beautiful bare mound. He sighed in awe as he lent in and licked up her slit with one long deep stroke of his tongue. He felt pricks of pain as she grabbed fists full of his hair and shuddered against him. He gave her two more slow teasing licks before he moved on to cleaning her legs and feet.
He rinsed her hair then switched their places. She raised her hands to his chest and began soaping him. He watched with intrigue as emotions flittered across her face. Her fear was rapidly being replaced with other stronger emotions. Arousal, awe, nervousness... If she kept this up, she would overwhelm herself in no time.
He cupped her face and kissed her to distract her from her thoughts.
She pulled back from him with a shake of her head.
"Stop distracting me, I need to get you clean so we can move this party to the bedroom."
He chuckled at her eagerness, "Well, piccola , hand me the cloth and I will have us ready in but a moment."
"One day soon, I’m so going to take my time cleaning you."
He took the cloth and began washing his arms and chest.
"What does piccola mean?"
"It’s Italian for 'little one', an endearment."
Anything else she was going to say apparently evaporated as he took hold of the top of his boxer briefs and peeled the wet material down his thighs. As he stood, he felt the tip of his rock hard penis tap the lower edge of his belly button. He’d seen a few pictures of naked human men, but they were considerably smaller than he and his vampire brethren were. He looked up at her face and saw she was staring at his erection with her eyes wide and her mouth slightly open. He made quick work of washing his lower half and turned the water off. As he moved toward her, she backed away from him, still staring at his erection.
"I will never hurt you, Darcy. You have nothing to fear."
Her gaze finally rose to meet his and she licked her lips before speaking, "But you—you’re huge! There is no way that will fit in my body without it hurting."
"You were designed for me. We will fit together perfectly. I will cause you no harm."
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Darcy’s thoughts jumbled and her skin tingled with her shock. He was massive! He was thicker than any man she’d ever seen and it curled up to his belly button. She wasn’t sure he’d even fit inside her much smaller body. What she was sure of, was that it would hurt like hell if it did.
She came out of her daze and realized she was now in the bedroom. While she’d been lost in thought Angelo had dried them both and moved them from the bathroom to the master bedroom by the look of it. He now stood before her, in all his naked glory. He took her hands in his and raised them to his mouth. He gently, reverently, laid kisses on the inside of each of her wrists.
"Will you allow me to claim you? Will you agree to be my Eternal Bride?"
She shook her head at him, "I can’t. Not yet. You are asking me for forever, when I know nothing about you. You telling me I’m your Eternal Bride isn’t enough, Angelo." She paused to release a sigh, "This morning I was in a relationship I thought was forever. This afternoon I found him with another woman—in our bed. I need to get to know you. I need to be sure you won’t hurt me like Karl did."
She closed her eyes against the tears which were welling up. She felt them escape to slide down her cheeks. Before she could raise her hands to swipe them away, Angelo’s cool hands were there, his thumbs caressing her tears away.
"Darcy, you can put your mind at ease. A vampire only ever takes one woman, his Eternal Bride. You don’t have to fear me ever straying from you. And even if it was not the case, I would never cheat on you. You are all I'll ever need. Five years ago, when I guarded you, I learned a lot about you. I fell in love with you as I watched you go about your nights. I knew then, regardless of you being my Eternal Bride, I could never love another."
She still hadn’t opened her eyes and more tears ran down her face at his