Seth fingered a lock of Riley’s hair, humming again. “Give you an inch, you take a mile.”
Riley nodded. “Yes.”
“We can pack your stuff tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow?” Riley frowned. Was this going to be some sort of wedding night ritual, forcing him to spend their first night as a bonded couple on his own?
“I thought we could stay here tonight. Give your moms some more time to gloat. And you said these rooms were soundproofed, so…” Seth wiggled in place, the motion rubbing his pert ass against Riley’s very interested dick.
Right. Seth was Seth, but he was also a newly turned vampire with all the horny enthusiasm for consummation that entailed.
Riley grabbed harder at Seth’s hips, momentarily overwhelmed by the enormity of what lay ahead. An eternal lifetime with his obsession. Mutual love and care. A place for him always, right by Seth’s side.
Seth didn’t give him time to linger in the overwhelm. He shifted and huffed impatiently, and Riley helped Seth discard his pants, tugging his own down to his knees. He held Seth tightly to his chest as Seth sank down onto him, still lubed and wet from the last time they’d joined together. Seth was perfect. Tight and hot and perfect andhis. Riley’s mate. His love. The man who’d accepted Riley just as he was, and in the process made him whole.
Riley tugged Seth’s head down to his, slamming their mouths together and drinking in his moans.
Thank you, Riley said, either to fate or the gods or whoever or whatever had sent Seth to him.Thank you for this gift.
Riley would take precious care of him. Of them. He might have been young and lost when all this had started, and he might not have been all that much older now, but Riley knew the worth of what he’d found.
He wouldn’t ever forget.
31
SETH
The kitchen countertop was digging into Seth’s back, hard and a little painful.
All he could do was arch even harder against it, his hands clutching at the edge. “Fuck,” he whined. “That’s it. That’s so good.”
Riley hummed around Seth’s cock, and Seth honest-to-God whimpered, the sound breathy and a little broken.
Had he taught Riley that move, or had Riley just figured it out on his own? Seth couldn’t remember right now. There was no blood left in his body to operate his brain—it was all down south, sucked there by Riley’s filthy mouth.
The playlist Seth had put on earlier had ended at some point, and the empty kitchen was filled with Riley’s slurping enthusiasm and Seth’s increasingly frantic moans. It smelled like orange and musk and deep forest.
Riley ran his tongue along the underside of Seth’s erection,somehow still bobbing without pause, and Seth lost it, hips jerking as he tangled a hand in Riley’s hair. “Baby, I’m gonna?—”
Riley’s answer was a low growl, pushing forward until his lips were pressed against Seth’s pubic bone, Seth’s cock lodged in the back of his throat.
He swallowed.
“Ohfuck.” Seth groaned as his fingers tightened around Riley’s strands. The sound was half pleasure and half pain. Maybe those ratios were off. Who the hell knew. Everything was just so wet and so hot and so, sotight.Seth could barely breathe as he shot down Riley’s throat.
He was left panting and shaking, bent half-backward over the counter as Riley drew off with a wet-sounding pop. Seth whimpered again, oversensitive and overstimulated and satisfied in a way that had him wanting to melt down to the floor.
Riley stood from his kneeling position, looming over Seth now. He bent over and tucked his head into Seth’s neck as he jerked himself quickly to completion.
Seth wrapped his hands around Riley’s back, tugging him closer. Something dark and hungry inside Seth preened at the slick sound of hand on flesh.Yes. Come for us.
Moments later, Riley shuddered with his release, and Seth angled his neck to encourage the sharp slice of Riley’s teeth, the lazy draw of Seth’s blood.
Even after Riley closed the bite, they stood there for a long moment, soaking in the contact and breathing in each other’s scents. Then Riley pressed a kiss to the front of Seth’s throat and stalked over to the sink to wash his hands.
Seth blinked after him, still a little dazed. Then he glanced to the clock. He straightened with a start, tugging his pants up. “Oh fuck. They’re almost here! You were supposed to be helping me plate the cakes!”
It had started that way, hadn’t it? Riley had been helpfullybringing over the cooling cakes while Seth prepped the serving trays. And then in the next moment, Riley had been on his knees, and Seth’s pants had been at his ankles, and somehow Seth’s dick had found its way into Riley’s waiting mouth.
