Stephen (7 page)

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You won’t.” He wasn’t sure if she meant he’d never survive or he’d not get to come again. But Edward didn’t want to think of either of those options. When she moved her feet to the arms of his chair and leaned back on the desk, he rolled forward and kissed her inner thigh.

Working his way up her leg to her pussy, he thought of several things at once. Her taste, would it be as good as he hoped it would be or better? Edward thought of his lack of a name for her, but she moaned and he forgot about caring. Then she lifted her hips up, and he suckled her clit into his mouth, promptly forgetting the rest of his concerns. And he’d been wrong. She tasted so much better than he’d ever thought she would.

Sucking her pussy, he drank greedily from her. She tasted of him and a sweet nectar that he knew belonged completely to her. Sliding his fingers into her pussy, he moaned when her knees tightened around his head, and he felt her cream running down onto his desk. Christ, this was going to be fantastic.

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Play with my ass.” He moved his soaking fingers down to her ass and slid deep. “Oh yeah, that’s it. I love my ass to be fucked when I’m being eaten.” Her moan made his cock harden again, and he wanted to stand and fuck her this way. But she pulled his head up and looked at him. “I need another man here. I’m going to call in someone to play with us.”

Edward didn’t want to share her, but before he could say anything, a man, as naked as she was, moved into the room. Christ, his cock looked like it was a foot long and at least three inches thick. Edward found he wanted to suck the man’s cock just to feel it slide into his throat.

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Stand up and lean onto the desk.” The woman moved, and the man was directing him to lean over the desk in the same way that she’d been. When he moved up behind him, Edward felt his cock start to soften until a heavy hand wrapped around him. “No you don’t. I’m going to need this later, and if you go all soft on me now, I won’t get to have my fun.”

The woman moved to get between him and the desk, and she licked his cock as soon as she was on her knees. When she swallowed him down, Edward started fucking her mouth just as the man cupped his balls. As soon as he was leaned over the desk again, he nearly screamed when something entered his ass. The man was fucking him with something smaller than his cock. But the more he rammed it into this ass, the better he was liking it.

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I’m getting you ready to fuck.” Edward wasn’t sure he’d ever be able to let a man fuck him, but the man’s next words had him wanting to try. “You’re going to fuck my ass first while I suck off Velvet’s pussy. When you come in me, I’m going to fuck you while you fuck her. A threesome with us is going to be amazing.”

Edward knew it would. Fucking and being fucked was going to be fucking fantastic. That’s when he realized that things had moved. They were in a bedroom he’d never seen before. Velvet was now lying out on the bed and the man was eating her pussy. His ass looked as inviting as her pussy had. Moving up behind him, Edward slammed his cock deep into the man’s ass and cried out at the tightness of it. Nothing in his life had ever felt this good. Edward plowed the man for all he was worth while watching him eat Velvet’s pussy. Christ, he hoped he’d never wake from this.

Chapter 4

Stephen watched her sleep. He knew that she was healing much faster than anyone thought she would, but he’d been giving her more and more of his blood over the past few hours to hurry the process up. He kept telling himself that it was because he wanted to get her as far from him as possible, but really he wanted to see her eyes again. Samuel had told him he could see the world in them and he wanted to see if that was true. Stephen had a feeling he would be able to see more.

The meeting yesterday and again early this morning had not gone as planned. First of all, they were trying their best to piss him off about this council position. He didn’t want it for any number of reasons.

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But most of all, it’s because if I take it, it might require me to follow some of the rules that I think are stupid.” His voice echoed in the room, but he enjoyed speaking. Stephen didn’t want to think that he was sharing his frustrations with his mate, but knew that’s just what he was doing. He leaned back into his chair and looked at her.

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This will never work. You will begin to hate me after a while because of what I am. I don’t mean a vampire, but the bastard that I am.” He shifted on the seat, uncomfortable with his own words. “I can be ruthless when need be, but I’ve been known to be a sort of nice guy. But you’ll see me for what I am. All of me. I drink from a bag now, not because I think humans should never be used as a source of food, but because I simply don’t want to bother.”

He got up and went to the window to look out. The light on the yard showed that it was home to two deer and a small rodent. They ignored each other for the most part. One of the deer lifted her head as he watched, and he wondered if one of the wolves had startled her. When the deer both took off toward the woods, he smiled when one of the wolves chased them. He knew that they’d never kill one of them, but the need to run was born in them. He thought of Velvet December.

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She’s gunning for me. And if she finds out that you’re my mate, she’ll stop at nothing to harm you. It’s why you have to leave here.” Three more wolves moved through the light, but these were moving as though they were searching, not hunting. “I’ve had to find extra patrols, as well as update the security.”

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Because of me.” Stephen turned, startled by the voice behind him. She still lay on the bed, but she was staring at him. “Is it because of me?”

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Yes. No. I would have done it anyway, but this expedited things a little.” She didn’t move and neither did he. He wasn’t even sure he could. “Are you hurting?”

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Yes.” He waited for her to explain, but she turned her head away from him, and he felt sorry for that. “I’ll leave as soon as I can. I’m not sure how badly I’ve been beaten to shit this time, but I’ll go when I can.”

Moving toward the chair, Stephen sat down before speaking. “I don’t think you need to leave right away. But you will have to. I don’t want you here. As it is right now, Velvet doesn’t know where I live, but it won’t be long.”

She didn’t speak again, and he felt badly about that. He didn’t have a clue as to why, but he did. Instead of leaving as he knew he should, he settled in the chair to wait her out. He had a great deal of practice at waiting for people to speak first, and this slip of a human was going to be easy. Closing his eyes, he decided to rest while she sulked.

Stephen opened his eyes. He had no idea how long he’d slept, but he knew it was longer than he’d meant to. Lately, he’d not been resting as well as he should have been, and that was why he’d slept for so long, he told himself. Not since the woman had…he looked at the bed for several seconds before he realized what he was seeing. She was gone. And someone had made the bed. Getting up, he moved to the door, reaching for her as he went. Nothing.

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Mother fuck.” The door opened just as he was reaching for it, and there stood Kasen. He looked as startled as Stephen felt. When Stephen looked at the tray in his hand, he realized he was bringing him his morning food.

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Where is she?” Kasen looked to the stairs before looking at him. “When did she get up? And why did no one wake me?”

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She came down several hours ago, sire. Miss Kelley said that you were resting and that you’d given her permission to leave. She said you insisted on it.” His heart started pounding with the thought of her leaving him…here. “I have sent all manner of food with her as she didn’t seem to have—”

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She’s gone?” Kasen took a step back and nodded. “When? Mother fuck. She’s not well enough to be out gallivanting around like she’s invincible. And I did not give her permission to leave. I said that…I don’t remember what I said to her, but I most certainly did not give her permission to leave.”

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I was not aware that she required it.” He glared at Leith as she landed on the tray that Kasen held. “Did you not tell her just this morning that she would need to leave? That she was not wanted here?”

Stephen moved past his day walker and to the stairs as he answered her. “I told her the truth. She is not wanted here, but that didn’t mean I wanted her to get out there and get herself killed. Why the hell aren’t you with her anyway? I thought you were her great protector.”

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Because she asked me to tell you something.” Stephen nearly fell down the last three steps. Turning slowly, he looked at the tiny woman. She didn’t look any happier to give him the message than he was to receive it. But when she moved past him and toward his office, he followed.

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There is snow everywhere. Did you see it?” He glanced out the window as he sat, not bothering to comment on her question. “It will be cold as the moon rises higher in the sky. I tried to get her to take more blankets when she left, but she said that you’d more than likely accuse her of being a thief, and she said she had enough on her plate right now without adding jail time to it.”

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I would not have begrudged her extra blankets.” He huffed at Leith as he continued. “I told her I was a bastard. She might have heard me.”

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I told her.” That startled him to silence. “When you were speaking to her, I was there. I didn’t think that you’d mind that she had the information you were giving her while she slept.”

He hadn’t meant for her to know what a bastard he… Stephen looked at the faerie when she smiled. “You told her everything. Even what I thought about myself.”

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I did. Did you mind?”

He found that he did. Leaning back in his chair, he tried to think how to find out if she was all right without making himself look like a fool.

Leith sat on his blotter and looked up at him. “It does not feel right, does it, my lord? To have someone that should mean the world to you to be out in the cold, alone. Would you like her message?”

Nodding, he thought about telling her no. Getting up, he went to the window again and saw her footprints going toward the woods. He could follow her. Reaching for the man in charge of his brigade of wolves, he asked Jimmy if he knew where she had gone.

She is holed up in a cave about four miles from here. I’m not sure how she made it, but she did. Stubborn little thing.
The seriousness of his voice made Stephen know that he hadn’t found any humor in her stubbornness.
I have three of my men watching her now. I don’t think she’ll be going anywhere for a while. Oh, and did you know that she can talk to us? I mean communicate with us on the same level that only supers can?

No. But nothing she does right now should surprise me. She walked right by me without waking me. How the hell did she do that?
He reached for her again to hit the same hard wall.
And why the hell can she block me? I’ve given her enough blood to turn her, and yet she can still keep me out of her head.

Fuck her.
He was sure Jimmy meant in the physical sense of the word, but he was in no mood for someone to give him advice on his wayward mate. Moving to the door, he saw his friend standing there pulling on an old shirt. Jimmy looked like he was going to say more, but Stephen held up his hand.

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Save it. Just take me to her and I’ll deal with her.” When Jimmy only crossed his arms over his chest, Stephen felt his beast rise. He should have known that it wouldn’t do him any good. Jimmy just threw back his head and laughed at him.

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You think that’ll work on her? I’m thinking not. When we were following her through the woods, she stopped and turned to us. Looked at the others before settling that glare on me. Asked me what the fuck I was doing.” Jimmy moved past him and into the house, leaving Stephen no choice but to follow or stand there looking stupid…or in this case, stupider.

Kasen was asking Jimmy what he wanted to eat, and Leith was sitting next to a tiny plate that had several flowers on it. She was nibbling on one when he sat down. The urge to flick her away was great, but Stephen had a feeling that she’d hurt him in ways that he would feel for years, if not his entire life. She seemed to know what he was thinking and laughed at him.

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You have never taken her message. Would you like it now?” Stephen nodded. “She said to tell you to leave her alone. That she has enough overbearing dickheaded men in her life, and she does not need another one that thinks he can control her. Also, she said that if you come to find her, she will…I believe she meant this in a way that is not good. She said that if you come to find her that she will ‘fuck you up.’”