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Nix narrowed his eyes, but his heart leaped in his chest when West brought the tip of the tube to the space between his neck and shoulder. He flinched when the cold goop made contact, then furrowed his brow when he started to feel a weird numbing sensation spread throughout the entire area.

“What is that?” he tried to turn his head to see, but West’s fingers captured his chin, keeping him in place as he continued to apply a generous amount to Nix’s body. Once he was satisfied, he dropped the tube and used his other hand to rub the cream into Nix’s skin.

“You’ve just been carrying that shit in your bag this whole time?” Yejun said, an edge of annoyance in his tone that had Nix’s spine noticeably stiffening.

“I mean this in the most loving way possible,” West replied, “shut the fuck up, June.”

Yejun went quiet, but Nix was caught up on that word.

Loving.

Was this loving?

Was asking to be claimed in an office after signing away his freedom loving?

Was the cream West just used on him loving?

What was loving?

“Hey.” West’s fingers on his chin pulled him back to the present. “We protect each other, yeah?”

Nix licked his lips. “Yeah.”

“After this, I promise no one will be allowed to hurt you ever again.” He looked over at the others. “Right?”

“Yes,” Lake and Yejun both said, just the single word and nothing else.

“How’s it feel?” West rubbed a few more circles into Nix’s skin.

“Numb,” he replied. The entire area didn’t feel like anything anymore.

“Good.”

“Did you prepare this…?”

“For you?” West finished for him with a smirk. “Yeah, babe. I’ll make this as pleasant of an experience as possible. Hold onto me, okay?”

Nix nodded and lifted his arms, looping them over West’s head a second time, and took a shaky breath. Despite all that bravado, he was afraid. When Lake had bitten him, the pain had been excruciating. It wasn’t at all something he wanted to experience a second time.

West widened his legs and slipped in closer, tipping Nix’s hips so that he could line his cock up with his entrance. “Ready?”

Not even a little.

He nodded anyway.

And the Demon sunk his teeth and his cock into his body at the same time.

Chapter 11:

“Did you come here for that?” Briant scowled at the fresh mark on the other side of Nix’s neck.

“No. I came here for you, like I said.” Nix gave him a reassuring smile and finished with the paperwork. They were in the process of checking him out of the hospital. “Are you heading home after this?”

“I have the bus ticket you bought for me,” his cousin said, not sounding pleased by that notion. He shoved some folded clothing into his leather bag and sighed. “Nix. I don’t like this. Come back with me. We can talk to auntie and—”

“My parents can’t help me,” he cut him off. “Mostly because I don’t need their help. I swear. I’m good here. I’m maintaining my stellar GPA and—”

“You both always do that, you know?”

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