Free Blood Bond (PULSE, Book 5) by Kailin Gow

She fumbled with his buttons, unbuttoning one, then two, of his shirt-buttons; she moaned softly as her flickering tongue found his own. She wanted him, as she had never wanted him before; jealousy had created a strange, angry heat in her. She could not bear to envision him with another; images of him and that waitress entertwined in indelicate congress kept appearing in her head. She wanted to burn those images out of her mind, force them out by this rough, aggressive physicality. She was kissing his stomach – his flat, toned stomach – and then her lips had traveled up to his chest, his shoulders, his face. She would make him forget all about the other woman. She would bring Jaegar back to her.
    Jaegar responded hungrily, groaning as he pulled her into him, his fingers digging into her back with a delicious shivering mix of pleasure and pain. His lips found her mouth once more; his desire for her was clear in every movement, every tiny tense muscle of his body. She knew he wanted her now, wanted her with the pent-up desire of all their time in Mongolia. He had watched her with Octavius but never been able to take her properly, never been able to have her the way he wanted. He wanted her now.
    Their bodies sparked together, the friction producing a low, warm heat.
    “I want you, Kalina,” Jaegar murmured into her shoulder. “You have no idea how much. You're like a drug to me – I can't get enough. Every little thing about you. The way you handled the villagers.” He marked this with a kiss. “The way you ran,” another kiss. “Watching you keep up with me – side by side. It was like we were in sync. Our telepathy, our bodies, everything linked together. Like it was meant to be. Like it was always supposed to be.” He gave a low, seductive laugh that gave Kalina chills. “You look so deliciously ravishing right now. The wind's gotten into your hair when you ran. It's messy. Sexy-messy. Your face is all flush; your cheeks are little roses. You look like a vampire who's just been turned. Full of vitality. Radiant. Like you've just...”
    Kalina blushed.
    “Afterglow,” Jaegar pulled her in once more for another kiss.
    Kalina's blood began to burn within her, just as it always did. No matter what, Jaegar would always have that effect on her – he would always be able to make her weak at the knees, a slave to her own desires. Although she knew that Justin was waiting for them a few yards off, that didn't stop her from wanting to give into them – right here, right now. If it weren't for that stupid curse, she thought bitterly, she would take him right here on the forest floor, dirt and branches and all, so great was her desire.
    “Kalina,” Jaegar said her name so softly, so tenderly. “God, it's crazy how much I still want you. In spite of it all.  I know you're with him now, but I can't care. I can't respect that. You haven't turned him yet – you haven't turned anyone yet – and so I can only assume there's still hope. There's still hope for me. That you love me.”
    “I do,” Kalina admitted it. “I do love you. Or at least – every time I'm around you, I find myself wanting you so much. SO very much. When you went away with that waitress just now, I swear, I was so jealous. Like, crazy-jealous. I wanted to hurt her – to drag her off you and punch  her in the face.”
    Jaegar laughed. “My little warrior,” he said, kissing her forehead. “You shouldn't have worried. I swear, Kalina, every second that I was with that woman I thought of nobody but you. I was imagining that it was your blood I was drinking.”
    “ With her?”
    “I could only bring myself to drink from her. Nothing more. In the old days we would have done.absolutely everything...but I don't have a hunger for that anymore. Or at least, I do – but the only person I'm hungry for is you. I'm miserable with everyone else, Kalina. I don't want to be with anybody but you. And you know it. I can't even try to pretend I'm not; you