What About Sarah?

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One of my favorite characters is Sarah.  She quips, and has a smart mouth, and she shows it in this excerpt!  LK Kelley

As they finished, Sarah deliberately missed the elevator when she felt eyes on her, and turned. Sam was standing, glaring at her from the shadows at the other end of the landing. Glaring daggers, she might add.  Sarah had never been bold to any man before, but she and Sam weren’t total strangers. She slowly walked up to him swinging her hips still dressed in her bathing suit. She looked straight into his eyes, and then backed up a step. Were they - glowing? She shook her head, and looked again. Of course, they weren’t! She was imagining things.   She put her hands on her hips. “And, just WHAT are you staring at, Hunkalicious?” She asked with a wide grin. 

Sam’s eyes looked her over from top to bottom. Her nipples were hard pushing through the thin bathing suit, and the apex at her thighs was just barely covered by the low thong bikini she was wearing.   He stopped glaring, and his eyes were replaced by a stunned “Did she just call me Hunkalicious?” look. Sarah looked at him. His hair was the color of sand, while his eyes were gold. Sarah strolled closer to him, and poked him in the chest with her finger resisting the drawing urge to splay her hands all over his tight chest, and beg him to take her right then and there. She was awed by her own behavior. This man had known her all her life. Was there something wrong with this? She was so much younger, but she didn’t care. WTH? Why would she feel like this?  She could drown in his eyes.  She couldn’t stop herself.  She had to goad him. It didn’t help that she remembered that night in his shower, either.  It was a good thing that Kaitlan had not known. “You heard me, buddy!”   

Sam was stunned silent while this tiny little creature he had chosen as his mate poked his chest yet again. Without thought, Sam grabbed her hand holding it to his heart where she could feel it beating hard, his chest tight with nothing but muscle. Her heart was beating so hard, she wondered if he could hear it. He grinned, and leaned down to her ear.  “Don’t say things like that if you aren’t prepared for me to take you right here, and now, little girl.” He whispered to her. Sarah’s mouth dropped, and her legs turned to jelly. Other men had wanted her, but she never could allow them to do so.  She had to literally hang on to his arm to keep upright. This Hunkalicious man? Did he just…just…tell her he wanted to hump her? HER? And, was prepared to do it right here and now to her? She was wet just with his words! And, if he had done something about it, she would have let him take her right now! Sam took his finger, traced her lips, and shut her mouth. Again, he leaned down to her ear with a huge wolfy grin. because that’s the only way she could describe it. “That was only one time, little girl. The next time that sexy and luscious mouth opens in front of me, my tongue will be down your throat so fast, you won’t know what hit you!” Then, his left eyebrow raised as the left lip curled up into that same, wolfy grin. Sarah had an orgasm right then! Oh, shit! She had an orgasm! She desperately tried to gather her wits about her, feeling the wetness between her legs as she had come. Well, two could play that game, and Sarah wiggled her finger for him to lean down toward her. As he leaned down, she grabbed his head with her hand, kissed his mouth, then warned him, “Not if my tongue gets in yours first, Hunkalicious!”  

The Anaerris Code by LK Kelley

PROLOGUE




Above me, two, ancient moons shine – one of brilliant pink and white, and one of blood red and black. Both obscure one-fourth of the night sky giving an eerie light over the charred, black world below of my birth. I stand upon an enormous bluff, and stare down into the great blackened, valley while the final war rages. A massive river of red races toward the brilliant white moon – the blood of my people and his. Tears of blood stain my cheeks and clothing while I watch the end of two races of beings. My race will be gone – including me. A sound behind me. I know it is he. I can feel him as I have always done since we met. Our kind should never be together, but it is as inevitable as time itself. I turn to see my attacker's body which no longer has his head attached. Blood gushes forth from it. I meet meet his frightened eyes, and follow his down to the fatal wound in my chest where blood runs freely. I will bleed out in seconds.


“NO!” he yells as I begin to collapse.

He catches me long before I hit the blackened earth below me. I stare at the man I love, knowing I should not love him. We are enemies. He has no tears, but he gently cradles me in his arms, his tortured red eyes begging me with the same question he has asked many times. I can barely move my head, but I nod once knowing the precious cargo I carry for my race. I want to be with him forever. And, if I’m still alive, my own race will also continue. I must live in whatever form to save us all. His mouth lowers to my neck kissing the pulse that is rapidly quieting as my heart silences. I feel a momentary sting as his fangs bite into my neck. To be with him forever is all I ever want, and I must complete the task that I was given by the ancients. Warmth trickles down the back of my neck as I feel the liquid of life slipping from me echoing the death of my planet. I hope we have not waited too long. He lifts his head, his mouth dripping with my blood. I see in his tortured eyes that he is hoping the same. I slide gratefully into the unknowing.


Time and space stand still. For how long, I know not. I awake, naked, on a soft bed covered in crimson silk. He sits with his back to the headboard, still cradling my lifeless body in his arms – where I will always be. I lift my eyes to stare at the man I will be with forever. I am ready as his lips lower to mine while my new, strong arms pull his nude body over mine. He is not gentle with his kiss, and I would never want him to be.  I kiss him back frantically feeling wetness between my legs as he spreads mine with his. He plunges into my heat sheathing himself as deep as possible, and thrusts hard and fast into my body. My hips meet him with the same desperation and desire. I need him like I do not need air to breathe. As our orgasms reach their climax, I feel his hot seed jet into me. I can feel it enter my womb! He has so much! He stills, and I open my eyes that I know are still ripe with inhuman desire. I stare at the couple that is reflected in mirror above our bed. My bright red eyes look back at me. I am whole again, and in the arms of my great lover for all time to come. 


It is time. He shows me the crystal that I had entrusted to him, and I breathe a sigh of relief. I must make sure that the Codex is written, and both it and the crystal must be kept apart. Both are dangerous alone, but together would cause unimaginable chaos. Our race has always been banned from writing about our history.  I have been charged with the written word in an indestructible methd. But, I will use not only my own powers, but those given to me by my mate. I will make sure that we do not lose our heritage. If we must sacrifice our own lives, then so be it. At all costs, the one safeguard I carry must be kept safe until a time when the “gem” is needed.


Time ceases to exist in the realm we chose for its magic, where an ancient friend of mine offered to help. An ally who believes, as do we, that nothing can be left to chance. It is time to travel to one place the Council would never expect us to hide the book. As for the crystal? My love has given it to one we know we can trust to protect it,sending him to a primitive planet known as Earth. And, we will hide the flesh-blackened codex – sealed with the most terrifying of magic that cannot be opened by any living soul, or they will die.  My magical friend sees the future, and tells us that a time will come when both crystal and book will join together. Because of this, she sends an envoy with the “gem”. And, now, we are leaving behind the only the only one who has the power to open and to read... the codex. It passes into legend and myth.