Page 29 of Lucien

Jamie swallowed hard. “Has the seduction started already?”

“No, this is just…truth. Come.” Luc tugged Jamie forward, manhandling him onto the couch, Luc settling in close beside him.Veryclose. Jamie’s skin prickled from his nearness. He tried to be subtle in the way he breathed in Luc’s scent, but judging from the smirk on Luc’s face, he wasn’t wholly successful.

Jamie fidgeted with one of the blankets. “You’ve made a nice little nest here.”

“Atmosphere is important.” Luc placed an arm on the back of the couch, his fingers toying with Jamie’s open collar, sending little sparks of electricity every time they brushed skin. “Normally I would have finer things to set the scene.” He gave Jamie a wicked grin. “I’d like to drapeyouin finery, flower.”

Jamie shivered. What the fuck? Luxury had never been all that appealing to Jamie before. He didn’t crave “finery.” He didn’t usually see the point. But the idea of Luc…decorating him. Placing Jamie carefully into the things he’d like to see, like to touch. That held some serious appeal.

Luc’s lips quirked, his fingers continuing their dance along Jamie’s collarbone. “Would you like that, my sweet? Diamonds in your ears, perhaps some onyx rings on your fingers to set off that black polish?”

Fuck, was Jamieblushing? In their brief time together, Luc had held himself so still, so distant. Even with Jamie’s mouth on his cock, he hadn’t let himself loose, not really. But now Jamie was getting a real taste of the man hiding underneath all that predator stillness. The elegant seductor.

Jamie had a flash of his first vision of Luc, adjusting the cuffs of his leather jacket as if it were a dinner one.

“Perhaps we’ll dress you in silks,” Luc murmured, grabbing Jamie’s chin in a firm grasp, tilting his head until their eyes met. “Something soft and fine and…decadent.”

Jamie found himself leaning closer, lost in those black eyes, all the dancing shadows.

Luc was clearly pleased with his reaction. “Ohh my. If I’d had you in my clutches in those early days, I would have eaten you right up. And you would have let me, wouldn’t you, my flower? I wouldn’t even have needed compulsion with you. Just look at you. Heavy-lidded, hard as rock. Just from a few sweet words.”

Fuck. He wasn’t wrong. Jamie’s cock was hard as steel. He was lost in Luc’s pretty compliments, his rich sandalwood scent. And painfully aware that he was basically half-dressed, bare-chested, while Luc was fully clothed in dark jeans and some designer-looking button-down. It made Jamie feel…soft. Vulnerable. Turned the fuck on.

Past hookups had been flirty, teasing. Never this…sultry seduction. He liked it.

Liked it even more that it was his vicious, vengeful vampire doing it.

He was only this sweet for Jamie.

Jamie exhaled shakily. “I really think you should fuck me.”

Luc laughed—a rough, low sound that tingled down Jamie’s spine. “Oh no, precious. Not tonight. But you’ll give me a kiss, won’t you?”

Don’t have to ask me fucking twice.Jamie was on him in an instant, crushing his lips against Luc’s, using the opportunity to squirm onto the vampire’s lap. It was so strange, how easily Jamie fit there. They were basically the same height, but Luc’s bulk and strength made Jamie feel half his size.

He groaned when he felt Luc’s hardness underneath him, grinding his ass down against that amazing bulge. At least Jamie wasn’t the only one affected by all this…teasing.

Jamie lost himself in the kiss, in the battling tongues and nipping teeth, grinding against Luc all the while. Luc fucked his tongue into Jamie’s mouth like it was his cock.

Jamie fucking loved it.

Eventually he felt Luc’s fingers dig into his hair, pulling Jamie’s head back sharply.

The vampire was panting, he noted with satisfaction.

Luc searched his face, his gaze lingering on Jamie’s lips, which felt swollen and tender from all the attention. “I always thought I would end up with a woman,” Luc murmured—way out of the fucking blue, in Jamie’s humble opinion. “A wife.”

Jamie scowled back at him. What the fuck? Talk about a boner killer. “Maybe your seduction game could use some work after all.”

Luc smirked at him, tugging his hair once in admonition. “Hush. I’m giving you another truth. I had the classic hang-ups of my time. Worries of damnation. A million reasons to suppress any…unnatural attractions I felt.”

Jamie tsked. “You need a catch-up with modern biology if you think gay leanings are unnatural. I can give you a dozen examples in the animal kingdom off the top of my head.”

Luc ignored his interjection. “After I was turned, I figured—in for a penny, in for a pound. I let myself open up to the possibilities. The first man I brought home—to feed on and to fuck.” He let out a harsh breath. “It was…so delicious.”

Luc’s sexy fucking voice was low and gruff, and Jamie hated that he was still hard hearing his confession. That through familiar pangs of jealousy over Luc’s past lovers, he was…aroused…by his words.

“So much possibility,” Luc mused, fixing Jamie in his stare. He gave a surprisingly gentle tug on Jamie’s hair this time. “None of them affected me the way you do. Not a one. This mouth alone.” He ran his free thumb along Jamie’s lower lip, and Jamie only barely resisted the urge to tongue at it, to suck it into his mouth. “This. Fucking. Mouth. I could feast on it endlessly. Iwill.”

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