Page 58 of Across the Sapphire Sea
“What, love?” Valeri purred against his skin. “What do you need?”
“Touch me.”
Valeri found a nipple and pinched it between his fingers. “Like this?”
“Touch my cock.”
“You can come like this.” Valeri massaged the nub hard, then flicked it.
The tweak sent fire to Elias’s leaking shaft. He squeezed his eyes shut, which only intensified the sensations. “Is that what you want?”
“Yes. I want you desperate for it.”
“I am,” Elias admitted with a grunt.
“Good.”
Valeri continued his assault on Elias’s nipple even as he pounded into his ass. The urge to spill built steadily, his cock pulsing against his abdomen. With his free hand, Valeri pressed his wrist to Elias’s lips, an offering he would be crazy to turn down. Elias tongued the sensitive flesh. When he bit, he would explode, and he wanted them to come at the same time.
“Tell me when,” said Elias, his lips on Valeri’s skin.
Valeri acknowledged him with a low groan of pleasure. He was close. His dick swelled, stretching Elias to the maximum and rubbing his insides just right.
“Now,” Valeri cried.
Elias sank his fangs into Valeri’s wrist. As the blood burst on his tongue, so did the seed from his body. Euphoria claimed him in waves. Valeri pumped into him, shaking with the pleasure of it. Together they writhed as they rode out their bliss.
What came on fast and hard left in a slow, sensuous slide. Each sensation another one to savor before the next took its place. Teeth sliding from skin, flesh sliding from flesh, Valeri’s iron grip relaxing into a gentle hold.
Taking a deep lungful of cool air, Elias stretched like a cat then turned in Valeri’s arms, a little awkwardly as he was still stuck in his own pants, but he managed. Face to face with his love, basking in satisfaction, Elias snuggled in.
Valeri rubbed his back. “Well done, my sweet.”
Elias chuckled. “Why, thank you, it’s been a very successful night.”
“It has indeed.”
Elias had learned that times like these were generally best for pulling bits of information from Valeri that he might not otherwise reveal.
In light of that, Elias asked, “Tell me what you found tonight?”
If it was possible, Valeri’s eyes glowed even brighter.
“Everything.”
15
Elias, One Year Ago
“I’ll go with you,” Elias offered, unwilling to be stuck in their underground rooms alone again. Plus he wasn’t convinced Valeri should go by himself.
“You’ll stay here.” Valeri tucked a knife into its sheath on his belt, then shrugged on his leather doublet. “Where I know you’re safe.”
Elias batted Valeri’s hands off his laces. “Let me.” He threaded the cord from the bottom and weaved them upward through each grommet. Valeri stood still to allow his fussing. “I’m worried. You shouldn’t go. These vampires have declined to meet with you. Lajos says they’re dangerous. Let’s go south for help.”
“You fret too much. I’m going to confirm their location, and then we’ll leave for the Baltic. You must be patient a little longer.”
Elias tugged the lacing rougher than was precisely necessary. “I’m not being impatient. I’m being practical. One less-than-ancient vampire against a court of ancient vampires is doomed to failure.”
