"Jonathan!" My shocked gasp may sound as dramatic and excitable as the man’s greeting to me.
However, I assure you, I am not in any way shape or form happy to see the young Hispanic twenty-something year old with perfect caramel skin.
So young in fact that he cannot even grow a proper mustache. Proven by the fact the one he’s currently sporting is penciled on to his face.
‘Jonathan’ seemed normal at first. All psychopaths do, according to my psych rotation. Anyway, I felt bad for the tiny man. Easily falling into a pity conversation with a thousand apologies for Nicky doing this when I’m not ready to date.
I’d been through enough rounds with the Witch that I instantly picked up on the fact that the name switch at the corner bistro was an intentional request.
Poor guy was so nervous, and by the way that he was sneezing at the green tea we both ordered, I’m fairly certain he was allergic to it.
The pity conversation turned into our love of the supernatural, and how Bram Stoker’s Dracula was one of my favorite Romances.
Not that I can claim it now, but my birth name was Ilona Lee. Between being Transylvania, and some fated soul mate being the only real chance someone like me had......
Well anyway, it’s ruined now.
After about an hour, our scintillating debate and recant of the book versus movie fantasy, gets entirely too real. Where Jonathan is actually Jonathan Harker, and has been hunting the fictional vampire Dracula to spare me. Miss Mina Murray, his long-time fiancé’.
There was also the balding teacher grading term papers at the table next to us. Who Jonathan believed to be Renfield, eating flies rather than M&Ms.
Of course, Jonathan and I just had to leave before ‘Renfield’ reported back to Dracula on where to find me.
With quick thinking, and that kick in the gut I don’t want to die today feeling, I told Jonathan I’d stay with Lucy in a secret Estate.
When I made it back to the apartment I’d just managed to get. Finally able to find an affordable place rather than stay at Alex’s. None other than the tiny man was at the complex, nailing large crucifixes to each entry in the five-story walk-up.
That was after he’d slung wreaths of garlic cloves all over the staircases and door frames.
Odd as Jonathan was being, it all seemed like it was from a good place. He was going to really extreme lengths to protect me, and it was clear the poor man had fallen into some fantastical place in his head.
Still, with my past I was not taking any chances, and relented to something I hate.
Favors.
The whole point of moving to the city, was to prove that I was capable of standing on my own two feet.
Either way, I called Ryan, the woman who’d offered me a room to rent after meeting her at an incident at the corner store. Thankfully, before Nicky had arranged my first meet-cute in the city.
Otherwise, I doubt I’d have had the courage.
Once Ryan and her room-mates had a hoot and a half in me explaining the situation, I called Dr. Harting. One of the few people I don’t have an issue with in Crest.
Not a proper city, but a very small town that only has a state-of-the-art medical facility due to the King’s mandate. With the Division Wars, it was essential that every city, town, and or province have a true hospital with a full medical staff.
Given that medicine and education are funded by taxes, it’s not like they have any excuses not to follow through with that.
It’s just sad that it didn’t happen, until after the bombings and lives lost from the lack of them.
Anyway, Doctor Harting agreed that bombarding ‘Jonathan’, would only confuse him. Possibly, even worsen the mental break he was having.
Something I’m very sympathetic with since my unexpected recovery.
So with the plan of him reaching out to a few colleagues in the area, I left it to the respected psychiatrist. Crossing my fingers praying that there was not a Doctor Abraham Van Helsing anywhere in our version of the yellow pages.
Rather than sleep, I spent the night formulating my own strategy as to how to get Nicky to stop, and here we are.
While I truly don’t believe Jonathan means to harm me, I can’t help but lurch back into the small metal box away from his thin hand reaching out for mine.
The scene has the formerly quiet blonde in one corner, all but howling in laughter.
In that moment of embarrassment, fear, dread, and what Alex refers to as my big feelings that are simply too large to express, I do the unthinkable……..
I jump into the black clad stranger’s arms of the opposing corner and kiss him with all the drama of a soap opera.
I’m so pent-up and freaked out. All the ‘big’ feelings I can’t really express in any other way come out in the shape of me sucking the non-laughing passenger’s face like a starved sex demon.
Feeling how hot his body is and how soft his lips are, I moan into his cinnamon spiced mouth when his tongue meets mine. Making it a question of who is assaulting whom.
From me pulling him down by the tie, to him crushing me against the elevator corner, I relent to perhaps the most ravenous kiss I’ve ever experienced.
Yes, I meant it to be for show, but with my neglected engine firing on all cylinders…. feeling his hard body meeting every demand..... If I could spread my legs in this get up, they’d be around him.
I’m not an exhibitionist.
Being watched is really the last thing that I find attractive. However, the thrill of easy access quickies in public places was one thing my ex proved is a total hot spot for me.
So much so that I almost forget about the show I’m putting on.
Painfully aware of the instant wet spot on my thankfully black skirt. I can’t deny how good it feels. Not to mention how long it’s been since I was handled like this.
With the black clad stranger between me and my stalker, I can imagine when I break away that it looks like he’s sucking my neck. At least from Jonathan’s point of view.
I’ve already come this far, why not?
With the black clad stranger between me and my stalker, I can imagine when I break away that it looks like he’s sucking my neck. At least from Jonathan’s point of view.I’ve already come this far, why not?“Renfield tricked me,” I pant, pointing my shaking finger at the obnoxious blonde man, literally crying, this is all so hysterical to him.Every intake of breath brushing my sensitized body against the iron arms of a man I haven’t even looked at in all my hysterics…. Well, let’s just say it’s not all fake when I practically swoon like the well-to-do British lady I’m impersonating.Liking the first living object rubbing between my legs in months waaayy too much for the rest of my skit not to come out breathless.“Dracula’s spell is too powerful. I can’t fight it, go! Go find Van Helsing!” This development does not deter the businessman I spat at for his indecency.No, my labeling the lithe blonde man a bug eating weasel only worsens his laughing fit.If I weren’t red enough already,
Rolling out of bed, I find my partner already in the kitchen. The Titan, I, personally, find as sexy as I do savage, is gulping down swill, I have no idea how he drinks without ‘unsaintly amounts of cream and sugar’, like I do.Alaric Rourke Farelli, Rourke to his friends, is my step cousin. After my Uncle Gio adopted him at age ten, we more or less grew up together.If we were at his family home or mine, we’d have a full wait staff to deal with the breakfast he’s starting to make. I won’t say that the six-foot seven, yoked out enforcer is a master chef, but he learned basic recipes well before his stint in the Allied Forces.I, on the other hand, never enlisted, and remain allergic to any and every household task. Entirely unashamed to admit that I would be ordering a full spread, including coffee, if Rourke wasn’t already working on it.Even if I feel like I’m quiet, it never takes those blue eyes of his more than half a heartbeat to pick up anyone’s presence in a room. Part of the
“Puppy will be here soon,” Rourke’s first words of the morning are absent and stiff. Continuing to run the spatula that might as well be a toy in his meat hook hands, over the bottom of the pan.Considering Rourke can eat a dozen eggs on his own, and always starts the morning with a good breakfast, I’m not surprised the cast iron thing almost takes up two burners.I nod rather than audibly respond because possible or not, the man has eyes in the back of his head. Kind of essential when someone is always trying to blow it off for one reason or other, I guess.As much as we should talk, I know we won’t with the proverbial elephant in the room twisting herself up in the sheets.The custom-made, larger than king mattress that could sleep twelve is on a platform under a row of windows up half a dozen stairs. Below that is the living area that rests between her and the kitchen we are in.Center of Rourke’s loft may be all open concept, but there are suites on either side of it that Rourke a
There’s nothing I wouldn’t give him if he just asked.But this situation…..It’s out of my hands. Rourke knows that me marrying Elena is the best chance we have at nipping this shit in the bud.It doesn’t make it any easier, and I’m not sure which is worse. The man who’s suffering in silence or the one that won’t shut up about it.Only the twelve are aware of our position with the Senate. That the reason we have the power and influence we do, is due to the fact we make sure that the people are taken care of, unlike the royals that started this mess.Jorge is new, and entirely unaware that his actions will get us blown off the map. Thus far our portion of the experiment has been successful.I can’t say it’s easy.There is a constant struggle in keeping up and doling out responsibilities in a city of nine million. Still, it feels like I was groomed, prepared, and chosen before I was an itch in my father’s pants.Frederico Morretti was the first ‘sanctioned’ boss. He was also a key playe
Whether Grimm is oblivious to the woman we destroyed as he is to the fact that Rourke could squash him like a bug, he continues to search and fiddle with the dozen gadgets he’s juggling.“Thanks Sarge, just need a sec to get started,” Grimm finally acknowledges Daddy, but doesn’t offer his full attention.So rather than pull out the stool Rourke put behind him further, the Titan kicks it under Grimm’s knees.I may be reading too far into it, but there’s still a considerable level of frustration when the oblivious kid goes about whatever he’s doing.Idea is, that with so many new players, Rourke is having Grimm set up a program that most intelligence agencies around the world have.Something that allows Rourke to record if not tap into live phone calls whenever keywords are said. Proving that no matter how young he looks, Grimm has black level access.Rourke again, suffers in silence, helping himself to whatever breakfast Grimm brought with him rather than outwardly pouting.It’s not u
I definitely figured Rourke was in for some weird shit, with his tech genius hacking us into the communication towers to record any conversation when keywords are said.There’s a reason every other country in the world uses the spyware program, and with all the shit that’s been happening the last month, any edge we can get is a benefit.I just never expected the first conversation we happened upon, being blasted through Rourke’s kitchen. Let alone that it would be as interesting as it is.“Lunch hour or not, having the porn dole’ performer butt pump the wolf man is not explainable in a pediatrics office Roman! Even if the painted lady used her feet to do it!” The raring kitten roars at the man on the other end of her call.Rourke has the drop jawed stare I might share, deciding on how to process the most bizarre situation I’ve heard in a while. “You do not get any points for it being the only time you’ve ever pulled something like this, being behind closed doors!”“You said you were h
…. Three Weeks Later …… It’s my first day as a runner for Blue Jay Courier Service, and this time the Witch can not thwart my attempts at stable employment! Not with me constantly on the move, and his low jacking system on the fritz, since I tattled to Alex on him. I love that the job will keep me active. Not to mention give me a feel for the city that’s changed so much in the years I’ve been absent. It’s my last delivery of the day, and I’m really considering nixing my morning work out routine. Mid sixty-story walk up, my thighs are screaming at my head, and it’s unreasonable hatred towards elevators. When I reach the top of the landing, I can’t find the ‘penthouse’ suite, so of course I go searching rather than set foot in one of a dozen tin coffins.I’m not ‘all there’, but I do have a basic understanding of emergency protocol and there has to be stair access to every floor as a means of fire safety. A little burst of victory inflates when I find the otherwise nondescript door.
“I didn’t tell you to move,” without taking a step, the warning growl is all I get before the Incubus is towering over me, and I’m suddenly spun with him binding my wrists at the small of my back.Before I can yelp or process the too fast motion, a large, hot hand comes down in a stinging strike on my right back cheek. I mean to scream, but it comes out as a whimper with my inability to process the wild mix of shame, indignity, and confusion. My cotton boy short panties no better than a burst water pipe failing to contain the lust his power and presence flood my lower regions with. “Be a good girl for Papa. Yes?” His voice is right on the shell of my ear. So close that I can feel the rumble of satisfaction as I wiggle against him. Praying that the friction of my slick thighs will ease the still echoing pulse I can’t process, let alone dignify, what’s happening with the hard and harsh slap on my other cheek.The Italian’s black clad knee slipping between mine to stop the only prayer
With a quick message and a photo of our boy’s pouty face, just as a fuck you to my brother for leaving me out of the loop with the screaming ball of anger and stress who needs him. I pick up our bundle of joy and start what I’m sure will be a thousand trips around the living room tonight.Since the fish bitch isn’t here, I’m not as pissy about it as I would be if she stuck around. We’ve moved buildings, and are still settling into the new environment. There may not be one mark on him after the accident, but even looking at an elevator has my poor guy pitching fits that are sure to wake every god in the heavens.I cringe to yet another ear-piercing scream when I stop moving and bouncing.Unlike my twin, I wanted to be a Dad. Couldn’t wait to have k
After a pretty horrid orientation, and the reminder that I am nothing more than gutter trash to the elites on this side of the tracks, I’m more than happy to follow Ryan and get a feel for all of it.I don’t mind, really. Not when I can finally get into the state-of-the-art kitchen I’d been drooling over. Honestly, I’m used to the judgment, and it doesn’t deter me from my excitement.This feels like a real chance.This is the one place. The one type of quiet that doesn’t sound like a barrage of bullets through a blind thick. That doesn’t feel like projected missiles of anxiety, regret, and fear charging me from all sides.The trauma is always there, whether I can remember it or not, but I have gone almost a full yea
I’m as wrecked as Vince with his building and our kid being attacked. Sitting in silence of my apartment while we share an existential crisis in silence, over whiskey. At least until the most bizarre sentence breaks through the quiet.“Castration Nation. You flip ‘em, we snip ‘em, and our toenail clipper special is half off this week.” It’s the bubbliest and sweetest sounding customer service greeting in the darkest sense.“I know it’s been awhile, but really?” A new tone I’ve never heard with her hits like whiskey. Heat wiggling all the way down as you hear it. “Your cold caller greeting?” Why am I not surprised it’s a standard greeting for the woman who’s been driving me nuts for the past few weeks?
Something about Nyx rang inside of me like a tuning fork. The immediate and obvious interest from both my partner and the guy I still can’t admit I’m interested in only enhanced it.I tell myself I stopped looking because I can’t afford to be divided with the professional, as much as personal attacks on my family. That all my attention needs to be on the here and now with the kid, I just pseudo adopted via my partner.Regardless of my resources, I don't have the time to sift through a city of nine million, and tell myself now as much as I did then to drop it. Even if I found her, Nyx isn’t the type I could keep at a distance. Vince has made it clear that he’ll never keep someone long term, other than the female he has engaged himself to.I’m also not the
I’m a control freak, I admit that, and the very reason I was against having kids is unraveling before my eyes. Reminding me why I’m the last person in the world who deserves him. From the moment I held Tio, I was vulnerable and devoted. For the first time in my life understanding what true love was. An emotion my father did his best to train out of me with all the rest of them. It's something of a requirement for a leader, especially in our world. I never had the same issue with that as every one else did. It wasn't until my beating heart looked up at me, holding my one finger in his whole hand that I worried. Really worried about all the feelings I'd stripped to hold the seat. Kids need love. Plain and simple. They need softness, emotions, comfort, things that I never knew how to give. Outside of sex, even in that arena, I'm a hard and unforgiving bastard. I don't know how to process, let alone express the things that Tio needs. He's just been with us for almost a month, and hasn'
Nothing, and I mean nothing can erase or excuse the fact that I just creamed my pants from dry humping the largest dick I've ever seen on the most gorgeous man I've ever sort of met. However, if there ever has been or will be a trigger for me, it's someone like him screaming Italian. It's been a long time since I was exposed to the language, but I'm still fluent. Either way it doesn't matter. Call it prejudice or paranoid, but it is what it is. I've personally been involved with Mafioso's in this city. So no one can tell me the Mob doesn't exist on our fair streets. Somewhere in my more rational brain, I know that not every one with an accent and or money is linked to some nefarious organization. It’s equally unfair that I have a weakness for Italians, given my history. Unlike most of my other idiosyncrasies, there is a real reason for that. Dramatic as my calling Dominic ‘he that shall not be named’ may seem. I assure you my ‘ex’ deserves to be linked with one of the most evil an
Moving to her rhythm as I pull my hand back to get me out of the too constricting slacks, and into the honey cavern, clenching as hard as it is screaming. I’ve never lost control with a sub. Never been so out of my mind that I haven’t planned at least ten steps ahead on how to get exactly what I want.If I spent one more second rubbing the kitten, she’s going to cum, and fuck if I’m not going to feel every spasm of it clamping me while she does it. I’m a Master, but have been with Rourke long enough I can fake the Daddy her rainbow hair, and shining innocence is screaming that she needs.While it was just an adaptation to fuck her brains out at first, this is different. She’s so much more little than pet. I read her eyes, her want, her quivering jaw as I pull out of the kiss, and the safe word all Nico’s people have is nowhere in it. A spell of lust, and glittering passion I almost give. Almost. Letting the collar of my grip on her neck fall and massaging her silky hair and strokin
Regardless of the fact that she’s using the right entrance and is early, I’m still off put if not pissed at the obvious slight by my twin, who runs entertainment. The still legit, but less legal half of our empire.I know my call was last minute, and that Nico is still having a tantrum over recent events. Still, the rainbow-haired and somewhat thick girl coming in the back entrance was not what I had in mind when I said I was in the mood for a service type role play.No doubt that with his mood Nico wouldn’t be joining me, but Rourke too……It’s not like I’m incapable of having one-on-one or vanilla interactions, but given the fact that the last one landed me with an infant I didn’t know existed …….The day I announced my engagement to Rourke, was the day I came home to a nine month old infant on my doormat. Literally. Nex to the stripper who’d tried to leave him. I can only assume she knocked herself running into a wall she was so doped up. Coming to, she raced away from me and the c
“I didn’t tell you to move,” without taking a step, the warning growl is all I get before the Incubus is towering over me, and I’m suddenly spun with him binding my wrists at the small of my back.Before I can yelp or process the too fast motion, a large, hot hand comes down in a stinging strike on my right back cheek. I mean to scream, but it comes out as a whimper with my inability to process the wild mix of shame, indignity, and confusion. My cotton boy short panties no better than a burst water pipe failing to contain the lust his power and presence flood my lower regions with. “Be a good girl for Papa. Yes?” His voice is right on the shell of my ear. So close that I can feel the rumble of satisfaction as I wiggle against him. Praying that the friction of my slick thighs will ease the still echoing pulse I can’t process, let alone dignify, what’s happening with the hard and harsh slap on my other cheek.The Italian’s black clad knee slipping between mine to stop the only prayer