by Joyee Flynn
“No, and you were right to use spanking to snap me out of my funk,” he answered as he slid off my lap. “You knew I was into the idea, so it wasn’t really a punishment. Plus you’re right, I can doubt myself if that’s how I feel at times, but I trust you and Elena. I have no right to think either of you would lie to me. I just wasn’t thinking—I was letting my doubts run away with me.”
“And now?” I was pulling off my clothes as fast as vampiricly possible, wanting the issue resolved and to move on to better things.
“And now I believe you that I need to give myself a chance.” He shrugged. Malachi bent over the bed, his feet on the floor as he rested his weight on his forearms. I groaned at the sight of him finding a new way to present himself to me. “I’m still not going to say that I think I’m smart, but I won’t declare that I’m stupid already.”
“That’s a start,” I said as I moved behind him, rubbing the cheeks of his ass. I stared down at the pretty handprints I’d made as I got hard as nails. “I really like that I marked your gorgeous firm ass, Malachi.”
“I liked it, too,” he whimpered as he pushed his ass harder into my hands.
“Don’t be so demanding,” I growled and slapped his ass hard. My mate moaned as he fisted the bedding. “You know I like it when you beg, Malachi.”
“Please, Victor, mark my ass with your hand. Give your mate more of what he needs!”
“I know what you need.” I purred as I spread his legs further with my foot. I gave a gentle slap to his sac, and my baby cried out and arched his back. The sight was breathtaking. “Did you like that, baby? Do you want more?”
“Yes, please, oh yes,” he hissed. I rotated between soft smacks to his balls and hard slaps on his ass, making sure I jarred the butt plug. Malachi went wild under me, making some of the prettiest sounds I’d ever heard in bed. When I couldn’t take anymore, I pulled out the plug and lined up my cock.
“Time to reward you for taking your punishment like a good mate.” I grunted as I slammed home into him, our balls smacking against each other. I didn’t start out slow, figuring we were both more than ready for a rough ride. He was already lubed up and stretched out from the plug, so I knew I wasn’t hurting him.
“Hard, Victor. Give it to me harder,” Malachi begged loudly. “Oh fuck, I can feel you everywhere. It’s so good I don’t want it to end.”
“We can do it again, baby.”
“Promise?” He panted under my fast thrusts as he glanced over his shoulder. I felt a feral smile spread across my face as I fucked him even harder.
“Oh hell yeah,” I grunted in between thrusts, moving faster to emphasize my point. “Come for me now!”
“Victor,” Malachi screamed so loudly that I figured the windows shook as he went stiff and then came. His ass was demanding my release as he cried out at each new wave of his orgasm. I followed him right over, roaring as I came deep inside of him. When we were both spent, I collapsed to the side of him so as not to squish him.
“I love you, Malachi,” I panted several minutes later as I wrapped myself around him.
“I love you, too, my mate,” he replied and turned around. He nuzzled his face in my neck as he threw a leg over my hips. It was as if we were trying to crawl inside of each other, but I knew it was too late. Malachi was a part of me that I couldn’t ever get rid of him if I tried. And I knew I never would or would ever want to let him go.
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“Are you guys ready for this?” Riley asked us both later that day as we sat in his lab.
“You’re sure it won’t hurt, Victor?” Malachi asked hesitantly again. He’d voiced his concerns about me taking so much of his blood into myself before reloading him with the blood of mine Riley had been bagging.
“He will probably be a little tired today, but that should be the worst of it. Both of you will feel run down and extra hungry for the next couple of days. I can’t guarantee that, since this has never been done before though.”
“We know, Riley,” I said, giving him a more confident smile than I was feeling.
“You’re worried,” Malachi whispered to me as I lifted him up onto the counter. “I can feel it.”
“I trust Riley,” I replied slowly, choosing my words carefully. “But yeah, there’s always a risk, and you’re my mate, baby. I’m going to worry. If I didn’t think this would work, I would never let us do it, okay?”
“Okay, let’s do it then,” he answered after a moment, giving me a nod. Then he tilted his neck and moved his legs apart for me to stand between.
“I’ll give you guys a few minutes since this is your first time,” Riley said softly as he ducked out the door.
“I give myself to you freely, Victor,” Malachi whispered as he stared into my eyes. He moved me in between his thighs so our groins were touching as he ran his hands up my chest. “I’m yours, my mate. My heart, my soul, my body, and my very being belong to you.”
“Thank you,” I replied just as quietly as I wrapped one hand up in his hair as my other hand ran up his back to hold him to me. I licked his neck with long, soft strokes as I ran my hand back down to his ass. Squeezing it gently, I wanted him to remember the fun we’d had earlier instead of his fear.
It worked. He moaned loudly and thrust his hips against mine. I took that split second to sink my fangs into his neck. Groaning at the taste of his blood as it ran over my tongue, I reached down between us and stroked his cock through his shorts. He didn’t taste sweet like I’d heard people describe their mates, but he didn’t taste bad either. I figured it was because of the issues with his blood. It was like bitter coffee, good but with that sharp aftertaste.
“Victor,” he cried out as he came, his warm seed seeping into his shorts and against my hand.
I kept taking deep drinks from him. Riley had said that I needed to drink at least three pints of Malachi’s blood. Then Riley would give Malachi the five he’d taken from me over the last few days. Riley figured since the average body held between seven and eight pints of blood, that would be enough of an exchange to make this work. He also figured in residual blood that stayed in our muscles as well.
I moaned as I drank, still working Malachi’s cock as he kept coming and coming. He was having the Energizer Bunny of all orgasms. Normally, they ebbed when we stopped drinking, the waves of the climax linked somehow to each pull of blood. But since I’d kept drinking, he’d kept coming.
Finally, I gasped and pulled my head back when I thought I’d taken the full amount. I felt a little queasy but leaned forward to lick the mating marks as Malachi went limp in my arms.
“You okay, baby?”
He opened his mouth and shut it a few times, trying to clear his throat as well. Deciding to give up when it was obvious his voice wouldn’t work, he just gave me a wide smile and air kisses. I laughed. What a little imp I was mated to. And I loved him so fucking much that I couldn’t imagine life without him now.
Suddenly, I needed to sit down. I found Riley’s wheeled stool to sit on before I fell and plopped my ass on it. Scooting over to my mate, I lay my head on his thigh. It started to get a little hard to breathe, like there was cotton in my lungs. Then my stomach hurt really badly, as if I had to go, right then, but not sure if I could.
“Okay, I can feel my limbs again,” Malachi panted as he sat up. “Victor? Are you okay, Victor?”
“I don’t think so.” I gasped as my head started hurting.
“Riley!” He screamed at the top of his lungs, and that didn’t help the pain in my head.
“Victor? Talk to me, brother. I need to know what you’re feeling, or I can’t help,” Riley said as he squatted in front of me. I lifted my head to look at him as I answered, but then the room spun on some axis and then next thing I knew I was lying on the floor.
“Fuck, I killed my mate!” Malachi cried out as he hopped off the counter and knelt down by me. “Please don’t leave me, my big dominant male. I love you, okay? I love you so much, and you can’t ever leave me.”<
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“Not going anywhere, baby,” I panted out.
“Malachi, Malachi!” Riley shouted to get my mate’s attention. When he had it, he pointed to the bags of my blood that were on the counter. “Drink them now. You won’t be able to help him without them, you’re going to need your strength.”
“Right, okay, I can do that.” He jumped up and immediately started sucking down one of the bags.
“What hurts, Victor? Tell me what you’re feeling.” Riley pushed, having turned back to me.
“Breathing through a rag or shirt,” I said calmly, closing my eyes and trying to concentrate on just my lungs. If I was distressed, Malachi would feel it and panic, and I couldn’t have that.
“His head hurts, and his stomach’s cramping like he’s going to launch a missile from his ass.” Malachi finished for me in between his first and second bags of blood.
“I forget you can do that,” Riley said as he ran his hand through his hair in frustration. “Still takes me a minute to deal with the shock of it.”
“Tired, I’m really tired and thirsty but not for blood.” I groaned softly as another sharp pain hit my head. “I just want my bed and my mate to snuggle with.”
“Well, here’s what we’re going to do instead.” Riley snickered as he pulled out his cell phone. He punched in a few numbers and seconds later was connected. I was close enough to him to hear both sides of the conversation. “My love, are you available to help me with Victor? I’m going to heal him, but I’ll need to drink from you, Micah. And you might want to bring a few of your brothers to help him to bed.”
“What happened? Is he going to be okay?”
“He’ll be just fine after his body works through the blood. It’s like when humans get food poisoning when something strange gets entered into their system. I’m going to help with his headache and the stomach cramping, and he’ll be fine in a day or two. Malachi’s side effects will take a few days to kick in, Victor’s was just more instant it seems.”
“Whatever you say, my genius.” Micah snickered in the phone. “We’ll be right down to help. I love you.”
“Love you, too, my big warrior.”
“So he’ll really live?” Malachi asked when Riley hung up the phone.
“Yes, he’ll really live,” Riley answered with a soft smile to my mate and then me. “It’s a little faster and stronger of a reaction than I would have thought, but it’s nothing that makes me feel the need to worry.”
“No, I’d know if you were worried or really upset,” Malachi sighed and went to sucking down the third bag.
“I love you, Malachi,” I said as I gave him air kisses to where he was sitting.
“I love you too much, my dominant male.” He giggled.
“What’s with the dominant male stuff?” Riley asked in a whisper only I could hear.
“Most people say that someone goes all ‘caveman’ when they get possessive, jealous, growly—” I explained but then trailed off as I pointed to my mate. “After what he’s been through in that cave it’s not what he would think of as a caveman, plus I don’t want to ever remind him of that place.”
“You love him, and you’re a good mate to him,” Riley replied with a smile.
“What are you two whispering about?” Malachi raised an eyebrow as he went from bag three to bag four.
“Nothing,” we both answered and luckily the troops arrived just then.
“Let me heal him some before you carry him out of here,” Riley said to Damian, Gabriel, Micah, and Stefan. He placed one hand on my forehead and the other on my stomach. At first I felt nothing, but then it was like a nice heating pad was radiating warmth and comfort into me. I gasped as the cramping eased and the pains in my head lessened.
“Stay still,” Stefan ordered as I tried to get up. I was too weak to fight the one hand he had on my chest. “We’re going to carry you upstairs, okay? Just chill out and let us help you.”
“All right,” I mumbled as I lay back down. As much as I hated the idea of being helpless and carried around like an invalid, the idea of getting all the way up to my room was too much. I’d never make it on my own with the way I felt.
“I’m right here, and I’ll meet you in bed,” Malachi said gently as he kneeled down next to me and brushed my hair away from my forehead. He had another bag of blood in his other hand, and I guessed it was the fifth bag. “I love you, Victor.”
“Love you more, baby.” I closed my eyes, but they snapped them back open when I started to feel nauseous. It took three of my brothers to get me up and carry me out of the lab and to the elevator. Minutes later I was using the bathroom in my room as Stefan and Damian pretended something on the wall was very fascinating.
Then they helped me to bed. Malachi just about forced a sports drink down my throat before he thanked everyone for their help, and we fell asleep wrapped around each other. I was more than willing to deal with this pain to officially mate my baby. But I couldn’t help but wonder if my pain was worse than what Riley had expected, how bad was Malachi’s going to be?
Chapter 9
I ended up experiencing what Riley called food poisoning or the stomach flu. He said they were very common human illness and my body was simply reacting to foreign blood that had issues. It made me glad once again that I was a vampire and didn’t get sick. And I felt really badly for humans that they could suffer such illness.
Malachi, with the help of my mother, waited on me hand and foot. But after the second day I was really fine and drinking a lot of fluids since I was dehydrated. As soon as I was better, Malachi got sick. He had the same stomach cramping and bathroom issues, but instead of the headache, his muscles were sore and twitching.
Again, Riley assured us that Malachi’s body was working through my blood. It was expelling all his blood with the demon type anomalies and adjusting to having normal, healthy vampire blood in his system. And the muscle issues were from the same thing. I took care of my baby, carrying him to the bathroom when he needed it, sitting in the garden tub for long, warm water soaks, and feeding him.
I was also drinking bags and bags of blood each day so he could get more healthy vampire blood from me. I couldn’t help but be worried, but Malachi said it wasn’t so bad, and I trusted Riley. As much as I hated him feeling ill, I loved pampering and babying him.
I made sure his sports drinks had bendy straws and all of his favorite foods were sent up, including chicken soup. I brought books to bed that Mother had given him to work on, and he read to me. I’d never laughed so hard as when he read me a children’s book entitled Everybody Poops. Humans could be very creative.
Then when he was too tired, I read to him. Noah had been a sweetheart and brought his entire collection of books he’d written so we’d have lots to read. He had one collection of children’s stories and several series of fantasy young adult books. Those were Malachi’s favorite. Not to say he had a teenage mentality, but they were geared for younger adults. I found myself getting lost in the stories as well and was impressed with Noah’s talent.
I told my brother, Remus, and his mate that Noah was truly gifted. My brother-in-law blushed and said he was just happy to distract us from what was going on. I made a mental note to have Malachi help me pick out a thank you present for Noah when he was better.
It was the fifth day when Malachi woke up and practically leapt out of bed announcing he felt wonderful. Riley had come up to check and smiled widely, that knowing smile that I knew drove Micah nuts. My brother’s mate was a pain at times and kept his experiments and findings very close to his chest until they were confirmed.
“I think it’s time you saw the sunlight, brother,” Riley said gently to my mate. He’d made sure to let Malachi know again and again that he was sorry for the way he’d first acted. Riley also fit calling Malachi brother as often as possible into any conversation. Plus he and Micah brought Carolyn around at least twice a day.
They’d asked Remus and Noah to be godparents since there was history with Ha
nnah confirming her pregnancy the day Noah had stood up to Abraham. We all agreed it was a good fit, and after they had told us, I explained everything that had happened to Malachi. And my little mate was thrilled that Carolyn was named after him, his eyes filling up with tears when anyone mentioned it.
“Seriously?” Malachi gasped as he looked at me. “Please? Can I go outside?”
“I’m not your keeper, baby.” I chuckled as I leaned over to give him a kiss. “I’m your partner.”
“I know, I just trust you and wanted your opinion.” He shrugged as he got out of bed and brought clothes to the bathroom to change. Once he was in there behind the closed door I went over to Riley to talk to him.
“You’re sure about this?”
“Oh yeah, he’s a completely healthy vampire now,” Riley answered with a wide smile.
“Thank you, brother,” I whispered, hugging him fiercely as my eyes started to itch. “Can you get everyone to the kitchen? I think we’ll take a walk outside after everyone’s there to partake in this.
“I’ll even bring a pair of sunglass that will fit his face.” Riley chuckled as he moved away from me. I smiled at the consideration from him for my mate. Even though we could all tolerate the sun, we couldn’t be in strong summer sun for long and always had to protect our eyes. Since it was early spring, I knew the sun wouldn’t be bad, but yeah, sunglasses were a must.
“I think I’m as excited as you are,” I said to Malachi as he came back into the bedroom. Before he could reply, I raced to him, lifted him in my arms in a hug, and spun him around the room. “Riley says all the anomalies in your blood are gone, baby. You won’t have any more issues, and we can drink from each other like true mates as often as we want.”
“I’m so happy,” he sniffled as he buried his face in my neck and wrapped himself around my front like a monkey. “This is all because of you, Victor.”
“I’d say this is because of Riley and your dedication, baby.” I walked with him out of our rooms, then down the stairs. “This hasn’t been easy on you, but I hope you find it was worth it.”
