“A vampire working at a blood drive?” Fox scoffed. “There’s a joke in there somewhere.”
Jay frowned at him, although there wasn’t much malice in it. He was too busy worrying his bottom lip with his teeth, as if he was thinking something over. “I won’t be taking the blood myself—I’m not a phlebotomist. Plus, it might be too tempting. To take a little sip.” His tongue replaced his teeth, swiping over his lip. “A little…nibble.” He gazed dreamily at Colin, his eyes dropping to Colin’s neck. “You always tasted so good, Colin.”
A rumbling growl left Fox’s chest before he could help it.
Tear his limbs off, his devil crooned.
Jesus. Fox and his devil were getting downright testy tonight. He needed to take the edge off somehow. Ideally by getting Colin somewhere private and fucking his brains out.
But Jay didn’t seem to take offense to Fox’s growl. He looked sheepishly at Alexei instead. “I think I might be a little hungry after all.”
Alexei sat up, his previous quiet ease instantly replaced by concern. “I thought you went hunting with Soren last night.”
“We were going to hunt, but we ran into Alicia coming home from the bar and I got distracted.”
“Why didn’t you say so?”
“I forgot.” Jay lowered his voice, as if that would do anything to keep the rest of them from hearing. “I was so excited to see Colin. And—and to celebrate and all that.”
Alexei rose from the couch, lifting Jay off his lap and setting him gently down on his feet. “Let’s find you someone to eat, kotyonok. We don’t want you getting the shivers.”
“But we’rehosting.”
Colin waved a lazy hand in the air. “Go on, short stack. We’ll be here when you get back. We’ll pop another bottle to celebrate a successful hunt as soon as you’re done.”
“Are you sure?” Jay nibbled on his lip again. “There are more cookies if you want them, you know. And board games under the coffee table. And—”
Alexei took him by the shoulders, steering him toward the door. “Come on, sweetheart. Let’s get you fed.”
Before the door closed, they could hear Jay tipsily mumbling, “You were themostdelicious, though, when you were human,” and Alexei’s husky, answering laugh.
Fox clapped his hands as soon as the front door shut. Fuck playing nice. His time had come. “Now, my lamb—” He leaned in close, running his nose along the shell of Colin’s ear, eyes narrowing in hungry delight at Colin’s resulting shiver. “About this year of orgasms we’ll be giving you. I think we should get started right away.”
Colin’s tongue darted out to wet his lips, but he gave Fox a suspicious look. “You’ve got a weird energy tonight. You feeling territorial?”
Fox narrowed his eyes. “That comment about your taste was clear provocation, and you know it.”
Dane laughed like Fox was being ridiculous—like he wasn’t equally fucking jealous over every drop of Colin’s blood Jay had gotten his little fangs on—and Fox flipped him the middle finger.
“You need to get along with Jay,” Colin told Fox, for about the thousandth time.
“I get along with him just fine.” Fox slid his hand off Colin’s shoulder, wrapping it around the back of his slender neck instead. “I’ll get along with him even better if I can stick my cock into you before he gets back.”
“Well, with a seduction like that…” But Colin melted into Fox’s touch even as he protested, “It’ll reek of sex in here. They’ll be able to smell it when they get back.”
“And your friend will love it.” Fox ran his nose along the side of Colin’s neck now, breathing in his perfect desert scent. “He’s a bit of a perv, isn’t he?”
Colin leaned away to scowl at Fox, but the effect was ruined by his flushed cheeks and glassy eyes. Fox wasn’t sure exactly how much it took to get Jay drunk, but Colin was well on his way to tipsy.
Or maybe he was just horny.
Colin’s devilwasan insatiable little thing.
Fox nodded to Dane, and they worked together to rearrange their mate, sliding his legs off the coffee table and onto the couch so he was on his back between them, his head on Dane’s lap and his bent knees on either side of Fox’s hips.
“They’ll be gone for a while. And Jay clearly thinks we’re kinky freaks,” Dane said with a laugh. It tugged on Fox’s heartstrings, the way his brother could joke about their trio now,all that old pain and insecurity long gone. “We wouldn’t want to disappoint him bynotfucking at every opportunity.”
“We’d, um, need to be quick,” Colin warned, even as he lifted his hips, letting Fox remove his pants and underwear. It was cute, the way he was pretending to be all hesitant. But Fox knew Colin’s devil got riled up just as easily as his and Dane’s. “Do we even have any lube?”
