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Jay giggled at that. “Why would I yodel?”

Alexei shrugged, a small smile playing on his lips. “I’m just saying. I’ll enjoy myself because I’m with you.”

“You’re the nicest hum—” Jay paused, feeling unaccountably horrified. “Oh my God. Alexei. I can’t—I can’t call you the nicest human anymore.”

“Why not?” Alexei teased. “Finally changed your mind?”

“But…you’re avampirenow.”

“You can still call me that if you want, kitten. I’m afraid it was never a very accurate moniker anyway. I hate to break it to you, but I’ve never been very nice. Not before I met you.”

Jay huffed, pressing play on the movie. For all his experience, sometimes Alexei really had no idea what he was talking about. Hewasthe nicest human. Nicest vampire. Nicest mate.

Jay settled in on the couch, close enough that his and Alexei’s thighs were touching. And then, because Jay and his beastie both agreed that sitting next to each other wasn’t actually close enough, he lifted Alexei’s arm to tuck himself under. He waited a moment for potential admonishment (such as,Can’t you sit by yourself for one movie, Johann?), but there was only warm satisfaction pulsing through the bond, so he snuggled in closer, draping himself over Alexei’s chest.

That was better.

Jay still tried, at first, to keep his thoughts and exclamations to himself. But he had somanyof them. They were watching a movie calledAlien, and the premise alone brought up so many questions that Jay’s brain was overflowing with them.

The alien creature was clearly much stronger than the humans, but would it still be stronger than a vampire? How would one of their kind fare against a creature with acid for blood? If a vampire was jettisoned into space, would they still live forever, just floating into the abyss?

Jay couldn’t help voicing the questions out loud, which he knew had to be annoying.

But it was like everything else with Alexei. There was no annoyance, no frisson of irritation through the bond. There was only amusement (the nice kind), acceptance, love.

Jay didn’t care what Alexei said. He was the nicest human in the world.

So Jay let go of his hesitations and allowed himself to enjoy the movie like he would if he were alone. Except it was allbetterthan when he was alone because he was tucked under Alexei’s arm, feeling so warm and cozy and safe, and also Alexei had brought them both so many types of candy (even though Jay seemed to be the only one eating it) and Jay wasn’t losing any time at all (hadn’t lost a moment of time since Alexei had turned, as a matter of fact).

But just over midway into the movie, Jay began to have a different kind of problem.

He wastryingto stay focused. He really was. But the thing was his beastie was all keyed up at the thought of fighting an alien (his beastie was convinced they could win against one, even if Jay wasn’t), and there was Alexei, smelling so freaking amazing.

And so Jay maybe got a little squirmy and horny and also maybe started to have a hard time keeping his breaths regular. And even without the bond, Alexei probably would have noticed, but with the bond, it was only a few minutes before he was watching Jay more than the movie, and Jay could feel amusement (still the nice kind) and lust both pulsing through their connection.

“Getting a little distracted, are we?” Alexei murmured into Jay’s hair. And oh, it wasn’t fair when he made his voice all low and rumbly and teasing like that. “Do eight-feet-tall exoskeleton alien monsters turn you on, kotyonok?”

Jay’s cheeks burned with horny embarrassment. He hadn’t even known before Alexei that horny embarrassment was a thing. But it was. It really was. Jay kept his eyes on the TV though. “No, they don’t.”

“Oh? Then why can I smell desire on you, sweetheart?”

Jay shivered as Alexei nosed at his neck. “You can’tsmellit,” he protested. “You’re just—you’re cheating.” Jay wasn’t sure if reading his desire through the bond counted as cheating, but he felt like it did. He could have pretended to still be focused on the movie otherwise. Maybe. Probably not.

Alexei huffed a laugh, and his warm breath on Jay’s neck had another shiver rushing down his spine. “You still want to finish your movie, kotyonok?”

“Um. Yes.” Jay wasn’t sure he did, but the whole thing had been his idea, and Alexei had gone through all the trouble with the snacks, so he should, shouldn’t he?

Alexei’s breath was hot on Jay’s ear now. “Well, would you like to finish the movie with my mouth on your cock?”

Before Jay’s brain could even process the question, he was scrambling out from under Alexei’s arm and plopping onto his back on the couch because yes, yes, he did want that. Very, very much. Healwayswanted Alexei to be touching him, and maybe he’d find it in himself to be even more hornily embarrassed about that fact if Alexei didn’t seem to want that very same thing. If Alexei didn’t seem to like nothing more than just…loving on Jay. Kissing and stroking and teasing him until he was an absolute puddle of goo.

Jay watched with wide eyes as Alexei tugged down his sweats, revealing Jay’s bobbing erection. His mate was so handsome, especially with those pretty eyes all heavy-lidded and intense, looking at Jay’s cock like it was a piece of delicious candy.

And then Alexei was looming over him, gently turning Jay’s head to the side with two fingers so that he was facing the TV again. “Watch your movie, sweetheart.”

Jay tried. He really did. He was even sort of successful at first because Alexei took it kind of easy on him. He started with licking and nibbling at the skin along Jay’s hips, which had Jay giggling a little because it sort of tickled. He then turned his attention to the inside of Jay’s thighs, a place he’d bitten and drunk from more than once.

Jay expected Alexei to do the same now, but he kept going with those gentle nibbles and warm kisses, not a hint of fangs.

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