“Have you even talked to Kyle about this? I feel you guys are on different pages in the same book.” She pulled the car to a stop and slammed it into park. I looked out the window to find we were in front of a nightclub. The same one we had been to a few nights ago.

  “This won't be open,” I said.

  “It’s ok, I know the owner,” she said with a giggle.

  I slipped out the door and followed her to the back of the nightclub where she took out her keys and unlocked the flat security door.

  “Do you own this club?” I asked.

  She grinned at me. “And four others in the city. Plus, one in Vegas that I won in a game of poker. But I have a manager for that one since I only go there once a year.”

  “That’s incredible.”

  “Thanks,” she replied, holding the door open for me. She followed me in and flicked on the lights.

  I trailed her down the back hall and out into the large club space. It looked very different with lights on. The harsh flood lights made the space feel depressing. It should be low lit and loud with music and full of people dancing and having fun.

  “whiskey?” she asked as she slipped behind the bar, grabbing a bottle and two shot glasses.

  “Sure,” I replied. This situation called for hard liquor.

  She sat down at a small table and I joined her.

  “I’ve been thinking about hiring a manager for this one. I think four might be too many for one person.” She poured us each a shot and slid one across the sticky table surface to me.

  I lifted the glass, and she raised hers. “To men, can’t live with ‘em and can’t drain them dry.”

  I laughed and shook my head. Vampire humour. I clinked my glass with hers and downed the shot, letting the liquid burn my throat and down to my stomach.

  “We have three hours till the club opens, want to help me get it set up?”

  The idea sparked something inside me. “Yeah, I do.”

  Alanna’s grin split her face. “Perfect.”

  Alanna spent the next 3 hours going over everything about the club, from ordering to scheduling to cleaning the bathrooms. It was the most interested I had been in business since I dropped school and became a feeder for the vampires.

  “So, you think you can handle this tonight? Cause I really need to be in the club on Vincent Street for their one-year anniversary. I have two hot bands lined up, and it’s all hands on deck.”

  “You want me to run your club?” I asked.

  Her arm slid across my shoulders and she pulled me in tight to her side. “We are sisters. I couldn’t think of anyone better to take care of my business than you. Also, I already told Kyle you were doing it, so please say yes. It would drive him crazy.”

  I shook my head. “Is it really a good idea to drive him crazy during his Blood Fever?”

  “He has never been this out of control. It looks good on him, actually. The way he needs you and can’t control himself.”

  I frowned and opened my mouth to say something but she stopped me.

  “Listen, you don’t have to decide to mate him right now, but you should think about it seriously. You are the only one he will ever want. Just talk to him. You’ll see. He doesn’t want to control you, just love you. Forever.”

  I sighed and shook my head. “I didn’t think you were the romantic type.”

  She squeezed my shoulder. “When it comes to Blood Mates, we are all the romantic type. I can’t wait for my youngest brother to find his mate. He is going to be in for the shock of his life.”

  I was about to ask what she meant, but there was a knock at the back door.

  “That should be your employees. Come on, I’ll introduce you.”

  Chapter nineteen

  Kyle

  As soon as Alanna told me where they were, I was in my car and racing across the city. My heart raced in my chest, banging against my ribs, trying to get to her faster.

  When I pulled into the parking lot at the nightclub, I barely had it in park before I was out and crossing the lot to the door.

  My knuckles banged on the door, but I resisted kicking it down and racing in to find Aura.

  The lock clicked, and the door swung open. There she was. The smile fell off her face and my knees almost buckled. I didn't want her to frown when she saw me. I wanted to make her face light up. I was ruining everything.

  She stepped back to let me in and I felt suddenly nervous.

  “Hello, brother! Nice of you to come on your mates first night as my club manager.”

  My eyes shot back to Aura but her face was determined almost as if she was waiting for my reaction. Waiting for me to say she couldn't do it. That shocked me and broke my heart.

  “I’m glad I could be here. I’ve taken the rest of the week off work, so I’ll have time to be here every night, if this is where Aura wants to be.”

  Alanna grinned, but bit her lip to hide her pleasure at my words. Aura on the other hand looked stunned.

  “Did you expect me to drag you away?” I asked her, honestly.

  She shook her head like she was coming to her senses. “I guess. I didn’t really know what to expect. I don’t know you that well.”

  She was absolutely right. I had been trying to work and start a lifelong relationship with someone at the same time. “That’s my fault. I should have called in help for my business so I could focus on this with us. I understand if you are unsure and I’m not asking you to jump into anything, but just give me another chance to prove myself.”

  She stepped forward and her hand came up to rest on my chest.

  My cock sprung to life at her light touch, and my stomach growled as her sweet honey scent filled my nostrils. A small grin pulled one side of her lips up. She knew exactly what she did to me. Her hand pressed me back into the shadows of a side hallway and I let her. Her eyes lidded and her heart sped as she moved in closer to me, pressing her body against mine. “Thank you,” She whispered before her soft lips touched mine and her body softly grazed against me.

  I was lost. Lust and desire took over my brain and my hands moved of their own will, sliding down to her ass and then lifting her to wrap her legs around my waist. I turned us so her back was to the wall and let my mouth have its way. Kissing a trail from her mouth to her jaw and down her neck. I was intoxicated, longing drove me nearly wild with passion.

  She tipped her head, giving me access to the length of her neck. Her skin was soft and on my tongue. My teeth ached to break the surface and dine, but I was still aware of the fact we were in a public place so I pulled back to look at her, my breath laboured.

  “I want to bite you,” I whispered.

  “Get a room!” My sister yelled from somewhere out in the club.

  “Bite me,” Aura whispered back. Her legs tightened on my hips, pressing her core against my throbbing cock. I wished we had more time, but I forced myself to remember she was where she wanted to be. She wanted to be the manager of the nightclub and I had to take that seriously.

  I slid my lips across her neck and enjoyed the feeling of her heat pressed against me. Later tonight I would take her home and thrust my cock inside her. For now, I just needed a meal and I would only take that much.

  This was my second chance to do this right.

  My teeth breached the surface of her skin, and punctured the vein beneath, freeing her intoxicating blood. It filled my mouth so quickly I almost spilled some, but sealed my lips tight to her neck, letting the rich copper liquid slide down my throat. My body shuttered at the delight and she writhed against me, her breath panting as if she was near orgasm.

  I was moments away from ripping her clothes off and thrusting inside her, without caring that we were in public, when a knock at the back door reminded me where I was and what I was doing. I licked the punctures I had made in her neck and then unwrapped her legs from my waist.

  She let out a groan, and I whispered, “we’ll finish this later.”

  Her fingers gripped my shirt and pulled me down for another kiss.

  “You bet,” she replied as she slid past me and out to answer the door.

  I took a few minutes to compose myself, before going out to join my mate and the night club staff. It was going to be a long night.

  Chapter twenty

  Aura

  That night was insane. There wasn’t as big a crowd as the night we had come, but it was still hopping all night. One bartender showed me how to pour beer and that became my job for a few hours, helping the bar staff keep up with demands. Kyle sat at the end of the bar and though he looked tense, he didn’t dive over the bar and carry my off like a caveman, so I called it a win.

  By closing time, my feet were killing me and I was bone tired. It was a good feeling though, as if I had accomplished something. As soon as I turned the lock on the door, when the bouncer had ushered the last patron out, a strong pair of arms scooped me up and spun me around. “You were amazing,” Kyle said, burying his face in my neck and pulling in huge breath. A shiver raced down my spine, but he set me on my feet. “You picked up everything so quickly.”

  I almost blushed at his praise. “It’s not brain surgery.”

  He held me with one arm but tipped my chin up to look at him. “The night club business is complicated. You handled the problems as they came so easily.”

  It was true that the band had some technical problems, and I managed to get it sorted out pretty quickly, but the true test would be long-term success. If I could handle all the difficulties. “I guess.”

  His lips fell on mine, a brief brush and then he let me go. “I’ll wait here for you to finish up.” He sat in a chair and leaned back as if he had all night.

  “All right,” I said, admiring the way his large frame barely fit in the chair. I was eager to go home with him and found myself hurrying to get the cleanup done. I knew there were a few things I could leave until the next afternoon, plus it was late.

  Finally, I said goodbye to the staff and made my way back to Kyle who had been patiently waiting in the same chair.

  “All done,” I said.

  A heart beat later I was wrapped up in steely arms, my mouth covered by his in a passionate kiss. I giggled against his lips.

  “You are so hot. I’m not sure I can wait till we get home.” His cock definitely shared his opinion, hot and needy pressed against my stomach.

  My body was dying for release. I pressed against him and rose to my toes, licking the seam of his mouth before he opened again and slid his tongue along mine. My hands went to work, undoing the buttons on his shirt. We were all alone in the low-lit club, my ears still ringing from the loud music that had been pounding all night.

  His hands slid up and stopped mine. I broke away and looked at him.

  “Let’s go home. I need you in my house, please?”

  “Okay,” I said, taking a deep breath and trying to calm down.

  “Besides, the idea of you hot and needing me the whole way home will be worth the wait.”

  He scooped me up, making me squeak, then carried me towards the back door.

  “Hold on, I need my keys. On the bar!”

  He spun and went the super-fast speed that vampires can go, startling me. I grabbed onto his neck as he grinned down at me, grabbing the keys off the top of the bar, then he turned and raced back.

  This time I screamed, but laughter overflowed as he stopped to open the door and let us out, locking it with my keys behind us.

  “Do you like that?” he asked, before taking off on a race around the low-lit parking lot. It was a rush, the feeling of safety and danger colliding.

  “I love it,” I said, gasping for breath as he stopped beside his jeep. He opened the door and set me inside, brushing a kiss to my forehead as he pulled my seatbelt across.

  “I can do that,” I said.

  “I know, you are incredibly capable of everything you do. But I want to take care of you sometimes, if you will allow me.”

  His face was so honest. “Okay,” I said, sitting back and letting him do up the buckle.

  He gave me another long kiss, his tongue tangling with mine while his hand cupped my head and pressed me back into the seat. When he pulled away, the cool night air brushed over my heated cheeks. He ducked out of the jeep and closed the door gently before he sped around and slipped into the driver's seat, starting it up and peeling out from the empty parking lot.

  The city rushed by, my excitement growing. I wiggled in the seat, uncomfortable with the wetness pooling between my legs. I wanted to get home and have Kyle inside me, but the city seemed to stretch on forever.

  Chapter twenty-one

  Kyle

  The car wasn’t going fast enough. I pressed harder, and the car lurched forward, so I eased off. It wouldn’t get me home faster if I got a speeding ticket. My eye kept drawing back to Aura, the way her legs were crossed, and she kept fidgeting just made me harder.

  I opened my mouth to ask her something or somehow cut the sexual tension in the car, but no words came out. My pants were too tight, but I was already ignoring the road enough that I didn't dare take a hand of the wheel.

  Finally, I turned off the highway and followed the road out to the compound where each of my family members had a house. It was like a light at the end of a tunnel, finally nearly home. I steered though the gates and down the treed lane to my house.

  The outside lights flicked on, illuminating the manicured yard and front porch.

  I slid the Jeep to a stop close to the porch, then unbuckled and sped around the car, yanking Aura out. She gasped, but clung to me, her arms going around my neck and her legs around my waist just as she had been earlier in the nightclub.

  “Thank god we’re home,” she sighed before I took her mouth, my tongue plunging in and out while my rock-hard cock enjoyed the friction of rubbing against her core.

  I brought my hands up and tore her shirt open at the back, dying to feel her soft warm skin under my fingertips. She let go of my neck, holding on with her legs and trusting me to hold her up while she undid the buttons on my shirt, then she removed her ruined shirt and laced her hands behind my neck so I could peel my shirt off too.

  “You feel so good,” I whispered. Her breasts pressed against my chest, soft and supple.

  She writhed against me and I couldn't take it anymore. I bolted up the steps to the porch and pressed my hand to the palm scanner to unlock the door. It slammed open, hitting the wall behind the door as I crashed thought into the foyer.

  I moved us through to the living room and set Aura down on the couch. She lay there, her hair like a halo around her head and her breast on full display. She looked like an angel. My angel. Come to save me from the life of solitude I had been living. I was so happy in that moment I felt tears gather in my eyes. I bit them back and unbuttoned my dress pants, letting them pool around my ankles.

  Her eyes traced my body, a hungry look on her face. When she licked her lips, my cock twitched, and she slid off the couch, crawling the couple steps to where I stood. Her eyes never left my crotch, raising my excitement and causing Pre-cum to leak from the tip of my erection and soak into my boxers.

  She looked up at me in the low light as her hands slid up my thighs, passing teasingly close to my hard cock before gripping the elastic waistband of my boxers. She grinned as she pulled them down, exposing me to her hungry eyes.

  She trailed her eyes down until they landed on my cock. Her breathing hitched, and she leaned forward to lick the tip of my cock with her hot tongue.

  I shuttered and fought the urge to grab her and sink my teeth and cock into her in one thrust. My patience was rewarded when she opened her mouth and took me into her hot, wet mouth. Her lips slid lower, and she began to suck, creating a delicious pressure as she slid up and down slowly over my length.

  My control was slipping when my hands took control of her head, my fingers sliding into her hair and gripping. It felt so good, I didn't want her to stop, but if I didn't get my teeth in her flesh soon, I would have gone crazy.

  I pulled her hair, pulling her off my cock with a pop. She grinned up at me and I almost came right there.

  “You are so perfect,” I whispered.

  I dropped to my knees in front of her, devouring her mouth with mine. She tasted musky like my cum, but I didn't care. She was exactly perfect in every way. The way she kissed me and the way she smelled. She was so strong and independent, but fit in my arms like she was made for me. I lay her back on the rug, leaning over her, but propping my weight on my arms so I could enjoy the closeness without crushing her. Her legs split and one slid up the side of my leg sensually before hooking around my ass to pull me closer to her core.

  I was dying to just thrust inside her, but I never wanted this to end, so instead I slid down, kissing my way across her breasts and ribcage, to lick across the flat softness of her stomach. She shuttered beneath me, her hands slipping through my hair and holding me to her like I was a life raft.

  Chapter twenty-two

  Aura

  I was already so close to the edge. The feel of his cock on my tongue and his hands roaming my body took me so high, but when he shot me a wicked grin as he moved down my body, the tension low in my stomach cramped almost painfully. My body was on fire for him and I never wanted this feeling to end.

  His hot breath slid over my hot, slick flesh and my body trembled in anticipation. As his tongue slicked against my fold, my back arched and I cried out. Kyle’s chuckle made me hate him a little. I was too turned on, too sensitive.

  “Please,” I begged, and he didn't keep me waiting. His tongue and lips lapped at my core, pressing deliciously on my clit before lapping at my folds, sending me closer to climax with every second and every breath.

  His teeth scraped at my inner thigh before returning to my core, driving me wild with need. Finally, he tipped his head and bit into my thigh.

  The sharp pain sent me right over the edge, sending convulsions through my body and a scream of pleasure from my lips. My orgasm shuttered through me, making my thighs clamp on his head as he drank from my thigh. The sound of his swallowing sent aftershocks through me, but when they were done, he licked the wound, sealing it up and then pushed up onto his hands and crawled up to cover my body with his.

 

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