Page 37 of Act of Passion

Chapter Twelve

Malik madehis way onto the dance floor, a drink in hand, moving to the beat of the music at the club Auberi had taken him to. The music was hard thumping hip-hop. Finding the perfect woman to have a night of amazing sex with wouldn’t happen. He’d not had sex in five years. Not since he’d spent a night under the influence of the experimental drugs in Egypt. Since he’d lost control and nearly shifted form fully while buried deep in the most beautiful woman he’d everseen.

Brooke.

That had been it forhim.

His dick simply refused to work unless he was alone, stroking himself to Brooke’s photo that he’d taken with his phone. Even achieving orgasm by that means was getting harder and harder. Soon that option would be gone and he knew what would happen then. He’d succumb to the pull of the lion inside him. He’d seen it happen to others—men who tried to deny their animal instincts and the need forsex.

He’d gone to great lengths to hide the truth of it all from his friends, knowing they’d have seen it as a sign that he didn’t have control of his beast. He was on borrowed time before he’d need to confess it all to his friends. After all, they’d be the ones who would have to hunt him and put him down when he lost control. The least they deserved was thetruth.

The famed ladies’ man had fallen fromgrace.

He took a sip of his vodka on the rocks. Suddenly, two beautiful women were there, in slinky dresses that only just covered their asses. One was in a red dress and the other wore gold. They pressed up against him, moving with the music as well, grinding their bodies againsthis.

He caught sight of Auberi not far from the dance floor, a drink in hand as well. The man lifted his drink and nodded to Malik, clearly pleased to see him starting to loosen up again. If he only knew the truth. That Malik hadn’t bedded any woman inyears.

Auberi would behorrified.

The man lived forsex.

He was French. It wasexpected.

Auberi sipped his drink as he grinned. The two had spent centuries romancing women. Sometimes they even romanced the same woman at the same time. Auberi’s tastes ran both ways. Malik’s did not. That hadn’t stopped them from sharing women in thepast.

More thanonce.

The woman in red slipped her hand into the open portion of Malik’s shirt, running the palm of her hand over his chest. This was the point when his cock of five years ago would have been all in forsex.

Nothing.

PSI’s scientists had effectively neuteredhim.

Frustrated, but not deterred, Malik continued to dance, his free hand finding the hip of the woman in the gold dress. He felt as if he were going through the motions. Nothing more. He’d had countless women in his immortally long life. He’d taken women in every way possible and some not so possible. Though he’d only spent his seed in one, having been told at an early age of the dangers of doing so. And he’d not meant to do so ever, but the fucking medication had messed with his judgment as well as hisdick.

He had a long history of infamous incidents with women throughout the ages. More than once he’d leaned on his fellow PSI operatives and friends to get him out of a hairy situation, all revolving around him beddingwomen.

Auberi appeared next to Malik, minus his drink. He drew the woman in red to him and touched her chin, forcing her gaze to meet his. The woman licked her lips and the smell of her arousal filled the air, doing nothing to ignite Malik’s sexdrive.

Auberi spun the woman, putting her back to his front, and turned his head, his gaze colliding with Malik’s. “Just what the doctorordered.”

Malik barely managed to contain a groan. Auberi was a doctor. He’d studied some form of medicine at least once a century since he’d beenalive.

We could share these beauties, said Auberi down the mental path theyshared.

Malik shook his head.Nah. I’m not really feeling it with them. They’re not mytype.

Auberi snorted.I find that hard tobelieve.

I think I’m going to call it a night, returned Malik, giving up thefarce.

Auberi caught his arm. “I’ve arranged a surprise for you tonight, to help you out of your recentfunk.”

Malik fought a groan. Knowing Auberi, he’d hired a harem to come and try to get Malik off. It would be a very Auberi thing todo.

Auberi drew the two women closer to him and stared down at them, his gaze going to jet black quickly. “Go. Find others to occupy you for theevening.”

The women obeyed. It’s what humans did when a powerful vampire mesmerizedthem.

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