Page 38 of I Dated a Golden Vampire
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Cabree looked afterPria and looked at Riro.“What did you do?”
Riro frowned.“We were just playing.”
“We were playing, or you were playing?Did she finish?”
He snorted.“No, that wasn’t the point.It was just to get her used to my touch.”
Cabree slapped her forehead.“And now she knows that she won’t get to learn what pleasure feels like when you are playing with her.Nice.The first time you masturbated, did you stop halfway to build the tension?”
He frowned and glanced toward the door.“Oh, no.”
“The Sethir are strict with young girls.A woman who has been attacked by coworkers in the program is even more cautious.Then she lost the ability to move her body for years, so you had a blank canvas, finger-painted, and walked away.Good luck getting near her again because I don’t think she’s gonna let you touch her.You really blew the first impression.”
He was already pale white, and he got grey.“I didn’t think.We were just playing.”
“To play, you have to know the game.”
Riro left the room in a rush of fluttering silk and a cascade of hair.
Denog hugged her from behind.“Did he just do what I think he did?”
“Teased her to the frustration point and then cut off contact?Yeah.Pretty sure he did.”
He kissed her neck.“I am glad I am not that stupid.”
“Me, too.And you are lucky I don’t have armour-cutting water knives.”
He hugged her.“Should we join them?”
“Sure.I would hate to waste the shower.”
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Pria went to the highestpoint on the ship and looked at the water beneath them.She trusted the water before the accident.It had always come when she called.They had danced together so many times that when it had crushed her, the betrayal had been complete.She thought they were friends.
The island that they were docking at had a bay so deep that whales were silhouetted beneath them.Denog’s yacht was tied up in the shallower water.Cabree would be happy with him; she just had to get past her trauma.
Pria had started to let her mind flit around Riro.As Master Roil, he had been calm and trustworthy.As the half-blood bastard prince of Hyreno, Riro was an asshole.
She settled that in her mind and nodded.It was better to go back to formalities.She was just a toy, after all.
“Pria.Are you all right?”He was walking toward her, and she stopped him with a wall of water again.
“I am fine.Did you talk to the captain?”
“No, I wanted you with me.”
“Why?I am just a guest on this ship.Three more weeks of travel and I go home.”
He froze.“I thought you wanted to see the island.”
“I did, but you tricked me, Master Roil, and I won’t fall for that again.”
“Tricked you?”
“The booking.”
