Chapter 16
The two priests told Auris everything he wanted to know, everything he asked them to. There were a lot of names and places and procedures they spelled out. The details they gave about the things they did were gruesome.
They talked about enjoying what they did, “the work” as they called it, and it made my skin crawl. They explained how they would extract information from those who had been tempted. Auris, mounted to that cross, hadn’t even received the worst of what these people had to offer, it turned out.
At some point Auris asked them about other demons, which seemed to be what they called him and people like him. They told him that one had been purified in a bone church near Prague seven years ago.
Eventually, it turned out to be too much for me, and I got up and headed inside. I stood in front of the crackling fire and hugged myself.
Auris came in after me. “It’s a lot, I know. Can I do anything?”
I shook my head. “Well, yeah. Finish whatever you need to do. They creep me out, and I don’t want them around.”
He nodded. “Not long. Maybe one more hour. Should I run you a bath before I go back outside?”
“No, but that actually sounds like a good idea. I’ll go soak in the tub.”
Auris walked over to me and hugged me tight. “I’ll have them leave before you are done, I promise.”
“Thanks.” I kissed his neck, and we broke apart, me heading to the bath, him going back outside where night ruled.
I spent a long time in the water. I held my breath and dipped my head under the surface, enjoying how the world fell silent.
When I was done, I walked to the bedroom barefoot, the towel left back on the rack in the bathroom. Part of me really honestly wanted to get dressed, and another part hoped to find a vampire in the bedroom, waiting for me.
That naughty part got rewarded. Auris had already lit the fire in the room. He was sitting on the bed, his vest off, his shirt unbuttoned, and he looked—
I’d been planning to seduce him, but before I knew what I was doing, I was walking back to the living room and getting my camera. I heard him chuckle from the bedroom, but I didn’t care what he thought. He looked too perfect surrounded by shadows not to photograph.
I snapped a half dozen photos of him on the bed. He leaned back on his hands before he spoke. “You want to go back to the Seafront Bar, have a drink there? Or do you truly want to wait for next summer?”
“You heard that, huh?” Another three photos, the fireplace casting my shadow on the linen far enough that his hand touched it.
“Yes, vampire hearing is quite good for that.”
“I’d love it. The view is probably amazing.”
“Don’t you like the view right now?” He turned so that one knee was on the comforter and his legs were open.
I lowered my camera and my jaw, then took another photo. “That is a nice view.”
“Come to me.”
I hesitated, longing to capture his dark eyes and fae-like looks, but in the end, I couldn’t resist. I walked over, put my camera down on the bedside table, and straddled Auris.
He buried one hand in my damp hair, holding me tight with the other, and kissed me.
I was achingly hard—it had to be the stress—and I was rocking my hips, seeking friction. He was still mostly dressed, and that was just so… There was a power dynamic thing there, something about him being all put together and me not, and I liked it.
Auris abandoned my lips, and his mouth came to rest on my throat, sucking and nibbling at the skin.
“You want that?”
“I told you I do. I want you in every way.”
I moaned. How had I never been with anyone who made being with them thrilling in the way it was with Auris? I’d had no idea what I’d missed.
“Will you… I mean, I’d like to do anal. With you topping. You can, uhm, have a bite. Is that how you phrase that?”
Auris chuckled, his breath tickling my skin, and then he leaned back so he could look at me. I didn’t stop rubbing up against him. The fabric of his suit pants and shirt under my bare skin was stimulating in the best of ways.
“Do you truly mean that, my sweet?”
“Yeah. You won’t drain me, and I want to know what it feels like.”
He narrowed his eyes, and his lips curved in a sly smile. “I was talking about letting me top you.”
“Oh. Well, that too. I like cock, you know. I like all the things. I just don’t like it all the time.”
He gave me a thoughtful look. “Lie on your belly with your legs apart.”
I got off his lap, and he stood. When I was lying down like he’d said, I couldn’t hear him in the room, but glancing back, I saw him standing there, enthralled as if he were the one under a vampire’s spell.
“I’ll be a moment. I’m just admiring the view,” he said when he noticed me looking.
I wanted to give him something to admire, so I raised my ass, humping the mattress.
Without warning, I felt him slide between my legs and push my knees apart, and before I knew what was what—he could move way too fast—I felt my butt cheeks being kneaded, felt them spread apart, and warm breath tickled my hole.
I gasped when he licked over me. Eating out a woman was different from this, and I didn’t mind doing it. I wasn’t sure how I felt about Auris licking my hole.
“Relax, Ethan.” He kissed my right butt cheek. “You’ll enjoy it if you let me have my way with you. May I? Have my way with you?”
I let out a low breath. “Yes, you may.”
“Thank you.”
I tried to relax as best as I was able. It wasn’t easy. Auris was determined though, and he licked, then kissed and kissed, then licked again. He took his time. It went from uncomfortable to strange to…not all that bad.
“Yes, nice,” Auris said, and he pushed a finger inside me.
I moaned, and my hips twitched. He bit my butt cheek, and while he had one finger in me, he kept licking around my rim.
I felt his breath chill the skin he’d licked. “It’s fine, this is wonderful. You’re wonderful. Don’t worry so much. Tell me I can keep going. Tell me you want it.”
“Yes. Yes, I do.”
“So I shall.”
He grew more serious about stretching me, adding a second finger to the first. What was good about this wasn’t that he zeroed in on my prostate or relentlessly ate me out, no, it was the focused stimulation on one region of my body, the single-minded care, the touching, more and more of the touching.
His pace was slow, his focus entirely on me and not on his own pleasure.
All of it had me clawing at the sheets and humping the mattress. Auris seemed unbothered by that. He held my hips in place when he needed to and kept going. Beneath me, precum had made the sheets damp and sticky. I wanted to come. I needed it.
“Can you…can you…”
“Already, my sweet?” He added a third finger, almost businesslike, and readjusted his position. I looked back to see him sit up on his heels, still fully dressed. “You still want my cock?”
“Hnn, yeah.”
“And you want me to come inside you?”
I shivered. “Yes, please. Auris, please.”
“Begging is a nice gesture, but we’re having a conversation. Would you like me to use spit, or the fresh bottle of lube Gloria left here the other night? I’d put it all over your tight ass, make sure you’re ready, make sure the only friction you feel is the kind you want to feel.”
“Uhn, fuck, Auris.”
“Ethan, we are having a conversation.” He curled his fingers. “Spit or lube?”
I gasped. My vision blanked out as I came close, so very close, just not quite getting where I needed.
A question. He was forcing me to answer him. “Lube, please.”
“Aren’t you well-behaved? I like that you say ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ Well, you do say ‘thank you,’ don’t you?”
“Yes, yes, I do.”
“Are you feeling quite stretched?”
“Yes.” I bit my bottom lip. “Thank you.”
“Such manners. Well, I’ll have to leave your ass alone for a little while to get the lube. You don’t mind, do you?”
“No, of course not. Thank you.” I was breathing heavily, incredibly turned on by…talking? No one had ever gotten me this turned on through small talk.
“Good. I’ll wash my mouth as well, because I do plan on biting you. You still want me to bite you?”
“Oh, fuck. Yes, yes, please bite me, Auris.”
“I will, Ethan, I will. Relax your ass while I’m gone. I’ll make sure it’s quite busy when I get back.”
My eyes rolled back and I groaned, my cock so hard that the need for release was all I could think about.
“Yes, please,” I said, no longer quite in sync with his side of the conversation.
Auris chuckled. “Aren’t you just the sweetest morsel?”
I never heard him move, but I heard the water running in the bathroom. Then I heard the bedside cabinet being opened, which would have made me jumpy under normal circumstances, but I was far too wound up, and I needed my vampire boyfriend to put his cock inside me.
I soon felt Auris back between my legs.
He trailed his fingers over my butt. “You waited just like I asked you to.”
“Yeah.”
“Well done. Are you hard?”
“Fuck, yes. Please, Auris, I need to come. Please.”
“Oh, I know you do.” He put a soothing palm on one of my ass cheeks. “It’ll be good. Sometimes waiting for a good thing makes it better. Remind me, how long have I waited for you?”
“Ah, a thousand years. More. One thousand five hundred years.”
“That’s right, give or take. I dreamed about it, about making sure you enjoy your first time with me. Do you think you’ll enjoy feeling me inside you today?”
“Yeah.”
He clicked the bottle open, and I almost jumped off the bed when the cool lubricant hit me.
“You’re sensitive. You’re not going to react that way when I fill you up in a moment, are you?”
“No, I won’t, I promise.”
“Ah. So greedy for my cock that you will promise things?” He casually used his thumb and fingers to spread the lube, inside and out. “You should count yourself lucky I’m in no mood to take advantage of that. Well, I think this has gone long enough.”
He pulled his hand away. My whole body felt as if it were on fire. I heard him unzip his pants, and I moaned, just from that. His cockhead was intrusive at first, pushing against my ring, but when he pressed on and I stretched around him, colors exploded behind my closed eyelids.
This was fucking amazing. It must have been the foreplay. Sex alone had not even once been this good. I was in the moment, no other thoughts in my head, not hearing anything but the lewd noises of him moving in and out of me before finally shifting to shorter thrusts.
His clothes brushed my ass with every thrust, and that was better, added even more lewdness to the entire experience.
My orgasm was a slow build that pulled me along like the currents of the churning ocean outside. I moaned into the pillow I was clutching to me, shocked that it had happened without him touching me, without me having to touch myself.
It was an addictive thing, him still inside, still going, knowing this had been so easy yet so good, so…new. I felt him come within seconds, thrusting hard and deep until I felt his cum inside me.
I was blissed out when he blanketed himself over me, his cock still in me.
“What do you say?” he whispered into my ear, one hand cupping my head.
“Thank you.”
“You’re welcome.”
He tilted my head back farther. I wasn’t sure what he was doing until I felt his mouth, his teeth, the surety of his bite.
It didn’t hurt. Or, it did, but the pain didn’t register in my oversensitive state. What registered was that I liked this, the small breaking of skin, the way him taking my blood made my arms and legs feel funny, all tingly and light.
He didn’t drink for long, and after he pulled his mouth away, he licked over the wounds, then massaged them with his thumb.
I was barely conscious for that. The sheets were too soft and his weight on me was too soothing.
“Thank you, my sweet” was the last thing I heard, Auris’s voice warm and sweet, like molten chocolate poured over ripe fruit.