Page 57 of Fallen Heirs

“He’s right,” X said, thankfully backing me up, despite how obvious it was that he really wanted to smite that fucker, Constantine, too. “You’re past your shutdown phase, dealing with your grief and what happened, now we can bask in some normalcy, some downtime from all the insanity, like Tal is saying.”

She sucked in a breath, then stroked my fingers in hers. “Yeah, you’re right. I promise.”

Thank fuck.I eased back. “How about tonight the four of us get to some down and dirty fucking in your chambers, Alena? We’ll bring Ore into it via my IC Watch, kind of like a phone sex hologram sort of thing?”

Alena’s eyes hooded. “Sounds perfect.”

“Shame I can’t sink my fangs into him,” X said, regretfully.

Yeah, he’d really gotten into that with Ore lately. It had turned out that Ore had a hard-on for being fed on.

“You can bite me,” Alena offered.

“Me too,” I said, drawing attention from them both. “What? I want to know what it’s like, what’s got Ore so into it.”

“Mmm, it’s on, firebird. You too, beautiful.”

As we settled into eating our lunch, excitement bloomed as I thought about what was going to go down tonight.

Definitely something to look forward to.

Just like my next class and showing off my abilities without any fallout this time.

There was a lot to look forward to actually.

A lot beyond all the darkness and pain of late.

And I was absolutely here for it.

I wanted to immerse myself in it for as long as possible.

Because, with the way our lives were, we all knew that couldn’t hold for long.

We had to run with these perfectly imperfect moments as much as we could.

Was that not the essence of life in a nutshell?

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~Alena~

“Spread those sexy thighs wide and take Talon’s tongue deep in your wet cunt while X sinks his fangs into your throat. Show me what I’m missing, little angel.”

Orpheus’ words via the IC Watch rang in my head from last night, as I stood under the running water of the shower. The cold water that I was using to calm myself down.

Sometimes our fucking sessions just stayed with me well into the next day or beyond.

They were often that intense.

And always mind-blowing.

Talon had experienced being fed from by Xavier for the first time and it had shocked him how overwhelming it had been and he’d come as soon as Xavier had begun the draw.

It wasn’t just the act of the feed when it came down to it, it was the sensual and incredibly sexy way that Xavier carried it out. There was just something about it that was all-consuming and left you utterly enraptured. I’d noticed the difference in it since the first time he’d drank from me. Now he was finally comfortable with his vampire side, he brought it in a differentway. And last night had been incredible because of that element thrown into the mix with all the fucking.

Thinking about that had me worried with what Constantine’s new acolytes had offered him. He clearly believed it had just been a load of bullshit to try to get a hold of a bit of his magic for some reason. But what if it was real? What if Constantine had actually found a way to kill the vampire within? To leave Xavier as a sorcerer only, take him back to what he had been?

He'd wanted that for so long. But he’d become comfortable and at peace with the vampire lately. I’d seen it during our hunts, out front and center. He’d even admitted as much to me.

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