of her.
And in that moment of perfect communion she knew that no matter what he decided she would never leave him.
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Much later when they were both sated and luxuriating in the afterglow of their coupling, Eric rose and reached for the Cluviel Dor.
"Is it really mine?" he asked Sookie.
"Yes." She answered without hesitation. "It is yours to do with as you wish."
Eric held the little green box and twisted. The jade lid opened slowly, yielding to his touch.
TBC.
Okay the plot was not really advanced at all because I am still struggling with Eric's decision. I really don't want him to wish everything away so that he never becomes the vampire he is now. I think that humility and his vulnerability have really made him rather special. However, I may have written myself into that. We shall see in the last two chapters which I will try to get out real soon. Thank you for all your comments.
