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“Thanks.” I kissed his neck, and we broke apart, me heading to the bath, him going back outside where night ruled.

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I took a long bath. I held my breath and dipped my head under the surface, enjoying how that calmed everything.

When I was done, I walked to the bedroom on naked feet, the towel left back on the rack in the bathroom. Part of me really honestly wanted to get dressed, and another part hoped to find a vampire in the bedroom, waiting for me.

And that part, it got rewarded. Auris had already lit the fire here. He was sitting on the bed, his vest off, his shirt unbuttoned, and he looked --

I’d been willing to seduce him, but before I knew what I was doing, I was walking back to the living room and getting my camera. I could hear him chuckle from the bedroom, but I didn’t care what he thought. He looked too good not to photograph.

I snapped a half dozen photos of him on the bed, leaning back on his hands, before he spoke. “You want to go back to the Seafront Bar, have a drink on the deck?”

“You heard, huh?” Another three photos, the fireplace casting my shadow on the linen far enough that his hand touched it.

“Yes, vampire hearing is quite good for that.”

“I’d love it. The view is probably amazing.”

“Don’t you like the view right now?” he asked, turning so that one knee was on the comforter and his legs open.

I lowered my camera and my jaw, took another photo. “That’s a nice view.”

“Come to me,” he said.

I hesitated, longed to capture his dark eyes and fae-like looks, but in the end, I couldn’t resist. I walked over, put my camera down on the bedside table, and straddled Auris.

He buried one hand in my wet hair, holding me tight with the other, and then we started kissing.

I was achingly hard -- it had to be the stress -- and I was rocking my hips, seeking friction. He was dressed, and that was just so… There was a power dynamic thing there, something about him being all put together and me not, and I liked it.

Auris surrendered my lips, and his mouth came to rest on my throat next, sucking and nibbling at the skin.

“You want that?”

“I told you I do. I want you in every way.”

He said that, and I moaned. How had I never been with a real guy who made being with him thrilling like Auris did?

“Will you… I mean, I’d like to do anal. With you topping. And you can, uhm, have a bite. Is that how you phrase that?”

Auris chuckled, his breath tickling my skin, and then he leaned back so he could look at me. I didn’t stop rubbing up against him. The fabric of his suit pants and shirt was really nice.

“Do you truly mean that, my sweet?”

“Yeah. You won’t drain me, and I want to know what it feels like.”

His eyes narrowed, and his lips curved in a sly smile. “I was talking about letting me top you.”

“Oh. Well, that too. I like cock, you know. I like all the things. I just don’t like it all the time.”

He chuckled. “Lie on your belly, your legs apart.”

I got off his lap, and he stood. When I was lying down like he’d said, I couldn’t hear him in the room, but glancing back, I saw him standing there, enthralled as if he was the one under a vampire’s spell.

“I’ll be a moment. I’m just admiring the sight,” he said when he noticed.

I wanted to give him something to admire, so I lifted my ass, humped the mattress.

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