Sensual Sunday – Hot excerpt from Masquerade (Vampires Realm Romance Series Book 10)

 

Sensual Sunday is brought to you today by Masquerade, which is the tenth book in my Vampires Realm romance series.

Sensual Sunday’s always feature a hot excerpt from one of my paranormal romance books! Read on for this Sunday’s sensual snippet…

 

“It is wrong of me… there are things I should say first… but I want to kiss you. Can I kiss you?” he said thickly in Russian, the words music to her ears and drawing a startling response from her.

She cast aside her duty and slid her hands up to his throat, luring him in.

He lowered his mouth and her gaze fell to it, her breathing quickening as it edged closer to hers. When he was near enough that she could almost taste him, she broke away and ran down the steps to the garden below. A giggle escaped her lips when the man snarled and she kept running, fleeing her duty in order to embrace a single moment of wild freedom. She hitched her dress up with both hands and turned the corner at the bottom of the stone steps, heading along the gravel path below the man and intending to make a break for the maze.

The man vaulted the stone balustrade of the balcony and landed close to her on the gravel. He lunged for her but she evaded him, ducking to one side, and bolted towards the large hedge maze at the end of the path. He pursued her and the thrill that shot through her as his senses locked firmly on her was nothing short of intoxicating.

Sophis turned right on entering the maze. The tall yew hedges blocked out the moonlight and she had to use her senses to guide her through the corridors and lead her safely towards the centre. The man remained a few strides behind her, never close enough to catch her but never too far away. She knew in her heart that he could end the game whenever he wanted and would easily catch her when he’d had enough of chasing her, but it seemed he was enjoying the chase as much as she was.

It thrilled her.

She turned this way and that through the maze, the hem of her satin dress snagging on branches as she turned corners and tried to use her full speed. Her heels slowed her down but she was surprisingly quick in them, driven by the excitement of being hunted by the man and the fantasy of what he would do with her when he finally caught her.

The remaining sensible part of her said that his only reward should be the kiss she had promised.

The rest of her burned with hunger for something more.

She tugged her dress free when it caught on a branch of the yew hedge and gasped when the man grabbed her wrist, pulled her flush against him, and pressed his lips to hers. A split-second later she was free again and running, her lips throbbing from the brief hard kiss, and he was a distant snarl. He had to try harder than that if he wanted a proper kiss. He had to catch her without her being snagged.

Sophis laughed and kept running. The cold air chilled her bare upper arms and her breasts, and her legs where she exposed them so she could run without tripping on her dress. The man growled and a shiver tripped over her flesh, the threat in it heightening her desire and excitement as much as the sense of him hunting her.

The moon was bright as she broke out into the centre of the maze and she slowed to a walk before turning to face the direction she had come from. The tall hedge cast black shadows on the corridors between them and she couldn’t see the man without changing into her true guise. She held her desire to allow her eyes to change at bay, not wanting the man to know which bloodline she was from, and waited. Her senses remained on high alert and she could feel his on her, locked tight on their target. She breathed hard, her bosom pressing against the tight corset of her dress, and backed towards the wide stone bench at the centre of the open circle.

She couldn’t hear him.

Was he coming?

Had she lost him?

The hairs on the back of her neck rose and a shiver swept over her arms and legs.

From the shadows, he emerged. He stalked towards her across the golden gravel, slow and purposeful, his gaze intent on her from behind his black mask, as though she was his prey. His focus on her intensified and her instincts blared in alarm, telling her that she was in danger.

She was, but it wasn’t danger of him hurting her, but rather danger of her losing her mind and surrendering to him and her desire to chase a moment of bliss and seek her own happiness for a change.

He didn’t want to harm her.

He just wanted her.

It was exciting, and wrong of her.

Forbidden.

Sophis didn’t see him coming. One moment he was over ten feet away and the next she was in his arms, pulled flush against the hard planes of his body, bent backwards in his arms as he kissed her with gentle force, stealing all reason from her mind. She clutched his shoulders, drawing the black material of his jacket into her fists, and moaned as he claimed his prize, his kiss turning fierce and dominant, so passionate that she could barely keep up with the rough motion of his lips against hers.

He was breathing hard when he drew back enough that she could see his face. The fire in his dark eyes as he raked them over her, settling them on her neck and then her mouth before bringing them back to meet hers, stole her ability to breathe and she could only stare up at him, lost and waiting, hungry for more.

“We really should talk,” he whispered in Russian. “We shouldn’t do this.”

His gaze dropped to her mouth again and he slowly inched towards her, as though giving her a chance to stop things from happening between them. She knew that she should but she couldn’t bring herself to do it. The attraction to him, the need to feel his hands on her flesh and his mouth on hers, was too fierce to ignore.

Sophis craned her neck and claimed his lips. They parted and he slanted his head and delved his tongue into her mouth. She met it with hers, tangling them together and savouring the taste of his kiss. His grip on her waist tightened, his fingers pressing in so hard that she was sure he might bruise her, but she didn’t care. His other hand grasped the nape of her neck, tugging strands of her long brown hair free as he twisted his fingers in them, trapping her in his arms. She moaned and surrendered to him, and his response was to devour her mouth in a way that set her on fire inside, turning her blood to flame and her will to resist to ashes.

 

Did you enjoy today’s hot little snippet?

 

Caris Roane is also posting a Sensual Sunday snippet from one of her paranormal romance books, so be sure to check out her blog and read it! http://carisroane.com/journal/

 

Masquerade
F E Heaton
Ten years have passed since Sophis and Vivek, two vampires of the Venia bloodline, came close to death at the hands of twin hunters Aleksis and Izabella Romanov. The events of that night turned Sophis and Vivek against each other, shattering their close friendship and driving them apart.

Now, on the eve of a centenary Creator Day masquerade and at a time when things between them are dangerously close to separating them forever, they uncover a small army of vampire hunters in Saint Petersburg, led by their nemeses, Aleksis and Izabella.

With the safety of the rulers of the seven pure vampire bloodlines in their hands and their chance for vengeance hanging in the balance, can Sophis and Vivek face their past and overcome their differences? Will they realise their true feelings for each other before it’s too late or will the hunters finally claim their lives as their deadly plot to destroy the bloodlines unfolds?

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If you haven’t had a chance to read any of the books in the Vampires Realm romance series yet, they’re all available at major ebook retailers and some are available in paperback, and you can find the links and samples of the books at my website:

Prophecy: Child of Light (Vampires Realm Romance Series #1)
Prophecy: Caelestis & Aurorea (Vampires Realm Romance Series #2)
Prophecy: Dark Moon Rising (Vampires Realm Romance Series #3)
Eternity: The Beginning (Vampires Realm Romance Series #4)
Spellbound (Vampires Realm Romance Series #5)
Reunion (Vampires Realm Romance Series #6)
Seventh Circle (Vampires Realm Romance Series #7)
Winter’s Kiss (Vampires Realm Romance Series #8)
Hunter’s Moon (Vampires Realm Romance Series #9)
Masquerade (Vampires Realm Romance Series #10)

 

About Felicity Heaton

I'm a NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books as Felicity Heaton and F E Heaton. In my books I create detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons! If you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, Larissa Ione, Kresley Cole, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will love my books too.

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