by Rena Marks
Upstairs I headed for a long, hot shower. Having sex in the grass might sound romantic, but I was sure my butt was a happy shade of green.
Finally I crawled into his bed. He’d return at dawn. I smiled, happy for the first time in a long time.
But I didn’t sleep, at first. I tested the connection between us, the little gateway in my brain that allowed me to call to him at will. I tried to merge the gateways and found myself in Leo’s head, watching through his eyes. I was too inexperienced and snapped back into myself, exhausted.
Only then, did I sleep.
* * * * *
I sensed when he returned. He slipped into bed and curled himself to me. I snuggled into his naked warmth and held him close to me. I inhaled deeply. He felt so good, my other mate. The other man meant completely for me.
Slowly, his large hand began to caress my hip. The strokes were deliberate, warm and sensual.
In turn, I began to massage his back. His skin was smooth and sleek. “Kiss me, my love,” he whispered.
I raised my lips to his, brushing against him lightly.
“I can’t believe I have you,” I confessed.
“I’ve wanted you for so very long, Anjelia. I want to make love to you for hours.”
His mouth descended gently. I wrapped a leg around his hips and he ran his fingertips down the outside of my thigh and up the inside. When he reached my mound, he cupped me fully. I began to rotate my hips, moving into the heat of his hand.
His finger found its way into my slick passage.
“You’re wet,” he said, his voice husky.
“Mmm. I want you,” I confessed.
He smeared some of the slickness from my sheath onto my clit, rubbing the sensitive little bud in quick, deliberate strokes.
“Geez, are you trying to make me come hard?” I moaned.
It felt so good I was about to.
He grinned. “I’d like you to lose control.”
“All you had to do was say so,” I smiled back and thrust my hips against his hand. “You feel so good rubbing me there but I'll need your cock in my mouth again.”
“Then I get your pussy at the same time,” he said as he flipped me over and on top of him for a sixty-nine.
His cock was rock hard. I felt his fingers spread my swollen lips and then his tongue could delved inside. Sweet bliss washed over me and I enjoyed it for a brief moment. Then I bent and sucked the head of his cock eagerly.
He groaned around my entrance, the sound vibrating against my swollen skin. I licked him, wetting him thoroughly and cupped his balls with my hand.
I deep-throated him. His massive cock filled my mouth and he quivered.
“Oh, baby,” he groaned. “That’s it, exactly.”
He tortured me with his hot, wet tongue, lapping up the juices in my slit. It delved into my entrance, pointed as he speared me. Then he began sucking and driving me wild. I jerked from his mouth, so close to losing control.
He grabbed a hold of my hips and held me to him.
“Leo, I’m coming,” I said.
He sucked harder at the sensitive flesh and I exploded, my hips slowly grinding onto his face.
“God,” I moaned.
He had to physically lift and deposit me onto the mattress next to him. I was as limp as a rag doll. He grinned as he looked down at me and I smiled weakly at him. He spread my legs and wrapped them around his hips and placed the head of his cock against my labia.
“Slip inside me.”
“You sure you want this?” he teased.
I bucked my hips up and swallowed his cock the barest inch into my sheath.
“I was going to tease you,” he said. “But I can’t hold out.” He slammed his full length into me.
“Oh, God,” I muttered. “Fuck me now.”
“Always,” he said. His voice was hoarse.
He began to thrust.
His chest rubbed against my nipples as he fucked me.
“Leo,” I gasped. “I want it from behind. Like a wolf.”
His eyes glowed with pleasure. He quickly pulled out of my warmth and rose to his knees. I turned over and rose to all fours, my ass aimed in the air. He reached out with a finger and caressed my slit, rubbing my moisture up and down my sensitive skin.
He slowly plunged in.
I collapsed, my cheek on the cool sheet beneath me. He was so deep and felt so very wondrous. He filled me up and then pulled out.
My body began to tingle deep inside. “Harder. Faster.”
He picked up the rhythm, moving faster and twisting when he was deep inside until I thought I would explode with pleasure. His balls slapped against my ass and my body seized, clenching his cock. I screamed his name.
“Yes,” he groaned.
His cock grew with his orgasm and spurted deep inside me. He collapsed onto my back and breathed into my neck as our bodies slowly calmed.
“I love you, my queen,” he whispered into my ear.
“I love you back. I always have.”
The next morning we slept late. Then we rose and showered, together.
We went downstairs and ate breakfast, together.
After breakfast, Leo wanted to show me where he’d roamed the night before. We walked over his property, hand in hand. He pointed out spots where he ran, areas where he rested. An area where Connie and Ajay had mated. We stopped under a tree and rested for a while.
“Tomorrow I’ll need to return to work, Anjelia.”
“I know. But you’ll be back.”
“I’ll be back,” he agreed. “But you’ll have free time during the day. Time to do whatever you want.”
“I should return to work, also.”
“I’ll leave you a car or you can have my chauffeur take you if that’s what you’d like to do. But your gym is fine. Julian has employees running it.”
“It seems unfair to be so close to Julian when it’s still your two weeks.”
“I’m just happy that I get two weeks. I’m not going to be selfish and count out the hours, too. Besides, I know you’ll be returning to me in the evening.”
“Always. I love you. Don’t forget it while I’m gone.”
In the end, I didn’t go to work. Not for Leo’s first day. I stayed at the mansion and had the chauffeur take me to the hospital around lunchtime. Someone paged him so we could grab a quick bite.
We met up in the elevator on the way to the cafeteria. He was so pleased to see me, he growled. He kissed me, long and hard.
“I only have fifteen minutes to grab something,” he said.
“I know you’re busy. I just wanted you to have a good first day back.”
He hugged me quickly before the elevator doors opened. “Now it’s a good day back.”
We headed to the cafeteria. Leo didn’t want to be affectionate with me in public since the world already knew of my relationship with Julian. He was thinking of me. My reputation would be shot if humans knew I was actually seeing two men at the same time. Instead, we would let them think Leo and I remained friends.
It niggled me that those same humans would accept the situation if roles were reversed and I was a man seeing two women simultaneously.
I accepted Leo's sacrifice. But truth be known, I didn’t want his reputation tarnished by me. He was a professional doctor in the world–to my coffin-bait.
Of course, for no rumors to be started, Julian and Leo and I would have to dine together once in a while. Friends to the end. I wasn't looking forward to that, since their camaraderie only seemed to extend to when I’m injured, missing, or sick.
I returned home—to Leo’s mansion—and called Julian’s cell. He answered quickly, as if he'd been waiting for my call.
“Hello, my sweet.”
“Hi, Julian.”
“Are you enjoying yourself?”
“I was. Leo returned to work today.” Did it sound like I only called Julian because I was bored? I moved on hurriedly. “I didn’t think to thank you for keeping employees at the gym for me.”
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br /> “You don’t need to thank me. I never thanked you for saving my life—for drinking blood. I will do whatever I can to make you happy and hope that you do the same for me.”
“Always. About returning to Bang’s…”
Julian was silent.
“Danielle?”
“She’s gone, Anjelia.”
“Permanently gone? Or locked in a coffin for a few months?”
“She’ll never return.” His voice was final.
“Oh. Okay then.”
“Shall I send a car for you next Tuesday?”
“Yes. What time?”
“How about two?”
“Okay. Bye, Julian.” I disconnected the call, eager to end the awkward conversation.
Later I realized I never said I love you. I wanted to call him back but I didn’t want to worsen the stilted conversation.
* * * * *
Six days later I was enjoying breakfast when Leo arrived downstairs.
“Have a good day at work, sweetie,” I said.
He was solemn. “You’ll be gone when I return, won’t you?”
I nodded. “Julian’s sending a car for me about two. I’ll miss you.”
I rose. He hugged me close. “Have fun. I’ll see you in two weeks, okay? I love you very much.”
In my ear, he whispered. “Please don't forget me.”
“Never,” I swore.
I waved as he drove away and then went inside to grab a suitcase. I wondered if it would be easier to just keep separate clothes at Julian’s. That way I wouldn’t have to worry about smelling like wolf while at Bang’s, or like vampires in the mansion. I sighed. This way of life would definitely take some getting used to.
I picked out black clothing, more for the nightlife. Plus my gym clothes. I definitely could leave these at Bang's.
I hauled the suitcase downstairs and the chauffeur put it into Julian’s car for me. I half expected one of the gang to be waiting in the darkened car but there was no one there. I was alone for the trip. I nearly giggled at the irony of this. I had been battling to be alone with my memories and here I had it in spades.
The car pulled up at Bang’s. It still used the canopied entrance in the back of the bar, although I didn’t need the shade to emerge. The chauffeur opened the door, and I stepped out, looking at the bar from the parking lot. I felt a familiar tugging in my heart. I’d missed Bang’s. I’d be seeing Johnny and the gang for the first time in about two months. And hopefully, I’d still have my memories intact when I returned to Leo.
I raised my head higher. If I returned to Leo. Did I trust the vampires to allow me free will?
The answer hit me as suddenly as a truck would slam into me. Of course, they would. I would go insane without Leo and I would die without Julian. Neither man had a choice. I didn’t have a choice.
I walked quickly to the door and pushed it open. Julian stood, watching me through the darkened windows. My heart stopped. Lord, I’d missed him. Tall and lean, dressed in black leather pants and a silky black T-shirt. His biceps bulged and his masculine forearms were well-shaped.
I had the usual urge to reach out and touch his skin for contact—the smooth, cool skin that needed mine to warm it. I wanted his ruby lips to part for me while I kissed them over and over.
“I thought you’d change your mind.”
He sounded unsure, scared even. So unlike my vampire.
“Never,” I said gently.
He remained standing where he was. I understood. He was as awkward as Leo. Wondering if I still wanted him instead of Leo. Just like Leo wondered if I’d want him after Julian.
Taking the initiative, I threw my arms around his neck. I kissed him with everything I had.
The kiss deepened.
“Leah! You’re back.”
I was pulled away from Julian long enough for Johnny to swing me up in his arms. Suddenly, there was Anna, Nicki, and Lily, all babbling at once.
I laughed at Johnny as he pulled his collar from his neck, asking me if I needed to feed. Telling me he’d willingly sacrifice his precious blood for one human only, and that was me.
Anna rolled her eyes at him and draped her arm around my shoulders. “She much prefers women.”
“I have to say that I much prefer eating food. I’m glad I don’t have to drink blood anymore,” I reminded them.
“I seem to remember you calling it yummy when slurping from my neck,” Anna said.
“I don’t slurp. I sip daintily.”
Anna snorted. “That dainty sipping caused Johnny to have a massive orgasm.”
“Anna!” Nicki admonished as I clasped my hand across Anna’s mouth, only to yelp and yank it away when she licked my palm. “Maybe Anjelia didn’t want Julian to know that.”
We all glanced at Julian who was watching us with a wry expression on his face.
“I didn’t mean to, Julian,” I giggled.
“Yeah, me neither,” Johnny said.
“I was aware of what was happening the whole time,” Julian said. “We had a mind connection because of Anjelia’s psychic tendencies. So essentially, I was Anjelia the whole time she was sucking your neck, Johnny. Oh, and thanks for that little kiss on my cheek afterward. Next time just reach for a cigarette.”
Johnny's mouth hung open.
Julian winked at me and held out his hand. I took it gladly and pulled his head to mine for another kiss first. We headed upstairs to feed. Things were going to work out after all. Because I really did love Julian, just as I did Leo.
I barely remembered the walk up the stairs to his office. He’d hardly closed the door before we were ripping clothes from one another. It was supposed to just be a feeding, which is why we’d gone to his closer office rather than his quarters downstairs.
I pressed my flushed, bare skin to his and he held me tightly. I turned and lowered my head to kiss smooth, sleekly muscled biceps. I sighed, reveling in the sensation of contact with him. I kissed the line of his jaw.
His skin was hard and smooth. I kissed a shoulder. He lifted me and I wrapped my legs around his waist, then buried my face in his neck.
“I need you,” he whispered.
“How?”
“You know how,” he said, before taking my breast into the warmth of his mouth.
I inhaled deeply and I stretched my spine, thrusting my breast further into his mouth. The sensations from his sucking spiraled throughout my body. My body burned for him. My fingers wound in his hair.
His erection prodded against my body. I wriggled enough to impale myself on him. He filled me completely. The sensations were wondrous. I clenched my sheath, gripping his cock as if I'd never let him go. He ground his hips. I gently pulled his head back from my nipple.
“Bite.” I instructed.
He didn’t need to be asked twice. He bit, just a snack over my sensitive nipple and the deep warmth started where his body deeply connected with mine.
I tried pulling him deeper inside me and then lost myself in sensations. He drank lightly, pulling his mouth away when he climaxed so he wouldn’t take too much blood.
I knew why. He wanted to feed again, in the privacy of our quarters downstairs, where we could be more vocal.
It was fine with me, since he could bring me at the touch of a finger.
We relaxed as we caught our breath, my head down on his shoulder, his body still buried deeply in mine. Slowly, languidly, he lapped my breast to seal the bite.
“I guess we should have just gone downstairs, my sweet.”
“Since now we’ll have to go downstairs anyway.” I grinned.
He slid me down his body. We began to dress before we made our way down to the basement quarters to shower.
I was surprised to see an additional closet in Julian’s quarters. I opened the door and stepped inside. It was filled with clothes for me.
He watched, his expression unreadable as I searched in delight, holding each of the outfits up against me.
Finally I turned and wrapped
my arms around his neck, pressing my lips to his elegant throat, where the pulse hammered beneath my mouth.
My blood ran through his veins, nourishing him and giving his cheeks a faint rosy glow that only the freshly fed have.
“Thank you. For the closet, all the clothes.”
“Anything for you, my sweet.”
It was still daylight out, so I dressed in workout clothes and headed to the gym. I rounded up Gigi to work out with me.
“Thank you for running the gym in my absence.”
“It was fun. I enjoyed myself.”
“Why would you find working in a gym full of women enjoyable? You should be at Bang’s, enjoying the nightlife.”
“Not everyone at Bang’s is enjoyable. Here at your gym I am away from certain individuals.”
“Like Danielle?”
“She was one.”
I blinked and suddenly—standing before us—was Chen. He stood tall and tough, with no hint of smile on his somber face.
“Knock!” I snapped. “I’m human.”
He inclined his head in acknowledgment, and then turned to Gigi.
“You fed last night.”
She raised a slim eyebrow, her face a haughty mask. “I did enjoy my dinner last night, yes.”
The tension became thick as they stared each other down. “I brought your dinner to you. You didn’t accept.”
“I’m capable of finding my own prey. Just as I have for decades.”
He leaned toward her, his face inches away. “I’m here now. I’ve followed you to this country and I will care for you.”
He stormed out, leaving silence in his wake.
“What was wrong with the dinner he brought you last night?” I asked tentatively.
“A blonde. I preferred brunette,” she shrugged carelessly. “And, he brought a female. He knew I wanted male.”
I grinned, knowing she just wanted to be contrary. That I could understand. “Go after him. Give him your menu preferences for your next dinner.”
“Why would I do that?”
“It’d confuse the hell out of him.”
Her face lit into a smile and she quickly followed him out back.
I finished my workout on my own. I grabbed a towel and wiped the back of my neck, then threw it over a shoulder. The door chimes signaled a new arrival and I looked up.
A short, nervous man stood there, holding an envelope.
