Midnight Passion

Kara

If I could turn back time and change everything, I would. My mind and body screamed as I tried to block out the pain. A pain so severe that it brought me to my knees. I tried to gasp through it. But it was like molten lava was in my veins scorching me from the inside out

I knew by my screams that he would find me. My plan to escape from what I was or eventually would become had failed. Oh how humans took for granted their humanity. I slowly staggered to my feet and tried to put as much distance between me and Maxim. Something I knew couldn't be done. No matter where I ran or hid, Maxim always found me.

The night was upon us as well as the hunger. My body needed to feed from his and I was doing my best to deny it. Maxim was fated to be my mate. Oh, how I wished we had never bonded a year ago. I was 21 then. I remember waking up next to him with a coppery taste in my mouth. Maxim was 25, and was watching me. We stared for the longest time at each other. I was like a deer caught in headlights. I was frozen to the bed. My problem was that Maxim was an alpha male. The son of a clan leader. I must have been close to turning or we wouldn't have bonded. Maxim had his choice of females of the clan but fate chose me.

Let me explain, we are shifter. There are seven clans, tiger ,bear, leopard, wolf, panther, lion and winged. I belong to the panther clan. Our bonding came through a blood exchange. Since I was to remain virginal it was given to me in a cup. The process of choosing a mate wasn't difficult. Pick a woman, drink some blood. There was always a hand full of us going through the procession as the elders of the clan called it. I vaguely remember any of that night. There were three of us. Three girls standing before Maxim and his father. Our parents stood at our backs keeping us in line. Four young males were presented for the bonding and Maxim went first. Each girl was given a chalice to drink from. We would drink the blood of the males until we were bonded. The process simple. If the male wasn't your intended mate it would be vomited back up.

Sarah and Michelle stood next to me and we all raised our cups to our lips. At the time, I didn't think of the permanency. I just wanted the fire inside of me to stop. Sarah raised her glass to her lips and gulped. We all did. Within seconds she and Michelle vomited it out. The room grew quiet because there was always a chance that I may not be Maxim's mate. Fate chose differently. Not only did it stay down. It drew me like a magnet to him. My body reactions were so severe, I hissed at everyone in the room. Maxim smiled and walked over to me. Leaning in he sniffed taking in my scent and I was hooked. Like I said I was like a deer caught in head lights. Frozen to the very spot before he led me from the room.

Images flashed through my head and I gasped. Sensations bombarded my body and I reacted, I bolted from the bed and had my back against the wall. Maxim was faster than me as he came through the inn door, the white shirt he wore was rolled at the sleeve. Exposing his hair covered fore arms. He walked at a steady pace towards me backing me towards the wall. He licked my neck and I pressed tighter into the wall. I knew right there that he was remembering things like I was. He remembered everything that had transpired the previous night.

I fought hard at the sensations clawing at me and grasped the sheet tighter around me. I held it like a cloak to cover my jean clad body. Maxim's eyes traveled to the sheet and then back up to my face.

"Hello wife" his timbered voice whispered. I couldn't answer I just whimpered. I wanted him bad and I knew he felt it, smelt it. I blinked several times hoping I was dreaming, but I wasn't,

"You need to feed."

I shook my head and tried to turn away, something that I couldn't do as my eyes watched him slowly unbutton his shirt and run his thumb nail across his chest. My mouth watered and I closed my eyes against the sight and the pull. Little good it did, as I felt the contortions start within my body. Again, the pain assaulted me and my knees buckled. Maxim was there to catch me as I fell forward. His muscular tan arms swooped me up and carried me back to the bed. I could smell the blood and sense the release if I partook in his blood. My hunger would be appeased. God, I was losing my fight, try as I might I had to surrender to the need that was upon me. I whimpered as my teeth gently touched the inside of my top lip. Please don't say anything I thought, please. I knew if Maxim mouthed one word then I would come undone.

"You need to feed Kara."

Maxim's words were like an echo in my head and I followed those words. I slowly turned my head into his chest. Letting my tongue dart out and lick at the trickle that threatened to run down his chest. The low growl that vibrated in his throat grew, to a rumble within his body.

"Feed!"

I reacted to the urgency in his voice and opened my mouth to drink. I felt the muscles in Maxim's body react to my touch as he cradled me in his strong arms. The moonlight washed over us in a golden halo. When I was done feeding we both knew that I would run as I have always run. I would run from what I wasn't sure I wanted to be.

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