“What, right here? No, Cole would blow a gasket if he saw us.”
“Not the Vampire way. Do it the way you want to, the Dragon way.”
I hesitate, wanting to take him up on his offer, as I am feeling a bit lacking in the energy department.
“If you won’t feed the Vampire way properly then do this. For me.”
“For you?” I frown.
“Livvie, you are my Queen, my sibling, and my Princess Fae-pire,” he says with a sidelong smile. “I want you to look after yourself and I want to look after you. I know that our sire has issue with this, but I don’t. Use me.” He turns to sit sideways on the wall and holds out his hands.
I know he is playing dirty, deliberately offering me something he knows I want and that our sire finds distasteful.
“You don’t play fair,” I accuse him.
“Why should I?” he asks with a shrug. “No one else around here does.”
Well, I can’t argue with that. Everyone has an angle. Even Lincoln. Nothing is innocent or what it seems, there is an undercurrent to everything that everyone does, myself included, and I am tired of it. I want something pure and honest. This doesn’t even come close to falling into either of those categories but just for now, I can pretend that it does. That he is doing this for the well-being of me and not as some tool to one-up our sire.
“I know what you are thinking,” he says, and I curse my face. “And while the appeal of giving you something he won’t is alluring enough on its own, the mere fact that I will be giving you something to make you stronger, a part of myself that you need,” he drops his voice to a husky whisper as he leans in closer, “that is far more enticing.”
Oh, my. My heart skips a beat and I blink at him to bring my thoughts back into focus.
“Come Tuesday, you will give me everything I ever wanted,” he whispers. “It is the least I can do to give you something you want. I owe you everything. I will forever be yours.”
Oh no. Not again. “Seb, don’t say things like that.”
“Why not? It’s true.”
“Just don’t, please.”
He sighs. “Liv, I am not so stupid that I will pledge my undying love to you and swear to be faithful to only you. That isn’t who I am. I will love our time together and cherish every second, but it won’t be the only thing in my life. Everything you will do for me, that we will do for each other, is special and it means everything to me. I will be yours, if you want me. Until then, I won’t be making any changes. So, I can say things like that to you and you don’t have to get your lacy knickers in a twist about it, okay?” he adds with a lascivious smile.
“How do you know my knickers are lacy?” I ask wickedly and he laughs.
“You don’t strike me as the sensible cotton underwear type. But I look forward to finding out for definite in a few days.”
“Maybe I will surprise you,” I say a bit haughtily and he shakes his head before I add, “Maybe I won’t be wearing any underwear at all.”
His lips part in desire and he draws in a breath. “Don’t be a tease,” he murmurs as he takes my hands and sits upright. “So, are we doing this?”
“Yes,” I say, eager to get my hands on his Faerie energy. I don’t feel too much in the way of a boost from his blood like other Vampires. It is more than the average Vampire, yes, but the one time I took his energy, it was pretty incredible. I close my eyes and breathe in deeply. He laces our fingers and I pull, feeling it leave him and enter me, swirling up through my arms and into my chest and then spiraling off all through my body. I am fizzing all over and I open my eyes. My magick wind has picked up and is whipping around us, my hair floating against the flap of wings from my Dragon, who clearly approves of this method of feeding. He is smiling at me, the sweetest smile, and I slowly let go of his essence as the wind dies down. Fuck me, I feel like I could fly. Without the use of my Dragon form.
“Bloody hell,” I whisper, and he grins.
“I am pretty sure that no one else can give you that.”
“I think you’d be right,” I say, refusing to let go of his hands just yet.
“Am I interrupting?” CK says
, Teleporting in next to us and staring at my flyaway hair and our linked hands.
“Liv was just feeding. The Dragon way,” Sebastian says with a smile at me.
CK sighs but has the good sense to remain silent.
“I will leave you now but remember this: whenever you want.” He leaps off the wall and saunters off, clearly having gotten something out of the experience as well, but what? I will have to try and remember to ask him.