Page 30 of His Mate By Vengeance

Angelo’s hand paused where he was slowly jerking himself off.Fuck.Why did he like the sound of that so much? He’d always been the dominant one in his hook-ups, and Vin was half his size. His cock throbbed in his fist as pre-cum leaked from his tip in a near-constant stream and his hole clenched in anticipation of a kind of pleasure he’d never experienced with someone else. His fangs had descended sometime while he’d been distracted and were aching just as badly. He needed to sink them into his mate’s neck and claimhim. Needed to secure their bond so there would be no doubt who Angelo belonged to.

Dammit. Now the damn vampire had him thinking that way, too.

“This goes both ways, Vin,” he said, voice annoyingly breathless.

Vin stroked a sharp talon over his nipple and smiled. “Mmmm…. So it does. Do you know how vampires form a mating bond, Angel?”

Angelo shook his head, unable to form words as the pressure of Vin’s talon travelled further south, dragging over the ridges of his abs and down the vee of his Adonis belt until Vin was so, so close to where he was desperate to feel him.

Shifters bit their mates to create the mating bond. If they were an alpha, a shifter born, that was usually quickly followed by fucking them with the knot that formed at the base of an alpha’s cock once they mated, although that was more about closeness and belonging than any strict requirement of the bonding process. He’d assumed vampires were much the same minus the knot given they fed by biting anyway, but he was guessing that was wrong or Vin wouldn’t be looking so sneakily and ravenously excited. He was almost bouncing on his toes as his face lit up.

“You’re so much fun, Angel. So much innocence wrapped up in just the right amount of dirty experience.”

“I’m not fucking innocent.”

“And yet you have no idea what to expect from me. Have you ever been fucked before, Angel?”

Angelo’s face flamed. Turning away from the intense connection that was fast becoming overwhelming, he scanned the rooftop until he found one of the daybed sun loungers people came up here to relax on and sunk down onto it. His eyes followed the flickering flames of the candles surrounding them as he avoided looking at the vampire whocould bring him to his knees with nothing but a word if he wanted to. He felt vulnerable. And he wished he didn’t like it.

“I’ve used toys,” he finally mumbled.

He still wasn’t looking at Vin, but he could hear the vampire licking his lips. He thought Vin would make some suggestive comment or get that bossy tone in his voice, but he didn’t.

“We can wait. Sex to form a mating bond is a lot if you’ve never…”

Vin had been walking closer as he spoke and Angelo reached out and tugged him onto his lap, resting his forehead on his shoulder.

“I can’t wait,” he whispered. The mating bond was like an itch on the edge of his consciousness that he couldn’t quite reach. He needed it. Needed Vin.

“You’re not a virgin, though, right?”

“No!” Angelo said, aghast. “For fuck’s sake. I’m fifty-five years old. I’ve just never done it with a guy like that. Not for lack of interest. Shifter males are just really fucking annoying in bed, so we didn’t get that far.”

Vin threw his head back and roared with laughter. “Well, at least my boy toy is self-aware.”

Angelo couldn’t help the grin twisting his lips at Vin’s teasing even as he slapped the vampire’s chest lightly. “Hey! I didn’t meanI’mannoying. I’m perfect, of course.”

“Of course,” Vin said, catching his lips in another kiss, one where they both couldn’t stop smiling.

For some reason, it had taken this long for Angelo to realise that his mate was now completely naked. He couldn’t stop the way his hips jerked up as Vin’s cock rubbed against his where he sat straddling him. His hand slid down Vin’s slender muscled back and he gripped his tight ass in both hands, fighting the urge to knead him with his claws like he was some kind of cat shifter.

“So, how do vampires mate, then? I’m assuming it’s not about the bite if we’re having conversations about my not-virginity,” Angelo said, nuzzling against Vin’s face as he spoke.

Vin tilted his head to the side and let Angelo’s exploration extend down his exposed throat. Angelo trembled as he kissed the taught tendon there and imagined where he’d sink his teeth in when he could finally bond with his mate.

“Not a bite, no. Imagine if there was a risk of bonding whenever you fed? If a vampire takes a mate, it’s often a human and they turn them at the same time because it makes them more stable. That’s the only reason their fangs are involved.”

“To drain them dry, you mean,” Angelo said, shuddering in distaste despite himself. At least he didn’t need to be turned like a human would to match their immortal lifespan.

“Don’t worry, Angel. I’ll never drain you dry unless it’s your balls from giving you too many orgasms.”

Angelo shuddered again, for a different reason this time. “Is there such a thing as too many?” he asked.

Vin chuckled. “So innocent where it matters, darling. Whathaveyou been doing for all these years?”

Angelo shoved Vin onto his back on the daybed and came down over the top of him, crushing their bodies together and caging Vin’s head between his arms. “You really don’t want to tell me what a mating bond with you involves, do you? Stop deflecting.”

Vin let his fingers trail down Angelo’s side and over the swell of his ass until he was stroking over his hole with the lightest of touches. He’d like to say he growled or roared in response. That wasn’t what happened. He fuckingwhimperedas he pushed back against the barely there pressure of his mate’s fingers.

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