Page 87 of Lucien

Luc’s chest rumbled his pleasure as Jamie ran lazy hands along his skin, but the rumble faltered when those gentle strokes turned to his softened cock, Jamie petting it with his slender fingers, coaxing it back into hardness. “What are you doing, hm, flower?”

Jamie laughed softly before clambering over him, straddling his hips once again and lining Luc’s awakened cock back up with his entrance. “Oh, man. How cute of you to think we were done.”

Luc had created a monster.

He was the luckiest vampire in the world.

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Jamie

“So,um.We’reoff.”Danny gave a shrug with his words from his place on Jamie’s porch, Roman looming behind him and Jay waving from his spot slightly off to the side.

Jamie was a little surprised they’d come by for a send-off in person, but he wasn’t complaining. He liked Danny and weird little Jay. Roman he could take or leave, but he clearly meant something to Luc, even after all the bullshit, so Jamie was willing to cut him some slack.

The tiniest, most threadbare, could-snap-at-any-moment bit of slack.

The fact that Roman had saved Luc’s immortal life might have tipped him over just a bit in Jamie’s favor as well. He’d never forget the sight of Roman throwing the feral vampire off Luc’s limp body. The twins had helped too, of course, but they were the ones that had gotten Luc into the whole mess in the first place, so Jamie wasn’t feeling all too charitable toward them at the moment.

Although, they had at least been in place to witness Jamie’s transformation themselves. They knew now, from what they’d seen with their own eyes, that Luc was tethered and bound, no longer at risk of feral behavior. Plus, Jamie as a vampire had his own territory rights in Tucson, and like he’d told them, he’d been there longer. They wouldn’t be skulking around trying to kick Luc out of the city anymore, not based on their own stupid rules.

It would even maybe have been fun to try to force the twins out instead (“This ismytown now, dickheads.”), but it probably wasn’t worth the hassle, Jamie supposed.

Jamie had found out later that Jay had been off running the feral vampire’s victim to the hospital. The woman screaminghadbeen real, and he and the twins had startled him away when they’d arrived from different directions. It was just Jamie’s luck the creature had decided to circle back and stalk him instead. Maybe it had been his delectable seer blood tempting him. Who knew?

Heroics aside, Roman and Luc were studiously avoiding eye contact with each other at the moment, each pretending the other didn’t exist. It was almost cute, such blatant stubborn alpha male behavior. Jamie felt blessed he’d never been inclined to posture in that way. Frankly, it seemed exhausting. Although, there weresomebenefits to being mated to one of them, Jamie supposed.

Like he and Luc fucking literally all night long.

He smirked to himself at the thought, shifting in place, marveling at howgoodhe felt after all that. He should have been unbelievably sore, but apparently vamp healing was helpful for more than just battle scars. And Luc had been awfully generous with the magic tongue rimming…

But Jamie didn’t think he would have been able to help himself, even if soreness had been an issue. He’d woken up on fire, this wantburninginside him. Needing Luc’s touch, needing to be close to him. It had taken a whole lot of convincing for Danny to get him to leave Luc’s side, and in the end, the other vampire had been forced to very bluntly state that the sooner Jamie drank some blood, the sooner they could all leave him and Luc alone to fuck like rabbits.

Jamie really liked the guy, honestly.

But like, how did vampires get any work done in this world? How were they not all just fucking and biting each other all the time? Truly one of life’s great mysteries. Supposedly some of the…ferocity of this attraction would fade, if Danny’s words could be believed. But you just had to see how Roman looked at his mate to know it couldn’t be fading all that much. Roman looked at Danny like he was a juicy steak half the time and like he hung the literal moon in the sky at every other moment.

“Well, thanks for stopping by to make sure Luc wasn’t kidnapping me and then going the extra mile and beheading that feral dude for us.”

Danny blinked twice. “Oh. Yeah. Anytime.”

“Notanytime,” Roman countered with a growl.

Jamie shot the surly vampire his best smile. “Don’t worry. Next time, we’ll visit you. Give you all a chance to host. You seem like the kind of guy who’d do a full tea service for guests or something.”

“Not likely,” Luc snapped.

At the same time—“Oh, goody!” This from Jay, who had wandered off the porch onto the neighbor’s property, trying to commune with the neighbor’s cat from the looks of it.

The cat for his part did not seem impressed.

Roman raised a dark brow at Jamie. “I am not sure I like you very much.”

Jamie smiled wider at him, kind of wishing he had his fangs out. But that would probably be rude. “Ditto, big man.”

“I think he and Soren might get along,” Danny said thoughtfully, tilting his head and studying Jamie.

Roman scoffed. “Except he is mated to the vampire who attacked Soren’s mate.”

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