Chapter 6
He felt warm fluid against his shoulder, and then a second splash, lower on his ribs. How many was that? Was it four? Jess looked up to Gideon’s face, looking for any sign of how close he was, but there were no clues. And then he felt their mouths exactly as he imagined, alternately soft and sharp as they attacked him with lips, tongues, and teeth.
Hungry growls filled his ears, and with each one, Gideon’s grip on the back of his head tightened a little bit more. The sting of a fang at his hip made his breath catch in his throat, but there was no time to savor it before another scraped against his shoulder, and then another, and another.