Page 1 of Ouch! My Vampire Doms Don't Sparkle
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Autumn
Will stands like a statue, shoulders slumped, staring at the door.I must make a sound of some kind, because he seems to pull himself from his thoughts and he opens his arms to me.
“Little love.Let’s find you some breakfast, hmm?”
I step into his embrace.He’s so gentle with me now, whereas moments ago he was stroking hard within me, biting my neck, probing my ass with slippery fingers.A wave of arousal moves through me at the memory of what we just did.
Will groans.“You make me never want to leave the bedroom.But come along.Kitchen.I’ll make you eggs.”
I’m surprised that a vampire has any groceries at all, but when I follow him to the open-plan living room and kitchen area, he opens the refrigerator door and reveals that it’s fully stocked.
“Why do you have all this food, if you don’t need to eat it?”I ask.
He shrugs.“I like to cook sometimes.It’s soothing.”
“You probably want to cook a lot after that argument with Xander you just had.”
“Maybe.How do you like your eggs?Benedict?Omelet?Something else?”
“Um, scrambled is good.”
He takes some eggs from the fridge, then leans back in.“I can add things to the scramble—cheese, green onions, bacon, mushrooms.”
My stomach rumbles.“That all sounds great.Thanks.”
I’m uneasy as he cracks the eggs and dumps the yolks in a bowl, though.A few minutes ago, I was thinking I definitely wanted to stay here, and I wanted to let Will take care of me.
But my presence drives away Will’s best friend, and they’ve been together probably forever.I’m a little blip on their timeline.Definitely not worth them having a falling-out.
“Will?”
“Yeah?”He washes and slices some mushrooms.
“Do you think I should really stay?I’ve already caused problems between you and Xander.”
His sure hands move to grating cheese.I could watch him cook for hours.He looks so calm, controlled, capable.
“Xander will come around,” he says.
“How do you know that?”
“Because you, love, are irresistible.”
“What are you talking about?”I say with a laugh.“He resisted me just fine a few minutes ago when you and I were in the tub.I watched him watching us.He could’ve made a move, easily, but he didn’t.”
Will now has a pile of veggies and cheese to add to my scramble.He moves back to the bowl of yolks, whisk in hand.“He wants you.Trust me.He simply has to work things out in his mind.”
“What kind of things?”
A flash of something—sorrow?Regret?—passes over his face, but he quickly turns to the task in front of him.“It’s complicated,” he says.“Let’s not worry about it quite yet.”
It explains nothing, but to be fair, our relationship is still new.
Perhaps “relationship” is too strong of a word for what we have.Arrangement?Yes.Arrangement.I’m making a living arrangement with a vampire.
A living and fucking and biting arrangement.
