Free Raven's Desires (Night Hunters) by Aminta Reily Page A

step with this man. She doubted this step would be put on the back burner for long.
    Raven swallowed in an effort to not moan when he pressed against her. God, how could a man give off so much sexual need? His touch sent every fiber in her body surging with life. She closed her eyes for a moment to try to get her body to settle down. She had to find the rational part of her brain to make him get off her so she could go shower. Damn it, where is the rational part of my brain when I need it? Each section of her brain was fogged with lust and need for Kristian.
    Raven took a deep breath and opened her eyes. First mistake. Kristian’s eyes were dark with a hazy need. He looked like he wanted to devour her whole and she was on the brink of letting him do just that. Damn the marriage before sex rule her parents had drilled into her over the past years. Yes, she had sex once but then she planned on only having sex with the man she married. Kristian had shattered that plan in less than a day of knowing him and she didn’t really know him. She didn’t know anything about Kristian besides him having long fangs, a very impressive desire pressed against her at the moment, and a sexual prerequisite that could overload any woman’s rational thought and he knew how to use it and when.
    “Kristian…ummmm…I know what you feel and I do also…but can you let me find out what is going on before ravishing my body?”
    Kristian laughed.
    “So you accept the fact that I will be ravishing you?”
    What a cocky bastard he was. If he wanted to be that way then she could play hard to get.
    “No, I’m not impressed at all by this. So, you can just move so I can go shower and wash your touch off my body. I can’t go around having you on me all day now can I?”
    “Ouch, that hurts.” Kristian stared into her eyes. “I know you are lying because I can feel your body calling out for me.”
    Kristian traced a heated path from the side of her neck down the front of the v-neck t-shirt to the valley between her breasts with his fingers. Raven couldn’t stop the shiver that wracked her body. It took every effort to keep her back from arching off the bed and pressing her body closer to his fingers so she could feel them on her heated skin.
    Raven wanted to kick him for playing games with her. She wanted to win him over, not the other way around. He knew exactly what to do to make her want to beg him, but she wouldn’t. No, Kristian would have to work harder at it.
    Raven took a deep breath and got some control over her body.
    “Are you done with your attempt to win me over?”
    “After feeling you shiver, I can say, yes. Have fun in the shower.”
    Kristian moved from over her. He continued to dress as she sat on the edge of the bed still in shock from what had just happened.
    “Once you are dressed, you can come downstairs to dinner.”
    “Alright.”
    Kristian gave her one look-over before leaving the room. Then and only then was she able to wrangle up the strength to move. Her legs wobbled as she stood.
    “Damn Kristian and his ability to make me weak. I will not fall.”
    Raven grabbed her clothes from the edge of the bed before heading to the bathroom. She needed a nice, long, cold shower to try to erase some of the tension rising inside her.
     
    * * * *
     
    Kristian made his way to the dining room. He spotted Shane sitting at the counter next to Veronica having dinner.
    “Evening,” he said, but they never answered. They were giggling and talking so much they hadn’t noticed he had entered the room.
    Once he opened the refrigerator they finally knew that he stood in the room.
    “Finally woke up, sleepy head?” Shane asked.
    “Look who finally sees me,” he said.
    “Awwwww…Raven turned you down?” Shane teased.
    Kristian grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge. “Now why would you ask that?”
    “Well, I can feel the sexual tension there, Kristian.”
    “Screw you.”
    “Nope, Veronica has taken care of that for