Dont be perfect.

JULIETTE COULDN'T HELP tensing as her guardian slowly bent his head, but instead of something wild or deep, the way his lips moved when they finally touched hers could only be described as...patient.

He was oh-so-gloriously patient as he sweetly nibbled on her lips before coaxing them to part open. And when his tongue finally slid back into her mouth, the tender coaxing continued, and the sheer tenderness of it was what gave Juliette the courage to finally shed the last of her inhibitions and surrender to the wanton desires of her own body.

From the moment he had kissed her, she had been aching, just so painfully aching to do all sorts of things in return, and while she had been afraid and insecure before, it was different now.

She could no longer help herself, and so she arched her body up against his and wrapped her arms around his neck as she slowly started kissing him back.

"Yes, my darling." Her guardian whispered the words against her lips, and it was all Juliette could do not to moan. Ga?l had called her his darling again, and the sound had her toes curling hard even as the rest of her body burned with passion.

The endearment fed her heart with more courage, and Juliette finally tried sucking on his tongue again. If she was hesitant and shy earlier, this time she sucked as hard as she wanted to, and she was immediately rewarded with the sound of Ga?l's groan.

Oh yes!

Her body tingled with excitement at the realization that she had made her guardian respond in such a way, and as she lost herself in the sensual thrill of kissing the man she loved and doing what she wanted with his tongue and her tongue, Juliette barely realized that Ga?l's hands were busy moving between their bodies.

It was only when he already had the straps of her nightgown halfway down her arms that she realized what he was doing, but when she pulled away with a gasp, her guardian only gazed down at her with a wicked gleam in his cold, blue eyes.

My guardian is just too, too hot!

Her breath caught, and she could only blush when Ga?l chuckled. He obviously knew he had rendered her breathless, and oh, oh, oh—-

Juliette couldn't help but whimper as he slowly traced her lips with his thumb.

"Are you scared, Juliette?"

"Yes."

"Good."

Her eyes widened.

"Fear makes one's sangferia more potent—-"

Juliette told herself she wasn't disappointed that her guardian had a practical reason for wanting her to be scared. What would she rather have him say? That he was sadistic? It would be crazy for her to want to hear such a thing—-

"But more than that, my darling—-" Ga?l suddenly bent his head to take a quick hard nip of her lower lip, and Juliette gasped in a mixture of shock and a painful sort of pleasure.

"Seeing you fear what I'd do to your body turns me on."

Juliette gasped yet again.

"A lot."

Color me crazy then , she thought dizzily. Because as it turned out, her guardian did have a sadistic streak, and she really, really liked—-

"Ah!"

Juliette knew she was starting to sound like a silly goose with all the gasping she was doing, but coherence was simply impossible with how Ga?l had just ripped her nightgown off her body.

Oh my.

Juliette watched the torn pieces of fabric land silently on the floor with dazed eyes, and when her gaze flew back to his—-

"My bad."

It was her guardian's mocking tone that did it for her, and a bubble of laughter slipped past her lips. His bad indeed.

She wanted to tease him about faking his regret, but upon seeing his gaze lazily dip down, all words were forgotten as her insecurities surged to the fore. What if he was comparing her to all the other women he bedded, and she turned out to be the scrawniest and ugliest among them?

Juliette tried to cover her breasts, but when her guardian's gaze glinted in warning, she could only take a deep breath before letting her arms fall back against her sides.

"There's nothing for you to hide," her guardian purred, and the words had Juliette trembling under his gaze. "Don't you know how unbelievably hot you are?"

Oh God.

The one thing Ga?l could never be was a liar. He couldn't even make himself say 'good morning' when he was pissed. And so if he said she was hot—-

Carnal heat flamed Ga?l's body as he watched her entire body turn pink under his scrutiny. A part of him couldn't fucking believe that he was finally seeing his Juliette naked, and she was hotter, so, so much hotter than he could ever imagine.

He loved her breasts, small but mouthwatering with its pertness, and just begging to be suckled with their pretty pink nipples. He loved the contrast between her slender waist and shapely hips, but most of all, he loved the flesh that was already noticeably quivering under a triangle of lace, and whose musky scent was now tempting him out of his mind.

Juliette couldn't help but shiver when she saw the way her guardian's eyes were suddenly hard and burning with lust.

"Do you trust me?" her guardian demanded thickly.

All she could do was nod—-

And then it was already happening.

Oh God!

No!

Wait!

Stop!

Her lips parted, but all she could do was silently scream those words as shock rendered her incapable of resisting. She just couldn't believe that Ga?l had torn her panties off, and oh God, she just remembered she still had her period—-

Juliette finally found the strength to try pushing him away, but all she caught in her grip were the curls of his white-blond hair as he pushed her legs open and dipped his head.

Noooooooooo—-

But it was too late.

He was drinking from her.

Drinking her menses.

Her menses!

Mortification flogged her cheeks red even as her body started to shudder. She had never imagined such a thing could happen, but oh, to feel his tongue lapping against the swollen, blood-stained folds of her pussy, and to hear him—-oh God, she could literally hear her guardian drinking her menses—-

She couldn't think of any word to describe it.

All she was knew was how she felt.

And it was pleasure.

Pleasure that was as terrible as it was irresistible, pleasure that was as intoxicating as it was shameful—-oh, to have Ga?l drink her dirty blood from her pussy was a pleasure that made her want to cry and cry out, and in the end, that was exactly what she did, as orgasm rocked her world for the very first time.

Ga?l felt his ward shudder as he licked the last drop of her blood-laced cum from her swollen folds, and her body was still faintly trembling from the aftermath of her orgasm when he finally lifted his head.

Sitting up, he pulled her to his lap, and Juliette's warm, naked body automatically curled as she snuggled against his chest.

Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that Juliette could be so goddamn responsive to his touch, but what had stunned him even more was its tremendous impact on his own body. Even now, he was breathing hard, struggling as he was to control the urge to fuck her pussy yet again, but this time with his cock.

Juliette was startled when her guardian stood up with her still in his arms. "I can walk—-"

But since he had moved with Caro speed, they were already in her en-suite by the time she finished speaking, and Ga?l was settling her down on the marble ledge built at the head of the tub.

Water that was just the right side of hot started to fill the tub, and it was then Juliette noticed that her menses had resumed, and blood had started to trickle down one side of her leg.

She gasped in dismay and embarrassment, but before she could wipe it off, Ga?l was already holding her in place. He licked the blood off her skin at a languid pace, and Juliette could only whimper as his lips moved from her ankle and all the way up to the sensitive skin of her inner thigh.

When Ga?l pulled away, Juliette could only look at him with eyes hazy with passion. If she was in love with him before, her feelings for him were now a thousand times stronger and deeper, and her heart felt like bursting as her guardian went on to soap her legs before using a washcloth to thoroughly clean her sex.

It was really very sweet of him, but incredibly mortifying, too, and her face was completely on fire by the time he had her change into a new nightgown...since he had ripped the old one into halves.

Eep!

Remembering the ripping sound her panties had made as Ga?l tore them off her body had her toes curling, and Juliette tried not to squirm as moisture began to pool between her thighs. Oh no—-

Ga?l suddenly looked up, and Juliette froze.

"You're starting to feel aroused again, my darling."

Her cheeks burned hotter, and Juliette was starting to feel exhausted with all the blushing he had made her do in a short span of time. "Please stop teasing me," she begged.

His handsome face softened...just before Ga?l purred one word out. "Never."

"Ga?l!"

But her guardian only chuckled, and he chuckled even more when she stammered and choked upon realizing that he intended to help her put on a fresh change of undies.

"Please let me do this—-"

"It's my job to take care of you."

"B-but my p-pad—-"

All the squirming and stammering she was doing was just too fucking adorable that Ga?l had to steal a quick kiss from his ward's lips before soothing her worries away. "It's fine, Juliette. I've drunk more than what you were supposed to release. You will not bleed for the rest of the night."

Juliette was silent as he carried her back to her bedroom, and Ga?l could practically hear the wheels in his ward's mind turning as she tried working out the changes in their relationship.

When he settled her down on the edge of her bed and he crouched in front of her, Juliette's doe eyes were questioning as they met his gaze, and a crooked smile briefly touched his lips.

"You're wondering why I haven't taken you yet."

Juliette nodded.

"Do you remember the time you spent at the hospital three years ago, following the attack?" His ward nodded again, and he continued, "We took a sample of your blood that night, and when it became standard procedure for Caro households to test for blood compatibility, we had the blood of all our wards tested."

Her guardian paused, and Juliette knew him well enough to understand that he was waiting for her reaction. He wanted to know if she would condemn him and the others for testing their blood without their permission, and while she couldn't speak for the others—-

"I should've been dead if not for you," Juliette said softly. "I owe you my life, and since then, I know it's not much, but...I just wanted to repay you by being a dutiful ward. I have no objections that you had my blood tested."

Her guardian was quiet after she spoke, and Juliette started feeling nervous. Was this the part he would tell her that she was not a match? Or maybe it was something worse...like Ga?l somehow figuring out that she had been in love with him for a very long time?

Ga?l stared broodingly at Juliette. He could tell that she was growing anxious by the second, and he wondered if it was because she had somehow realized that his desire for her was inordinately... strong. Was Juliette worried he would now demand of her to do things that were beyond her duties as his ward? Did she think there was a chance he might not let her go even after she had given him her sangferia?

Emotions he couldn't make sense of churned inside of him, but Ga?l forced himself to set all of them aside and focus on what was important.

"Your blood turned out to be a good match for mine. Not perfect, but good."

Juliette barely managed to keep her face expressionless. She knew he was only stating a quantifiable fact, but the words made her heart ache all the same. Chemical compounds had reduced her to being merely "good" even though she was in love with him while a werewolf princess he only occasionally worked with was his near-perfect match.

"However..."

Juliette looked up warily. There was more?

"Etienne's team has been conducting an experiment for a few months now. The sample size is inadequate - less than a dozen, if I'm not mistaken - and so they haven't released the results to the public. But if those results do turn out to be true, then there is a way for me to improve the compatibility percentage between your blood and mine."

"How?" Juliette didn't bother hiding her eagerness. "Whatever it is, I'm willing—-"

"To let me consume a specific amount of precoital cum prior to giving me your sangferia ?"

Uh.

Okay.

What?

She looked at her guardian in confusion. She might not be that good at dirty talk, but wasn't he basically saying that he needed to make her come and eat her cum numerous times before they could have sex?