He shook his head with a chuckle. “You’re both, pretty little poison, and you’remine.”
“I’m yours, but you still haven’t fucked me.” Exhaustion seeped into my bones as I tried to get up, but he grabbed my waist and pulled me back down until my head rested on his chest.
“Aw, don’t be like that.” He snuggled me, wrapping his arms around me tightly. “I won’t fuck you until your name is tatted on my cock, Rune. Got it?”
My mouth fell open, but a giggle escaped. “Of course, whatever you say.”
“That’s right. Now, go to sleep.”
My eyelids fluttered closed, and I fell asleep to only the sound of his breathing.
dimitri
. . .
The siren songfrom Zuko’s room cut out twenty fucking minutes into playing, and after that, I heard every one of Rune’s moans, cries, and screams for Zuko for another forty fucking minutes. Rune’s room was between mine and Zuko’s, and I still heard all of it.
Just the sound of her noises of pleasure made me want to come. My dick was so hard it ached down to my balls, but I didn’t understand any of it. I hadn’t been turned on by another woman since what happened to me with Makayla.
I grabbed my dick and stroked it, feeling the familiar twinges of pleasure radiating through me. My body reacted before my brain caught up. My pulse thudded in my ears, and my skin felt too aware. Simple noises had every nerve of mine switched on at once.
For the first time in years, I wanted to chase that warmth of desire again, to follow the way it slid through me like molten lava until my thoughts blurred.
I couldn’t stop myself from wanting release. My throat was dry, my breathing uneven, and my mind kept circling back to the source of this want.
Rune.
Her smile, her defiant golden eyes, and the way her voice had dropped just enough to hook under my skin when she told me she’d never tried a vampire’s venom before.
Lethal darling.
The gums around my fangs ached, and with five simple pumps of my shaft, I came with a snarl. Cum shot out, coating my stomach as I let myself become unaware of my surroundings long enough to let an orgasm roll through me.
It was like I was being coaxed to it by Rune’s moans and screams for another man.
Fuck.
My phone buzzed, startling a hiss out of me.
Reality crashed down around me. I’d let myself give into the same pleasure that rendered me so fucking helpless that it almost killed me before.
Grabbing my shirt, I wiped the cum off my skin with a low growl and tossed it into the basket before I answered the call from my father.
“What?” I snapped into the receiver, anger palpating in sync with my heart.
“That’s no way to speak to your father, Dimitri.” Father’s voice was smooth, unbothered.
“I don’t consider you my father,” I spat, but just before I hit the red button, his voice rang out again.
“I’ve arranged a mating for you. She’s a vampire. Younger than you at twenty-six, and she’s a much better mate than any other you’ve found for yourself.”
Rage made my vision tunnel. “I’m not mating anyone. Arranged matings are a thing of the past, Nikolai.”
I felt his silent rage at me calling him by his name, but he didn’t comment on it.
“You’re thirty-five, and after your stunt with the recital, the other three we lined up backed out,” he bit out. “You need to keep our family line pure, and after the shit you pulled with the siren?—”
“Don’t fucking call me again, Nikolai. Same goes for Morrigan. I’ve paid my debt for you giving birth to me over the last thirty-four years.” I hung up and blocked his number before tossing my phone onto the nightstand with a clatter.
