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  “What?” I gasped, my eyes going wide. “You guys were so, you know. I figured it would always be me on bottom.”

  He gave an easy shrug. “I love being inside of you. I won’t lie. It’s heaven, and I don’t bottom, I really don’t, but I find myself wanting to try it with you. I wonder how it would feel, so I’m open to it.”

  “Good,” I growled, glad he’d want both with me. I yanked his head to mine and practically devoured him.

  We made our way to the club across the street, Nero handling everything and leading me right to the dance floor. He wrapped his arm around me as his leg went between mine and started dancing with me. He was good, making it look as easy as breathing.

  “Can I join?” a guy asked us, and Nero nodded, shooting me a smirk and letting the guy come between us. We moved with him, the human totally into it.

  Nero guided us closer to the corner by the bathroom and away from too many eyes. Then he turned the human to me and nodded. Right, I was learning to feed. I kissed the guy and moved my hands under his shirt, remembering what Nero had said about the nipples. I pinched the guy’s, and he gasped. I opened my eyes to see Nero at his neck, looking as if he was kissing our new friend while dry humping him.

  And then it was over. The human shuddered, and we moved on, leaving the guy a bit dumbfounded.

  “That was amazing,” I breathed in his ear as we got back to dancing, grinding against him harder, totally turned on.

  “Next one is yours before our shot friends come,” he told me, his lips nibbling on me. “Remember to count. Three heartbeats. That’s it. No more, especially when humans are drinking.”

  “Okay, I can do it,” I promised.

  “If you do it well your first time, I have a present for you,” he purred. Oh, I bet he did. I felt it grinding against my hip.

  Another human approached us, and we danced with him. This time when we moved off to the side, Nero kissed the guy and I almost chickened out, but I met his confident gaze and sank my fangs in the guy’s neck. Someone shouted by me, and I got scared, only taking one heartbeat’s worth before pulling away. I glanced around and realized it was about someone knocking over a drink.

  Nero handled the human, saying that was fun but time for more dancing. Then he pulled me alone after him and we moved to the middle of the floor.

  “You okay?” he asked me gently.

  “Got spooked.”

  “Good, then you’re taking it seriously. You did great,” he praised, kissing me with heat.

  “Hi,” our first shots guy greeted us about ten minutes later, dressed and with a few friends, one of which was the other shots guy we’d teased. “We found you.”

  “You did,” I agreed, yanking him between us. He yelped, and Nero smiled. The friends got the idea, and all five of us started dancing. I leaned over to the first, whose name I learned was Conner, and pressed my lips to his ear. “You’d look good sucking my man’s cock. Want to try it?”

  “Oh yeah,” he moaned, moving his arm back around my neck. “With you in me.”

  “Sounds fun,” Nero chuckled, kissing Conner, and I was okay with it. Yeah, I was okay if we were playing. But I didn’t think I wanted him fucking anyone else. Pleasing him that way was my job. “You three should come visit us when you get vacations. Bring lots of friends.”

  My heart fluttered. What was he doing?

  “Vacation where?” the other shots guy asked suspiciously.

  “My friend and I are building a private development of vacation houses,” Nero explained, turning and moving the guy against him. “Out in Wyoming, off the beaten path. Lavish houses with big fireplaces, surrounded by snow and all kinds of fun. Weeklong parties with an array of flown-in food, Champagne fountains, and outdoor hot tubs in the cold, which are so, so much fun.”

  “Wyoming’s far,” he griped.

  “I own several planes,” Nero chuckled. “They can easily be sent for the right kind of fun people to join our parties. My friends like fun guests.” He met my eyes, and I saw his sparkle with the hunt, luring them in. We wouldn’t eat them, but yeah, they had blood and hot little bodies. I could see a lot of the warriors and Nero’s friends having fun. “Don’t you think my friends are fun, love?”

  “Yes, and hot. Your friends are hot and like to play. Like to spoil.” I chuckled, shaking my head. “They should call themselves the ‘fantasy friends’ or something.”

  “Did they give you a fantasy?” Conner asked, glancing at me over his shoulder as he pressed his ass harder against my groin.

  “Oh yeah,” I purred, leaning down and kissing him. “Five of them pleased me all, and I do mean all night until I passed out. They set it up to catch me in the woods and did me until I passed out.”

  “Fuck, sounds like heaven instead of creepy fucks pawing at me,” he moaned, his friends nodding. “Do you guys have a room or what?”

  “Across the street,” Nero informed them, smirking at me. He led the way, Conner plastering himself against me, totally turned on and wanting. We stopped at the hotel’s bar on the way up, Nero looked at the menu and ordered a dozen of some house drink in souvenir bottle cups. Then he glanced at our new friends. “What else is good?”

  The one listed a few things, and Nero ordered a pitcher of each to be brought up to our room, leaving several hundred dollars on the bar to see it done. Yeah, the guy didn’t object, saying it would be up in twenty minutes with glasses and extra ice.

  “He really knows how to have fun, you’re lucky,” Conner told me, looking at Nero longingly as if he wanted to be treated that way.

  “I treat him well too,” I promised Conner, Nero giving a firm nod it was true. “And this is our first official date.”

  “Shit, you guys are playing on a first date? You are a pair made for each other,” the other shots guy, Tim, joked.

  “We are,” Nero agreed, and I felt my heart flutter. Maybe we were? He gave me an intense look the whole elevator ride and set everything down when he opened the door to our room. Then he looked at me with a smirk. “You’re the boss here, love. What do you want to happen?”

  I felt a thrill go through me. I moved over to Tim and kissed him. “Will you suck my Nero? He loves getting his cock sucked.”

  “Oh yeah,” he agreed.

  “I thought I was?” Conner asked, pouting.

  “You are,” I growled, kissing him next and then bringing him over to Nero. I pushed my man to sit and then moved the humans to the floor. “You guys suck him good while we wait for drinks.” I took the hand of the third guy, Jake, and pulled him on my lap when I sat on the sofa. “And you can sit right here with me.”

  “Or I could suck you off while you watch them have fun with your lover?” he offered.

  “Yes, do that,” Nero growled, heat in his eyes.

  So we did. We paused when drinks came, and since I was closer, easier to fix my pants and everything, I signed for the pitchers and brought in the cart. Then I let Jake finish, staying standing as I kept my eyes on Nero. He was so fucking hot with two of them.

  We paused the naughty for drinks, but I did notice the way we were all losing clothes the more the booze flowed. Fine by me.

  “We could do one of them together,” Nero murmured as he kissed along my neck. “Have you ever done that?”

  “No, no I haven’t.” The idea was intriguing. “We could try that if they’re up for it.”

  “Yeah, I’m—do me,” Conner begged. Shit, this was way too much fun.

  “Are you two fine here for a bit?” Nero asked Jake and Tim. “If you’re hungry, order room service or whatever you want.”

  “I could eat actually,” Tim admitted. “I had an early shift, and we didn’t eat yet.”

  “You’ll need fuel,” Nero purred, nodding to the menu on the table. He led the way upstairs to the bed, and we pounced on Conner. Nero gestured to his neck, letting me feed while he got the human ready for us… And then we had another fantasy I hadn’t ever known I wanted. I didn’t want him with s
omeone, but with me inside Conner, it was amazing. It was so different than us having sex together, him in me.

  I wasn’t sure there were words for what it was like on an intimacy level. And it was intimate. It made me wonder about him and Gaius again. So when the fun was over, and Conner needed a break, I pulled Nero over to the bathroom.

  “Does it feel like that with Gaius when you’re in me?” I asked, my hands on his hips as I stared at his chest.

  “No, not even close,” he assured me, kissing my cheek. “It was like that because we’re together, doing that together. When it’s Gaius and I, we both want you. We love how you come apart with two men pleasing you. We’ve had fun sharing before, but not like this, not like with you, and honestly, I’d much prefer it was my clone or clones that did it to you.”

  “Promise?” I whispered, lifting my head and letting him see I was worried.

  “I swear it to you that it’s like that for me. That is how I feel.”

  I nodded but then flinched. “What’s it like for Gaius?”

  “I won’t speak for him, and if I told you what I thought it was like, it would sound self-serving,” he admitted after a moment. “I can tell you with absolute certainty he has no feelings for me. It’s all about you.”

  “And beating you,” I murmured, knowing that was part of it for Gaius. He liked the competition, being the better stud. Nero gave me a shocked look and then a slow nod. “He doesn’t do it on purpose, I’m not a toy, but yeah, I see it.”

  “You are certainly not a toy, and he does care or he would have stepped aside.” He let out a heavy sigh and leaned his forehead on my shoulder. “My friend has a very, very dark past with a lot of pain. He shut himself off from a lot too. Part of me hopes you heal that in him, but the majority of me wants you to love me instead, and I’m old, I want to be selfish.”

  “Then I have only one more question?”

  “Yes, love?” he asked, raising his head.

  “Whose ass was better?” I teased him, knowing the answer. He smiled and assured me it was mine. And proved it by taking me while I took Jake, all three of us having fun.

  Tim I did while he sucked Nero, and I realized why Nate liked that so much, the playing. Knowing I allowed Tim to touch what was mine, that he had to have that permission was very primal, very carnal, and thrilling.

  “We can play all those ways, but I don’t want you fucking anyone alone. If you want ass, mine is always available to you, and you said mine is best,” I declared after we wore out the humans, a few rounds for each.

  “Deal, love. A most magnificent deal,” he murmured as we snuggled down to sleep.

  When we woke, the humans were still out. Nero stirred Conner with a kiss, leaving his business card with the new, encrypted cell number Alastair had made them all get.

  Then I kissed Conner, knowing he liked me better and this was all part of some plan of the ancients’. “Will I see you again?”

  “I have vacation time coming up in a couple of months I think,” he told me, hope filling his eyes. “Do you really want to have us come out, or was that some line to get us in bed?”

  “Oh no, I very much want you to come,” I purred. “If we didn’t have a meeting, I’d come in you again and again.” He shivered, and I smiled. “And I have some friends that I think you would love. So does Nero. Come have some wilderness fun at their fancy new places, and bring several friends. It’s a private, exclusive development with vacation houses that won’t even go on the market.”

  “You mean like famous people and parties where they collect phones so no one’s posting pictures?” he asked, his eyes wide.

  I saw the funny look Nero was giving me, like he didn’t understand what we were talking about but was intrigued. “Oh yeah. The kind with gift bags and all sorts of fun. No drugs. That’s the one clear rule. No drugs, no forcing anyone for anything, just fun. Food, fun, booze, and sex for those who want it. I know some of my friends won’t, but would come to dance and eat and, yeah, just fun. Work hard to play hard, you know?”

  “Yeah, sounds awesome. I could get a bunch of guys for that. Or girls too?”

  I glanced up at Nero with a smirk. I wasn’t stupid. “My friends are gay. Are any of yours straight?”

  “Yes, but there are rules about privacy and signing nondisclosure waivers,” he informed us. “We always do that, and phones are left with security, checked regularly in case there’s an emergency, of course. As Verge said, no drugs, no prostitution, nothing illegal. Just fun, dancing, food, and drinks, and if people want to have sex, then they can.”

  “Like last night. Nothing said you guys had to, right?” I teased Conner, running my hand down his lean body. “But aren’t you glad you did?”

  “Can I come all the time?”

  “I wish it was always a party,” I chuckled, kissing him again. “Are you working tonight? Maybe we’ll try and come have some shots?”

  “Not working tonight. We all have the day off.”

  “Then stay,” Nero offered easily, his eyes full of fire to have more fun. “Stay and order room service, enjoy the jacuzzi tub, and we’ll be back after a few meetings. We have to leave in the morning, but we have the room for tonight too.”

  “Yeah, I could stay for sure,” Conner assured me. “I could call some friends to come to the pool, let you guys meet them for your other parties coming up.”

  That was what I was hoping for. “Mmm, you in a swimsuit sounds fun.”

  We left, and Nero shot me several impressed looks as we rode the elevator down. It wasn’t until we were in the car to take us to the tailor’s he finally said something. “You were amazing, love.”

  “I figured what you were trying for, and I speak modern day more than you do. I’ll get you guys some reference material for what they’d think these parties are kinda thing.”

  He raised my hand to his lips. “As I said, amazing. Thank you.”

  “As long as it’s not for you to have some mistress or boy toy on the side, I’m here to help.”

  He laughed so hard I was a bit worried he might pass out, his face turned so red.

  We arrived, and he told the driver to wait or circle the block if he needed to before leading me into the store and greeting the man I assumed was the owner. I tried on the suit that was given to me, noting how perfectly it fit as I studied myself in the mirror.

  I met Nero’s gaze and smirked. “So you like my eyes, huh?”

  “Yes,” he admitted, clearing his throat.

  It was a three piece, very fancy and well-made suit in light gray, which were the color of my eyes. The shirt and tie were the light green of his eyes. Subtle. But it worked. I looked fab actually.

  “I love it and being so spoiled,” I told him, giving him a quick kiss.

  He snorted. “I’m the spoiled one.”

  Glad he thought so.

  We pulled up at an office building, nice but older, history in the building. I followed Nero’s lead, seeing the name of the company as we reached the floor and were let inside. I didn’t have a clue what it was all about, and he’d told me he didn’t want to spoil the fun.

  “Hi, hi, you came,” a very excited human greeted Nero… And then frowned when he saw me. “Oh, I thought you were coming alone.” He stepped aside and let us into the large, private office. He had to be someone big.

  “I brought my lover so he could meet you,” Nero said, gesturing to me. “Verge Harris, meet Jason Rouse, vice-president of operations and the owner’s son.”

  “A pleasure,” I greeted, extending my hand, noting the way he ate me up with his eyes. I leaned into Nero and spoke at a level I knew he would hear me but the human wouldn’t. “Is this whole trip about sex?”

  “Shouldn’t every vacation be?” he teased me. Then he walked over to Jason and grabbed him by the hair. I went to say something, completely shocked, until I saw the slack expression on Jason’s face, totally into it. “Jason is in the closet until Daddy lets him take over, so I visit from time to time
and we talk business.”

  “I’ll just bet,” I drawled, sitting on the edge of the desk in a huff. “What business are you doing here besides apparently him?”

  “No, you are, love,” he chuckled, giving me a wink. “Would you like that, Jason? Expand your horizons?”

  “Oh yeah,” the guy moaned.

  “What deal?” I asked, glancing between them.

  “Building supplies for the new development,” Nero explained. “I need supplies to build houses.”

  My eyebrows shot up. “You?”

  “You didn’t know he’s a world-renowned architect?” Jason asked me with a look of dismay. “People try to get him to their firms all the time. He’s independent, and his designs are beautiful.”

  “I knew you were involved, but I didn’t know they were yours,” I said, my heart fluttering. That was so cool he could design houses and buildings like that.

  “I prefer to be modest with you,” he admitted, looking a bit embarrassed at the praise and attention. Then he spanked Jason hard. “And who are you to be bragging about me? You were digging in your heels just so I’d visit.”

  “It’s been so long,” Jason whimpered. “You neglected me.”

  “Well, now you’re getting two-for-one, so I think you should change your tune,” I informed him, getting the game. The appreciative stare Nero was giving me only added fuel to my fire. I stormed over to them and slapped Jason’s ass. “More hands on you. More fun. More of everything you thought you would get, so what were you going to offer my man, Jason?”

  He let out a long moan. “That I could have the first truckload ready tomorrow.”

  I saw Nero’s look that it was good and acceptable. I thought we could do better, leaning in and grabbing Jason’s groin roughly. “One of the houses being built is for our best friends. I’m sure there’s something you could upgrade, right? Sweeten the deal as we have?”

  “Not sure,” he lied through his teeth, his eyes shining at the idea of being smacked again.

  “Maybe we shouldn’t touch him at all and you could do me?” I offered Nero. “He likes to be abused, and that would be abuse, right? A better punishment.”