Caspian sighed and half-turned back to him. “No rest for the wicked, I’m afraid.”
Then the two of them chuckled together like they were old friends, as we headed out of the lobby down a very long hallway, Nina leading the way like she’d been there many times before. How often did Inverness need attention from the senate? I didn’t think it was technically even big enough to safely harbor vampires, let alone be a hub of travel for one of the leaders of the senate.
“How many vamps have you sired?” I asked Caspian as we walked, and it was a heck of a walk. Was it a one floor hotel? Weird.
He didn’t turn to face me, just gave me a side-eye and lifted brow. “You don’t think that’s personal?”
“I know it is. But you’re kind of my grandfather, in a weird way. I figured I had a little room to be personal.” I leaned into Davin. “I mean, you already know what I’m gonna spend the next day doing.”
That, apparently, was all he needed. He tossed his head back and laughed. “Mother’s father helping you handle father’s father, is it? Well, Fiona has never in her life acted like anyone’s child, but I suppose it’s fair enough. The answer is two. And I’m afraid you’re never going to meet your uncle. Your mother is the next best thing to an only child.”
“I mean, she acts like one,” I offered, to more laughter. Even Davin chuckled at that.
When Nina stopped, we were literally at the end of the hallway, the only things left a single door on either side of the hall and a blank wall at the end. She turned back to look at us. “There’s still time, gramps. You’ve got lots of childbearing years left ahead of you.” Then she glanced over at me andDavin. “Though I suppose you two are more likely to jump into procreation. Too bad nobody can have babies there, you’d make pretty ones.”
Davin blushed and looked away, which was adorable as hell, but I just smiled and held up the room key. “I tell you what, if there’s a way, we’re about to find it. No stone unturned, that’s my motto.”
“That is not your motto at all,” Davin muttered, but a tiny smile was turning the corners of his lips.
“We’ve just got to feed Twist first, and then you’re all mine. Twenty-four hours of all the debauchery you’ll let me at.”
“Flynn!” he huffed, exasperated.
I grinned and waved at Nina and Caspian before I unlocked the door to the room and headed inside. No offense to them, since their company was proving to be a lot of fun, but I had a kitten to feed and a boyfriend to have, and I wasn’t going to waste a single moment of our impending privacy on anything else.
CHAPTER 25
The great thing about ridiculously expensive hotels is that if you’ve got a weird request, they’ve always heard weirder. Because rich people are fucking weird, me calling up the kitchen and asking them to send two dinners and also a plate of ten porterhouse steaks? Didn’t even warrant a pause on the other end of the line.
“Medium, like the ribeyes in the dinners?” the woman on the line had asked, and when I had agreed, she’d gone right on into asking if I needed anything else at all.
Nope, just two dinners, a couple of beers, and ten pounds of steak, thanks.
Wait.
“Do you have dessert?” I asked.
Behind me, Davin demanded, “Order cranachan. It’s late in the season, but they should still have it.”
And I didn’t know what cranachan was, but I trusted Davin with my life. Dessert was not a huge leap from there.
An hour and a half later, we’d eaten, Twist was still going at her steaks, and I was ready to move forward.
Well, to be fair, the cranachan had been delicious. Like the world’s best parfait, but with booze in it.
Davin was still licking the spoon on his dessert, but he looked up from it to meet my eye. “Shower next? It’s been forever, and I’m filthy.” He dropped the spoon into the empty cup with the jingle of metal on glass and leaned forward. “I’ll bet a fancy place like this has a shower big enough for two people.”
Oh hell yes.
I was up like a shot, forgetting I still had a plate on my lap, and only Davin’s speedy vampire self saved it from clattering to the floor, probably breaking into a million pieces. As always, he was more amused at my scattered mind than annoyed, and just set the plate aside in favor of taking my hand. “What do you say we go find it?”
“One hundred percent yes,” I agreed instantly.
Yeah, I wasn’t going to be demure or seductive. I wanted to have sex with my boyfriend. I’d already been waiting for what felt like centuries.
Yes, fine, less than three months.
You try waiting almost three months for the one thing in the world you really want sometime, see how you like it.
