Chapter Nine #2
“I know. It was an accident. Nobody’s fault.
” He loosened the hug enough to be able to look Luca in the eye.
“I know how it can be for vampires. I did a fuckton of research when I first got here. Mostly on werewolves, but also on vampires. Eventually, you can curb the urge if something like this happens again, but I can say with absolute certainty, Luca, that if a really bad accident happened in this house with us humans, none of us would be against being turned to save us.” He tightened his grip again when Luca tried to pull away.
“No. You need to listen to me right now.” Kye waited for Luca to look at him again and firmly added, “I’m speaking as the mate of your Alpha, Luca.
We’re more scared of losing you than becoming non-human.
You’ll get yourself under control with practice. But we’re. Not. Scared. Of. You.”
The tears streaming down Luca’s face made my eyes brim over, too. I could sense his indecision, his doubt, but I knew Kye was right.
Brodie cleared his throat. “That said, I would like to keep my mate human, as well the others, so…,” he deadpanned.
We all chuckled a bit wetly, wiping our faces. Except Luca who didn’t have a hand free. Max moved to run his thumb under Luca’s eyes.
“Now go,” Kye said, leaning even closer to Luca to kiss his temple.
Swallowing hard, Luca nodded and pulled us out of the kitchen, then up the stairs. He didn’t let go until we were safely in our room. He turned around to look at us, giving Max a small smile. Then he looked at me and something in his expression changed.
“Hey, Ben… hey, it’s okay,” Luca said and stepped into me, pulling me into his arms. “Nothing bad happened. It’s going to be okay.”
It wasn’t until he spoke that I realized I was spiraling.
Suddenly I couldn’t breathe, and only with the help of both of them could I get to the bed.
I’d concentrated on Luca so fully, that nothing else had mattered, and now the after effects were swamping me.
On the flip side, it was as if he’d recovered in an instant when he could concentrate on me instead.
Luca and Max pulled me onto the bed, and sandwiched me between them as I did my best to get my system back on track.
Luca murmured about breathing with him, my face smushed against his chest. Max behind me kept petting me and murmuring about how everything was fine. Nobody got hurt. Nobody was leaving.
When he said that one word, “leaving,” I realized that was what had triggered me. If Luca was too dangerous here—whether actually or if he thought so himself—he’d leave and I couldn’t lose him. We couldn’t lose him.
“I’m not going anywhere,” Luca said firmly. “I’m not leaving either of you.” The conviction in his melodic voice was enough to bring my faculties together a little.
I still sobbed in their arms for a while before I felt my body relaxing.
“Oh, shit. You need blood,” I blurted out.
Luca chuckled, and I heard Max snort softly.
“I do, yes. Do you volunteer as a tribute?” he asked, something almost mischievous in his tone.
Ah. Yes. They’d told me what had happened the day before. He was asking if I wanted to take the feeding a step further like he and Max had done.
“I… yes.” There was no doubt in my mind that I wanted him. When Max went to move, I reached back. “Don’t go far.”
He pressed a kiss to my shoulder, then rolled off the bed and walked to the corner by the window, where the armchair sat. “This good?”
“Yes.” I raised a brow at Luca. “Right?”
He smiled, looking rockstar gorgeous with his eyes filled with both literal and metaphorical hunger. “Of course.”
Yes. He’d told us that. Multiple times by now. It still felt… unbelievable. Lucky.
I felt a lazy curl of arousal in anticipation. “How do you want me?”
“On your back. Let me… do my thing.” His eyes darkened as he watched me make myself comfortable. “Tell me to stop anything and I will.”
I nodded, my cock jerking in my sweats. Luca helped me pull off my hoodie and pants, and then I was sprawled on the bed, wearing a T-shirt and underwear.
“You look like a snack. Good thing you are one,” he purred at me, eyes twinkling with amusement and utter hunger.
Max chuckled from the corner, and I lifted my hand to give him the finger.
Luca moved up my body to kiss me. We’d kissed before, but not like this. Not with this sort of intent. He took control of me so effortlessly, that I wondered if I’d ever before folded so easily in my life. Probably not, if I was honest.
His cool hands ran along my skin, slipping under the shirt and making me shiver.
Then I felt a sting and tasted blood. It was mine, from where my tongue hit his fang.
Luca made a hungry sound that wasn’t human, and my dick jerked again, filling all the way.
He chuckled and cupped me through my underwear, then wrenched his mouth off mine.
His eyes were black now, but I could tell he was in complete control.
To my surprise, Luca began to move down my body. He pushed my shirt up to my armpits, then peppered my chest and stomach with cool kisses and swipes of his tongue.
“I want to bite your nipples, but I’d rather not give you a piercing,” he said, grinning with both fangs showing.
I laughed, then moaned as he went lower, his hand cupping me again as he settled between my legs. Before I could ask what he was doing, he mouthed my thigh, then made eye contact and raised his dark brows at me.
“Y-Yes,” I breathed out. “Yeah.”
He found the right spot and bit through my inner thigh, latching on as my brain and body flooded with all the goodness a bite could give.
My cock was throbbing, peeking from under the waistband, and I moved my hand only to have it smacked away by Luca. He rumbled and continued to drink, then pulled away and licked over the punctures as I watched.
I panted for breath when he pulled the waistband down and licked a stripe along my dick.
“This okay?”
“Yes. Please.” I couldn’t remember being this hard ever before, and all my senses were concentrated on the almost ethereal beauty of the man between my legs.
He swallowed me down, making happy noises as I tried not to fly off the bed. My back arched and I dug my heels into the bedding.
“Christ, Luca!” I gasped, feeling the release sneaking closer already.
I flailed a hand out, raked my blunt nails across his scalp before grabbing his forearm for support.
I was riding a high, almost there, when I felt his other hand on my face. My eyes flew open, and I looked at him. Before I had time to comprehend anything, he used his grip on my jaw to aim my gaze to the corner of the room.
I locked gazes with Max, and erupted into Luca’s mouth.