The Maestro's Apprentice (3 page)

Adam leaned against the wall and put his hands on his thighs. Tina began to gyrate her hips while pulling her top over her head, exposing her lean back to the girls. Adam’s eyebrows shot up. He cleared his throat. “Do you like it?” she asked, and turned around to wiggle her butt at him while she opened her shorts, winking at the girls.

“Oh yeah,” Adam said. “It’s nice.”

Autumn began to feel the deep heat between her legs spread upward to her belly, while her thighs tingled, giving her a pleasant, hot-and-cold sensation. Maria began fingering a nipple. Watching a strange girl wiggle barely two feet away while the four of them huddled in the tiny back room of a New Orleans strip bar was intoxicating.

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Tina bent over and lowered her shorts slowly. Autumn watched the look of appreciation on Adam’s face as he stared at her naked ass. One corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. “Now, that’s nice,” he said.

Autumn wondered what it was like to be the girl showing off her body to strangers in a back room.

Tina wiggled her butt at Adam a little more before pulling the shorts all the way down to reveal a black thong and, stepping out of it, snagging her see-through heels on it briefly. While unhooking the shorts from the shoe, she looked up at the girls. “Do you want to join him on the bench?”

Autumn opened her mouth to say yes, but felt Maria’s hand tense around her waist.

“No, we’re fine,” she said. “This is all for Adam.”

“You don’t know what you’re missing,” Tina singsonged. Then she winked at Autumn, whose insides seemed to liquefy. She was up for anything, she realized, and that would scare her a little bit if she weren’t with the two people she trusted most in the world.

Tina turned back to Adam and moved close to him. “How are you doing?”

“I’m doing fine,” he said. He was holding his mouth funny, so Autumn figured his fangs were just as erect as his cock, which was bulging against the leg of his jeans. He shifted to make it easier for Tina to straddle his thighs, and rested his hands on the bench at his sides.

“You must be,” she said, making a show of checking out the bulge. “So you
can
relax after all.”

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“I’m relaxed,” he said. “But my girls here want to spend all my money on the first night.”

“Your girls?” she said, squeezing her pale, round breasts and rubbing her inner thighs on his outer thighs as she gyrated. “Are you three together?”

“Something like that,” he said. “It’s complicated.”

“You can touch me if you want,” she said, putting her hands on his shoulders and lowering herself until her barely covered pussy almost brushed his thighs as she gyrated.

Adam put his hands on her hips.

Autumn thought the contrast of his dark fingers against her pale skin was pretty. She didn’t get to look for long though, because Maria began kissing her cheek, moving on a diagonal path to the corner of her mouth, which she teased with the tip of her tongue.

Autumn thought she was going to die if she didn’t get fucked soon and fucked hard.

Her breath came out ragged as Maria got between her and the spectacle on the bench and pressed her into the corner, covering her lips and invading her mouth with her frantic tongue.

Girls are such soft kissers,
Autumn thought.
Too soft.
She closed her eyes and imagined the length of Adam’s swollen cock the way it had been a few hours before, insistently burrowing its way into her. The thought made her press against Maria and draw her close, devouring her kisses as a part of her mind made a note that she really wasn’t into it that much, and would have to think about it sooner or later. She had no idea how long it was before Tina exclaimed in a frantic whisper, “Oh my God! Are those
fangs
?”

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Maria and Autumn froze.

“They
are
fangs, aren’t they?” Tina continued.

Maria turned the top half of her body to see what was going on while Autumn just stood against the wall with her mouth open. Adam, along with every other vampire they had ever met, had been so careful about keeping his fangs hidden, even when they grew, that they had simply not foreseen him getting careless in a strip club, of all places. It wasn’t as though Adam didn’t have access to beautiful women.

Tina was standing, with Adam’s thighs still between her legs. He had clamped his mouth shut, and sat with his arms in mid-air and a wary expression on his face, watching her. Maria turned all the way around and stood poised in the middle of the room as Tina dismounted him awkwardly and stood holding her arms away from her body, also poised, looking at him. She bent forward slightly. Then she took a step toward him and said something no one in the room expected.

“Can I see?”

Adam moved his head back, as though he’d just discovered she had something contagious. “What?” he asked.

“Can I see? Your fangs. I want to see them.”

“There ain’t no fangs,” he said, and got up, scowling and adjusting his cock inside his pants.

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“I saw them,” she insisted. “Look, I’m from here, okay? I’ve seen some pretty weird things and I know what I saw. You had fangs two minutes ago that you didn’t have when you came in here. Are you a vampire?”

“Come on,” Adam said to the girls. “Let’s go.”

They crowded with him at the door.

“I want you to bite me,” Tina said.

He stopped with his hand on the doorknob. “I ain’t no vampire,” he said unconvincingly.

“But only if you can do it without killing me,” Tina added. “I’m not suicidal.”

He turned around. Tina looked at the girls with an expression of open urgency. “Are you vampires too?”

They shook their heads, too stunned to speak.

Tina looked at Adam. “Please? Life here is so shallow. It’s stimulating and…thrilling, in its own way, but you build up a tolerance. I just want to feel something.” She stepped forward and put her hand over his heart, then looked at him as if surprised. “I want to give you what you need. Just for a little while. If it’s okay.”

“It’s okay with us,” Maria said, assuming Autumn’s agreement, as usual. This time, she was right.

Adam flashed a look at them, then nodded and shifted on his feet. “All right,” he said.

“But we leave right now. And you don’t tell anybody.”

She nodded, and began a hasty re-dress. “A couple of the girls here tonight owe me. I can get them to cover.”

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She took them to the bar, told the bartender to give them three drinks on her ticket.

“Wait for me,” she said emphatically and headed across the room.

“What do you want?” the bartender asked.

Adam shook his head and leaned on the bar, dropping down hard between his shoulders. “Jack and Coke,” he said.

“I’ll have a Corona,” Maria said. “She doesn’t drink.”

“I’ll have a Cosmopolitan,” Autumn chimed in.

Maria widened her eyes at her. “You don’t drink,” she insisted.

“Well, tonight I do,” Autumn said.

In spite of telling Adam they were leaving, and in spite of the breakup with Maria that was to come soon, Autumn felt deliciously wicked – in New Orleans, picking up a stripper
and
drinking a Cosmopolitan. She would liked to have stayed out a while longer, but wanted to see what happened with Adam and Tina. Not to mention she was glad he had found a meal.

He was right, though. She did feel guilty. But there was something more, too.

Something about it just felt wrong.

It wasn’t long before Tina had made arrangements to have the rest of her shift covered and had changed into street clothes. She was a tiny, waifish thing in tiny, waifish jeans, a metal-studded belt and tight, neon-pink-on-white T-shirt. “Ready?” she asked.

Adam had finished his drink almost as soon as it had been served. Maria wasn’t really interested in her beer, and Autumn was only about halfway through with hers. She didn’t want to let it go, so she downed the rest quickly. “Oooh,” she said, when she climbed off the barstool. The floor felt a little unsteady.

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“Careful,” Tina said, and put her hand on Autumn’s arm.

Maria watched the exchange closely.

“Thanks,” Autumn said.

Their hotel was only a few minutes’ walk away. Tina chattered about different bars and told them where the nearest Internet café was, while Autumn pointed out things she thought were pretty, like the guy with closely cropped hair and tight jeans who had just crossed their path. Tina giggled. Maria grew quiet. Adam put his arm around her.

Back in the room, Tina looked at Adam with bright, open eyes. She hooked her thumbs in her pockets and twisted her body back and forth. “I’ve been doing this a couple of years and you’re the first vampire I’ve met.”

“You sound like you expected to meet some.”

She shrugged and sat on one of the beds. “You hear things, especially here. You just never know what’s true.” She glanced at the girls. “So what’s the…what do I do?”

Adam sat beside her, leaned over and kissed her.

“Whoa,” she said, pulling away to look at him. “They’re out again.”

“They do that when I’m hungry,” he said. “Or turned on.”

“So which is it?” she asked.

“Both,” he said, and pulled her back onto the mattress. Autumn watched as he put his hand up the other girl’s shirt. She was getting turned on again herself.

Maria rubbed Autumn’s arm. “Come on,” she whispered, and pulled her toward the bed. Autumn let Maria pull her shirt over her head and take off her bra, then position her on the mattress and tease her breasts with her tongue while Tina whispered to Adam on the other bed.

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“I want you to fuck me,” Tina whispered.

Autumn felt like a voyeur, and strained to hear everything going on in the other bed as Maria tried to get her attention. She smiled up at Maria and kissed her back, but closed her eyes and pretended she was the one who had happened to find a strange vampire in a strip bar as she raised her hips so Maria could pull off her jeans. While Maria unfolded her labia with her tongue and ran the tip along the delicate inside, Autumn pretended she was the one in a den of strangers, and that she had never seen Maria before, never been with a girl before. She pretended everything she was doing was new.

“Fuck me, Adam,” Tina whined. “Your cock is so huge. Do all vampires have such massive cocks?”

“Nope,” Adam said.

When the bed creaked, Autumn turned her head and opened her eyes, thrusting her pussy against Maria’s searching tongue. Adam was on his feet, pulling off the girl’s clothes and his own. Then he covered Tina’s waifish frame with his nude body and worked his way into her. “Oh God,” she said. “I want you to fuck me.”

It wasn’t long before Adam was pumping his hips against Tina’s naked pussy and she was moving against him, arms wrapped around his neck and pulling him close to her.

Autumn wondered if it was impolite to watch a strange person having sex with someone she knew, but the sight of them and the sounds of Adam’s grunting and Tina’s mewling were just too compelling.

He was a lot more animalistic with Tina than he ever was with her, growling deep in his throat, thrusting hard. Autumn envied her that, even though she was glad Adam always took care of her. Tina was probably a lot more experienced than she was, she 26

thought, and that’s why she got to have wild, abandoned sex without having to consider the consequences.

Autumn was desperate for pleasure without consequence.

She watched as something passed between Adam and Tina. He slowed his thrusting and looked into her eyes. She gazed back into his and swallowed. Then Adam lowered his head and began to nuzzle her neck, still rocking his hips. Finally, Autumn saw him open his mouth and lift his lip over his fangs like a snarling dog. Tina’s whole body convulsed as he pierced her. She gave a squeal and held him tight as he drew greedily from the wounds he had made, while Maria began to tease Autumn’s opening by making circles around it.

Adam drank for a long time, which was unusual for a first bite. It made Autumn feel a little guilty, because she figured it meant he was hungrier than he’d been letting on. She had often heard that “virgin blood”—or blood from someone who had never been bitten before—tasted unripe.

Tina’s movements calmed, then stopped, as Adam continued to ravish her, working his whole body back and forth as he drank. Finally he tore himself away from her, took a deep breath and groaned in climax. There was a dribble of blood on his bottom lip and another on her neck.

Autumn gave Maria obligatory hip-thrusts as she watched them, feeling disconnected from her girlfriend’s moans of pleasure. She was glad Maria tended to close her eyes while going down on her.

When Adam was finished, he settled back down in Tina and looked at her face. “You okay?” he asked softly.

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She turned her face to him slowly, like someone who had been drugged. “You have some on your lip,” she said.

He wiped it off with his thumb and stuck it in his mouth, then made a face. “It’s better while it’s warm,” he said. “Hold still,” he said, then lowered his head and lapped up the blood from her neck. “Did you like it?” he asked.

She nodded groggily.

“Just so you know, a vampire can’t get or give STDs and we can’t father crumb-snatchers. So you’re safe. You’re going to want to sleep for a while.”

“How long?”

“Day, day and a half. It depends. But you’re going to feel pretty damned good when you wake up.”

She nodded again, then didn’t move. Autumn closed her eyes while Maria touched and licked her. Adam got up, cleaned himself and Tina, then put her under the covers.

Autumn zoned out for a while, just enjoying the feel of Maria’s warm, wet tongue, surprised to find Adam sitting on the other bed and watching them when she opened her eyes. He was hard again, and stroking the length of his cock as he watched, propping on one straight arm so that the side head of his tricep bulged. His head lolled back lazily. His dreads looked like a mane.

Autumn watched his fingers spread the slick pre-come around the thick head, then work it down the shaft with his whole hand. Her heart began to pound again as he got up and gave them a smoky look before getting on his knees behind Maria and reaching around to open her jeans. He pulled them just below her ass cheeks and reached between 28