Page 26 of Lured

Chapter 11

Leandro

I had been in the hotel room Anais was using as her base of operations once already tonight, but I was soon in there again with her. This time I was waiting as she gathered up what she wanted to keep and take to my room.

There were quite a few well made blades that I encouraged her to keep. After that I didn't interfere at all. Being in a place where her smell was so strong had me thinking of enjoying her body again.

While we had been out of the hotel I had kept my hands to myself despite my desires. Finding one of her friends had also been killed had changed her mood and made her very quiet and thoughtful. It was understandable. Someone was hunting her as much as they were hunting Ludis and it was a scary thought.

Still, she appeared to be taking it reasonably well and was focusing on the task at hand. Packing up all her stuff to take to my suite.

Once it was all safely stowed, I would take her down to the private rooms we had downstairs and we would begin trying to get her to accept her new role as my enthralled. I knew there was some risk in going down to Ludis so soon, but I also knew that I should have checked he was safe before now.

Anais took several more minutes to cram what was left of her supplies and weaponry into the small rucksack and close it back up again.

When she was done and it was sitting on the bed, I frowned. She had packed barely any clothing and I had gotten the impression that this truly was pretty much everything she owned. It was a pitifully small amount of possessions and already had me trying to work out how we would get her some more decent clothing.

She was wearing one of the only sexy outfits she owned and the only reason she looked good enough to be beside me in it was because of the fit body it clung to. It was a problem I was going to rectify. And I would need to get her some suitcases. I couldn't have an enthralled that I was serious about showing off wearing the same outfit regularly.

I made a mental note to sort it out the next moment I got, even if I had to have some clothes options brought to the hotel for her before we left. This was important.

“Let's take that to my suite and then go find Ludis and the rest of the vampires I'm meant to be part of,” I said, motioning for her to pick up the rucksack.

She hesitated, making me frown.

“What is it?” I asked, fearing that she was going to let her emotions get the better of her and cry or whine.

“Nothing really. Just seems like this is going to not appear very like an enthralled.” She looked up at me. “And I'm not sure I want to leave all this somewhere I don't know.

“You can have a key to the suite and you have my word that I won't touch anything in there. I'm not a monster.”

She chuckled as she finally picked up the rucksack. “A lot of other people would say otherwise.”

“They'd be more wrong than you'd think. Some are, but a lot of us have lived too long to want to fight over much or scare anyone in particular.”

Although I considered offering to take the bag from her, I didn't and simply took her hand again instead. We hurried up to my suite which was much higher up the hotel and I let her inside. Her eyes went wide in her head as she strode in and took in every bit of the luxury I commanded.

After placing her bag down on the edge of one of the sofas she went over to the window where she could look down on a significant portion of the city.

“It all looks so small from up here,” she said. “So many people going about their lives not knowing the level of danger around them.”

I followed her until I was standing closer behind her and slipped my arms around her waist. Feeling my body respond to the warmth of her pressed against me, I didn't hide the erection it caused.

She tried to shift, but I held my grip firm. “You're going to need to get comfortable with my desire for you.”

Although she opened her mouth to reply no words came out. I ran my hands up her body until I was cupping her breasts for the first time. She didn't try to wriggle away this time and my hardness grew, pressed against her ass.

I wanted her and considered lifting her skirts and taking her from behind right here in the window. Duty still called, however.

“You feel good and I'm going to enjoy doing even more with you later, but for now just get used to knowing I will touch you. And it won't matter if we're alone, or if anyone sees. In fact I'll enjoy people watching me do things to you, wishing they could be doing it too.

She inhaled sharply as I pinched her nipples through the thin fabric of her clothing. I twisted them a little, knowing it would hurt her.

“Your pleasure and your pain belong to me now. Your whole body, and your every moment. I'd say you need to act like you enjoy this but I can smell your arousal. I know how wet you must be.”

I leaned in toward her neck again as one hand went lower and reached between her legs. It didn't take me long to lift the front of the dress enough to get my hand between her thighs. I could feel her pussy dripping through her panties and I chuckled as she involuntarily flexed her hips to press herself against my hand.

With that I let go of her and backed up, taking away every bit of contact between us. She let out a soft moan and turned to try to pull me back in. As I chuckled again, I put even more distance between us.

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