Bill seems so dark and smoldering. Time for him to show us just how much. I looped Nine Inch Nails "Closer" while writing this one. It's so visceral and dirty. That song still makes me squirm after 15 years. You can also thank my Carmel Iced Latte for the extra caffeine boost.

I do not own any of the characters from Southern Vampire Mysteries. They all belong to Charlaine Harris. Bless her for sharing them with us. Mattie is my very own.

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Chapter 22

It was all I could do to keep from taking her against the door as I fumbled for my key. Our lips locked together while she weaved her fingers through my hair.

Stumbling into our suite, I slammed the door behind me. Mattie was clinging to me, legs wrapped around my waist as I stalked back to throw her down on the bed. I pressed my body down on her, moving my lips across her jaw to the tender skin of her neck. She called out my name, moaning it loudly as she wiggled beneath me.

I tossed my jacket on the floor, ripping the shirt from my chest, buttons flying across the room.

" Mattie!" I groaned her name like a wild animal. I wanted so much to please her, to find my way inside her, claim her as my own.

"Yes Master!"

It drove me to recklessness when she said that.

"Take me Bill, do whatever you wish to me. I am yours!"

If that's what she wanted, then that was what she would get. I jumped up, blazing into the bathroom. I found a large white bath towel and began tearing it into long strips.

When I returned to her, she was on the bed eying me seductively. She had removed her dress and was lying there in black mesh panties, fondling her breasts.

My more uncivilized instincts were beginning to take me over. I pushed her back, grabbing her wrists in my hand. Taking the long strips of cotton, I began tying her hands and feet to the posts on the bed. Mattie was writhing on her back, her eyes smoldering up to meet mine.

I removed the rest of my clothes, tossing them on the floor carelessly. I climbed onto the end of the bed between Mattie's ankles.

"Touch me Bill, make me scream."

"Shhhhhh!"

I ran my tongue up her leg, stopping to place tiny kisses behind her knee, then up onto her thigh. I could smell the wetness trailing out from between her folds. I nipped along her inner thigh, she was breathing heavy rubbing her body up and down against the bed.

"Hold still."

I growled at her and she obeyed. Tearing the panties from her body, I ran my tongue through her folds tasting her juices. She was moaning and panting, begging for me to enter her.

"NO!"

She let out a soft whimper. I continued my way up her body, licking and kissing every inch of her skin.

Kneading one breast in my hand, I sucked on the tender nipple of the other, pulling it out with my teeth.

"Oh God Bill! Please!"

I shook my head at her. I wasn't going to stop yet. I wanted her to lie wavering on the golden edge of release for as long as possible, torturing her into submission. She liked it, I knew everything that she liked. I could feel it.

I took her earlobe into my mouth, sucking and biting. Her head was shaking back and forth wildly.

"Bill, oh please let me touch you. I want to put you in my mouth."

"Very well."

I knelt down with one leg on either side of her face, propping her head up with two soft pillows. I pushed my hard length into her mouth rocking back and forth. She was licking and sucking her way along me, grazing me with her teeth. I felt my climax building up inside of me.

I pulled out and slid down her wanting body, placing myself at her entrance. Her green eyes met mine, never breaking their gaze. She was losing control of her senses, letting herself go, giving herself up to my control.

My voice was low and gravely.

"Beg me Mattie. Beg me to take you, make you mine."

Mattie's eyes went wide, all too eager to obey.

"Bill. Oh Bill. Take me, ride me. Prove to me that you are mine and I will be forever yours."

With that I thrust high and deep inside growling, her wet heat enveloping me. I felt her clench around me as she released, screaming out in ecstasy. I pumped harder into her determined to make her come again when I did.

Mattie's eyes began to glow. She ripped her arms from their bindings, threading her fingers through my hair, still staring into my eyes. I thrust myself into her to the hilt, my essence exploding inside of her as she came, clenching around me.

I fell forward onto her, never releasing myself from her warmth.

I bent my face to hers kissing her lips gently. Her breath was still escaping in uneven gasps.

Removing myself from her, I reached down to untie her ankles. I wrapped my body around hers, holding her close to me. She wriggled around to face me. She still had a strip of towel around one wrist.

Undoing the knot, she pulled it taut around my eyes, tying it in the back of my head. Kissing me softly on the cheek, she whispered in my ear.

"Your turn."