by Marcy Jacks
His heart tugged immediately at the sight of it, a strange melting occurring in his chest, aching sorrow, followed by hot anger and the need for revenge.
Sorin still trembled, tears still streaming, and this time he wouldn’t stop staring at Lucian, as though waiting for something horrible to happen.
Or waiting for Lucian to finish what his friends had started.
Sorin’s fangs…someone had pulled them out. The spots in his mouth where they should have been were empty and still bright pink. Not bleeding, but this had definitely happened sometime in the last few days when Lucian hadn’t been here.
Lucian pulled his thumbs away, stepping back from the vampire and looking down at him.
Really looking at him.
“I am sorry,” he said. “I will find the ones responsible. They should not have done this.”
Sorin said nothing. His mouth likely hurt something fierce after having his fangs ripped out. How had they done it? Had they held him down? They must have. The only tool Lucian could see working in this situation would have been some sort of pliers. A crude tool for something like this.
Lucian looked down at the ruined meal on the floor. “I’ll bring you something else to eat and see about getting you some different accommodations. I’ll come right back.”
Sorin blinked at him, as if he didn’t quite know what to make of Lucian’s words.
Lucian couldn’t bring himself to explain. Not when everything was as fucked up as it already was.
He couldn’t seem to look away from Sorin, but at the same time, he couldn’t bring himself to face the man either.
It never once occurred to him that Sorin would be in danger of retaliation from the inside of this house after an attack.
It should have been the first thing on his mind.
Quickly, before he could allow himself to be distracted again, he turned and left the prison cell. He didn’t bother to shut the door on his way out. He rushed up the stairs two at a time.
He didn’t care how busy Seth was with the rest of the house. He was going to hear what had happened.
Chapter Nine
Jesse got undressed. He remembered to be as gentle with the dragon beneath him as possible as he removed his clothes.
Funny to think that he, an omega with the exact same amount of strength and power in his whole body that Andrei had in his little finger, needed to be careful.
Even alphas could be vulnerable it seemed.
And it was incredibly irresponsible of him. He knew it, even as he hooked his fingers into the waist of Andrei’s sleeping pants and pulled them down his hips.
But he couldn’t stop himself. Not when the object of his affections was softly begging Jesse to put him out of his misery.
Jesse swallowed hard at the sight of Andrei’s cock, thick and curved, pointing up as his belly, almost touching the very first bandage that wrapped around Andrei’s abs.
His heartbeat, and breath, picked up at the sight of it. He couldn’t help himself as he reached out to touch.
Andrei’s eyes sank half closed when Jesse’s fingers made contact. His own erection throbbed between his legs, as if Jesse was stroking both of their dicks at the same time.
“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t being a little selfish by doing this.”
“Be as selfish as you want, sweetheart,” Andrei gasped. “Do whatever you want with me. I’m all yours.”
There was a time when Jesse wouldn’t have believed for a second he would hear those words. Now that he did, it made his entire body heat from top to bottom.
More than it already had.
A piece of him did worry that Andrei was saying all these lovey things to him in a pained haze, that he didn’t really know what he was saying, but Jesse didn’t let those thoughts consume him.
Andrei was saying these things. He did mean them, and Jesse wasn’t about to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Jesse inched himself closer up Andrei’s hips. He put their cocks together, both of his hands coming around them, stroking them as he gently thrust his hips forward and back, gritting his teeth through the pleasure.
Andrei’s eyes slid shut very briefly before he opened them back up again, still cloudy with lust.
And his smile was enough to make Jesse melt.
“If I die like this, it would be a good way to go.”
Jesse stopped briefly, horrified. “D-don’t say that when I’m on top of you!”
It would be his luck that Andrei would die and Jesse would be traumatized for life.
Andrei chuckled, paying him no attention as he reached up, grabbed the back of Jesse’s head, and pulling him down so their mouths could meet.
That was more than enough to get Jesse to forget about what he’d just been scolding the alpha for.
And definitely enough to make a pleasurable shiver rush down the back of his spine.
As if his body had a mind of its own, Jesse started thrusting forward again, fucking into his hand, his cock sliding against Andrei’s.
He moaned from the jolts of heated pleasure shocking through him, building within him just beneath his belly.
His toes curled, and the stimulation became a thousand times worse when he felt the soft vibrations of Andrei’s moan rumbling through their joined mouths.
Andrei’s hands weren’t about to stay idle either it seemed. The alpha reached down, his fingers sliding across Jesse’s naked skin, leaving trails of sweet heat that he barely knew what to do with.
Jesse cried out softly through their kiss when those large hands gripped the cheeks of his ass, squeezing sharply, catching him completely off guard.
He pulled back from the kiss, noting the way Andrei grinned at him. A wicked grin that pulled at the corner of his mouth, showing off the point of his fang. “Did you like that?”
Jesse nodded. “Yeah.”
“Good.”
Andrei squeezed again, and it was kind of ridiculous how much of an impact that was having on Jesse, how much it made his legs tense. He was going to get a cramp soon because of it, but he couldn’t stop his body from reacting. It felt good to be touched like that. Better than he would have thought it should feel, considering Andrei was only squeezing his butt…
“Is there any body wash left?” Andrei asked.
Jesse blinked, coming out of the haze of lust he’d fallen into.
That was right. Andrei had been unconscious when Jesse had cleaned up his room. It had been embarrassing as all hell when Seth had moved him to the bed after Andrei took Jesse’s wounds for him, but at the time, he hadn’t allowed himself to feel much of that embarrassment since Andrei’s life had been on the line.
“Yeah, I put it away,” Jesse said. He wasn’t about to get into the details about what had been going on since Andrei had passed out. At least not yet.
“Go get it.”
Jesse did as he was told, quickly. He went to the nightstand on the other side of the bed and, grabbed the bottle out of the drawer.
Andrei raised a brow at the location. He’d probably expected Jesse to run to the bathroom to grab it.
Jesse’s cheeks burned. “I wanted to keep it nearby. In case…if when you woke up…”
Andrei suddenly smiled at him. “In case I woke up and realized I needed my mate by my side as soon as possible?”
More heat. If any more blood rushed to his cheeks, he was going to have a nose bleed.
Still, Jesse nodded, slowly climbing back onto the bed. His entire body felt as if it were on fire. He couldn’t seem to keep any real form of control over himself when he wanted nothing more than to look smooth and sophisticated.
Instead he felt small and fumbling, as if he was about to have his first sex all over again.
It didn’t help that his dick was hard, totally giving himself away on top of everything else.
Andrei didn’t seem to notice as he reached out for Jesse, his hands touching Jesse’s shoulders, the back of his neck, and the fingers of one hand sliding into his
hair.
Jesse settled himself onto Andrei’s lap, fighting to keep his eyes open from that small pleasure alone.
The pleasure of being touched like this. He wanted so much more than this. He wanted to put their cocks together again and thrust into his hand until they both came from that sweet pleasure alone.
“I can’t believe I almost didn’t see you.”
Jesse blinked. He was sure that had something to do with the way Andrei had been trying to avoid him in the beginning, but he couldn’t entirely piece together if that was precisely what Andrei meant.
Even if he’d ignored Jesse for a while, Jesse hadn’t been invisible.
Andrei chuckled. “I can see that confuses you.”
“A little,” Jesse admitted. “Was I ever hard to see?”
Andrei shook his head. “I didn’t mean it literally.”
Once again, Jesse was faced with the realization that he wasn’t all that smart, that he had no education, and he was in bed with a man, mated to a man, who was well and beyond out of his league.
And yet Andrei didn’t seem to mind that so much as he pulled Jesse down so their mouths connected once more.
The heat of that kiss was something he was never going to get used to. The way it made his groin warm up, his cock and balls becoming harder, tighter, throbbing with a sort of ache and want he never thought he would need so badly.
He never thought he would need it at all.
Lust was meant to be a pleasure, not a need, and yet, just like the first time, Jesse did need this.
He almost dropped the bottle of body wash, but with a chuckle, Andrei pulled back from the kiss, smiling up at him as he reached for the bottle, opening it and grinning wickedly up at Andrei.
Andrei shivered.
“You still look like an alpha, like you’re in complete control.”
“Even when I’m the one on my back?”
More heat rushed to Jesse’s cheeks as he nodded. “Yeah.”
“Good. That’s something of the point,” Andrei said, holding on to Jesse’s hip with one hand.
“Push yourself up a little. I need to reach back there.”
Jesse did as he was told, and more embarrassment hit him as he felt Andrei’s slick fingers reach back, touching the crack of his ass, sliding between his cheeks teasingly before his fingertips reached Jesse’s hole.
He didn’t push his fingers inside right away. He rubbed those blunt tips against his pucker first, making Jesse moan, making him hiss in a deep breath as that felt…so much better than he thought it should have.
A thin layer of sweat actually formed across his brow as Jesse bit his lower lip. He exhaled a trembling breath.
“You like that?” Andrei asked, his eyes dancing, as if he knew full well what the answer to that would be.
Jesse nodded. “Y-yeah. You’re not…oh God, you’re not even inside me yet.”
That sparkling look in Andrei’s eyes fled, replaced with something Jesse couldn’t read.
Before he could ask about it, that strange concern was gone, and Andrei appeared confident once more as he continued to rub his fingers across Jesse’s asshole.
“Yes, well, there are plenty of ways to make you feel good. To make up to you how I was.”
Jesse shook his head. “Y-you don’t have to make anything up.” He briefly bit down on his lower lip, his hips canting back toward those beautiful fingers without him even thinking about it.
So good.
“But keep doing that,” he sighed. “I like that. Very much.”
Andrei’s next grin showed off the white of his fangs, and soon it felt as if Jesse’s entire body was building up a small layer of sweat as he thrust his hips back against Andrei’s fingers with the hope, and intent, of having them penetrate him.
Though he would much rather something thicker—Andrei’s cock—this was nice, as well, this teasing, this wonderful pleasure that he couldn’t ignore. He still wanted to feel the thick length of his mate pushing inside him, stretching every inch of him, filling him up with that sweet burn and touching everything inside him that could be touched.
Already it was starting to make the wiggle of fingers against his hole not enough, despite how good it already was.
“A-Andrei, please,” Jesse begged. His body overheated. He was sure that if he could see himself in a mirror right now, steam would be desperately escaping the pores of his skin.
“Say it,” Andrei said in a low growl. His eyes took on that animalistic feature that Jesse already loved so damned much.
“I…I want you to fuck me. Claim me, please.”
Andrei grinned. Jesse looked down at the man’s cock, and he could see the pulse of his heart through the vein that ran up the length of the shaft.
Suddenly, he wanted to know what it felt like to have that length in his mouth, Andrei’s dick sliding back and forth on his tongue while Jesse sucked on him. The idea alone gave him pleasure.
His mouth actually watered at the pearly drop of fluid that formed at the tip.
“Soon,” Andrei said, as though reading Jesse’s mind. His hand came to Jesse’s chin, forcing his gaze up, their eyes locking together.
Jesse honestly had trouble catching his breath, and then he gasped helplessly when those slick fingers pushed inside him.
His body reacted. Jesse’s spine arched before he pushed back against those fingers, fucking down onto them.
They burned to be inside him but not as much as Andrei’s cock would had it been in the place of his fingers.
“God,” Jesse moaned.
His arms trembled as he struggled to keep himself upright, to keep from completely losing it on top of the other man.
He had to curl his fingers around the base of his dick to stop himself from coming.
“Don’t do that,” Andrei gasped, his fingers spreading apart again and again as he stretched Jesse’s hole.
Jesse shook his head. “I’ll…I’m gonna come if I don’t.”
“Then come. Do it,” Andrei growled. “I want to feel it.” Then he smiled. “And I think you wouldn’t have that much trouble getting hard again if you really wanted to.”
Jesse wasn’t sure where Andrei got so much confidence in him, but his body was wound up so tight he couldn’t hold back. He couldn’t resist the order he’d been given. He didn’t even want to attempt to disobey, not when the lure of an orgasm was right there, right in front of him.
Jesse didn’t pull his hand away. He stroked his cock, thrusting into his fist, fucking himself on Andrei’s fingers wildly as he came, that build-up of pressure and pleasure rocketing out of him as if there was an explosion beneath it.
He thrust back onto Andrei’s fingers with a wild abandon. He couldn’t stop himself. He couldn’t stop the pleasure. It was too great. He completely lost himself to it. Jesse couldn’t stop himself even if he wanted to, and he definitely didn’t want to fight against the pleasure racking his body.
He had no choice. The force that grabbed him and held on tight was something he couldn’t argue with, couldn’t fight against, not until it was done with him and Jesse was left in a sweaty, trembling mess, struggling to stay relatively upright on Andrei’s lap as the man pulled his fingers free of him.
He gasped heavily for breath, as if an invisible hand had reached in and sucked all the air out of his lungs.
That was honestly what it had felt like in that moment, and Jesse felt better than ever.
This was that feeling Andrei had given him the first time they’d been together.
Only something was different this time around.
For one thing, they were facing each other, and Andrei smiled at him as if he’d just watched a work of art unfold in front of his very eyes, contentment and pleasure clear in his expression.
And Jesse knew that when this was said and done, his mate wouldn’t be asking him to leave.
They would be staying together. They would start a life together. It terrified and excited Jesse on so many leve
ls he almost didn’t know what to do with these emotions rushing through him.
“I want to know about you. Everything there is to know, the good stuff and the bad.”
Andrei nodded, his expression softening. “Yeah, same here. But you think we can start with the good stuff in the beginning? I might want to hold on to the bad stuff for a little while, at least until we’ve been together for a little longer than a couple of hours.”
Right, he was talking about his first mate. In all honesty, Jesse was curious about her, too. He wanted to know if she was beautiful, how much Andrei had loved her, if she had been kind, funny, adventurous, or teasing. The person Andrei had mated with first held an interest for him. He supposed because he hoped he could be like her, enough that Andrei wouldn’t mourn her too terribly while Jesse was around.
He wasn’t sure if that was a selfish thought or not, but he understood Andrei wanting to keep her close to his heart, at least for a little while as they learned more about each other. He couldn’t deny the man he loved that small thing.
Even mates sometimes kept secrets from each other, things they held close to their chests and hearts.
Jesse didn’t know much about the world, but he knew at least that much. The other omegas in the house had told him about it, making him understand what his mate was asking for.
Jesse nodded. “I understand. I want to think of all the good things I know about to tell you, too.”
Getting straight into the depressing stuff, death and servitude, didn’t seem to be the way to go.
Andrei nodded, seemingly pleased with Jesse’s answer, his strong hands taking Jesse by his hips, pulling him forward.
Jesse shivered as he was positioned over Andrei’s cock. Anticipation and excitement made goosebumps form along his skin in a wave.
His cock was already half hard with anticipation of what was to come, and he couldn’t wait for it.
Andrei reached down, taking hold of his cock and pointing it right where it needed to go.
Jesse’s breath hitched, the feeling of the thick, blunt head pressing against his hole bringing out something wild inside him, something impatient, as well.
