DH 05 Kiss Of The Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon Read Free Book Online Page B

his touch.
    “There now,” he said, his Norse accent smooth and lilting. “A more beautiful woman, I’ve never seen.” Her body molten, Cassandra could do nothing but watch him watch her.
    He was stunningly handsome. Masculine in a barbaric way that made the woman in her thrum with primal need.
    It was obvious this was a dangerous man. Basic. Hard. Unyielding.
    “What is your name?” she asked as he dipped his head to nibble her neck. His whiskered cheeks prickled her flesh, raising chil s al over her as he tasted her.
    “Wulf.”
    She shivered as she realized the source of this midnight fantasy. “Like Beowulf?” He smiled hungrily, flashing her a brief glimpse of his long, canine teeth. “Actual y, I’m more like Grendel. I come out only at night to devour you.”
    She shivered again as he gave one long, deliciously wicked lick to the underside of her breast.
    Now this was a man who knew wel how to pleasure a woman. And better yet, he didn’t seem to be in a hurry to finish, but rather took his time with her.
    If there was any doubt before, that alone told her this was a dream!
    Wulf ran his tongue over her soft skin and delighted in her murmurs of pleasure as he tasted her salty-sweet flesh. He loved the warm, soothing feel and smel of this woman.
    She was delectable.
    He hadn’t had a dream like this in centuries. It was so real, and yet he knew it wasn’t.
    She was only a figment of his starving imagination.
    Even so, she touched him in a way he’d never before known. And she smel ed so good… like fresh roses and powder.
    Womanly.Soft.
    A tender morsel just waiting for him to sample her. Or better stil , devour.
    Pul ing back, he returned to her hair that reminded him of the color of sunshine. The fiery gold strands captivated him as the curls wrapped themselves around his fingers and tugged at the edges of his stone heart. “You have such beautiful hair.”
    “So do you,” she said as she brushed his hair back from his face.
    She scraped his whiskers with her fingernail as she traced the curve of his jaw. Gods, how long had it been since he’d last had a woman?
    Three, four months?
    Three, four decades?
    It was hard to keep track of time when it stretched out interminably. Al he knew was that he had long ago given up the dream of having a woman like this under him.
    Since no woman could remember him, he refused to take decent women into his bed.
    Al too wel , he knew what it was like to wake up after sex and have no idea what had been done to him. To lie there wondering how much of it had been real and how much had been a dream.
    So, he had relegated his encounters to women he could pay for their services, and then only when he absolutely could stand his celibacy no more.
    But this one had remembered his kiss.
    She had remembered him .
    The thought made his heart soar. He liked this dream, and if he could, he’d stay in it forever.
    “Tel me your name, villkat .”
    “Cassandra.”
    He felt the word rumble under his lips as he kissed the column of her throat. She trembled in response to his tongue stroking her flesh.
    And he loved it. Loved the sounds she made as she returned his caresses. She ran her hot, eager hands over his naked back and paused her right hand over the brand on his left shoulder.
    “What is this?” she asked curiously.
    He glanced down at the sign of a bow and arrow. “It’s the mark of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and of the moon.”
    “Do al Dark-Hunters have it?”
    “Yes.”
    “How strange…”
    Wulf couldn’t stand the flannel barrier anymore. He wanted to see more of her.
    Wulf lifted the hem of her gown. “This should be burned.” She frowned. “Why?”
    “Because it keeps me from you.”
    With one tug, he pul ed it over her head.
    Her eyes widened for an instant, then turned dark with her own passion.
    “Now, that’s better,” he whispered, feasting on the sight of her taut breasts, her narrow waist, and best of al , the strawberry-blond curls at