all mine, Hadley.” He glanced to the Mistress.
“We need to leave at once.”
Ellery patted Locke’s cheek and gave him a genuine smile. “What would I do without you?”
He grinned at her and winked. “You’d be late.”
Ellery glanced back at me and the smile remained on her face. “Off you go then. You will not be disturbed here.” She took one final look at Chase, sighed a moment, then followed Locke down the hall.
Chase leaned into the room then immediately snapped back, his eyes wide as he looked at me.
“I’m taking it that bed isn’t for sleeping purposes?”
“No chum.” Kellen laughed, slapped him on the back then pushed him into the room.
“This is the honeymoon night.”
Chapter Nine
Hesitation raged through me seeing the confusion on Chase’s face. I had to dig down deep to find guts to tell him what was about to happen. “Part of the ceremony is a blood exchange.” I placed my hand on Chase’s forearm and it flexed beneath my fingers. “We need to take in your scent and you need to wear ours to affirm to other vampires that you have been claimed. It is a warning to them that you are our consort and you cannot be touched without serious consequences—like death consequences.
We normally exchange blood by…you know.”
Chase’s eyes grew wide, disbelief held strong in his eyes. “With him here too?” He gestured toward Kellen.
I smiled awkwardly and laughed just the same. “Ahh…” This was so normal to my kind. The more intense the sexual experience the better. Having multiple lovers was not abnormal, but mortals tended to shy away from this kind of interaction. Well…some did.
Chase was apparently one of them.
Kellen laughed, a deep gravelly challenge. “Afraid of a little competition, are you?”
Chase’s wide eyes lowered to slits and his brows came together in unhappiness. “I am afraid of nothing, but I don’t do the guy thing.”
“Nor do I,” Kellen snapped, then in a swift move he grabbed Chase’s wrist, bit down, sucked a moment then released it. He clamped down on his own wrist, took a swipe of blood on his finger and shoved it in Chase’s mouth.
Chase swatted at him but Kellen was too fast for him to actually hit. “What the fuck was that?”
he roared at Kellen and examined his bloody wrist.
Kellen grinned and crossed his arms over his chest. “That was our blood exchange.”
I threw Kellen an annoyed glance. His way of doing things were just so harsh. “Was that really necessary?” At the same time, I was actually glad that part was over. I hadn’t any idea how to get Chase to exchange blood with Kellen, even the little drop that was needed to seal the bound. So his plan had worked even if it was a bit aggressive.
Kellen nodded, very unashamed. “I am relieving him of his worries, that’s all. Our part in this is over, now we can move past this and simply enjoy.” Then, in a second, he stripped himself of his clothes.
I gasped at the sight and heat pooled between my thighs. His body was something to marvel at and I couldn’t withhold my appreciation of it now. Hard lines met a thick physique of splendid man.
“Holy fuck.” Chase voice came out strangled.
His shock was more from how quickly Kellen undressed than seeing his naked form in front of him, I didn’t doubt that. Chase had nothing to be jealous of. He was sexy in his own right and in the male department, he wasn’t lacking.
I forced my gaze away from marvelling at Kellen to look at Chase. “If you’re not comfortable with doing this, we can just exchange blood and leave it at that.”
I wouldn’t push him into this. It sounded like he would have a hard enough time just sharing me with Kellen in relationship form. I had anticipated his reaction to this, and now here, I simply had no idea how he was going to react.
Chase stood silent for a moment then said to me, “You have done this before?” He nodded again toward Kellen. “Been together…with others?”
Um…how to put this? Guess there’s no real easy way to say that you’ve been between a few bodies at the same time. “We like to share, Chase.”
He snorted loudly. “Apparently so.”
“I am growing impatient,” Kellen snapped.
I glanced at him. He wasn’t exaggerating. His hand was wrapped around his cock as the need had evidently consumed him. With long slow strokes, he readied himself.
Watching it made me just as impatient, but I wouldn’t rush Chase. If