“How can you be sure,” I asked as I settled into the bed. My sore body craved the soft mattress and clean sheets. I settled in and looked at myself. I was naked and clean, a bandage on the shoulder Wolfe had torn into. Sebastian’s gray eyes bore into me.
“I can smell they haven’t been here,” he said. I nodded, as my tongue wet my dry lips. Sebastian watched my tongue and then grabbed a bottle of water from the side table, cracking it open and handing it to me. As I began drinking, Sebastian shook out a collection of pills from bottles.
“Here,” he said, giving them to me. I thumbed through them before shoving them in my mouth and swallowing them down.
“What were they?” I asked.
“Pain reliever, antibiotic… iron tablets.” His eyes darted away self-consciously. I chuckled.
“How long have I been out?”
“An entire day,” Sebastian responded. I pulled the water to my lips and gulped the rest down. Sebastian watched as an errant trail of water slid down my throat. He swallowed and looked away.
“I went back to campus, searched Wolfe’s office.”
“Are there any more left?” I asked. Sebastian sighed, leaning backward on his palms as he sat on the bed with me. His blond hair shifted out of his face as he looked up at the ceiling. Sebastian’s neck drew me in. I liked the long line and prominent apple. It was a good thing I hadn’t been made a vampire, I’d have never let him up from under me.
“There’s no more here. Sanguine apparently isn’t a single group. There’s more of them in other places,” he said and I concentrated back on the conversation. “I never told you… my parents were killed by the Sanguine Society.”
“What?” I asked, darkly.
“This was always revenge for me, not some higher purpose. Do you look down on me for that?”
“No,” I said immediately. His eyelashes swept his cheeks for a moment as he blinked slowly.
“You care about protecting the weak. It isn’t revenge for you.”
“There’s nothing wrong with revenge in this calling. We kill monsters, who cares what the reason is.”
“Iama monster now, Tate.” His gray eyes looked endless as he stared at me.
“Self-hatred isn’t very attractive,” I said, giving him a small smile. His eyes flicked away from me.
“They’re here,” he said. “The Brotherhood.”
“I know,” I sighed.
“Time’s up, Tate. We can’t keep pushing off reality. Time to face our sins. Time to decide what to do.” I pulled in a breath and closed my eyes, laying down in bed.
“I’ve always known what I’d do.” I cracked open my eyes and looked at him. He lunged forward suddenly. He snarled, opening his mouth and displaying sharp fangs. His hands sunk into the bed next to my head as he hissed in my face.
Sebastian’s beautiful face was contorted into something mean and fierce. His hand gripped my neck and I lifted my chin, letting him. His grip tightened as his body sank. The snarl bled away to mild frustration.
“I’m the enemy now, get it through your fucking head,” he said before his lips pressed to mine. “I’m a monster,” he said before kissing me again. “You should kill me,” he whispered, and then his tongue dipped into my mouth. His hand tightened on my neck for a moment before he slid it away, his body pressing on top of mine.
I groaned into his mouth as his hands slid over me, grabbing at me with need. I bit his lip and he sighed before sliding his mouth over my jaw and to my neck.
“Don’t you get it,” he murmured, his tongue sliding across the vampire bites he’d left me with. “I want to eat you.”
“So eat me,” I said. He groaned, dragging his mouth away from my neck. His hands grabbed at my pecs, feeling the thick muscle. A groan rumbled from me as his tongue teased my nipples before carrying away lower. He pressed his face to my stomach, nuzzling my dark happy trail.
My hard cock waited for his mouth but he ignored it, making me strain with desire. Sebastian buried his face against the inside of my thigh, tonguing the bites he’d left there, causing electric bolts of pleasure. My cock throbbed as he ignored it, instead pressing his mouth to my balls as he encouraged my legs wider and higher. Then I felt his obscene mouth licking at my hole.
“Fuck,” I hissed as his tongue pushed inside me. His hands slipped under my thighs and pushed my legs up for better access. He moaned against me, licking and pushing with his tongue until my cock was leaking and I was panting.
“I was going to fuck you,” he said. Fingers circled my wet hole and he watched as it twitched. I tried not to squirm. His words caught up to me and I let out a shaky breath. Sebastian was going to fuck me? Before I could ask for more information, he pressed his mouth back to my ass, licking it like a glutton.
“After the orientation with Sanguine, I wanted to fuck you,” he said. “That's all I could think about while heading to the vampire den.” A finger pushed inside me, slowly fucking me before he added another. “I wanted to see if you’d lay down on your belly, bite the pillow, and keep pretending it was about duty.”
