Chapter 1

Chapter 1

**warning this story has a few mistakes that I am slowly editing, when I originally wrote this it was meant as a hetero story so you may see she in pleanty of places where it is supposed to be he, just bare with me I know it will cause some confusion but I am working on it. Thanks for reading, xoxo

Picture of Dimitri, yummy–––––>

           

            Dimitri levered his powerful six foot five solidly packed muscular frame from behind his glossy mahogany desk and brushed an imaginary piece of lint from his impeccably cut Italian suit. He glided over the polished mirrored tile to the panoramic windows that showed of the spectacular Miami skyline to perfection.  The thick cords of muscle in his arms and shoulders flexed under his tailor made silk shirt as he raised his arms above his head and clasped his hands behind his powerful neck, just under the thick mane of midnight black hair.

            He sighed and shifted his weight from one foot to the other.  He was so bored he was bended. He has existed in the world for so long and has seen and has done almost everything at least once. He had out lived two mates and countless friends. He studied the skyline and smiled on how change was forever happening. Through the countless centuries things have changed so much from horse drawn buggies to state of the art luxury vehicles that parked themselves. From wooden huts to million dollar concrete condos. He shook his head and turned away from the beautiful balmy sunset.

            Walking back over to his desk he picked up the phone and called for his car. He knew what his problem was, he was lonely. His last mate was over four centuries ago, after he lost Simone the pain was so bad he refused to even chance a relationship again. But, living alone and not being able to share with another of his kind was getting depressing. He had avoided all opportunities to meet a potential mate both Vampire or heaven forbid Human.

            He shrugged into his slate gray jacket and walked to his office doors. He had moved to Miami for a complete change of scenery, gone are the days where their kind hid and lived in the shadows for fear of persecution. Evolution has been generous to their kind. They walked in the sunshine, ate food, and they looked normal and felt normal other than being immortal and a little cooler touch than a normal human.

            He waited until his escorts joined his side before stepping outside onto the sidewalk to stride to the gleaming Mercedes where Stavos was holding the door open for him to step into the car. He adjusted himself on the seat as his head bodyguard closed the door efficiently behind him. He watched as the big man climbed into the front of the car. In the next instant the driver glided it smoothly away from the curve and into evening traffic. He was thinking of ways to amuse himself for the evening. He watched the buildings pass by in a blur, noticing the business closing for the day and the night life becoming more active.

  “Do you want to stop anywhere, sir?” Stavos asked him from his position in the front seat.

            “Yes, please stop by the bookstore close to the house.” He replied and went back to people watching.

            Stavos nodded once and instructed the driver appropriately. He had noticed his friend getting more and more melancholic with each passing day, and he was a t lost as to what to do about the situation. Gustav had informed just this morning he wasn’t feeding as often as he should, not until he was pressed to do so. Gustav said he needed a woman, but Dimitri had more women than he could manage, but lately he refused himself even that simple pleasure. Gustav had again informed him that it was his need of a mate in his life that was weighing on him, but being so stubborn he refused to admit it.

            All too soon the car was pulling into the trendy shopping mall that housed several retail stores including Barnes and Nobles bookstore. Stavos scanned the crowd both inside and out. He did not perceive any threats of any other beings other than human in the immediate area. He opened the door and levered his powerful frame out of the car. He rolled his massive shoulders to straighten the jet black jacket over the expanse of the immensely solid physique. He did a final scan of the crowd; people literally turned and went the other way in order to avoid his fierce countenance. He was a warrior personified, and his only loyalty was to Dimitri Stephan Aleksandra for all eternity.

            Dimitri stepped out of the car and made his way to the entrance of the store, Stavos shadowing his every step. He actually smiled at the thought of his friend. They had met as children, and as teenagers Stavos lost his father and mother in a raid by villagers. His mother was a servant to his mother and his father a groom to his father. They were roughly the same age, his parents had taken in the orphaned Stavos and his father raised and provided for him like his own. It was not until they were accosted on the lonely road one night returning from a Gentleman’s Club that they were attacked by rogues and nearly killed. Dimitri had saved Stavos’ life at a personal cost of his own. Stavos has never forgotten and pledged his life to Dimitri, and not matter what Dimitri said, Stavos instituted himself as his protector.

            And, because of his immense wealth and power, he needed security more now than he did then and Stavos stepped in to fill that role with his remarkable capability to scan the thoughts of both human and other beings alike. Dimitri had a similar talent but his was to level he could make anyone do anything he wanted with just a suggestion. So they have lived side by side in their prospective roles and as friends for centuries.

            Dimitri browsed the newly released best sellers and picked a few interesting novels. He was oblivious to the interested glances of the female patrons of the store. He carried his selections as he moved on from shelf to shelf. Stavos stationed himself in each aisle effectively keeping an eye on him as well as keeping other patrons from the same aisle. He briefly scanned the thoughts of the people around them and was ever amused to the thoughts of the women around them. If he was inclined he could find a nice diversion right here among these women. They ranged from silly college girls to married bored matrons.

            They progressed into another aisle when he picked up the thoughts of an irked clerk restocking shelves in the same row. He seemed extremely upset as he went about his business completely ignoring the two charismatic men in the same aisle with him. His thoughts were disgruntled as he thought about the necessity of his job while trying to avoid the lecherous hands of a co-worker. Dimitri seemed just as oblivious to him. Interesting he thought. He scanned him as came to the realization that his friend was completely unaware of young man’s presence and that was not like him. He found this very interesting, maybe his night was looking up.

            Dimitri was known to be forever conscious of those around him and he did not seem to be so engrossed in the endless novels he loved to read not to notice this little man.

            Just as he was getting ready to step forward, Dimitri turned and bumped smack on into the man, and he dropped the books he was holding onto the floor. Before he could offer any assistance, the man and Dimitri bent at the same time and almost collided again.

            Mumbling an apology the man looked up and froze like a deer in a beam of headlights.  Stavos noticed his friend was frozen as well. He almost smiled at this turn of events. He watched as the man pulled himself together and picked up the books and scurried off, blushing pink even to the tips of his ears. He watched as Dimitri slowly straightened himself to stare off down the aisle where the young man disappeared. Oh yes, his night was getting very interesting indeed. From the dumbfounded expression on his face, he was sure Dimitri had potentially run dead on literally into his next mate. He had to cover his laugh with a cough. Gustav was going to be over the moon about this one. “Are you okay?” Stavos couldn’t help but ask.

            Dimitri shook his head to clear the haze that had formed there. “I am fine, let’s go home.” He said as he left his selections where they were and head for the door.

            He made it to the car, with Stavos on his heels. He opened the car door himself and got in and closed the door. To say he was surprised was an understatement. When he had looked into that little human’s clear hazel eyes he felt like he had fallen into heaven. In that scant amount of time, he was not able to pick up on his thoughts and his aura around him glowed so bright that it almost blinded him. Damn, what a time for him to meet a possible mate, and not just any mate, a human and a man. Gah, what a shock to his system. He rode in silence for the remainder of the drive home. When the car finally came to a stop at the steps of his mansion, he got out of the car and barely greeted Gustav as he headed straight for his room. He walked over to the fridge and pulled a container of blood from the fridge and downed it in a few gulps before heading for the shower.

            Gustav had given him a few minutes before following him upstairs. He silently picked up the discarded clothes and wondered what was wrong with his master. He was so meticulous. It was not like him to discard his things without a care. He puzzled over what was going on when he looked up to see Stavos standing in the door whom motioned for him to join him outside of the room. 

            “I have news for you.” Stavos said as they continued down the elegant curving stairs to the first floor. They crossed the gleaming marble tiles and went into the kitchen housed in the back of the house.

            Gustav walked into what seemed like a refrigerated pantry and obtained two bottles of blood and tossed one to Stavos. “What is going on then?” He asked as he took the seat opposite from him.

            “I think Dimitri has met more like bumped into a potential mate.” Stavos declared and let the laughter he was holding in out. He guffawed for a full minute before he took in the surprise on Gustave’s face and laughed until he was sure if he could produce tears they would be running down his face.

            “Are you sure?” He asked, barely able to contain his glee. This was just what was needed to get Dimitri living again, not just existing.

            “The only thing that was missing was the Angels descending from on high singing the most beautiful melody.” Stavos exclaimed holding his hand over his heart. 

            “Don’t be so glib my friend wait until it happens to you. God will grant me the longevity to witness your fall from grace. Now tell me about her, where was this and is she one of us?” He fired off the questions he could not wait to hear the answers to.

            “All I can say is that HE is a clerk at the bookstore. I have not seen HIM before, so he must be new. He is a little thing and seemed unhappy at the time with a colleague. As to his looks I did not see much other that her eyes, which I must say they were very pretty. He is human.” He quietly finished.

            “Oh. Well.  This complicates things. He does not seem to be taking it well.” He stated the obvious and thought about Dimitri’s odd behavior, and break from his meticulous routine with his clothes.

            “That is one way to describe his reaction. The only thing I can do later is find out more about him.” He said as he replaced the cap on the now empty bottle of blood and placed it in the incinerator.

            Gustav rose and repeated the procedure of disposing his own bottle. “I am going to go up and see if there is anything that he needs.” 

            “Okay, I am going to change and go back to the store to pick up his books he left behind that will give me an excuse to see the boy again and get a better insight on him.” He explained before heading to his wing of the house.

            Gustav could not help the smile that spread across his face. It was time that Dimitri got a mate back into his life. Hopefully it will not be too difficult of a task to accomplish, he did not care whether that person was male or female, it’s rare, but it’s been known to happen, the same gender matings. He sighed heavily at the thought of the young man’s human status. It made things more challenging. He must choose and embrace this life in order to fulfill the mating process. He shook his head as he proceeded up the stairs to offer his  master his assistance.

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Chapter 2

Chapter 2

(Sweet Caleb—————––>)

            Caleb closed the bathroom door and fanned his hot cheeks. He walked over to the sink and turned on the cold water and splashed his overheated skin and breathed slowly in and out to calm his nerves. He turned off the faucet and grabbed a few paper towels to mop up his face, and turned to throw the paper in the garbage. He took a minute to study his image in the mirror. He did not know why that man had flustered him so, and for no apparent reason. He couldn’t explain it, but when the tall extremely good looking man had looked into his eyes, the piercing black gaze was so intensely deep it was like he was drowning in them. He just had to get away from the man. Men that gorgeous never took a second look at him. He studied himself critically. He was short, barely touching five four, he was not thin but he was not fat either, but at least he was nicely toned, thanks to his swimming. He was once described as beautiful for a boy, but he scoffed at that. His hair was dirty blond and was cut in a messy style,  made to look like he just rolled out of bed. The only thing he could say about was that it was thick eyelashes framimg his blazing chocolate brown eyes.

            He turned his head and studied his prominent cheek bones and his  creamy porcelin complexion, people praised his blemish free skin and called him pretty all the time, but he thought it was just ordinary nothing that would make him stand out in a room. Ever since he was little in the group homes he was always passed over for other cherubic faced children with blue eyes and bright blond hair. He spent his life trying not to draw attention to himself in those places, he was glad when he had finally reached 18 and they sent him packing with a little money and a job training voucher.

            He shook himself and smoothed his vest back in place and prayed nothing else occurred, he had two hours to go to finish his shift and go home to his modest efficiency apartment and study for his exam tomorrow. By the luck of the draw his essay on economic progress spanning the last 30 years had won his a scholarship at the University of Miami three years ago. He had chosen Social Work as his major, what a surprise, since they were the ones who raised him, social workers after endless social workers.

            He unobtrusively entered the main display floor and went back to his cart, where he was stocking books back onto the shelves when he had run into him. He made sure he checked to see where Hal was. Two weeks on the job and he had turned into a pest with octopus hands.  The girls at the concession stand were nice if not a little nosy though, the two Kelly’s he dubbed them because they were carried the same name. He was busy bending over the cart when a deep masculine accented voice caught his attention and he looked up and asked himself why he didn’t just have stayed in bathroom and said he had diarrhea or something of the sort, when he craned his neck to look up at the tall man he saw earlier with the other scrumptious one that had sent him running for cover.

He looked up the massive expanse of the wide muscular chest, to even more massive shoulders into the Cerulean blue eyes of this smiling stranger, in his peripheral vision he could see the two Kelly’s almost leaning to a right angle to see what was going on over here. “Um, Hi.” He barely managed to respond to this beautiful stranger.

            Stavos looked down at him; he was a cute little thing with innocent  warm brown eyes. Some would call him beautiful in his shy way. He was wearing jeans and a long sleeved v-neck shirt, but that unsightly dark green  vest blocked everything else. His most striking feature where his gorgeous  skin. Stavos thought, he had known for centuries that he swung both ways and if this sweet young thing wasn’t Dimitri’s mate, he might have enticed him to play. The young man blinked up at him. “Oh, Dimitri was going to be in for it.”  Stavos thought with glee. “I am looking for a few authors, and I was wondering if you were able to assist me?” Stavos spoke in his most compelling tone.

            Mindlessly the boy nodded his head and then managed to clear his throat. “Sure, give me their names and I will show you where to find them.” Caleb said pleased that this giant didn’t seem to have the affected him like  like the other man did. At least he had a coherent thoughts in his head.

            Stavos handed him a list and the boy managed a shy smile and asked him to follow him to the first author on the list. The boy’s voice seemed as sweet as he was.

 Caleb was conscious as he passed the concession area of the two Kelly’s gazes were following their every step it was almost comical how synchronized their actions where. He almost smiled. He continued to lead the handsome man around the store quietly talking while they selected the books the man wanted.

 By the time they reached to twelfth book Stavos had managed to draw him out a little. He found out he was in college and this job as well as one on campus helped he support himself as he went through his studies, and that he was almost finished with his Masters’ Degree. He thanked caleb for his help as he walked with him over to the check out counter, just as an annoying young man sauntered over and threw a territorial arm over the boy’s shoulder and called him sugar. 

            He watched as Caleb shrugged off the guy’s arm and coolly stepped away from the man. “I am helping a customer Hal.” He snapped through clenched jaws.

            Hal looked over at the man that was monopolizing Caleb’s time and paled. The man looked directly at him and he was transfixed. For some reason the thought popped into his head that if he did not leave Caleb alone he would die a horrible painful death. He shook his head and smiled at them both, and to Caleb’s surprise stalked off in the other direction without another word. So, he bid Stavos goodbye and went back to his stocking. He was nice, Caleb thought as he walked away. He barely made it to the concession stand before the two Kelly’s snatched him bythe arm and dragged him behind the counter.

            “Who was that and please say you know and got his number.” Kelly number one sighed as she fanned herself.

            “A customer asking for help finding books.” He patiently replied. The girls knew his sexual preference from day one and they never treated him any differently for being gay. He was well aware if you showed no emotion or interest, these two eventually they let things drop.

            “Fine be that way.” Kelly number two pouted and they went back to cleaning up for the night.

            Hhe rushed over to finish his stocking so he could leave soon as well.

            Stavos smiled as he got behind the wheel of his Hummer. It was pleasant trying to get to know Caleb. He is a perfect match for his friend, ambitious and kind. He grimaced as he decided that he had left poor Hal off the hook, hopefully he will remember to keep his hands to himself. Since, Caleb was Dimitri’s mate; he was now under his protection. He would make sure he got home safe then he would assign someone to him. He pulled out his cell phone and scrolled called Marcos, one of his most trusted agents. He instructed him to follow and protect Caleb, but not to interact unless otherwise instructed. Ever diligent, Marcos met him in the parking lot and after watching  Caleb get in and start an almost decrepit Honda and drove away with Marcos not far behind him, only then did he head for home.

            Caleb parked his car and switched off the ignition. He checked his watch. He knew the material for his test, but it always helped to review. He unlocked his apartment door and entered the small foyer and locked the door behind himself, sliding the dead bolt into place. He dropped his keys on the table and turned on the light in the small kitchenette. Stepping over to the fridge, he opened it and poured some juice in a glass to take with him to his sofa sleeper and sat down and heeled off his sneakers. These Vans had seen better days but they were his favorite ones. He drained her juice glass and reached for his textbooks and his notes. Spending the next hour reviewing them and the chapters his teacher announced they were going to be tested on. 

           

 Dimitri was sitting in the same plush chair that he had dropped into to brood after his shower. How could he have possibly when he had risen this morning that it was going to be another boring day? His mate was another man. He recalled the boy’s eyes, eyes he was surely going to see looking back at him in his sleep. He groaned and threw his arm over his face.  He did not even stir when Gustav entered the room. He could hear him moving about and closing the heavy draperies.

            “Is there anything you require for the remainder of the evening?” He graciously asked him.

            “No. But could you just ask Stavos to come and see me please.” He responded without taking this arm from his face.

            “I believe Mr. Stavos is not home as of yet. He mentioned something about picking up the books you forgot this evening at the store.” He innocently replied.

            Dimitri instantly dropped his arm and lifted his head to glare with narrowed eyes at his old friend. “When he comes back send him straight up to me please.”

            “Of course.” Gustav stated and bowed out of the room. He could not help the smug smile that spread across his face when he entered the kitchen and abruptly stopped when he came face to face with his wife Irina. She was glaring at him at the moment.

        “Why do you look like the cat that swallowed the canary?”With her hands on her hips.

            Gustave walked over to her and circled her waist with his arms. “Nothing Dear.” He calmly replied.

            “Well the kitchen is spotless and I am heading to bed, will you be long?” She asked as she caressed his cheek. It has been almost 400 years and she still loved this man with every fiber of her being.

            “No not long my dear.” He said and kissed her cheek and watched her shapely figure walk away headed for their private quarters.

            He was wiping already spotless counters when the back door opened and Stavos entered, he stopped and enabled the security system and set the bag of books on the counter and smiled.

            “So, how goes it then?” Gustav asked barely able to contain his curiosity.

            “He is a sweet and shy little thing. I would say he is pretty if he were my type. He is a student at the University of Miami, studying to become a Social Worker, and an orphan with no family sadly, but perfect for Dimitri even being human.” He stated.

            “Well the master wants to see you. He asked for you earlier and I told him you went to retrieve his books.” Gustav replied before he turned and sauntered off to go join his wife.

            Stavos shrugged his shoulders and schooled his features as well as his mind before carrying the books upstairs to Dimitri. He knocked once when he got there before entering the room. “Here you are my friend, to ease the boredom.” He said as he plopped the bag of books in his lap and eased his tall frame into the butter soft leather chair opposite of Dimitri’s.

            He looked down at the bag of books and lifted them one by one. Surprised there was more than his original four choices. “Thank you.”

            “Gustav said you wanted to see me?” He inquired as he crossed his legs and made himself comfortable. He lightly scanned his thoughts and was pleased to notice that Dimitri was immersing himself in her scent coming from the books she had handled.

            “Um, yes. Did you see the young man I bumped into, he had rushed away before I could discern if he was unharmed.” He explained as the boys scent that lingered on Stavis’ clothes wrapped around his brain and made him instantly hard. The boy compelled him, that was only way he could describe what he was feeling. 

            Stavos smiled and made a show of yawning and stretching his long limbs before he replied. “Yes, as matter of fact I did. He helped me find the authors you are so fond of. His name is Caleb, cute kid.” He stretched again. “He seemed fine. Now if you are in for the night I am headed off to bed the house is on lockdown.” He stated before walking out of the room.

            Caleb, he thought as he held the book up to his sensitive nose and inhaled the scent of printed pages and the boy’s unique spice. He threw the book down and frowned. Human, his mate was human and a man. He never had to deal with this before. According to their customs, in order to mate with a human they have to make the conscious decision to become a vampire, abide by the rules and seal it by drinking his blood after being bitten three times by him. That means Caleb has to gain the knowledge about his kind, understanding that knowledge and willingly want to mate for life with him. It was almost tantamount to taking his life, his human life. Although he had seen it happen numerous of times, he did not know if he would knowingly care enough about him to choose his life. Humans never understood his kind, and it was even more difficult because he didn’t know if Caleb even liked men. He wasn’t so sure if he like men, but he was mentally and physically drawn to the boy. Damn, he was in trouble.

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

(Sexy Stavos––––––––>)

 

            Caleb skipped across campus, he was floating on air. He had passed all of his finals in the past two weeks and he just got his final grade before summer vacation. He had decided a while back that he was going to take this summer off and work to build up his meager savings before the fall semester begins. He had already picked up more hours at the bookstore because his part time hours on campus were cut down due to nothing going on over the summer vacation. He checked his watch and raced to his car. His shift at the bookstore starts in 20 minutes. As he merged with traffic he thought about Stavos and the man again. He has not seen either of them since that day a couple of weeks ago when the man bumped into him and Stavos had returned  for his books.

            Turning into the shopping center and parked his car and groaned. “Shit,” when he saw Hal leaning against his car. He was being  little less of a pest but he still bothered him. He got out of his car and reached for his  vest that was hanging on the back if his seat and put it on over his jeans and and t-shirt. Throwing his sathcel on his shoulder and locking up the car. He rushed  quickly past Hal, calling out a vague greeting and entered the store. He waved at the two Kelly’s and went to the employee area to put his bag in a locker and clocked in. 

            He was just opening the door, when Hal threw it open and pushed his smaller body back inside. He struggled to get out from Hal’s lecherous pawing.

            “Hey, you do not have to be like that.” Hal said as he tried to grab his junk.

            Caleb had reached his limit with the octopus and he reared back and slapped Hal just as Anne, the afternoon manager walked in. “What is going on here?” She demanded as she took in the scene before her.

            “I am tired of him not understanding that no means no.” Caleb declared. “If he does not stop I quit right now.”

            “Wait a minute. Tell me what is going on?” Anne said staring at the both of them.

            Hal sensing trouble blurted out. “He is a tease and was asking for it, then turns into a prude when I finally decided to ask him out after chasing me all over the store.”

            “That a lie!” Caleb shouted almost tempted to smack him again. 

            Anne looked from one to the other, seeing Caleb’s obvious distress and what she knew about the guy, he was a hard worker and kept to himself, nothing as to what Hal was describing. Furthermore, this was the third complaint against Hal, both man and woman. So she said. “Caleb you are checking the internet orders and reservations today and calling the customers for pickups and mailing. Hal stay here I would like a word with you.”

            Caleb nodded and walked to the door and left to do what he was told. After a few minutes he was sitting at the information desk logging into the order system when Hal stomped pass him threw him the finger and slammed out the front door. Anne came by a few minutes later and quietly told him she had to let  Hal go due to the fact that she had complaints before and not to take it personally then she moved on to greet and assist customers. He glanced at the two Kelly’s that knew exactly what was going on as they hi- fived each other. They hated Hall with a passion, they called him a leech.

            He quickly reviewed and updated the completed ordered, and then he printed out the list and went to the mailroom to check to see if the pending orders had arrived. There were a few but not many so he arranged them along with the order sheets and carried them back the desk. He pulled up each account and called an emailed each customer as to their listed preference. He was on the second to last name on the list. Dimitri Aleksandra. His preference was a phone call instead of email unlike a majority of online customers.

            He picked up the two books and noted the authors, just like the ones he had picked out for Stavos. He immediately berated herself with his inability to forget about the disturbing incident. He has got to stop thinking about him and his unsettling friend all the time. He picked up the phone and dialed the number on the computer screen, he got a generic answering machine so he left his name and a brief message that his books were ready and would he liked them mailed or will he be picking them up, then he quoted the store hours and hung up. He emailed that last customer and put the orders in holding area neatly labeled and went to the concession stand to get a coffee.

           

            Dimitri sat at his desk and checked the message yet again just to hear the sound of Caleb’s voice. He started ordering his books online because he was avoiding contact with the young man. He did not know if he was up to the task of revealing himself to him and getting rejected. He had never had to deal with this before, especially mate who was a human man. Vampire mates it was a mutual feeling of belongiong, never having to oursue the other. He was being a coward. He saved the message and thought about just emailing the store to have the books mailed. But, curiosity has been eating him alive for the past couple of weeks. He checked his Rolex on his wrist, the store closed in three hours. He would wait until the last moment to go and get them. With the decision made he went back to work.

            Caleb sat at the counter and helped restock the sugar holders while the Kelly’s rinsed and dried the beverage machines. It was 15 minutes to closing time on a Friday night. They were going to some party on South Beach and invited him but he declined. That required money he would rather save, he had already splurged a little on some clothing that he needed. He was placing the containers of sugar on the tables when the door buzzed to let them know someone entered the store. He looked up and nearly dropped the containers in his hand so he quickly placed them on the table. His heart rate picked up and his palms were instantly sweaty. 

            “My, my, my, look at the eye candy, I think I am going to faint.” Kelly number one stated.

            “You said nothing was going on and I almost believed you. Yes, I remember good looking there from the other night. Well go see what they want.” Kelly number two whispered to him practically shoving him from where he stood frozen with nerves and indecision.

            Neither of the girls knew that both men could hear everything they were saying as if they were in front of them speaking out loud.

            caleb wiped his sweaty hands on his jeans and licked his suddenly dry lips nervously as he walked over to the customer service counter. “Hi. How may I help you?”He manage to squeak out.

            Dimitri just stood there and stared at him for he could do nothing else. His brain had ceased to function. He ws happy his jacket was button becasue he had an instant hard on when he had watched Caleb’s little pink tongue swipe over his plump bottom lip. He could readily imagine drawing it between his teeth to nibble on it;s lushness. He was wearing her hair styled away from his face today showing off his glorious complexion, only God himself could have carved those cheekbones.The natural tint of his lips made his body tighten even more and he ached to lean over and taste those lips. He was still staring when he felt a hard elbow in his back. He didn’t dare to turn around to face Stavos, he was sure his man had caught all the lascivious thoughts that were running through his head, as well as scenting his arousal.

            He cleared his throat and finally responded. “I am Dimitri Aleksandra,  I got a call saying that my order was ready for me.”

            Caleb’s brain managed to function by the simple fact that he refused to make eye contact withthis Sex God, he loooked somewhere around the top button of his shirt. It was easier on his neck rather than having to crane it to get lost in those beautiful features. His fingers were itching to run through that thick head of charcoal hair, he wondered how it would feel, his breathing spiked and   he drew a shocked breath and managed to mumble something and went to the reserved rack to retrieve his order.(Oh Gosh.) While his back was turned to the two men, he mentally told himself over and over to get it together. He managed to calm his racing pulse by the time he went back to the desk and bagged the books for Mr. Aleksandra. By now it was closing time and the two Kelly’s came over with their bags on their shoulders.

            Stavos made their day by flashing a full mega watt smile at them. They stared open mouthed at him for as minute before returning his smile. Dimitri in the mean time was not able for the life of him to look away from Caleb. He watched him as he bagged the books with a faint tremor in his hands and he smiled inwardly extremely please at the thought that he was affected by his presence. He took the bag from her careful not to touch Caleb for he would be lost and unable to control himself for jumping over the desk and ravishing the young man, so he thanked Caleb politely before turning sharply on his heel and headed for the door.

            Caleb let out the breath that he was holding. He waved at the girls on to go about their evening that he would inform Anne that he was leaving too. He locked the front door and went back to the office to let Anne know that everything was secure and that he was leaving. Anne was on the phone but paused long enough to wish him a good weekend seeing that he was off for the two days.           

            He went the bathroom next and used it, then washed his hands and got his satchel. There were several stores still open including Mr. Wong’s Take-Out Restaurant. With his keys swinging in his hand he made his way to the car when he noticed it leaning oddly to the side. Rushing forward and around the car. His rear tire was flat. Damn, he thought as he threw the keys on the ground only to curse again and bent over the scoop them up. He didn’t  want to change the thing himself at this time of night and it would cost him at least thirty bucks to get home.

            He opened the car door and threw his bag inside followed by his vest. He opened the trunk and was lifting the liner that concealed the spare tire when he heard a voice behind him and he whirled around. 

            “I am sorry to startle you, but my name is Marcos and I noticed you had a flat and wanted to see if you need any help?” He asked him.

            There is a God and he created beautiful things he thought as he studied the man in front of him. He was gorgeous and looked to be sincere in offering to help him. So he graciously accepted his help and watched at he changed the tire in ten minutes flat and wished him good night declining the offer of payment. He happily got in the car and cranked the engine and was happily on his way totally oblivious to the car that has followed every night for weeks now with the gorgeous tire changer behind the wheel.

            Dimitri grimaced as he watched the entire exchange. He would have gladly rolled in grease in his Armani suit just to have the privilege of changing  Caleb’s tire and talking to him.

            “Why are you being so hard headed Dimitri? He is your mate. Claim him already so that we can have some peace from your brooding and foulness already.” Stavos stated when their car was in motion. 

            Dimitri looked taken aback for minute, He had been so wrapped up in his own thoughts he forgot that Stavos was wrapped up right along with him. “Mind your own damn business.” He curtly replied.

            “Then protect your mind space and stop belly aching already.” Stavos shot back.

            “What the hell do you know? You have never been in this situation.” He pointed out to his friend.

            “True, but it has been known to happen the crossing from human to Vampire. As well as homosexuality.” He explained quietly.

            “Yes, but never for me.” He sadly stated and went back to staring out the window hopefully cutting off the subject for now.

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

(The view at the beachside cafe———>)

 

            3 A.M. and Dimitri was still in a foul mood and decided to keep it to himself. He had sequestered himself in his room and told everyone to leave him alone unless he called them and asked for their assistance. He had also closed off this thoughts which he knew frustrated the hell out of Stavos, but at this point he did not care. His mind space needed privacy right now, while he pondered out the situation he now found himself in. Frustrated he threw the comforters off his half naked body and raised from the king size bed and stalked into his bathroom. Looking at himself in the mirror, he decided to at least make an attempt to see Caleb, to talk to him and get to know what he was like. He wanted to  gauge Caleb’s reactions to him and the things he shared with him. This had consumed him for weeks now and he was going to face it head on.

            With that decision made the flipped the switch to turn off the lights in the bathroom and he went to his private bar and pulled out a bottle of blood to sip on before he went back to bed.

           

            Stavos opened his car door and waved to the woman that had been his bit of diversion for the evening before he got in a closed the SUV door. Dimitri was pouting so he had decided to entertain himself for the evening. He understood why Dimitri was being cautious, but he has never seen him dither so long about makng a decision. He knew at some point, the fact that knowing his mate was out there was going to compel him to seek him out whether he liked it or not. He just hoped that he will have come to his senses before that occurred, because then the primal need to claim takes over , those actions will rule over common sense. 

            The drive did not take long as he passed through the intense security of Miami Beach’s infamous Star Island. He slowly cruised the streets to Dimitri’s mansion. Not a single conscious thought was heard in the neighborhood. He pulled into the drive and pressed the garage door opener on his visor and parked the Hummer in the carnivorous garage that housed a spectacular car collection. He entered the house through the double doors leading directly into the kitchen. He made sure the alarms were engaged before heading to his wing of the house.

            Caleb groaned and turned over and picked up his cell phone to see what time it was. It was just a little after seven so he rolled back over and prayed for just a little bit more sleep. After a few minutes if tossing and turning he gave up and got out of bed. As routine, he made the bed and folded it back into a sofa and meticulously placed the cushions and pillows back onto it. He reached his arms over his head and stretched away the final remnants of sleep from his lithe body. He  turned and entered the kitchen and was about to start the coffee machine when he decided against it. He headed for the bathroom instead to perform his morning routine.

             When that was finished he opened the blinds to his nonexistent patio and smiled at the beautiful morning outside. Throwing the prudence of doing laundry and minor house work aside and grabbed a backpack and in it he stuffed a clean towel, a novel and other minor things that he would need. He quickly shuffled out of pajamas and into his denim shorts and a t-shirt. He grabbed an extra towel just in case and headed for the door. He smiled as he reached the car and opened the door and thought about spending a lazy morning reading and people watching on the beach.

            The waitress led Dimitri to a table on the outside patio in the shade from the morning sun. He thanked her as she handed him the menu and walked away. Smiling to himself,  he thought  about the fact that it’s been a long time since he went anywhere by himself for no reason what so ever. Stavos was still comatose when he left the house and his resident love birds where still cooing at each other because no one was up and about. So he wrote a quick note and made a hasty retreat.  Although he rarely ate cooked food anymore he decided to have a simple breakfast of eggs and toast with coffee on the beach and let the sea air clear his mind.

            Having chosen this restaraunt with the breath taking view of the water and the beach below he placed his order he sat back and people watched. He scanned thoughts every now and again but not really fleshing out anything intriguing. The waitress smiled as she set his food in front of him and asked if he needed anything else. When he declined she left him alone to his meal. He gingerly tasted the eggs and they pleased him so he dug in. He was half way through his food when he saw Caleb making his way across the sand and up the pier to the restaurant. He immediately slipped his mind control over the hostess and instructed her to seat Caleb outside next to his table. She complied without question. He quickly shuffled his newspaper open and pretended not to notice when he was seated.

            Caleb had not planned on treating himself to breakfast but what the hell, he worked hard enough, he thought as he surveyed the pricey menu. This seemed like the perfect place to soak up ambiance of the beach and read in comfort of plush cushioned chairs and wide panoramic view of the crisp blue water. The waitress placed his coffee on the table in front of him and took his breakfast order. After she walked away Caleb prepared the coffee to his liking, then dug into his bag for his book. He took a sip and glanced to his left and straight into the intense hazel green gaze of the man at the other table; the cup froze midway to her lips.

                        

            “Hi.” Dimitri simply said and smiled at him.

            He mentally struggled to clear his shocked brain and nodded at him for he did not trust his voice. Carefully he placed the mug down and struggled to find something to say. “I guess I was not the only one with the idea to enjoy the weather today. Fancy meeting you here.” He said and almost face palmded himself at the cliche line he just uttered.

            Dimitri smiled and replied. “Great minds think alike I guess. Do you want share a table with me or would you prefer your own company?” The choice was Caleb’s always.

            Caleb fidgeted in his chair and decided why not, the guy was hot as  hell and he got up with his mug, backpack, and his book and made his way over to take the chair Dimtri graciously held out for him. Nice, he thought. “Thank you.” He said out loud.

            “You are very welcome, let me formerly introduce myself. My name is Dimitri Aleksandra.” He stated and held out his hand. He had to see if Caleb’s skin was as soft as it looked. 

 “Caleb Tanner.” He shyly replied, his coffee completely forgotten at this point.

 “Nice to meet you Caleb, if I may call you that, you are welcome to call me Dimitri.” He stated as he forced himself to let go of his hand. Caleb’s skin was heaven. He could spend all day just rubbing his fingertips all over his body. He smelled delicious as well, so much so that his mouth was watering and he had to force his incisors not to lengthen.

            Caleb did not have the faintest idea what to say next, so he improvised. “It is beautiful today and it seemed a shame to be indoors, so here I am playing hooky when I have things to do at home.”

            “Ah, I see, well I do not get a chance to play hooky as you say, so I took the opportunity when it presented itself….“ Dimtri replied leeting the statement finish for itself he was too busy struggling not to reach out to touch Caleb skin again. It didn’t help that he could hear Caleb’s heart fluttering away in his chest or that his scent was getting stronger as he became more aroused, but this pleased him immensely. Caleb was attracted to him, he fough the stupid grin of self satisfaction that wanted to break out across his face.

            “Why is that?” Caleb asked curious about this man. He was busy internally willing his heart to settle every time Dimtri flashed a smile, he felt his stomach somersault when those sexy lips parted to flash those white teeth ina full on smile. At this rate he wasn’t going to be able to eat and would waste his money on the food. But, damn he didn’t care because he was in the presence of this Sex God and breathing the same air. (Oh Sigh.)  

            “My companies keep me very busy. Being the boss means you are responsible for everyone and everything.” He calmly explained.

“Oh I see, but being the boss also means you can delegate.” Caleb pointed out.

            The waitress came back and looked her table a little confused then she spotted him at Dimitri’s table and smiled a little less brightly as she placed the food in front of him. Dimitri took the opportunity to order a carafe of coffee and a muffin to prolong the encounter seeing hehad finished his original breakfast. He did not want Caleb to feel awkward eating by himself.

            “I like to see things through myself to make sure that they are being done correctly.” He continued to explain when the waitress departed to fill his order.

            He nodded and looked down into his plate. (Hmm.. this man likes to be in control.) He thought as he took a chance and glanced back up at him and got caught in his gaze. Dimtri’s eyes were so deep he felt like he was falling into his heated gaze. He used the food to distract himself for a moment as he took a few bites. He tasted none of it of course in his nervousness.

            Dimitri let Caleb eat in silence and studied him through his lashes. He did not want to openly stare and make him uncomfortable buthe found himself ding so anyway. He was trying to think of way to getting Caleb’s phone number. MAybe he should just be bold and decided he would give his instead. He found himself envying Caleb’s fork for the ability it had to touch his  lips and tongue. He never guessed that watching a man eat could be an erotic experience, but then again feeding your partner is form foreplay if done correctly. He immediately stamped out that train of thought as he cock twitched in his pants liking the idea as well. He was having a difficult time as it was already.

            Caleb managed to do justice to his breakfast and he took a sip of the fresh coffee that was placed on the table. “So your work is very involved then?” He asked.

            “I have several companies that produced everything from computer parts to importing and exporting, so yes it is very involved at times. But enough about me, I am just a busy business man not extremely exciting, but tell me a little about you?” Dimtri inquired, his curiosity was definitely peaked.

            “Nothing exciting, I am a full time student working towards my degree in Social Work. I work part time at theschool and part time at the bookstore were we met. That is basically it.” Caleb explained with a shrug.

            Dimitri smiled and replied. “I am sure there more than that, why Social Work and no friends or girlfriends and such?” He was trying to flesh out Caleb’s sexual preference.

           “Well, it’s a long and complicated story as to why I chose to become a Social Worker, and yes I have a few friends but no boyfriends.” Caleb nervously answered. He saw no need really to lie about batting from the same team. He was concerned though about Dimitri’s reaction to it though.

      Dimitri waited until Caleb looked up at him and trapped him with his gaze. “I have more than enough time for a long complicated story. And as for the men around you they must be stupid. If it were me I would try my best to whisk you off your feet.”

            Caleb could have sworn his heart just stopped dead in his chest. He considered for a minute and came to the conclusion that Dimitri seemed generally interested in him. The mere thought surprised him, and he found himself telling him practically his whole difficult life story. When he was finished Dimitri was holding his hand in encouragement. Caleb wondered if Dimitri was cold because his hands were a little cold to touch, but he found it pleasant. He had never had someone as beautiful as this would look twice at him before and he was flattered. But his insecurities clicked on, and he gently withdrew his hand, wondering if he was just being nice to him since he was alone this morning.

            Dimitri sensed his withdrawal and not just his hand, so he decided to bolster Caleb’s confidence a little and said. “I think you have come a long way and you are doing a remarkable job. I commend you, sometimes children of the system remain in the system and never break the viscous cycle, but you seem to be making your own way. I would love dearly to formerly ask you to have dinner with me at your convenience, of course.” He stated always giving Caleb the choice to refuse if he so desired, although he wanted nothing more than for him to accept.

            Caleb was indecisive, his heart was telling him, yes. damn it, yes! But his brain was saying something else. “I am not sure.” He mumbled suddenly painfully shy again.

            “Please say yes. I am not some weirdo or anything. I find you very interesting to talk to and all I ask is dinner.” Dimitri pleaded with him.

            Caleb mulled it over for another minute and then he accepted they did not set a definitive date but he gave him his cell phone number.

            “You can reach me anytime day or night at that number.” Dimitri said as he pointed out his cell phone number he wrote on the back of his business card and handed it over to Caleb.

            Caleb smiled at him and pulled made some excuse to leave, he was too flustered. He began to pull out money when Dimitri waved the gesture away and said he hoped to talk to him real soon. Caleb thanked him for a pleasant morning and for breakfast and hoped he walked gracefully out of there, he refused to turn around to see if he was watching. Because he knew Dintri was, he could feel his eyes burning into his back.

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

 (The Roses Dimitri sent———>)

           Dimitri couldn’t hold a thought in his head to save his life. Several days has passed since  he had breakfast on the beach with Caleb and they exchanged numbers and Caleb still hasn’t called so far. Maybe Caleb felt that he was not seriously interested. Maybe he unconsciously realized that he was different? Stavos was having a field day laughing at him. He shook it off and tried to hide melancholy mood and swung back to his desk his office chair to the phone. Pressing the intercom, he instructed his secretary to locate Stavos and inform him of his desire to see him immediately. He uncurled his muscular tensed frame from his chair and stalked over to the drink cabinet across the room and opened it. He pressed his palm dead center against the mirror behind the alcohol and a secret panel opened to reveal and cooling compartment filled with bottled blood. He took out two bottles and closed both the panel and cabinet and went back to his desk to wait for his friend.

            It only took a few minutes before Stavos sauntered into his office and sat in the elegant chair facing Dimitri’s equally elegant desk. “You summoned,” he said as he settled himself in and accepted the bottle of blood. He took a moment to savor it deep swallow. Not as good as live warm blood but he had adjusted to the taste and temperature a long time ago.

            “Yes. If I know you, you have someone keeping an eye on Caleb. Is he working today?”  Dimitri asked his friend before taking his own mouthful cold blood.

            “I assigned Marco to watch but not to interact.” He stated not even hiding that fact. Stavos hid his smile though behind the mouth of the bottle and he took another sip. “Yes, he is working today.” He said after lowering the bottle.

            Dimitri felt like sticking out his tongue in a childish manner at his friend’s smug face, but swiveled around to his computer instead. With deft movements his hands flew over the keys and when he was finished he turned back to Stavos.

            “I am so thrilled you find this so amusing.” Dimitri said as he threw the now empty bottle into the garbage by his desk.

            Stavos looked into his friend’s mutinous eyes and sighed. “I do find it funny because you are usually so on track, and seeing this little human man bring you to your knees is funny, but I do not think what you are feeling is funny. I feel that you should just take a chance and not think it over to death. And quit with the what ifs.” Stavos said and rose from the chair. He walked over and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder before leaving the office.

            Dimitri stared at nothing in particular as he contemplated what Stavos. He sighed and went back to work.

            Caleb was busy helping someone when one of the Kelly’s was trying in vain to catch her eye by waving frantically behind the customer. He quickly aided the elderly woman with what she needed and made his way to the food counter. “What is it?” Caleb warily asked her.

            “You need to go back to the lounge and see what was just delivered for you. You are so going to spill whatever it is that is going on.” Kelly number one warned him.

            Curious, Caleb turned and checked with Anne before headed back towards the lounge. He pushed the door opened and the first thing he noticed was the very floral scent permeating the room. He turned his head and looked at the table and saw the most spectacular arrangement of flowers in a beautiful glass vase so big he could wrap both arms around it. Stupefied he walked over and searched for a card. Finding the card among the full blooms of multicolored roses was no easy feat, when he finally found it he read his name on the envelope and opened it with trembling fingers. It simply read, “ Are you going to continue to starve me? Dimitri.”  He recalled the conversation about having dinner and he melted right there on the spot.

 

           

Caleb could feel the moisture gathering in his eyes. Never in his life had he received flowers from anyone for any reason and he buried his face in this grand arrangement of roses and inhaled. He blinked his eyes dry and stroked a silky petal before he turned and opened the locker containing his satchel. He dug through it and found the card pressed into an inside pocket.  Flipping it over and pulled out his cell phone. He quickly dialed the number before he chickened out and listened to the line connect and ring, on one hand he prayed for him to answer and on the other hand he didn’t.

            “Hello.” The voice on the other line answered and the sheer sexiness of the timber of his voice slid over the line and through his entire body making him feel like he was going to melt into a warm little puddle right where he stood.

            “Hi, it’s Caleb. Um, I received the flowers and I wanted to say thank you. They are gorgeous.” He shyly stated using the card to fan himself nervously.

            “They pale in comparison to you, but you are welcome.” Dimitri purred infusing his voice with a hint of sexiness.

           Caleb sat down abruptly on the floor because his knees gave out. He was sure he was going to faint dead away. He began fanning himself even more frantically at this point. He had no idea as to what to say, his brain had short circuited.

            Dimitri was wary of the sudden silence on the other end so he continued by asking. “So are you going to answer the question on the card?” He said hoping he did not come on too strong for Caleb a moment ago. He had yet to say anything else.

            Caleb swallowed and willed to have a coherent thought. “No, I am not going to continue to starve you. To be honest I was not sure if I should accept the offer. You fluster me.” He quietly admitted.

            “Ah, my sweet, I hope I do that in a good way. I do not want to upset you in any way.” Dimitri replied.

            “It is in a good way, if you mean that I am not turned off or scared of you, it’s just I feel out of my league.” Caleb explained and picked himself up off the floor hearing footsteps coming towards the lounge door. It opened and Kelly number two came in and eyed him on the phone and smiled smugly before entering the restroom and closing the door.

            Dimtri did not like that Caleb felt this way. It irritated him for Caleb to think he was not good enough for him. “You are an intelligent and beautiful man. One that could hold his own on any topic and you have proved to have more strength of character surviving your back ground. There is no line or status here to measure up to. I sincerely desire your company, so please have dinner with me, if that is unpleasant we can just have coffee. I just want the pleasure of your company, just for a little while.” He pleaded unmercifully throwing all the compulsion he had into his voice. He was desperate to see him.

            Caleb had no defenses left against him. “Yes, I will have dinner with you. I am at work and this number is my cell phone, call me after nine tonight and we can arrange something.”

            “Anything you wish. Don’t work too hard.”Dimitri said triumphantly before he disconnected the line with satisfied smile. His day suddenly looked brighter. 

            Caleb powered off his phone and placed it back in his bag and placed it back into his locker. He closed his eyes and gathered his thoughts for a minute, and then he pulled himself together and wondered what was taking  Kelly so long in the bathroom, then it dawned in him that she was trying to listen to what he had been saying on the phone. With a mischievous smile he quietly tip toed to the door and carefully existed the employee area. He went back out and tried to focus on restocking the shelves. When he made his fifth mistake, he gave up. After Dimitri short circuited his brain it looked like he was not going to recover any time soon. He regrouped and managed to get through the rest of his shift, he found himself almost chomping at the bit for his shift to end already. He did manage to avoid the two Kelly’s. He had outwit them which grated on his already over loaded nerves. They finally left ten minutes ago.

            With his arms wrapped securely around the vase of flowers, he gingerly made his way to hiscar. He managed to open the car door and he gently placed the bouquet on the passenger seat. He closed the door and started the car and gently made his way home trying his best not to dislodge it.  He made it home without incident and carried everything into his tiny space. The entire arrangement made his miniscule counter look even smaller but he didn’t care. He was just so euphoric and touched that Dimitri went to the effort for him. Thinking about him, he checked his watch it was almost nine now so he made sure his phone was on and he took it and the charger into the bathroom for a quick shower. He was dressed in his simple yellow spongebob cotton pajama pants and white t-shirt and was flipping through TV stations on the couch when the phone finally rang.  He winced as he banged a finger on the side table in his hurry to pick it up. He checked the caller ID and it was Dimitri. He waited another heartbeat before answering. “Hello.” He said and hoped he sounded normal and not breathless like he felt.

            “I waited the obligatory ten minutes after the time you requested to call, although it nearly killed me.” Dimtri stated instead of returning his greeting.

            Caleb smiled and his stomach now did the expected flip flop when he heard Dimitri’s delicious voice. He should record it and sell it on the internet. The deep sexy timbre would make him millions he thought before he said. “You say things like that on purpose to mess with my head right?”

            “It depends if it is the good kind of messing with.” Dimtri replied as he stretched out onto his back across the cool silk sheets of his bed.His hand finding his engorged cock and gently stroked it. He had once again banned everyone from his entire wing of the house and he did something he had never done before, he wielded a privacy protection around his room, living with Vampires sometimes mean absolutely no privacy and he did not want to be subjected to more than he had to just yet. He also wanted to keep Stavos nose out of it, he was too righteous as it is already.

            “Right now I would say on a good way. So when and where do you want to have dinner?” Caleb asked going directly to the point so he could have a strategy plan and a budget for a outfit if necessary.

            “Ah, little one, straight to business I see. How would you feel about dining with me at my home? Or would you prefer a more public restaurant setting?” Dimtri asked, hoping he would choose his house. He wanted Caleb to himself.

            Caleb weighed the options Dimitri presented, and he felt for a first date with someone he barely knew it would be prudent to have dinner in a restaurant, but having dinner at his home would give him more insight about the man in his domain. So he decided on a compromise. “Okay, say I meet you at your house we can coffee there or something then we can go to dinner.”

            “If that is your wish I will gladly agree.” Dimitri replied and gave him his address. “Will you know how to find it, or better yet give me your address and I will send a car for you.”

            Caleb debated over the offer and thought why not. The address seemed to be a in a well to do place and his little Honda would look really out of place. “Alright.” He complied and gave him his address. They settled on a time for the next evening and chatted for a little more, when he finally ended the call his cell phone was chirping at him to be placed on charge, he frowned and checked the time on the fading display and was shocked to realized that he had spent over three hours with  Dimitri on the phone sharing their day and mutual likes and dislikes and the such. He smiled and plugged his phone into charger and pulled out his bed to try to go to sleep.

            Dimitri rolled over. His body was on fire. Caleb’s voice was like music and it entranced him. For the last couple of hours he let it flow over and into him and he quivered and was almost embarrassed in the state of which the desire to mate was riding him. He flipped himself over. His incisors were sharpened and ready and when he opened his eyes they were glowing a brilliant red. He released the protection from his areas of the house and touched his mind to Stavos, he needed to shut down his system in effort to control the need riding him and he wanted Stavos aware of it.

            Sensing Dimitri’s urgency Stavos materialized out of thin air, it was quicker than taking the stairs. He thought for moment that he was injured he was lying so still under the sheets with his arm over his face. He tried to probe Dimitri’s mind but his shield was up. So he walked over to the bed. “What is wrong my friend, I feel your distress but not the cause.” He tried visually to see if there was anything wrong.

 Dimtri sighed as he felt his organs shutting down one by one, “I am going into True Sleep for the night, no one disturb my rest.” He muttered before the last breath left his body and his heart halted in his chest.

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

(Picture of the inimate dinner Dimitri planned———>)

 

            “ He just told me he was shutting himself down. He refused to look at me and he was shaking from head to toe, he denied being injured and his fangs had lengthened. Then he said not to disturb him until morning and to protect as usual.”  Stavos did not hide his confusion over the previous night’s conversation with Dimtri as he explained the situation to Gustav in the kitchen. Irina was busy making something that smelled really good. “I mean we only do that when we are severely injured.” He continued, trying to understand what happened to cause Dimitri to literally die for at eight to twelve hours.

            Gustav exchanged a knowing glance with his wife then turned his attention back to Stavos. “I know we only shut off so to speak when we are injured, but we also do it to curtail extremely strong emotions or desires as well. You were so distressed when you woke me up last night you did not calmly try to look at the situation from all angles. Since Dimitri blocked all of us out, he obviously wanted privacy to do something he didn’t want to share.”

            Gustav smiled up at his wife as she placed thick slices of French toast on a plate in front of him and continued. “I saw his cell phone next to him on the bed and checked to see if he was talking to someone, and he was. He was talking to Caleb for the better part of three hours. I think that Dimitri’s desire for his mate got the better part of him last night.”

            Irina set a steaming plate in front of Stavos and added. “Don’t even say what you are about to say. When you have mate, easing the desire with any other than your mate does not work.” She patted in him the shoulder and went to clean up the cook top.

            Stavos just shook his head and dug into his breakfast. If being in an emotional strop so intense you had to die to turn off the intensity, he was glad he did not have a mate.

            Caleb sat in the laundry room of his apartment building and waited for the last load to dry. He yawned again. He wanted to get his chores out of the way to go and pick out an outfit for tonight and hopefully come back to catch a few hours of sleep. He was tired after a restless night. He kept picturing Dimitri’s face and kept hearing his voice gliding over his body like a silky caress. He felt all hot and his body was so hard it tingled. He tried to cope with feelings that were so new and alien to him. He yawned again and stretched just as the dryer buzzed and he got up to retrieve his clothes. He had rummaged through her wardrobe and found nothing that appealed to him. He filled the basket to take the clothes back to his apartment to put them away.

            Dimitri sat in the side if his bed and ran the palm of his hand across his face, feeling the stubble of hair across his cheek.  He got up and padded across the ankle deep carpet to his en suite bathroom to wash his face. He decided to shave while he was at it. He didn’t have any pressing issues or appointments this morning at the office and to tell the truth he did not feel like going in. He purposely blocked any thoughts of Caleb from his mind this morning as much as he could. He did not need to inflict the previous evenings stress on his system.

            He was pulling a polo shirt over his head when he heard Gustav enter the room and greeted him.

            “Good morning.” He managed and accepted the bottle of blood from him; he walked over to the chair and sat down heavily.

            “You need to sleep a little longer to shake it off.” Gustave said as he critically eyed him over. 

            Dimitri smiled and replied.  “I will be fine in a minute.” He went on to inform Gustav of his plans for the evening and asked to have everything ready in accordance to his wishes.

            Gustav contemplated for a minute then he decided to have say, just say his piece and be done with it. He took a deep breath and said. “You are torturing yourself. Just reveal yourself to Caleb and see how he deals with it, then go on from there. I understand the need for caution but the longer you wait the more painful the need is going to become. Woo him and make him want you as madly as you want him. Peirce his heart and make him fall in love my friend. True love can withstand anything. Trust me.” With that said Gustav turned and finished putting the room and bed back to its usual immaculate state and left.

            Dimitri finished his blood and placed the bottle in the garbage can and then descended the stairs and headed for his home office. He picked up the phone and called Marcos to check on Caleb and then he sat down at his desk and stared off into space thinking about what his long time friend had told him upstairs. He decided to take the advice and romance him. Caleb needed a little pampering and attention. He picked up the house phone and dialed Irina. When she answered he greeted her and fired off a set of instructions that had her smiling and shaking her head. When he was finished he got back up and made his way back to his bed. He needed to be fully rested and in control because he was going to rage a war for his mate’s heart tonight. He hoped he would survive it, he thought.

            Irina found Stavos as he made his rounds over the grounds of the mansion checking over the security wiring with another of his security personnel.

            “I need a word with you.” She said as she came to graceful stop at his side.

            Stavos nodded at her and dismissed his man then gave her his full attention. A smile spread across his face and got wider and wider when she told him his instructions for the evening. By the time she had finished and sauntered off back to the house, he was congratulating Dimitri for in inventiveness. He made his way to the security station and informed his staff of the deliveries that were scheduled to arrive during the day and to be alert, and then proceeded to finish his rounds.

            Caleb twisted this way and that then took a few tentative steps across his living room. He finally broke out into a gleeful smile as he took in his reflection in the full length mirror on the wall. He had found the perfect outfit. He found a nice pair of black dress pants, he had added a nice black button dress shirt, with a satin like emerald green vest. He had pulled the outfit together with a nice pair of black dress shoes and a black broad belt. He looked put together.

            He made sure that he paid extra attention to his body as he scrubbed every inch of his smooth body. The only hair he seemed to have was on his head and on his privates, of which he manscaped into submission. Not that he was planning for Dimitri woulld being seeing anything down there oif he could help it. They barely knew each other.

            He applied the final spritz of his favorite cologne and pronounced herself finished. Dimitri had called a half hour ago and informed him that his driver was on the way and Stavos, the head of his security would be accompanying him to his home. Smoothing his palms over his slacks, he walked back into his living area to check his reflection in the mirror. He first took in his entire outfit from a frontal then he turned around and twisted to take in the back and smiled. He didn’t want to look like the poor little orphan standing next to Dimitri. He might not be wearing Armani, but he felt he looked nice.

            He was checking the contents of his wallet when he heard the knock at  the front door. He ran his fingers through the length of his hair which he had trimmed while he was at the mall. It was neater and although the front was longer you still had a perfect veiw of his eyes and his creamy complexion.

            The door opened and Stavos had to school his features when he caught sight and smell of him. Dimitri was going to be brought to his knees when he caught sight of Caleb. “You look ravishing, my dear.” He stated as he gave a courtly bow.

            Caleb beamed at him in pleasure. He made a striking figure himself in what he was sure a custom made lightweight evening suit that rested superbly on this muscular frame. “Thank you,“ Caleb replied and turned around to lock his door. He looked over his shoulder at Stavos’ amused expression. Caleb was sure he had heard him chuckle. “Do I have something out of place?” He asked with a worried frown.

            Stavos placed a gentlemanly hand under his elbow and escorted out of the building. “No, it amuses me to know that you are going to knock my friend on his ass when he sees you. That’s all.” He explained as he led Caleb outside to a gleaming black limousine that was attracting the attention of his neighbors.

            Caleb gasped at the sight, and then the chauffer opened the door for him with a flourish and a welcoming smile. He was gently handed into the interior of the vehicle by Stavos. He quietly closed the door and walked to the front of the car and got into the passenger side next to the driver. Caleb looked around the luxurious interior and spied a single red rose on the opposite seat. As the huge car glided smoothly away from the curb he leaned forward and picked up the flower and the note attached to it.

            Stavos told him it would take about twenty to thirty minutes to reach the house and to help himself to anything the stocked bar had to offer, then he raised the privacy shield effectively cocooning him  in scrumptious silence. He felt like this was some kind of a fairy tale. he looked down at the note in his hand and opened it. It simply read, 

“Thank you for granting me the pleasure of your company, I am anxiously awaiting your arrival. D.”

  He smiled and brought the fragrant flower to his nose and gently inhaled its perfumed scent. He sat back and made himself comfortable and gazed out the pristine window to enjoy the ride.

            Stavos was scanning Caleb’s thoughts and he was pleased and amused at the same time. Dimitri seemed to have started on the right track in wooing his mate, judging from his enjoyment of the flower and note. He thought his friend was getting down right poetic in his advanced existence. He almost guffawed out loud. This evening was going to test the limits at restraint in not teasing the other man.

From all the flowers and linen and such he saw being delivered to the house today, he doubted that they would make it out of the house to dinner. He was sure that was what Dimitri’s intended. He wanted to enjoy his mate’s company and not share him with a dinner crowd in some posh restaurant. He couldn’t wait to get back to the house. Gustav had the placed cleaned to a spotless shine, and Irina had outdone herself on the floral arrangements and the food. She even had the back patio transformed into an intimate candle lit area for two, complete with crystal flutes and china, and lots of candles.

            Caleb watched as they entered the Palm tree lined pristine entrance of Star Island. He was beginning to feel a little nervous, he knew Dimitri was well off, but to live here means you created your own tax bracket literally. His insecurities were beginning to rear their nasty little heads. He fidgeted in his seat just as the privacy glass slid down and Stavos gave him an encouraging smile. Caleb smiled back at him tentatively and nodded his head when Stavos informed him that was just a few more minutes until they were at the house. He babbled on about the history of Dimitri’s house and effectively kept Caleb occupied from his fears for the moment.

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

(Dimitri’s Driveway———>)

 

            The car entered the long drive and glided around the manicured lawns coming to a graceful stop at the lighted walkway leading the front of the exquisite mansion. Stavos alighted from the car and opened the door for Caleb holding out his hand to help him from the car. Caleb couldn’t help himself as he turned his head this way and that taking in the beauty of the lush landscaping. The air was fragrant from the several different blooms of flowers dotting the front of the house. With Stavos hand on his elbow guiding him to the front door that was silently opened just as he placed his foot on the top step, he saw another handsome gentleman.(Damn it must be in the water around here for all these men to be Sex Gods.)

            “Good evening Mr.Tanner. I am Gustav. It is my pleasure to welcome you here, please come in and make yourself at home.” The impeccably dressed man stated as he bowed to him. Gustav exchanged an amused glance with Stavos as he passed him and entered the luxurious foyer.

            “Thank you.” Caleb managed to answer as he took in the spectacular beauty of the house. The marble floor were polished to perfection. It reflected the brilliant shine from a huge crystal chandelier mounted high into the cathedral ceiling. Beyond it was a lovely circular staircase that seemed to twist in on and on upwards to the second landing of the house. To the left and right of it, there where arched doors that led to other rooms she was sure. Caleb was led by both men to the right doorway that held double paneled mahogany doors. Gustav opened the door and led him to a posh sitting room. Caleb was sure the furniture and artwork cost more than he would ever hope to make in this lifetime. He gasped he took in the room. It was gently lit, and although it was Florida it held a massive fireplace. The mantle had the beautiful arrangement of orchids scattered across it.

            “Please make yourself comfortable, would like coffee, tea, or something stronger?” Gustav asked as Stavos led him to one of the plush winged armchairs by the fireplace. He was desposited gently into as if he was royalty and Caleb blushed at the tender treatement. This was all new to him, being treated as if he mattered. 

            “May I have iced tea please?” Caleb managed to reply as he sat back in the chair that felt like he was perched on a cloud of feathers.

            “Absolutely.” Gustav said as he walked over to a gleaming bar in the far corner of the room.

            “I leave you in Gustav’s capable hands. I will see you later.” Stavos excused himself with a smile. Caleb couldn’t help but watch as six plus of sheer massive muscle gracefully glide out of the room. “Damn the house, he had enpugh eye candy to overshadow in the splendor of this building.” He thought, then he snapped his head in Gustav’s direction, but the man was stusiously mixing his drink, but he could have sworn he heard him chuckle. 

            Caleb smiled  and accepted the chilled tea from. He sipped it and pronounced it perfect to the beaming man.

            “Dimitri will be down in a moment. I am going to check on the hor’dourves. If you need anything pick up that black phone over there and press number two, you will reach me.” He instructed Caleb before bowing out of the room.

            Caleb took another sip of the tea and looked about him. He loved the paintings in this room. They were whimsical and made you feel good. He got up and placed the tea on the low table on the coaster Gustav had provided. He looked too handsome to be a butler he thought as he wondered around the room stopping to study a portrait here and there. He was looking at the detail of one of the paintings, so engrossed he didn’t hear Dimitri enter the room.

            If he could die, Dimitri knew he would surely be laying on the floor with either Stavos or Gustav over him trying to pump his heart back to life. Caleb was standing with his back to him and the sight of him with all that glorious hair shining under the strategic lighting to display the artwork in the room. He looked like the most exquiste piece of work he has ever had the fortune to lay his eyes on. He quietly inhaled through his nose hoping to bring function back to his brain and cleared his throat to announce his presence.

            Caleb turned around at the sound of the door closing and he felt the bottom of his stomach turn over when he saw Dimtri. He was wearing a lazy smile and as he started walking towards him, he felt like he was transfixed and he couldn’t look away from the gorgeous man if his life depended on it. “Hi.” Caleb squeaked as he felt Dimtri’s sinful lips brush across his cheek greeting. Dimitri’s large  hands rested on his waist.

            “You honor me by bringing your beauty into my home.” Dimitri whispered  as he guided Caleb to the sofa and pulled him down to sit next to him.

            “You have a beautiful  home Dimitri, and thank you for inviting me.” Caleb shyly replied and fought the urge to fidget. Dimtri scattered his brains whenever he was near him. He had to concentrate or he would be lost. Caleb smiled shyly and nodded when he answered his questions about the drive to  the house and if he was comfortable. Dimitri took on him on a tour of the house and he was awed by the simple beauty and arrangement of the priceless antiques around the house.

            Dimtri finally led unto what looked like a terrace and his mouth literally dropped when he stepped out under what looked like a thousand sparkling lights dangling from the pristine white canvas of the tent filled from end to end with spectacular arrangements of white roses and in the center was white linen covered table for two, complete with dazzling crystals and china ware. He turned and faced him. “Wow, this is absolutely beautiful.” He whispered as he spied the hanging chandelier and the dozens of pristine white candles burning. Their flames flickering. It was a wonder how they stayed lit with the gentle breeze coming off the water.

            “I was hoping to dine here instead of going out, if that is okay. I find that a don’t want to share your company. But, if you want to go out we will.” Dimtri  purred as he gently took one of Caleb delicate little hands into his own. He wanted to feel his skin, he looked so soft and tempting, and he was raging a war of control with his body internally. Externally he was perfectly serene.

            Caleb felt himself drifting closer to him like Dimitri was emanating some kind of magnetic force towards him. He caught himself before he did something stupid like wrap himself around Dimitri’s tall, sexy frame. He looked around again instead and said. “I think any restaurant we would choose would pale in comparison to this so, yes, we can dine here.” He managed to reply as tiny tingles shot over his nerves endings where Dimitri was leisurely touching his skin.

            “Perfect, let me inform Gustav.” Dimitri said as he seated Caleb at the table and raised his hand to his lips and brushed a kiss across the smaller mans knuckles. He turned and departed back inside through the open patio doors.

            Caleb brought the same hand and rested it against his fluttering heart. It was still burning from the contact with Dimtri’s  incredibly soft and sexy lips. It took all he had to keep his wits about him. He looked around the splendor of the shimmering patio and sighed. Caleb was contemplating if his decision was wise to dine in such an intimate setting with Dimitri, maybe he should have chosen someplace public. He wouldn’t have to worry so much about jumping the man. He was just about to get up to go and find him when a strikingly beautiful woman came out and greeted him carrying a tray of sumptuous looking appetizers that made his stomach remind him that he hasn’t eaten anything except a yogurt this morning.

            “Hello, my name is Irina, I am Gustav’s wife. It is so nice to meet you.” The woman said as she laid the tray on the table and straightened back  to face Caleb.

            “Nice to meet you too. Those look wonderful.” Caleb replied thinking that this household hit the lotto on looks and charm.

            “Please help yourself, did you need something. You looked like you where getting up to look for Dimitri or Gustav a moment ago.” Irina stated scanning his thoughts in the process. “The poor thing doubts his strength in resisting attraction to Dimitri. Hopefully he will realize that if she did not resist it would be easier for them both.” Irina deduced from the mixd emotions rolling through the young man’s mind.

            “I was going to look for Dimitri to say that we should go out to eat instead.” Caleb shyly admitted feeling sheepish knowing these people have been nothing but nice so far.  

            “Why, is something wrong?” Irina asked knowing full well that Caleb thought in a public setting he would fare better in dealing with the strong attraction he held for  Dimitri .

            “No, no. everything is beautiful, perfect, in fact. It’s just that….” Caleb let the sentence trailed off lamely. Most women or men would probably die to trade places with him atthe moment. Dimitri brought out such feelings in him that were so new that he didn’t know how to best deal with them, and every time he moved his perfectly plump pink lips whether to smile of say something all he could think of was how would they feel under his own. How would they taste. He immediately caught himself and shied away from that line of thinking.

           Irina his her smirk of satisfaction. “There is no need to fear him, my dear.  Dimitri would never be anything other than a gentleman. Whatever your wish, he would bend over backwards to fulfill it. So enjoy your dinner. Eat and make yourself at home. I am going to see about the rest of the food. Ah, here is Dimitri now.” She said as Caleb turned and watched him walk back onto the patio.

            Caleb’s mouth went dry at the mere sight of him. “How was he going to manage to eat?” He thought. Caleb smiled at Dimitri for there was nothing else he could do. 

            “Ah, you have met the woman that runs this house with an iron fist.” Dimitri said as he threw an arm around Irina and kissed her cheek.

            “It must be quite a job with a home this size.” Caleb replied.

            “It’s not the house love, it’s the occupants, please visit often so that I am not overrun by the male testosterone levels going caveman around the house.”  She laughed with her eyes sparkling. She patted Dimitri on the arm and excused herself to see about the remainder of their meal.

            “Please sit and let’s choose some of the wonderful things here.” Dimtri said as he held the back of Caleb’s chair for young man as he did what he asked. Dimitri sat down next to him and studied the hor’dourves and selected one and brought it to his delicate mouth. He could feel his body tighten a Caleb parted his lips and took a bite of miniature quiche Dimitri had selected for him. Damn, this night is going to be torture for him, but he will happily die rather than not have Caleb’s company.

            Caleb decided that two could play this sencious game. If this Sex God was going to wreak havoc on his nerves he was going to reciprocate. So he chose one of the succulent slices of fresh melon and held it up to Dimitri’s luscious lips. When the older man took a bite, his lips lightly brushed his fingers and he felt the electric tingle of his sheer to his toes. They continued this sensual foreplay until with a juicy strawberry some of the juice ran down his hand to his wrist. Caleb inhaled sharply when Dimitri took his wrist and ran his tongue along the sensitive skin following the juice trail. Caleb’s breath quickened and his eyes dialted with his arousal.

            Dimitri watched him as his eyes dilated as he continued to lick the juice from Caleb’s hand. He could feel Caleb’s pulse throbbing wildly away and the rush of his blood through the thin membrane of his skin. Dimitri stopped and sat back abruptly when Gustav stepped onto the patio carrying a tray with the first course of cold cucumber soup, and thanked him for his timing. His body was fairly throbbing with anticipation. He need this moment to cool down.

             Gustav smiled and cleared away the appetizers and laid out their soup. He spread a napkin in Caleb’s lap and then another in Dimitri’s. He was careful to keep his gaze from him to hide his amusement. When he was sure there was nothing else needed, he excused himself and went back into the house carrying the used items to the kitchen.

            “He looked as if her was going to eat Caleb alive.” Stavos said as he and Irina huddled by the kitchen window shamelessly watching the show on the patio.

            “Yes, I would say so. Caleb blushes so prettily. Dishwashing for a month if Dimitri resists biting him at some point tonight.” Stavos said as he turned from the window to face Gustav. 

            “You are on buddy. Dimitri had excellent control of himself.” Gustav said with pure faith in his friend.

            “Yeah, we’ll see. Dimitri had to literally die the other day to settle his urges and they were just talking on the phone.” Stavos explained as he crossed his arms across his massive chest.

            “No matter.” Gustav said as he placed the empty tray and utensils in the dishwasher.

            “I wouldn’t be so confident my love. If it heats up any more out there those roses are going to wilt.” Irina said still glued to the window. Both Stavos and Gustav joined her and smiled at the romantic scene before them.

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

 

            Caleb watched Dimitri as he poured their after dinner coffee into delicate china cups laid out in the same room they started in before dinner. He had to admit that he was more than impressed. Caleb thought that they would not have anything in common at all and in actuality Dimtri liked a lot of the same things he did right down to his choices in music and literature. Caleb had spent all his spare time as a child reading anything he could have gotten his hands on to take him away from the harsh reality that was his life. He had forgotten to be shy or wary. He smiled to himself thinking about how down to earth Dimitri was despite the fact he was richer than Midas. He accepted the coffee with a smile.

            “I hope it’s not too strong. I kind of like it that way but not everyone does.” Dimitri said as he took a seat next to him on the sofa.

            After taking a sip Caleb replied. “It’s fine. I want to thank you for this evening. I was very nice. I felt like I am in a fairytale.”

            “If you give me the chance, I would very much like to be your knight in shining armour.” Dimtri said as he took one of his hands into his own much larger ones.

            Caleb looked up at him and saw that he was staring at his mouth. He involuntarily licked his lips and looked away.

            Dimitri put a finger under Caleb’s chain and turned him back to face him. He captured the younger man’s eyes and kept his gaze on him as he leaned forward and did what he had been dreaming to do all night. He gently brushed his lips back and forth across Caleb’s, savoring the feel of the softness of his plump sweet lips. Using a little pressure he pressed his lips further against Caleb’s and ran the tip of his tongue along the seam of his closed lips. Caleb opened for him and he gently entered the delicious cavern, and he mentally groaned. Caleb tasted like coffee and sin.  Dimitri’s hands spanned his tiny waist and brought Caleb up against his hard body as he plundered his mouth.

            Caleb’s head was spinning, Dimitri’s kiss was taking his senses to places that he had never experienced before, but he loved it, he loved the feel of his hands on him. He brought his hands to the back of Dimitri’s neck and fisted them in his thick mane of hair. He felt a low moan rise from the back of his throat. He couldn’t get enough of him.  Caleb felt the breath whoosh out of his lungs as  his back made contact with the soft material of the cushions of the couch. He found himself lying on his back with Dimitri above him. Dimitri’s legs were partially open with one of his strong thighs in between his, he was clutching his jacket and his face was diverted from his. They were both breathing hard.

           “I am sorry, give me a minute and I will let you up.” Dimitri stated. He was struggling to reign in his incisors. He did not want to scare Caleb away forever and coming in contact with his true nature would do that for sure.

            Caleb managed to get his heart rate under control and he didn’t dare move a muscle. Dimitri was trembling and tension radiated from head to toe. He wondered what was wrong. He reached for Dimitri’s face and was startled when he said. “No” and flew out of his embrace so fast his eyes could barely register the movement. Caleb gasped and sat up with his hand at his throat. He did not understand how someone could move so fast. “How did you do that?” Caleb asked as he got up and attempted to cross the room to Dimitri.

            “Please stay where you are. Excuse me a moment.” Dimitri said and left the room without a backward glance.

            Confused, Caleb went back and sat down on the sofa. His mind was numb and he wanted to go home. All of a sudden he was too tired to even begin to try to figure this out. Maybe Dimitri was turned off that he reacted like he did after barely knowing him, but that did not explain his speed in getting across the room just now, it was unnatural. Caleb looked around and saw the black phone on a low table, he walked over to it and picked it up and pressed the number two as Gustav had instructed and he immediately answered.

            “Umm…this is Caleb. I don’t know but I think something is wrong with Dimitri, he is upset or something and I would very much like to go home now.”

            “Of course Mr. Tanner, Stavos will be right there.” Gustav replied as he took the back stairs in order to reach Dimitri’s suite. He found him in the darkened room with his head in his hands. He made sure that the line was disconnected before walking over and rested a soothing hand on his friend’s shoulder.

            “I was an inch away from biting him. Please give him my apology, tell him I am ill or something and take him home.” Dimitri instructed, and then he got up from the chair and walked to the bathroom and closed the door quietly behind himself.

            Gustav shook his head deeply troubled by Dimtri’s pain. He picked up the phone and dialed Stavos’ extension and instructed him to see Mr. Tanner safely home, then he went back to help Irina finish up for the evening. 

            Stavos took his time in getting to the sitting room. He gently knocked on the door before entering the room. He saw Caleb sitting on the edge of the sofa with large wounded eyes.

            He questioned what he was about to do and thought that is was going to be in their best interests not to leave it like this. With Caleb feeling like he did something wrong and Dimtri beating himself up. So he took a deep breath and said. “Dimitri is not feeling well and wanted me to take you home, but I feel that you should wait a little and talk to him.”

            Caleb got up and made sure he had everything before he replied. “I would just like to go home. Dimitri knows where to find me when he wants to talk.” He walked forward and made his way past Stavos to the front door and opened it. He saw that the car was there and as he stepped forward he felt Stavos behind him. Stavos quietly escorted him to the car and handed him inside. He closed the door and got in up front again and the big car pulled smoothly forward and soon she was on his way home. The ride home felt completely different to him than the ride earlier this evening. He bent his head to study his trembling hands and wondered if he would hear from Dimitri again. 

            Dimitri sat on the huge bed and rested his head on one of the solid four pillars with his eyes closed. He totally ruined the evening, he just knew he had hurt Caleb’s feelings but he had get out of there when he did. The temptation of him was too much. Everything about him from his scent and his warmth had enveloped his senses to the point of pain. He took a deep breath and got up and walked to the balcony doors and threw them open. He was aware that Caleb had left the house.  He scanned Stavos’ thoughts and knew exactly when he left him at his front door.

            He went absolutely still and closed his eyes. He inhaled deeply and released his essence from his body. As he slowly became one the elements he turned and looked back at his physical form on the balcony then he took flight. He traveled over threw the sultry Miami heat to his destination. It had been a while since he had projected himself but it all came back to him quickly. He slipped through the ventilation system and followed Caleb’s scent to his apartment and hovered inside his home. He slowly took in caleb’s personal space. He felt him in the room; he took in his personal tastes, his small pots of greenery, the neatness of the place, and his sparse decorations. He listened as he prepared himself for bed in his bathroom. He heard Caleb’s muffled crying and his heart felt like it was shattering into a million pieces.

            He settled into the corner of the room when he heard the bathroom door open and felt a fierce stab of his conscience when Caleb came into the room carrying the clothes he had worn this evening on a hangers and hung them up in the closet. He was wearing a cute little shirt with strawberries on the front and boxers. He then walked over to the sofa and pulled out his bed. He sighed as he fussed with the sheets then he got into it and turned and turned off the lamp.

            He moved closer to the bed. He knew he could not see of feel him but he ran his invisible hand down the length of his hair and back. He couldn’t take the pain radiating from him. He quickly retraced his route back to his body. He inhaled deeply as he merged with his physical form. Closing the balcony doors he made his way downstairs to the garage. He was in the process of opening the cabinet containing the keys to his car collection when Stavos entered.

            “You need to think about what you are about to do.” He advised as he leaned his tall frame against the door.

            “I can’t leave him like that and I can’t go on feeling like this. I need to know where I stand, either I need to be damned and move on or be rewarded and she will accept m and what I am.” He explained and found the key that he was looking for.

            “I see that you want to do this alone, so be safe. I will see you later.” Stavos said before he turned and went quietly back the way he came.

            Dimitri opened the garage and got into the black Audi SUV and started it. Backing gently out he turned and drove off down the drive to the massive gates that quietly swung open allowing him onto the street. He hoped that Caleb would allow him the opportunity to explain.

            Caleb turned over again and finally gave up on sleep. He tried to stop replaying the heated scene on the couch and what he could have possibly have done wrong to send Dimitri running from him literally. Maybe it was because of his inexperience. He flung back the covers and reached over and turned the lamp back on. Swinging his legs over the side of the bed he got up and walked into the kitchen and placed the kettle on the stove. He was taking the things for his tea out of the cabinet when there was a quiet knock on the door.

            Frowning, he walked to the door and looked into the little peephole there on the panel and straight into Dimitri’s face and panicked. He looked down at his nightshirt and called out to him. “Just a minute.” He flew to the bathroom door and grabbed his robe and rushed back to the door as he threw it on and tied the sash securely around his waist. He took a moment to calm his nerves by inhaling deeply through his nose.

            “May I come in?” Dimitri asked when he opened the door and just looked at him.

            Opening the door wider and stepping aside Caleb motioned with his arm for Dimitri to step into the apartment. His scent enveloped him as Dimitri walked past him. Caleb closed the door and turned around to find that his living space seemed even smaller with Dimitri large frame in it. “I was making some tea. Would you like some?” He asked as he indicated for him to sit in one of his dining room chairs.

            “Thank you.” Dimitri replied as he sank gracefully into the chair. “I wanted to apologize for earlier. I had no right to pawn you like that.” He stated.

            “It was mutual pawing going on. You were not doing anything I did not allow you to do. I thought everything was fine then you left the room so abruptly.” Caleb said as he took another mug from the cabinet and poured hot water into it.

            “I am sorry. I need to explain some things to you about myself that you may not understand at first, and once you do. I only ask for your acceptance.” Dimitri said as he took the mug from Caleb and placed it on the table in front of him. 

            Confused but willing to listen. Caleb took a seat with his own mug across the table from him and took a sip before saying. “Okay. I am listening.” He sat quietly as Dimitri explained what he was and how came to be that way. He knew he heard the words coming out of Dimitri’s mouth explaining that he was an immortal being. That blood was necessary for his survival but he also required human food but not necessarily needing it. It blew his mind with the fact that Dimitri was centuries old and when he explained the part about finding a mate, Caleb had to stop him. “You mean to tell me that you are a Vampire, like an honest to goodness Vampire like in True Blood on TV?” He asked incredulous.

            “Yes, but I am not a TV character neither are those around me.” He simply stated and waited for Caleb to damn him.

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

(Caleb’s Bed–––––>)

 

            Caleb looked at Dimitri and wondered if he was okay. His brain could not conceive what he had just told him. He knew he was waiting for some kind of response from him, but he had no idea how to respond to something like this. Dimitri looked sane, but what he had explained to him was definitely not sane. “How can you sit there with a straight face and tell me because you were fighting some kind of Vampire urge,  and you had to leave me like that earlier.”  Caleb said as he rose from the table furious that he was spinning some kind of tale.

            “I am trying to tell you what I am and why my reactions are different from what humans expect in certain situations.” Dimitri pleaded and rose from the table as well.

            “How can you expect me to believe something like that?” Caleb asked coming right up to his face and looking up at him.

            Dimitri knew human did not believe in anything what they could not see with their own eyes so he prayed that it was the right decision when he stepped back from Caleb for his safety and dropped his guard. His incisors lengthened and his eyes went from obsidian black to raging red. He locked his muscles in place because the beast within him was on a precarious leash with Caleb so close. It wanted to take and conquer. He held himself rigidly still as Caleb stepped forward and gasped.

            Caleb came to halt just out of arms reach from Dimitri. He would not have believed it if he had not seen it with his own eyes. It was true. He looked into the raging depths of Dimitri’s glowing eyes trying to see the man he had come to care for, the man who had given him the first taste of passion only a few hours ago.

            Dimitri reigned himself in and converted himself back into himself. He simply spread his arms out at his side in surrender. Dimitri’s eyes pleaded with Caleb’s and he said. “I can’t change what I am. I have exposed myself to you because you are my mate and I need you, but if you cannot accept what I am, any relationship between us will not work. If you choose not to I only ask for your silence to protect myself and my loved ones.”

            Caleb’s brain finally decided to function again. He had a million questions to ask him, but as he looked into Dimitri’s eyes and saw the torture he was experiencing, he knew he was opening himself at a great cost to himself to expose what he was to him. Dimitri said he was his mate and although he didn’t understand the ramifications fully of what that meant, he knew even after the short amount of time that Dimitri affected him as no other man has. He walked up to him and placed his hand on Dimitri’s chest over his heart and felt it pounding away under his palm. “I have so many things to ask you, but I don’t know where to start. I thought you rejected me because I am inexperienced with men and that it showed. I never expected something like this. I never dreamed that anyone like you existed. I hope you can explain it so I can understand, but I won’t betray you or speak of you revealed to me. As to the mate part you have to explain that as well.” He said.

            Dimitri gently drew Caleb to him and hugged him close to his chest. He almost cried in relief when he felt Caleb’s arms slide around his waist to hold on tight. “I will answer whatever you like and explain the best I can, but it is a long tale the story of my life.”

            “We have all night, because I definitely cannot sleep now. Just let me fix the sofa and we can sit more comfortably.” Caleb said as he released him to do just that.

            Dimitri walked over and helped him put the bed away and arranged the pillows. Caleb sat down and pulled Dimitri down next to him. He tried to gather his thoughts about what he wanted to ask when Dimitri just suggested to let him tell him about his way of life then if he had questions he could ask. He told Caleb of his childhood of being born into what he was, he told him of the history of his kind in his country and others being persecuted and killed to the point of extinction. He explained the need for hiding and not revealing what his kind was to the human public.

            Caleb raptly listened to what he was telling him. Dimitri’s abilities to excel in all things physical explained how he got up and moved quickly across the sitting room in his house when he had pulled away from him earlier. Even with all the questions he wanted ask he felt his eyes getting heavier and heavier. The cadence of his Dimitri’s voice didn’t make it any easier for him to fight against sleep.

            Dimtri felt Caleb’s body relax completely and he shifted them into a more comfortable position. The couch was small so with one hand he cradled  Caleb against his body and with the other the pulled out the bed. He gently settled him into it and pulled the covers over him. Walking around to the other side and took off his shoes and settled on the bed next to him above the covers. He settled on his side to just watch Caleb sleep. He looked so angelic. He wondered what he was going to ask, and he was formulating how he was going to explain the mating ritual to him. Caleb understood now, but how was he going to react to that he thought wearily. He watched him until his even breathing lulled him to sleep as well.

            Caleb woke up to the smell of coffee wafting through the apartment. He slowly opened his eyes and realized that the water in the bathroom was running.  The events of the previous night came back to him and he sat straight up and swung his legs over the side of the bed. Although it was loose he was still wearing his robe. Since his bathroom was occupied he went for his backpack in the closet and found his brush, he ran it quickly through the length of his hair. Throwing the brush back into the bag he pushed the bed back into the sofa. He was fluffing pillows into place when Dimitri entered the living room.

            “Good morning.” He smiled as he came his way.

            Feeling shy, he returned his greeting and shimmied past him towards the bathroom and closed the door. Caleb performed his morning routine in record time. He stopped and took a breath and decided to take a warm shower to calm his nerves. He took his time and let the hot water soothe his tense muscles. The familiar scent of his sweet pea body wash calmed him even more. He turned off the water and stepped put and it dawned on him that his clothes were in the other room. So after drying off he put his robe back on and opened the bathroom door.

             “Give me just another minute.” Caleb said as he passed Dimitri sitting once again at the table. He selected a light blue t-shirt and jeans from the closet and underwear from the dresser drawer and slipped back into the bathroom to get dressed. He quickly applied the matching sweet pea moisturizer to his body..

            Dimitri looked up and smiled when he reentered the room. He already had a steaming mug of coffee sitting on the table for him.

            “Thanks.” Caleb said as he picked up the mug and took the chair opposite of him.

            “You sleep like you are dead.” Dimitri teased, lifting the cup to his mouth to take another sip of the hot liquid.

            Caleb stuck his tongue out at him and sipped his coffee. “I was wondering if the conversation we had last night was real and since you are sitting here this morning, it must have been. I have some things I want to ask you especially about you saying that I am your mate.”

            “Well, in my world so to speak, when one of our kind meets the person destined to be their other half that person immediately knows it. Now, if that person is one of my kind that person immediately knows as well, but if the person is human, as in our case it’s more complicated.” Dimitri said hesitating to tell him the full truth of what is required of him.

            “Now, is mating like getting married?” Caleb asked not daring to look at him, he was unsure of his feelings for him at this point to make that kind of commitment and with him being so different from him literally, how could it possibly work?

            “It is like being married, exactly like that. I know all this is overwhelming and I want to give you time to learn about me and decide if this is something you can live with.” Dimitri explained.

            Caleb sat for a minute to digest this information. “I want to continue to see you but like last night, you find it difficult to be close or should I say intimate with me.” He said remembering his reaction the night before when he cut off the best kiss of his life.

            “I admit, it is going to be difficult and I have to control myself. I would not hurt you for anything in this world. I just don’t want you to think it is your fault if I draw away from you because it’s for your protection not rejection.” He explained hoping Caleb understood that.

            “Okay.” He replied and he got up from his chair and walked over to take the empty mug from Dimitri.  Dimitri placed his hand on his wrist to stop him and got up from his chair. Caleb felt his heart slam into his chest when Dimitri lowered his head and brushed a light kiss on his lips.

            “I have to get home and take care of some things I put off yesterday. Are you working later?” Dimitri asked.

            Caleb managed to shake his head no. Dimitri told him he would call him later and placed another kiss on his slightly parted lips and let himself out of the apartment. Caleb mentally cleared his head and carried the mugs into the kitchen. After rinsing them he locked the front door and went to sit on the sofa to think things through about all that he learned last night and this morning.

            No sooner than Dimtri parked the SUV in the garage did Stavos make an appearance out of nowhere. “I was beginning to worry about you. I am not going to pry into your private matters with Caleb, so at least allow me to scan you from time to time.”

            “Fat chance, you are able to scan Caleb to know that I am alright.” He said as he headed up the elegant staircase.

            “I was allowing you privacy.” Stavos said following directly behind him.

            “I told him.” Dimtri stated as he came to a stop in the middle of the room.

            “And?” Stavos prompted.

            “He took amazingly well and he had some questions. I answered what I could and told him I will give him time to understand.” He said and began to shed the clothes that he wore last night to see Caleb.

            “Well, we will see then I will keep a closer eye on his thoughts to make sure it remains safe.” He informed Dimitri before he left him.

            Caleb finished tidying up his home. He logged onto his computer and Googled Dimitri. The information he found out about him and his company and such but nothing else. He answered a few emails from school friends and turned the computer back off. He was restless, if he had seen the changes in Dimitri last night he wouldn’t have believed it. Vampires were something she read about in his fiction stories, but here he was with a potential boyfriend as one. He got up and paced the living room. He had no one to ask about or talk to about this. His friends would think him insane. Then to top it off Dimitri said he was his mate, which is equal to a husband. He threw his hands up in the air. Until he had the opportunity to ask him what he needed to ask he would find something else to occupy his time.

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

(picture of Gustav——>)

 

            Parking his car in the usual spot he cut the engine and got out of the car to be enveloped in the muggy afternoon heat. Caleb quickly made his way across the parking lot into the blessedly cool air conditioning of the book store. He waved at the two Kelly’s as he walked past the refreshment area on his way to the employee lounge. He was a little disgruntled, he never got to ask Dimitri any questions because some crisis at Dimitri’s job prevented them from getting together for the remainder of the weekend, but at least he had called a few times. He locked away his things and donned his vest and went out to the floor to begin his shift.

           

            Stavos crossed the foyer of the building and entered the elevator that would take him upstairs to Dimitri’s office. The security breach was minor but still it was a concern. Someone had tried to hack into the databases and had they succeeded they would have accessed some patented material worth a lot of money. Information Technology was still working on trying to trace it. 

            The elevator dinged announcing he had arrived in the corporate office. He stepped off the elevator and made straight for the office passing a few of the ladies trying to catch his eye by preening unnecessarily as he passed them. He smiled absently at Dimtri’s secretary before entering Dimitri’s inner sanctum.

            “So have we got anything on the computer worm yet? Dimitri asked as his friend placed a file on his desk and sat down opposite of him.

            “They are still running traces and have managed to remove it from the system and reprogrammed our security patches.” Stavos answered as he sat in the plush chair in froont of the massive desk and crossed his legs.

            Dimitri turned away from the panoramic windows and picked up the files of the desk to scan over them. “Okay keep me informed.” He said as he took his own seat behind his desk.

            “So I am sorry this interrupted your plans this weekend.” Stavos said noticing that his friend had been somewhat distracted most of the weekend.

            “Why? It is not your fault. In a sense I am relieved because I know Caleb has questions and some of them I don’t want to answer, especially the one about him choosing my lifestyle.” He stated as he leaned almost all the way back in his chair.

            “Just take it nice and slow.” Stavos advised. “I have some things to see too and computer geeks to keep on top of. Later.”

            Dimitri just nodded and went back to staring out into space. He knew he needed to get himself together. Remembering the other night when he told Caleb about himself and his history it felt good to get it out into the open, but he had inkling that he didn’t fully understand what he was. They would have to spend some time on his turf. He wouldn’t do anything as crass as frighten him by drinking blood in front of him, but he could show Caleb the archives documenting their history. He knew for a fact that he could let his true nature reign because it was more difficult for him to control himself and not try to seal their relationship. He had to woo him gently, he knew that much. He turned back to his desk and tried his best to concentrate at his work on hand.

            Kelly number one was making his coffee, while Kelly number two was serving another customer.

            “So, guess who I ran into this weekend at the mall?” Kelly said as she placed her coffee in front of Caleb. 

            Smiling his thanks he took a sip before asking. “Was it someone you wanted to run into?”

            Kelly rolled her eyes and responded. “Please, it was the leech Hal, and the minute he saw me he tried to ask me out again. When I refused he got all disgusting and stuff and call me a tease. It was a little scary.” She shuddered at the memory.

            “Why, wasn’t he just beimg his nasty insulting self?” Caleb asked as he brought the steaming mug to his lips, blowing air over the rim to cool the liquid before taking another sip.

            Taking a moment to find the best words to describe Hal’s behavior she said. “It was weird he got the creepy look in his eyes and he waved a finger in my face and walked away mumbling. He never did that before. I think he was losing it or something.”

            “Well if you see him again, avoid him at all costs. But Hal is Hal. If he wasn’t such a pig he would be able to find someone. Anyway, enough of that, I got to get back to stocking.” He said as he threw his now empty cup in the garbage. He waved at Kelly number two before following the stairs back down to the main display floor. 

            Before he knew it his shift was up and he was walking back to his car. He was inserting the key into the lock when he felt someone behind him. He whirled around with his keys fisted in his hand ready to plunge into an attacker’s eye or something.

            Holding his hands up in surrender Dimitri smiled. “It’s just me, sorry to startle you.”

            Caleb swallowed the scream that was about to erupt from his throat and let out a strangled breath. “It’s not nice to sneak up on unsuspecting people.” He said as leaned back against his car to make it easier to look up into  Dimitri’s stunning face when he was standing this close to him.

            Dimitri invaded his space even more and leaned down and kissed the tip of his cute nose. “I’m sorry. I just missed you and I wanted to invite you over for a late dinner.”

            “Thanks I would love to, but I need a hot shower, first.” Caleb said trying to sound normal after his heart almost stuttered to a stop in his chest by that one simple contact. 

            “There is no rule saying where we have to eat it. I already have the food in my car from the Chinese place there.” Dimitri said as he pointed at the restaurant next to the book store.

            Caleb regarded him standing there looking like a Greek God, all muscle and arrogant bravado. It should be outlawed for one man to look so mouth watering. He gave up any pretense and said. “You know the way. I will meet you at my place.”

            Caleb was rewarded with another heart stopping smile before Dimitri leaned over and brushed another kiss on his lips before he walked off towards his own car. Caleb mentally shook himself and got behind the wheel of his. He refused to think about Dimitri being somewhere behind him as he navigated his way through traffic. The drive was short as he pulled into his parking space. Caleb was walking across the sidewalk when he saw his gleaming SUV pulling into the space next to his.

            Caleb braced himself but his heart still kicked up a notch when Dimitri got out of his car, grabbed the food and smiled as he walked toward him. He took his time studying his smooth graceful walk. He was wearing jeans that looked like they were made to define those long powerful legs, and Polo shirt was stretched nicely across the massive expanse of muscular chest and shoulders. I t was just sinful.

            Caleb led him upstairs to his apartment and unlocked the door and went inside. Turning on the lights he stepped in front of him to set the food on the dining table. “Okay make yourself comfortable, the dishes are in the cabinet to the right of the stove. I’ll just be a minute.” He said as gathered the clothing he needed for after his quick shower.

            Dimitri took the time while Caleb was in the bathroom to set the table and stage the little dining area for an intimate dinner. He had found the little tea lights in a bag in one of the kitchen drawers, with the all but one lamp in the far corner off they casted a romantic glow around the room. He sat back and waited for him to finish, trying very hard to imagine the fact that he was just behind the door naked.

            Caleb ran a brush through his hair and checked his appearance. He had chosen a simple cotton shirt in periwinkle blue and black pajama. He put his towel in the hamper and decided that he couldn’t dawdle anymore in the bathroom. So he took a fortifying breath and opened the bathroom door. That same breath whooshed out of his lungs as he took in the soft glow of his dining area. Dimitri had set the table very intimately for two. He had the food arranged on his modest serving platters instead of the take out cartons and each place setting was immaculately arranged. He was standing holding out a chair for him looking sexier than anyone ever had a right to appear. Caleb smiled a little nervously and took his seat. He found that his tongue had quit on him as he took his place at the table and began to dish out a little of everything on his plate. “Thank you.” He managed when Dimitri set the dish in front of him.

            Caleb concentrated on his food and tried to accumulate some semblance of control over his scattered thoughts. His body was not listening to his brain at all. He felt hot and heavy and every time he looked into the molten heat of Dimitri’s gaze, he lost his train of thought. Dimitri felt like a magnet and he was being pulled in bit by bit. They managed to make it through the meal and he jumped up from the table and said. “I clean up and make coffee.” Stacking the plates on top of each other he made his exit to the kitchen.

            Dimitri knew he was having a difficult time dealing with him and he liked seeing him off balance so he appeared in the small doorway to his kitchen and offered to help.  He stepped in and made sure his body made contact with Caleb’s as he washed and he dried and put away the dishes and the leftover food. He was fully aroused by the time they accomplished this and he was getting ready to escape him and the constant of his body when he pinned her between the counter and his body. He was sure Caleb could feel the full impact of his arousal pressing against him where their bodies touched. “Why are you so nervous around me tonight?” Dimitri asked as he used his finger under Caleb’s chin to capture his gaze.

            Caleb looked up at him helplessly and replied. “Because I want you and if you start something there is no way I am going to find the will to refuse you.”

            The honest admission shot was wave of heat through his abdomen to pool in his already throbbing member. His inner beast reared his hungry head with the prospect of having its desires met. Dimitri clamped his control back into place and gently took Caleb’s hand and led him to the sofa in the living room. “I will not do anything that you do not allow. You have free reign to explore me if you want. I just want you to comfortable in my presence. I am not going to attack you or anything.” Dimitri explained as he sat him on his lap.

            Caleb could feel his rock hard arousal under his bottom where he was perched on his lap. He so much wanted to straddle him to feel it rubbing against his own pulsing erection when what he said penetrated her foggy thought process and he frowned. “No, I am not scared because of what you are or that I think you will attack me or bite me or something. It’s not that. I grew up in the system, sometimes well most times being a small boy, it was hard to keep your virginity intact from all the Daddy’s or brothers or would be heroes that were going to save you from your world. You learn not to cry rape or molestation because you always got the crappy end of the stick. You either run or turn around and be  placed with another family. I am not a virgin, and from what I have experienced of sex was not great, when I listened to other girls and boys growing up and now in school I could never figure out what they saw in the act, but if what I feel for you is any indication I am beginning to understand and it’s like the first time for me.”

            Dimitri took a humbling breath and fought for control, the kind of trust  Caleb was placing in his hands was overwhelming. For him to confess his wanting him sexually after the abuse he must have endured snapped the little control he had over the monster within. His eyes snapped open and they glowed a stunning silver. He could feel his fangs peircing his bottom lip and he knew the beast was free. He gathered what little control he had left and vanished into thin air, leaving a very surprised Caleb blinking in confusion on the sofa.

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

(Picture of Irina—————>

Flabbergasted and pissed off, Caleb changed out of his pajamas to the more suitable jeans and a t-shirt. He ran to the bathroom and ran a brush through his hair and grabbed his wallet and keys. He slipped his feet into some flip flops was he was out the door, no way was Dimitri going to do this to him again. Just when things were heating up he disappeared again. Well this was going to stop. It’s either going to happen or not, and if he was not going to see to his needs to then he was going to leave him alone.

Dimitri had simply disappeared after his eyes changed colors. The last time he showed him his eyes they were glowing red. Caleb wondered what the colors meant. He was more than ready to be with him, if he had just explained. Dimitri had said he would let him get comfortable and when he did, he simply vanished, leaving him once again on an empty couch. Well he knew exactly where Dimitri was going to be and he was going to explain it to him, he thought as he pulled to a stop at the ornate gate house to Star Island. Caleb gave his name and where he was going and watched as the guard called the house. There went his element of surprise; he just hoped that he would let him in. He smiled as the guard handed him back his drivers’ license and opened the gates.

Caleb pulled up to the gates of Dimitri house and they swung silently open. He felt even more out of place when he got out and glanced back to his little car sitting in the gorgeous driveway. He had just placed his foot on the top step when the door was opened by the ever efficient Gustav.

“Good evening Mr. Tanner.” Gustav said as he stepped aside and ushered him into the grand foyer.

“Good evening. Can you tell Dimitri I wish to see him please?” Caleb said politely.

Before Gustav could respond a feminine voice said. “I will take care of him from here.”

Caleb looked around and saw one of the most stunningly beautiful women he had ever laid eyes on and felt a jolt of panic before the woman slid her arm around Gustave waist and explained. “Dimitri is above stairs; lets’ give him a minute. I am Irina Gustav’s mate.”

Gustav excused himself at his wife’s insistence and Irina led Caleb back towards the kitchen and offered him a seat at the counter.

“Well I was just making some tea. Would you care for some?” Irina asked.

“Not really. I just want to talk to Dimitri. I don’t mean to be rude, but I need him to talk to me and explain…never mind. Could you just get him please?” Caleb said anxious to get the air cleared.

“Honey, I understand more than you think. I am Vampire as well, but I am also a mate. Dimitri is having difficulty dealing with the fact that you are human. He wants to protect you and doing so means from even himself as well. When Vampire males are dealing with controlling their base nature and desires their defense is to get away from what triggered it.” She knowingly explained.

Caleb listened and it finally struck him. “So you are saying he desires me, and because he is a Vampire he would have attacked me or something?”

“Not necessarily attack you. You are his mate, but being human complicates it. The male of our kind has to bite his human mate and take his or her blood three different instances, and then she or he has to choose him, and to do so he or she must take his blood to complete the process of the turn and mating ritual. He wants you to be sure, but when he his close especially in an intimate setting the drive to bite is the strongest.” She said placing a cup of tea in front of him. “Tell me did you see his eyes before he left you?”

“They were glowing silver. What does that mean? When he revealed himself to me the other day, they were glowing red.” Caleb said absently turning the delicate cup in circles in front of him. He was happy at least that someone was answering his questions, but he wasn’t too sure about the taking of blood thing. He guessed that Dimitri did the right thing in leaving. Did he care enough to tie himself like that to him because it sounded a lot like a marriage this mating ritual?

“Yes, it is a marriage in our world.” Irina stated picking the thought from his head. “So you need to decide what you feel for him before you go looking for him tonight. It causes him pain to draw back his nature, and if his eyes are silver indicating a great emotional and sexual desire then you have been fore warned.” She said as she cleared away the herb tea and rinsed the cup. “His bedroom is upstairs at the very end of the hall. If you choose to leave let someone know by using the phone line three for Stavos and he will let you out.” She instructed and left Caleb to think over his now luke warm tea.

“Wait what happens if I choose otherwise after he has taken my blood?” He asked her before she had a chance to disappear into the house.

“That is for him to explain. I have already said too much, like I said be sure of your feelings. I can just say this. He would never hurt you or abuse you. He would put you before himself in everything. That is our way. Good night Caleb. I like you and hope to see you again.” She said then departed quietly through the door.

Caleb sat there for what felt like almost an eternity. He followed Irina’s advice and thought about his feelings for Dimitri. In the short span of time he knew he had never felt for anyone the way he felt for him. He didn’t know if was love, never had he been in love, but he knew he couldn’t go back to not having him in his life. He picked up his untouched cup of tea and poured it into the sink and rinsed the cup. The simple act soothed his fraught nerves a little bit. He copied Irina and placed it in the fancy dishwasher.

Caleb didn’t know how to turn off the light and he didn’t want to touch any if the intimidating buttons on the wall. So he squared his shoulders and headed for the ornate staircase to follow the directions Irina had given him to Dimitri’s room. He was so intent on his destination that he did not notice the two men standing in the shadows at the other end of the foyer.

“I guess you can set the alarms. Make sure his car is secure for the evening.” Gustav said barely able to contain his glee.

“Already taken care of, please do not let me miss breakfast in the morning. I will never forgive you.” Stavos called over his shoulder as he headed towards his quarters.

Caleb made his way to the end of the hall and came to a halt in front of the closed ornate double doors. Drawing a deep breath he quietly opened the door and entered the darkened room. He gave herself a minute so that his eyes could adjust to the change in lighting. Taking a tentative steps he silently made his way across the plush carpet. He could make out the silhouettes of the furniture he passed as he made his way towards a huge four poster bed in the center of the room. His footsteps were silenced by the soft carpeting. Coming to a stop at the end of the bed he made out the lone figure in the middle of the bed flat on his back with an arm thrown over his face.

“Gustav I said I did not want to be bothered for the rest of the night.” Dimitri said hearing the muffled steps with his extra hearing.

“Sorry but I am not Gustav.” Caleb replied and he saw Dimitri sit straight up in the bed with a look of surprise and shock.

“Caleb, you should not be here. I am sorry for leaving you like that but I had to. Please understand.” He said as he discreetly pulled the covers over his nudity.

Caleb had already gotten an eyeful of his awesome maleness and he had made up his mind. “I understand and I have decided that I want you. If you don’t want me tell me and I will never bother you again.” Caleb said as he slid his feet out of his flip flops.

At a complete lost but with a growl, Dimitri gave up trying to reign himself in. In an instant he had Caleb on his back in the middle of the bed. His naked body pressed in between his parted thighs. “I cannot continue to protect you, when you are so determined not to see reason.” He hissed before taking his lips a soul shattering kiss.

Caleb revealed in the feel of Dimitri pressed against him. He was everywhere, above him, arms surrounding him, and his tongue invading his mouth. His hips strained as they pushed upwards against his Dimitri’s obvious arousal.

Dimitri felt himself slipping even further with the little noises that were coming from Caleb. His impatient hands found the hem of his t-shirt and he lifted it from him and threw it on the floor, anxious for the feel of him against his body, skin to skin. Caleb’s jeans and underwear quickly followed suit. All too soon Dimitri was rubbing himself against his warmth. He was hot and slick and so ready for him. He wanted this moment to be special for him, but the beast was unleashed now and had taken full control.

Caleb’s head swam as Dimitri’s hands and tongue and body took full command of his. He could barely breathe. Then he felt his strong thighs part his and his large hands glide down his sides. Caleb watched through hoooded eyes as Dimitri put his fingers in his mouth. His heart rate increased as his tongue flicked through those same fingers, liberally coating them with his saliva. He then reached down and he groaned when he felt Dimitri’s finger pushing against the ring of muscle at his entrance. His hips took a life of their own grinding sinuously against him, back and forth, trying to snare him when he came close to his entrance. It was maddening, he wanted Dimitri to bury himself deep inside him, but he feared the pain it was surely going to cause. He was so big. Steel encased in velvet, but his fingers worked him instead, now gliding in and out if him causing his breathing to pick up as well as his heart rate.

Dimitri continued to build the friction until sobbing, Caleb begged him to do something to alleviate the pressure he was building inside of him. When he grabbed Dimitri’s firm buttocks and reared his hips effectively grinding his own erection onto the firm throbbing length of Dimitri’s, he almost lost it. Dimitri grunted and he removed his fingers and Caleb whimpered as the loss and bucked his hips, desperately trying to regain contact.

Dimitri spread Caleb’s thighs even wider with his and captured his lips again. Then he ventered his pulsing cock at Caleb’s entrance. Getting up in his haunches at the last minute he grabbed the lube in his bedside drawer and pooped the cap, he turned the bottle upside down and squeezed the fluid directly on his shaft poised against Caleb’s fluttering hole. He used his thump to massage the oil all over himself and Caleb’s twitching entrance. He laid back down on the smaller man and claimed his sweet lips in a toe curling kiss and eased his engorged shaft inch by delicious inch inside his man and he began to move. Sliding in and out of him, back and forth until Caleb picked up the rhythm and his hips urged him on. Locking Caleb firmly in place, he began to drive in and out of him, faster and faster, until he felt the blood ringing in his ears. A his orgasm snaking up his spine.

Caleb couldn’t stand it. he felt like he was going to shatter in a million pieces. Where he had expected pain there was none. The feel of Dimitri burying himself deep inside of him again and again was driving him nuts. He clawed his back and dug his heels into his calves, thrusting his hips forward to meet Dimitri’s powerful thrusts taking him deeper into himself. Caleb felt the tingling begin in his scalp and it traveled leaving a trail of fire through his chest and down into his abdomen. He cried out, the pleasure of it so good it was almost painful. He felt the heat washing over him building and building and then he shattered. He felt the energy pour over and out of him erupting in streams of semen from his pulsating cock. Spasms after spasms rocked his entire body as he held on to Dimitri tightly fearing he might be swept away with the force of his release.

Dimitri frantically raced towards his own release when he felt Caleb clamp his thighs around his waist and locked his ankles at his back. He felt the fierce milking of his orgasm massing his cock ruthlessly. Heat speared its way from the tips of toes tightening in his balls and exploding through him as he gave himself up to the agony of his release. He continued to pump into Caleb feeling the aftershocks of his orgasm continue to milk him. He felt his incisors and he lowered his head to taste the throbbing pulse at Caleb’s neck. He licked once, twice, savoring the flavor of him and sunk his teeth deep into him taking the flow of his blood into his mouth.

Caleb screamed and his muscles contracted around Dimitri even more. He shuddered violently as he came again with a force that locked him against Dimitri’s body. He felt him throbbing inside of him as jet after jet of hot semen poured into him, he felt Dimitri’s teeth sink into his tender flesh and again the pleasure was so unbearable stars burst behind his eyes that were squeezed tightly shut and then everything went black.

Dimitri licked the spot and healed the twin wounds his teeth caused when he felt Caleb go limp underneath him. He drew back in alarm and checked his breathing. He had passed out. He gently eased out of him and went to the bathroom for a warm washcloth and cleaned him. After cleaning himself he managed to get back in bed and drew the covers over the both of them and settled into a satisfied sleep.

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

(Dimitri’s Kitchen––––––––>)

 

            Turning on the lights as he walked into the kitchen, Gustav came to an immediate stop when he saw Dimitri bent at the waist digging in the refrigerator. “May help you locate something?” He asked as he stepped up beside him and tried to look into the appliance to see what captured Dimtri’s attention. Dimitri was wearing only a pair of shorts and he was almost half way inside of the fridge.

            Dimitri backed up with a bowl of chicken leftover from dinner the night before, he had hoped at least it was the night before, but he was ravenous so it would have to do. He was eating the chicken right from the bowl, cold. He had to chew and swallow before he could answer Gustav’s question.

            Gustav tried to hide his amusement by rigidly controlling his facial features. He tried to muster up some pity for his friend and what he was going through. He knew the energy and toll it took on the Vampire body to claim a mate. You are almost insatiable at that point in this point of the relationship for blood, and when you deny one’s hunger the other manifests itself tenfold. But, even in knowing what was happening he still found it comical to find cool and controlled Dimitri standing in the kitchen with a face full of cold poultry, chewing as fast as his jaws could manage. Waiting until his mouth was free, Gustav watched as he just shoved in another piece of chicken. He shook his head and took Dimitri’s arm and led him to one of the bar stools and shoved him into it. He wasn’t even going to try to wrestle with him over the bowl to at least warm up the chicken. He liked his arms too much for that.

            Dimitri shrugged and just continued to eat. He would have much preferred to be in the warm bed cuddled nest to Caleb’s sexy body, but the need to taste him again was too great for him to passively lie there, then after an hour or so his stomach was more than making itself known, so here he was at this ungodly time of the morning eating whatever he caught hold of first. All the while he was satisfying one hunger, he hoped Caleb wouldn’t wake up and miss him. He scanned his thoughts, of which he was now able to do after taking first blood and he relieved that they were still nonsensical so he continued to gorge himself.

Stavos then strode into the kitchen, immaculate in a dark gray suit and Italian shoes barely making a sound on the tile. He came to an abrupt halt as he took in the picture of Dimitri naked save for a pair of boxers looking like Henry the Eighth taking a bite from a drumstick on one hand and a bowl in the other. He opened his mouth to guffaw when Gustav abruptly stepped in his foot and he felt a toe break. “Ow!” he bellowed instead. He caught Gustav eyes and managed to convey the message of retaliation as he felt the bone in his foot already knitting back together. He gingerly made his way to the counter and poured himself a cup of coffee. 

            Dimitri finally felt like the hole in his stomach was no longer reaching into his spine, and tired of being the morning show he plopped the bowl of chicken on the counter and wiped his mouth on the napkin that materialized under his nose by Gustav and walked out of the kitchen with as much dignity as he could muster. He was sure Stavos got at least a year’s worth of teasing out of this one but he didn’t care he was headed back to Caleb and that made him almost flash there. He stopped himself though, he was storing his energy.

            In the kitchen Irina walked in to find the two men laughing to the point of hysteria. “It is too early in the morning for this. What are you two Hyenas laughing at?”  She asked as she grabbed her own mug of coffee and adding crème and sugar. They tried to tell her something but wound up chortling all over again. She just shook her head and wondered over to the fridge to take out the bacon and eggs for breakfast.

            Caleb woke up and tried to stretch but didn’t get far because he was half buried under something strong and rock hard. He opened his eyes and found out it what was restricting  his movements. Dimitri had one powerful arm clamped around his waist and a muscular thigh thrown across both of his. He looked up into Dimitri’s beautiful face and smiled gently. He looked so peaceful; he wondered how he was going to escape to use the restroom. He gingerly tried to lift his arm off of him, but when he thought he had it; Dimitri’s muscular arm clamped down and dragged even him even closer to his body. Caleb had no choice but to wake him.

            Pausing for a moment he wondered, what was the best way to wake a Vampire? He did not know what to expect, he turned as much as he could and shook Dimitri’s shoulder. He was instantly was alert and opened his eyes. “Good morning, I love waking up like this but duty calls.”  Caleb explained. Dimitri just grinned that sexy grin he loved and released him. He looked around and realized he didn’t have anything to cover up with so he scooted off the bed and quickly streaked across the room to what he hoped was the bathroom.

            Dimitri smiled at Caleb’s hasty retreat and rolled back over. Caleb’s scent still lingered on all of his sheets and even on his person. He inhaled deeply and felt the desire sing through his blood stream and it immediately engorged his penis. He knew he would have to be gentle with him this morning. He had practically ridden him last night over and over again. He must be tender. Sitting up when he heard the bathroom door open he watched as he walked back to bed firmly encased in a fluffy bath towel around his waist. He stopped at the end of the bed and hovered uncertainly there.

            “We can go down and have breakfast, I am sure Irina has it ready by now or we can catch a few more winks.” Dimitri suggested, letting the choice be Caleb’s.

            “Breakfast sounds good, just let me freshen up.” Caleb picked up his clothes from where they  were thrown  the night before  and headed back to the bathroom. He looked at the huge shower with its multiple shower heads and gave in. Dropping the towel he stepped onto the smooth mirrored floor and turned on one shower head after the other. He closed the door and soon the steam was billowing. Hot water cascaded over his body and his sore muscles rejoiced as they went lax. Caleb wanted more than anything of a repeat of last night but his body unused to the tournament it ran last night was not up for it, maybe after his shower he thought.

            He looked around and saw Dimitri’s soap. Opening it, he inhaled and was pleased that it smelled just like him. A subtle clean scent, pouring some on a washcloth he lathered himself in frothy bubbles. He was washing his arm with his back to the water when the shower door opened and Dimitri joined him. His luscious body on full display.

            Taking Caleb’s warm, slippery body into his arms he brought him flush up against him. It was erotic to him to smell his body wash all over Caleb. He used the sinful slippery glide of the soap to rub Caleb’s sensitive nipples across the expanse of his chest. Then he took the wash cloth from him and began to do the task washing his lover himself.

            Caleb didn’t even have the will power to protest. Dimitri’s hands felt soooo good as he washed his body thoroughly, his strong hands kneading his muscles to the consistency of mush. As he turned him around to rinse away the lather, he felt Dimitri’s erection glide across his bottom. He pressed herself back into him bringing himself into full contact with Dimitri’s groin. Caleb smiled when Dimitri released a groan. He reached for another wash cloth and poured soap onto it and worked up a good lather. Turning his back to the spray, he washed Dimitri from head to toe. Standing back up he ran his soapy hands down Dimitri’s sculpted chest to his carved abdomen. With one hand he hung the dripping cloth on the rack and with the other he took him into his hands. With her slick fingers he massaged Dimitri’s rigid shaft, gradually increasing his  speed until Dimitri was now  was thrusting into his hand.

            Dimitri ran his hands up Caleb’s back as his hips bucked. His fingers were like magic, applying just the right amount of pressure. His senses were in overload, the scent of Caleb’s unique fragrance and the scent of his desire and soap permeated the shower stall. He felt Caleb’s lips skimming up his throat as he went on his tip toes. Dimitri captured Caleb’s lips and plundered the sweet cavity if his mouth when he felt his gums swelling  like other parts of his body, he knew he had to prepare for his teeth to lengthen. He quickly broke the kiss and buried his face in Caleb’s neck.  Caleb’s racing pulse against his nose didn’t make the situation any easier.

            Without breaking the rhythm of his hand, he drew back a little and used his free hand to bring Dimitri’s face level with his. He told Dimitri to open his eyes and look at him. His breath caught in his throat. Most would have thought the sight of Dimitri’s glowing silver eyes scary, but knowing the emotions that were riding him so strong at this moment that caused the color of his eyes to swirl like molten mercury nearly brought him to his knees. He closed the distance between their faces and took his lips in a gentle kiss.

            Using his tongue he slid Dimitri’s lips apart and could feel the sharp incisors scrape against his lips and tongue. He felt a tiny prick and tasted his own metallic blood before Dimitri drew his tongue into his mouth and sucked. He felt Dimitri’s cock throb and get even harder in the palm of his hand. His hips began to thrust even more forcefully and Caleb felt him go rigid all over, then he threw back his head and released a long moan as he spilled into his hand and over the stomach.  Dimitri’s body jerked with the force of his orgasm. Caleb waited until Dimitri’s breathing slowed down and he gently cleaned him and turned the water off. Dimitri quickly wrapped Caleb in a warm towel from the towel warmer and wrapped another around his own waist.

            Dimitri could do no less than kiss him. He could still taste the flavor of Caleb’s blood on his tongue. He made sure he laved his tongue over the tiny scrape to heal it before releasing him to let him get dressed.

            Caleb watched as he closed the door softly and turned around to look at himself in the mirror. It was amazing with the amount of heat they had generated for it not to be foggy, but maybe they were built that way. He quickly dried himself and opened a drawers looking a brush  , he found one and ran it through his damp hair, and then he got dresses. Pronouncing himself presentable he opened the door and stepped into the bedroom. Dimitri was sitting in one of the armchairs waiting for him immaculately dressed in Khakis and a dark green Polo shirt that fit him perfectly.  

            “Time for breakfast.” He said as he gracefully levered out of the chair and took Caleb’s small hand into his larger one and led him downstairs to the kitchen.

            When they entered, Caleb forgot to be embarrassed or shy because the three people occupying the kitchen greeted him as if it was the most natural thing in the world for him to be there. He felt like he belonged as he was offered coffee and anything else he might have desired.  Caleb listened to them bicker and tease each other and Irina was like a mother hen keeping the peace.

            Irina shooed him away when he offered to help clean up and Dimitri took his hand in his again to show him around the house and grounds. He explained his need for privacy and security and broached the subject of Calbe’s need for security as well, but Caleb refused a body guard, unbeknown to him he already had one. But Dimitri thought it prudent not to mention that little fact, seeing how he had refused the idea.

            Caleb drove back to his apartment in a little bubble, he was still in awe. He had spent almost the entire day with Dimitri and his friends. They were not staff to him they were really his family and they treated him like he belonged. He parked and locked the car and went upstairs to his home. It looked so small compared to the massive expanse of Dimitri’s, but he was proud because it was his at least until he decided to rent somewhere else. He  went to get himself some juice. He had a lot of things to process, he never really got around to asking Dimitri about the whole commitment thing and mates, he knew deep down he didn’t want to talk about it yet because he still didn’t understand fully. Caleb knew it was almost as serious as marriage. He has so far tried not to look too deeply into his feelings for Dimitri, but he knew that he was in love with him. But it seems in order to have him in the long run it was all or nothing, and that meant for him to give up his human life. It boggled his mind, if someone had told him a month ago that Vampires existed he would have told them to get psychiatric help. He would have to put it on the top shelf for now, he thought as she powered up his laptop. He had some bills to pay and review for his upcoming semester in school.

            Entering his room Dimitri looked at the now immaculate bed and felt the kick of heat race through his system at the thought of Caleb and himself in that bed but a few hours ago. He crossed the carpet and sat in one of the armchairs and picked up the remote and turned on the TV. Turning the volume to low he just sat for a minute with this own thoughts.  Playing the waiting game and giving Caleb time to cope and accept the fact that he was his intended mate was wearing on his will power. He wanted to claim him and begin his life with him. Spending the day with Caleb today only increased his urgency to do so. The taste of his blood was pure rapture for him, just the thought had him hard as a rock. He groaned and got up and went to the fridge across the room and took out a bottle of blood.         

            Opening the bottle he downed the content quickly in hopes of quenching his unending thirst for Caleb. He didn’t pressure him into staying the weekend, not wanting to put any added pressure on him. He just wanted Caleb to become used to his company and the more time he spent in his surroundings and his life, maybe he will learn to accept him more but he didn’t want to bombard  Caleb and force him to choose. It was definitely a decision he had to make alone. Then and only then will he be secure in their relationship without worrying he may grow to resent him taking his life, because when things are cut and dried that was basically what he was going to ask Caleb to do in order to be with him. He threw the now empty bottle in the garbage can and tried to decide what to do for the remainder of the day to take his mind off of his sweet boy.

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

(Pic of the sexy twins Ayden and Ahron––––>)

 

            Stavos made his way across the foyer to the stairway. He climbed the stairs and proceeded down the darkened hall to Dimitri’s bedroom.

            “You have been holed up here all weekend? Do you plan to let yourself go to rot or what?” he said as he unceremoniously entered the bedroom without knocking.

            Dimitri rose on perfect eyebrow as he looked up at his friend. “What you can’t find some delicious little thing to keep you amused for the weekend?”

            “Touché, but really are you going to worry this issue to death about Caleb. I am sure you are charming him towards making the right decision.” Stavos said as he seated himself into one of the plush chairs and crossed his ankles, totally relaxing his muscular frame.

            “But is it really the right decision?” Dimitri sighed.

            “I understand what you are saying but do you really think that fate is so cruel that they would create two beings for one another, but never give them the chance to be together because one cannot accept the other. If her deciding to be with you the n isn’t it meant that she was meant for our way of life.”Stavos replied. 

            ’”You are getting deep in your old age. I see your point of view. Listen I am going to go and see Caleb tonight. So you have the remainder of the evening free to pursue your interests.” Dimitri said with a smirk.

            Stavos smiled and levered his powerful body from the chair. He gave a mocking little salute before exiting the room and making his way back towards the kitchen. Half way there he picked up  on Irina’s voice talking he presumed on the phone coming from his intended room. He knew Irina had heard his approach so it was too late to avoid the room. He sighed heavily and continued on.

            He wondered from the tone of voice what had her so upset, but before he could scan her or go into the kitchen to inquire what was wrong he was interrupted by Marcos.

            “I wanted you to be informed. There was a young man snooping around Mr. Tanner’s car. I followed him inside and he hovered in front of her door, it looked like he was listening from outside. He hurried off when I deliberately came down the hall.” Marcos informed him.

            “Find out who he is and let me know, make sure nothing happens to him. Dimitri will not be pleased.” Stavos said then disconnected the call. He turned on his heel and went back the way he came. He needed to inform Dimitri, especially since he is planning to go over there tonight.

            “Marcos called about some guy hovering outside of Caleb’s door a moment ago. He ran off when he made his presence known” Stavos said as he entered the room.  He didn’t get a chance to say anymore because Dimitri dissolved and disappeared into thin air. Stavos let out a weary sigh it has been a long time since he projected. He knew exactly where Dimitri was going so he closed his eyes and followed.

            Caleb poured the contents of the saucepan into a bowl and put the pan into the sink and turned on the tap to fill it with water. He picked up the bowl and walked to the table and sat down, he was on his second mouthful of soup when Dimitri materialized out of thin air followed by just seconds by Stavos. Spoon frozen halfway to his lips he watched as they walked swiftly to his front door and opened it to proceed into the hall. He put the food spoon down and got up to follow them into the hall. They were halfway down the corridor conversing in hushed tones.

            “Excuse me, but can you tell me what the both of you are up to?” Caleb asked as he hurried to join them down the hall.

            Stavos turned to face him and with a smile he touched the side of his neck and Caleb immediately slumped forward into his arms. “He is going to be pissed when he wakes up.” Stavos stated as he easily lifted Caleb into his arms and carried him back into the apartment.

            “Well I will deal with that in a little while, call for a car and go meet with Marcos to see if he has anything on who was here.” Dimitri instructed as he sat down next to the couch where Stavos had placed Caleb to lie down.

           

            Caleb woke up in a darkened room sat up in the middle of the huge bed where he was lying. His eyes focused and he realized that he was in Dimitri’s bedroom. Scooting to the side of the bed he threw the covers back and got out of the bed. Dimitri had so much to answer for. He fumed as he looked for shoes, not finding them he gave up and headed for the door, he was half way there when it opened and Dimitri entered the room and closed the door behind him. “I know I have to explain, so please sit and give me the chance.” Dimitri said as he picked up the remote and pressed a button to turn lamps on to illuminate the room.

            Caleb complied and sank down into one of the chairs, back ramrod straight, he imperiously indicated for Dimitri to sit across from him.

            “I had a hunch that someone was outside your apartment today, shortly before I got there. Stavos being my head security detail came with me. We were trying to pick up the persons trail to make sure whomever it was isn’t intent to do you some kind of harm. I am sorry Stavos induced you to sleep but at the time it was necessary.” Dimitri rushed out the explanation, hoping from the deep frown on his cutie’s face that he wasn’t too mad at him.

            With narrowed eyes Caleb stared at him and soaked up the information he was telling him. He was sure there was more to it than he was saying and he was going to set him straight about a few things right now. It was bad enough that he didn’t know the extent of their special abilities but they were not going to use them at will on him. “I understand that you and Stavos were trying to protect me, but did you think it was someone lost and looking for someone. I don’t know anyone wishing to harm me, and furthermore, do not ever do that again, the sleep thing or anything else that causes me to be unaware of what is going on. I do not appreciate that. It is high handed and I will not forgive it a second time.” Caleb said looking Dimitri directly in the eye.

            “Alright. I am sorry.” Dimitri said as he reached for Caleb’s hand.

            Caleb was still upset because he knew he was not completely up front with him. “So why do you feel it was someone there to hurt me?” He asked trying to make sense of it. Caleb only had a hand full of people he let get moderately close to him and kept mostly to himself so why would someone want to harm him?

            “I just have a feeling. If the person was lost, why hover in front of your door. if they were there for a visit even unannounced why not just knock. I didn’t like it so I came to see what was going on.”  Dimitri explained and he rubbed his thumb back and forth over Caleb’s knuckles.

            Looking at their joined hands Caleb mentally sighed and tried to feel the comfort he was trying to offer but was not obviously achieving. “I am trying to deal with your world, Dimitri but please. Just take a little time initiating me to your entire arsenal of extra abilities okay. You figure this out. I am tired.”  Caleb got up and Dimitri released his arm, walking back over he pulled his jeans followed by his over his head and folded it. Putting it on the nightstand he climbed onto the bed and pulled the covers back up and tried to settle his mind to sleep.

            Dimitri picked up the remote once again and darkened the room. He sighed as he sat back into the plush cushions of the chair and watched as Caleb turned on his side. A few minutes later he turned back to face him and held out his hand towards him. Slowly Dimitri got up from the chair and as he drew his shirt over his head. His shorts and shoes were next as he walked over and climbed under the blankets Caleb held open for him. He settled in next to him drawing his soft curves against his hard angles. Caleb wiggled his delectable bottom closer and settled his head on a muscular bicep and went still. It couldn’t be any better than this he thought as Dimitri’s warmth penetrated his body and he too went quietly to sleep.

            Stavos entered the kitchen and set the security code behind him. He threw his keys on the counter and sat down at the table. He had spent close to three hours following the scents outside  of Caleb’s building, since it was such a public place with so many people it leads to nowhere fast. He looked up and smiled his thanks when Gustav placed a bottle of blood in front of him.  

            “No luck, huh.” Gustav said as he sat down in the opposite chair.

            Stavos just shook his head and took a deep drink. “Has Dimitri gone to bed?”

            “Yep, after Caleb read him the riot act for putting him to sleep, you maybe next buddy, he was upset.” Gustav warned.

            “I charm him to see it my way.” Stavos smiled. Thinking Caleb was like a little kitten who thought it was a tiger. He had Marcos keeping an eye out at his place so he was going to take himself off to sleep. He was just throwing away his now empty bottle when Irina walked into the kitchen. He stopped in his tracks, as he watched Gustav rushed to her side.

            He picked up that their was some kind of death in her family and that she was extremely upset about it. He was making his way quietly out of the kitchen so he wouldn’t intrude on the couple when Irina stopped him. “Stavos, my sister and her husband died in their home in England, they are survived by their sons. They have no one else so they aer coming to me at the end of this week. I just wanted you to know to clear them for the security here at the house. Their names are Ayden and Ahron.” She finished on a sniffle.

 Stavos walked over to her and rubbed her shoulder. “I m sorry for your loss, I will make the necessary preperations for their arrival.” 

 Irina smiled at him and kissed Gustav in his cheek and quietly made her way back their quarters.

 Gustav shook his head and made his way back to the table. “Irina was not close to her sister after we married for some reason, I think it had to do with the snobbish husband but she always kept contact with the twins. They are good boys, even if their parents controlled every facet of their lives. I am happy to them.”

 Stavos just nodded his head. “I am off to bed. Just let me know if you need anything.” 

 Gustav nodded and watched as the big man made his way down the hall. He sighed and got up and made sure that the kitchen was spotless. Irina needed a moment to gather herself and if her kitchen wasn’t spotless when she got up in the morning, there would be hell to pay. His mind wondered back to the conversation he had with a friend that lived not far away from Irina’s family. He had told them that the husband had gotten into some stuff with a powerful coven there and he stepped on alot of toes. His friend felt that it wasn’t beyond the coven leader to commit murder. The human authorities couldn’t’t find any evidence of foul play, but in the Vampire world there had to be. It takes alot to kill a Vampire. He wondered what his nephews knew anything of their parents death. He would have to wait until they got settled before he could inquire. He definitely didn’t want to bring the possibility to Irina yet. not until the death of her sister was so fresh. He gave the counter a last swipe before retiring for the night.

A/N, so guys I am going to have a spin off from this story, as you read the next chapters you will see a relationship developing with Irina’s nephews and Stavos (spoiler alert..lol) So I am going to give Stavos his own book. I have Posted the cover and description on my profile, It’s called Our Total Submission, tell me what you think. Love You guys.**

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

(Cutie pies, Ahron and Ayden—————>)

 

            Dimitri opened his eyes and stared up at the ceiling. He turned his head and his chin brushed the top of Caleb’s head. He looked down and he was half on top of him with his arm slung across his massive chest and one of his soft thighs was riding high in between his muscular ones, pressing nicely against his bulging hard on. Caleb was still fast asleep and he was soft and warm and mouth watering tempting. Dimitri inhaled his delectable scent deeply, he could feel his canines come down and his body hardened even more.  Dimitri resigned himself to being a there awhile, Caleb was completely out. He turned his head to check the time. It was still early, but he would have to get up soon to get ready for his day in the office. Being as distracted as he has been over this  last few weeks he knew he had a mountain of things waiting for him. He sighed, and he began to rub Caleb’s back in hopes of waking up him gently.

            Caleb felt Dimitri’s big warm hands as they rubbed circles on his slender back. He was so comfortable, he just wanted to stay asleep a little longer, but he was awake now and so was his little friend below his waist. He groaned and rolled over onto his back throwing one arm over his face.

            “Good morning sleepy head. You can go back to sleep, but I have to get ready to go into the office.” Dimitri said as he leaned over and kissed Caleb’s soft lips, taking extra care not to scrape the tender flesh with his fangs. 

            “Oh, I almost forgot it is Monday. I might as well get up. I have to get home. I have work today as well.” Caleb said as he sat up in the bed.

            “You can have the bathroom first.” Dimitri said as he watched him get up and walk to the bathroom. He so wished he had the time to delay and make love to him for the rest of the morning but his control was tentative at best and he was not going to chance it too soon. He got up himself and walked towards his wardrobe. He chose his suit for the day and went to the fridge and got himself a bottle of blood, he was in the process of drinking when Caleb opened and bathroom door and came back into the bedroom, stopping mid-stride when he saw what Dimitri was drinking. Curious Caleb asked. “Does it come that way or do you bottle it?” 

            Putting the cap back on the bottle and making sure none was on his mouth he answered. “It is bottled and sold by a special company this way, we order it and it is delivered on dry ice.” Dimitri explained to Caleb hoping he wasn’t grossing him out.

            Walking over to him Caleb took the bottle from him and looked at it. “Does it satisfy you this way?” He dared to ask. 

            “It makes it easier and more convenient, it is also safer for humans because it is donated blood, and nobody had to be harmed to obtain it. We have learned to deal. We are not missing anything.”

            “Does it taste good?” Caleb questioned trying to understand his man a little more.

            “Yes, it does to me, but to you it may not.” Dimitri answered simply, but he was thinking how delicious Caleb’s blood was compared to the bottled stuff. His fangs throbbed right along with the cock at the mere memory of him sinkinghis fangs into the soft tissues of Caleb’s throat and spilling his warm blood on his tongue. He mentally groaned.

            Caleb handed Dimitri back the bottle and proceeded to finish getting dressed. He accepted that like any other person Dimitri’s diet of blood and nutrition was what he needed  to survive. He was running the brush through his hair when he heard Dimitri throw the empty bottle in the garbage before entering the bathroom. He found his shoes and sat down to slip them on his feet when he heard a knock at the door.

            “Come in.” Caleb called out as he got up from the chair.

            “Good morning, Mr. Tanner.” Gustav said as he entered the room.

            “Good morning Gustave, and please call me Caleb.

            “Of course.” Gustav bowed respectfully. “Breakfast is going to ready soon, is there anything you desire this morning?” He asked as he made the bed then disappeared into the wardrobe and brought the suit Dimitri selected for the day and laid it on the comforter.

            “No I will just have whatever Irina is preparing, please tell Dimitri I will meet him downstairs.” Caleb replied and took his backpack with him as he left the bedroom. He made his way down the spiral staircase to the foyer. He walked the short distance and entered the kitchen. “Good morning.” Caleb greeted Irina and sat down at the table and placed his bag on an empty chair.

            “Good morning, My Dear. I trust you slept well.” Irina said as she expertly folded a fluffy omelet onto a plate.

            “Yes thank you.” Caleb said as he sat back trying not to blush as she placed a plate in front of him. He was just about to ask about her evening when two young men appeared appeared in the doorway. They looked exactly alike, so they must be twin siblings. He thought.

            “Good morning, guys. Caleb let me introduce my nephews, Ahron and Ayden, she pointed to each one as she said their names, and guys this is Dimtri’s mate Caleb.” Irina introduced them.

            “It is a pleasure to meet you.“ They both mumbled as they stared in wonder at Caleb. They wondered how it was possible for a male to be another male’s mate, and from his scent he was human. But they could see  Dimitri’s bite mark like a neon sign flashing on his neck.

 Caleb returned their greeting and he felt a little self conscious as they continued to stare at him like he was the eighth wonder of the world. He listened as Irina explained that they were now going to be living here. His heart broke when he heard about their parents and he offered his sincere condolences.

 They remained quiet and solemn as they played with their food. Irina refilled his coffee and he worked his way through his omelet. He was getting ready to invite them to the bookstore to introduce them to the Kelly’s but his head snapped up as he sensed Dimitri’s approach. His frowned at the weirdness of the feeling of just knowing Dimitri was headed this way.           .

            Dimitri chose that precise moment to enter the kitchen looking like a runway model for GQ magazine. Caleb’s heart did a little flip flop in his chest when Dimitri crossed he room and bent over to kiss him full on the mouth in front of everyone before sitting down. Caleb was secretly pleased Dimitri had no qualms showing his interest in full view of everyone, and none to the gorgeous twins sitting at the table. Then he felt guilty at the jealous thought. Irina introduced him to Ahron and Ayden and he smiled politely and went about eating his breakfast, after a moment he asked. “Where is Stavos. He is usually eating by now?” He picked up on the boys sudden stillness and Irina glee in her thoughts, and wondered what he missed.

            “He already ate and is doing his rounds. He will be ready when you are.” Irina explained flipping another omelet and placing it on the counter in front of the now quiet boys.

            Dimitri nodded his head and continued to eat. He had some questions for his friend but that would have to wait until later. He tried to scan Irina’s thoughts but she was blocking him and the twin’s thoughts were disgruntled, until they let the thought slip the jolt of attraction they shared last night with Stavos when they arrived unexpectedly early and he choked on a bite if his eggs.  Caleb leaned over and was patting him on the back and Irina brought him a glass of orange juice. He regained his composure and took a drink of juice. He was so going to find out from Stavos what this was about. He almost laughed out loud.

            Caleb finished up and caught Dimitri’s eye to convey that he was ready to go. He was caught up in his agenda for today so he didn’t pick up the undercurrents running around the kitchen. Caleb smiled and said his goodbyes to the Irina and the twins before he escorted outside to the shiny black Mercedes waiting there for them. He wondered if Dimitri owned any car in any other color than black. Caleb sat back and relaxed as the car pulled smoothly away and proceeded down the drive.

            Dimitri found it funny that Stavos was guarding his thoughts this morning, only letting him know that Marcos had Caleb’s house covered and nothing else. He wasn’t ready to confront him yet about the twins, so he turned and grasped Caleb’s hand and brought it to his lips for a quick kiss. All too soon they reached his apartment and he escorted him to his door. He gathered Caleb’s willing body into his arms and kissed him gently rubbing his tongue senously along his bottom lip and wished him a good day. Dimitri turned back and went back the way he came after hearing Caleb engage the locks on his door. 

            Caleb dropped his bag on the chair and walked over to the dining table to pick up the bowl that he had left the night before. Setting in on the rack after rinsing it in the sink, he really wondered about the night before any why someone hovering outside his door would cause such unease with Dimitri. He really didn’t have or know anyone out to cause him harm. He had no ties from his many group homes and the people in his life really were acquaintances not really close friends. It made him a little sad to think about it, but she was always an introvert. He guessed it was a product of his upbringing, never really getting close to anyone because change was always constant in his life.

            He walked over to his wardrobe and chose a pair of jeans and a long sleeve black jersey shirt to wear to work. His vest was still in his car. He went to power up his laptop to check his emails and registration for his classes. He had some time to kill before work this afternoon.

            Irina was making the shopping list and she was in the pantry going through what they needed. She was calling out what she wanted to Ahron who was writing down what she said. Ayden was seated at the table programing their new cell phones. She finished one shelf and was going through another when Ahron asked. “Did you know of Gustav before you met him and realized he was your mate?

            “Yes, those three have been together since they were children. We all came from basically the same area and they were well known among the ladies. They are as handsome as the Devil himself and they were warriors at the time, fighting to keep our way of life. So in saying they were always the most popular because their strength and skill always outshone anyone else.” She explained and ushered Ahron back into the kitchen.

            “How did you feel then when you realized you were matched? Didn’t the other women or potential women bother you?” Ayden asked getting to the root of their problem about Stavos. 

            Irina felt that was the reason for their miserable expression. Gustav had told her about last night when sure enough it was proof that these pretty little things was in fact Stavos’ mates. She had a feeling when they arrived days earlier than expected and Stavos answered the door and stood there like he saw the ghost of his dead parents. So she walked over and sat opposite of them to explain. “Has your mother told you about the bond between mates once it is acted upon?”

            Embarrassed they looked away from their Aunt, their mother had always deluded herself in thinking that her father was her mate, but that was not the case, and when he did meet his true mate and left her. Their mother was so devastated she never believed in the whole mating ritual ever again. “My mother was infatuated with my father, and he thought she was nice, but they were not mates. When he did happen across his true mate, he left my mother for her, so my mother in her pain never gave any value or credit to the mating bond, she believes it doesn’t exist, since she never experienced it.”

            Irina knew this but she didn’t know that they knew too, so it kind of made it easier to be frank with them.“Well it truly exist among our kind and even with humans, as you can see in Dimitri’s case, and gender it not a factor either. With a human it is more complicated but with us not so much so, but the ritual still has to be completed. Once mated you never have to worry about infidelity because you are two halves of one whole in everything. For him no other woman or man exists for him and the same for you. It is hard to explain but that’s how it is. You would never have to worry about that.”

            The twins felt like the weight of the world had been lifted from their shoulders. They did not want to become as bitter as their mother, and what Irina has just explained they knew Stavos was their mate, as unconventional as that may seem, and from the way he reacted he did not seem too happy about it. They were going to find out why though. They thanked Irina and asked her if she needed them for anything else at the moment, when she shook her head no, they hurried to their room. 

            When they was younger Stavos and Dimitri had done business with their father when he still lived with them and they had secretly had a crush on him since then but his reputation had kept them far away from him at the time. They thought it was wrong to have feelings for another man, and being so young they didn’t understand the strength of their bond. They shared every feeling and every thought. So when they were old enough they realized that whichever one of them was attracted to someone, so was the other. Going through their clothes they were going to dress to impress when Stavos arrived home for dinner tonight. There were going to prove to him that they both belonged to him and they desperately want him to claim the both of them and make them his.

Chapter 15

Chapter 15

(The pool————>)

 

            Dimitri managed to keep his head on business most of the day, and now that the day was almost over and he finally managed to pin Stavos in one spot for more than five minutes, he sat back in his chair and studied his sullen friend in front of him. “So tell me what’s up?”

            Stavos quit staring at the view beyond the tinted glass windows and  turned his head to face Dimitri. “Where did those twins come from out of the blue? Irina did not tell me she was bringing them here permanently”

            “You know Irina loved her sister dearly and would do anything for her, now that she is gone the twins are the only thing left to remind her of her sister.” Dimitri reminded him.

            “I know you all think it’s funny but I am not on the market for a mate or mates. How is it even possible not one but two at the same time. Irina I am sure with that weird intuition of hers knew the possibility when she introduced us.”  Stavos resentfully stated.

            Dimitri put his elbows on his desk and crossed his fingers. He tried to figure out why Stavos was so irritated with this turn of events, why he was against having a mate. He never had reason to wonder before for Stavos had obviously has never found one before after all this time. “Why are you so not willing to even entertain the thought of having a mate? Would you rather continue blowing through the female/male population then?” He asked gently.

            Stavos inhaled deeply, he didn’t know if he could even explain it right. He has only had Dimitri, Irina, and Gustav for so long, what kind of mate would he make? Would he be gentle enough, patient enough, understanding enough. Could his mate put up with his need for control and dominance. Could they possibly be a mate and a sub. He didn’t have the patience to train a sub to his specifics, now he has two very naive and very young mates. Was he ready to let someone into his world on that level of intimacy? When he could answer those questions, then he figured he would make someone and decent mate. “The best I can say is that I am too set in my ways to change my life for someone. I like things my way I don’t like compromise.” Stavos stated instead of voicing his real thoughts.

            “All I can say is that having that special someone has a benefit that far outweighs the perceived setbacks. Trust me, why do you think I am in the situation I am in now. Just take it slow and get to know them, stop running.”  Dimitri said as he got up from his chair and shrugging into his suit jacket. “Let’s go home, I am starving and Irina’s making her famous spaghetti.”

            Rolling his eyes Stavos got up as well and followed Dimitri out of the office, he checked with their driver to make sure the car would be at the curb the moment Dimitri stepped out of the lobby doors.

            The ride home was uneventful. Dimitri had toyed with the idea of stopping by the bookstore just to see Caleb. He had only spoken to him once today. As the car pulled up to the front steps of his house a short while later, he waited for his door to be opened. He stepped out of the car and like clockwork; Gustav had the front door opened for him to proceed inside.

            Dimitri mounted the staircase and made his way to his room. Once there he shed his expensive suit and opted for black sweatpants and a plain white T-shirt. He was a little restless and he wanted more than anything to have Caleb’s company. He checked his watch, Caleb still had a little over two hours of his shift left to go and he hadn’t confirmed if he was going to stop by. Dimitri shook it off and decided to go downstairs and watch the show.

            He was about to open his bedroom door when Stavos burst through and closed it behind him. He walked straight over to the cooler and took a bottle of blood from it. “Those two are trying to do me in!”

            Dimitri tried to hide his amusement and watched as his friend took a seat and downed half the bottle of blood. “What are you talking about?” Dimitri  asked as he took the opposite chair and crossed his ankles and relaxing against the cushions. 

            “Irina is all but missing in action and every time I turn around there is those two demons smiling suggestively, brushing up against me and taunting me with innocent looks. They are trying to drive me insane I tell you.” Stavos stressed  and then promptly disappeared into thin air.

            “Coward, you are not leaving me here by myself to deal with them.” Dimitri laughed into thin air and thought it was not a bad idea and disappeared as well.

            Caleb shuffled his backpack and bag of groceries in his grasp and he managed to insert his key into the lock of his apartment door. He kicked the door out of the way with his foot and once inside he used that same foot and closed the door. He put the bags on the counter and turned on the light. He started to unpack his groceries when he looked up and saw Dimitri lying face down on his sofa. Puzzled he walked over and knelt down to look at his face. He seemed to be sleeping. Caleb smiled and quietly went back to the kitchen and wondered if he should get his head examined for the easy way he accepted Dimitri and his abilities. He didn’t see one of fancy cars in the parking lot, nor did he have a key, so Dimitri must have used the method he and Stavos did the other night of popping in and out of thin air.

            Caleb quietly slipped into the bathroom and showered quickly and after he was dressed he reentered the living room. He pulled an extra blanket from the wardrobe and snuggled next to Dimitri on the sofa and threw the blanket over the both of them and settled into sleep as well.

            Stavos sat by the darkened pool and stared at the glossy water. He had done all that he could to try to keep out of twins way for the rest of the evening, but the image of them in those identical blue skinny jeans outlining their fuckable asses was burned onto his brain. They had left their silky brown hair loose and naturally curly after their shower and their fresh clean scent had assaulted  his  senses. Their innocent green eyes had shot a spears of heat through his system every time they had glanced his way. He sighed as he remembered the way their hips had swayed when one or the other walked from the stove to place food on the table, and Gustav, the traitor, kept asking one or both  of them for something different so that they kept sashaying back and forth. He sat back deeper into the shadows made himself invisible both mind and body. He couldn’t take anymore torment tonight.

            He was wallowing in his self pity when he heard footsteps approaching. All at once the pool lights came on and illuminated the area in a soft glow. He looked up and his breath was caught in his throat when he saw Ahron and Ayden step up to the pool, they both dipped a toe in the water to test the temperature of the water. He was pretty sure his heart stopped all together when they untied the robes and let them slither down their toned bodies almost in synchronization to pool at their feet revealing their naked mouth watering forms.  Ahron raised his arms to catch the length of his luxurious bangs into a pony tail, further causing his muscles to flex so deliciously. Their perfect skin beckoned him, he could practically see himself warming all that expanse of flesh with his flogger. His pants suddenly got real tight. As if hypnotized he watched as  they turned their back to him, giving him a perfect view of their shapely derrieres and they took form and dived into the deep end of the water.

            Stavos waited for the twins to surface and when they did, their strokes were strong and sure through the glimmering water. He felt himself go instantly harder when  Ayden reached the shallow end of the pool and sat on one of the steps, the water cascading over his perfect chest. It took all his will power to remain seated. Ahron joined his twin and they sat there for a minute. Stavos heart constricted and his dick throbbed, leaking pre-cum like a faucet when Ahron grabbed Ayden by the back of the neck and brought his brother in for a searing kiss on the lips. Hot Damn, they were intimate with each other. He was holding himself so rigid in efforts to control himself. He opened his  inner mind and sensed their shared feelings of lust and their love for one another. He refused to keep running from their presence like a scared child. Maybe if he asserted some control over the situation they would be the ones avoiding him, after all they were the innocent ones. With a smug smile he got up and shed the clothes he was wearing right down to his underwear, he even stepped out of those and walked right up to the pool and dived in.

            Ahron and Ayden jumped apart when they heard the splash of someone diving into the pool and they felt the energy of it ripple over them. Surprised, they stopped and peered through the water at the shadowy figure slowly advancing towards them. They let out  identical startled gasps when each of their ankles were grabbed and they were pulled into the water; they spun around to look eye to eye directly into Stavos’ handsome face, his wet hair streaming water over his perfect features.

            He brought both of their shocked and flushed forms against the length of his body, one on each side of his massive chest making sure they felt every hard plain against their softer curves. Smiling rakishly the while time.

            The twins struggled to gather their scattered wits once they started to breathe again. Two things happened simultaneously. First, they realized how good it felt to be in Stavos’ arms and second, that he was completely naked as well. They looked at his smug smile and decided that two could play this game. He was standing up were as they were clinging his broad shoulders for balance, their much shorter feet not even touching the floor of the pool. They should be shy but they felt embolden feeling Stavos’ erection against their hips, and they so wanted to remove that smug smirk from his face. So Ahron used his hands spread over his massive shoulders to buoyed himself up and down  Stavos’ hot body; effectively causing a friction against his already swollen member and the sensitive skin or his belly, his twin followed his actions.

            Stavos gritted his teeth and decided they were definitely playing with fire here. He had expected them to pull away, but here they were blatantly adding fuel to the fire. He knew what their games was and he was  going to best them at it. In a sudden rush of power and strength, he had them pinned against the side if the pool and he claimed both of their erections in each one of his fists. 

 “Be sure of the game you play little boys.” He purred placing his head in the middle so he could breathe into both of their ears, and then he wickedly licked the shell of Ayden’s ear and followed another decadent caress to Ahron’s with his slick, moist tongue.

            They both felt the erotic wet caress from the top of their scalps to the tips of  their toes simultaneously. Their bodies actually shuddered with the force of  their shared pleasure and their hips bucked, further bringing their swollen members into even more contact with Stavos’ slowly pumping fists. They had never felt so alive and turned on in their lives, not even with each other sharing the same intense feelings, magnifying their spine tingling need for release. They inhaled deeply feeling their nipples brushing and beading against Stavos’ powerful chest. 

            Stavos watched the hot desire in their eyes and felt like a horny beast. He leaned forward and placed a gentle kiss against Ayden’s soft lips, following it with another gentle brush of lips to Ahron’s equally soft mouth and he willed himself to stop there, not to delve deeper into the sweet cavern of the tempting mouths. He pulled back and looked directly into each of their eyes. “I do not want you to have any regrets about anything that may happen between us, but I am warning you now. Stay away from me if you are not ready to deal with me in every way. I was not looking for a mate and it is obvious we are a match. I am not an easy man, and never will be. When you can deal little ones let me know.” And he eased his body away from them and vaulted out of the pool and walked away stark naked. Leaving them aroused and shaking. 

            The twins watched Stavos in all his entire naked glory walk away from  them and they felt cold and not just from the water, but heated at the same time. They both waited until he entered the house then they got out of the pool and walked over to their toweling robes and shrugged them on. Ahron was tying the sash when he noticed Stavos’ discarded clothes by one of the lounging chairs. Picking them up and shaking them out, he took them with them back into the house. They had just entered the back door to the kitchen when Irina emerged from the hall.

            “What have you got there?” She asked as she made her way to the stove to grab the steaming kettle.

            Blushing to the roots of their wet hair, they answered in unison. “Stavos left his clothes by the pool.”

            Irina eyed them knowingly taking in their wet appearances. “So enjoyed an evening swim?” She asked as them prepared three mugs for the tea.

            “More like a battle of wills. I am pretty sure we lost.” Ayden said as he plopped dejectedly down next to his brother at one of the kitchen table chairs. 

            Irina poured hot water into the mugs with tea bags and sugar. “It couldn’t have been that bad.” She encouraged as she set the mugs on the table and sat opposite of them.

            Ahron snorted and told Irina the G rated version briefly of what happened as they drank their tea. Irina laughed and she told them exactly what to do next as she picked up the cups and cleared the kitchen. The twins smiled to themselves as they followed the directions Irina had given them and they came to a stop in front of the lion’s den. Ayden knocked sharply on the door and when it opened he boldly shoved the clothes into Stavos’ surprised hands blew him a kiss and walked back down the hall to their room.

            Stavos shook his head and closed his door, dumping his clothes on a chair. He had to applaud their courage he thought. This might be interesting after all.

Chapter 16

Chapter 16

(Cutie Caleb–––––––>)

 

            Caleb woke up sandwiched between the couch cushions and Dimitri’s hard luscious body. One of Dimitri’s muscular thighs was wedged in between his and nestled against his morning wood. Caleb could feel Dimitri’s tongue on his neck as he swirled it lazily over Caleb’s sensitive spot. Caleb shivered when he felt the scrape of Dimitri’s fangs and despite his best efforts he tensed a little. Dimitri continued to swirl his tongue from just behind Caleb’s ear over the warm creamy skin there to throbbing pulse at his throat.

            Dimitri knew he should stop tempting fate, but when he had opened his eyes and Caleb’s scent registered to his sleepy senses, it penetrated every cell of his body, fueling his awakening beast. He craved Caleb like a starving man craved a scrap of bread. Dimitri continued the erotic play in Caleb’s neck, now moving his hand down the side of his sexy body. He captured a soft thigh and brought it over his hip, bringing Caleb into  further into contact with his throbbing cock. He moaned deep in his chest as he ground their heated flesh against each other. He was loosing some of his control bit by bit.

            Caleb inhaled and fought the mind numbing haze of pleasure that was clouding his brain. The feel of Dimitri’s soft lips gliding over his skin and his hard length pushing against him was driving him insane. But what really amped up the desire pumping through his veins was the sexy scrape of his fangs on his sweet spot.  “Do you want to bite me?” Caleb boldly asked, as he broke contact by leaning back further into the cushions to look into Dimitri’s beautiful face, whose eyes were smoldering silver fire. Caleb brought his hand up and gently ran his finger along Dimitri’s lush pink lips gently exposing the length of his fangs. Caleb got even bolder as he leaned forward holding Dimitri’s silver glare as he used the tip of his tongue to lick the length of one of his lethally sharp fangs. Dimitri’s entire body jolted as if some electrocuted him.  

             Dimitri lowered his head to hide the wicked teeth from Caleb, he didn’t want to accidentally cut him and he was scared that one day he would do something that would send him running from what he was, but Caleb held his face in his hands and looked directly into his eyes. “This is who you are and I am dealing with it, don’t hide it from me. You want to bite me don’t you, what will it feel like if I allow it, I know you have done it before but we were otherwise occupied. Will it hurt?” He asked curiously. The mere thought of Dimitri sinking his teeth into him sent a delicious shiver of lust down his spine.

            Dimitri shook his head at Caleb’s level of acceptance and replied. “No it will not hurt. It is a very sexual experience, actually. You do understand that if I bite you a second time we are bonded even stronger, one more bite and the your urges for me gets stronger. You remember I told you, you will start craving to bite me as well, so please, please be sure not just curious.”

            Caleb took a minute and used his hands to pat against Dimitri’s solid chest to indicate he wanted to be let up. When he was sitting upright he shifted over and turned so that Dimitri was facing him. “You told me we are destined to mate. You knew this but because I am human I don’t know. This is like a marriage, right?”

            “Yes, once the choice is made and the ritual is completed, there is no turning back, no divorce, it is until one of us perishes. I will never betray you and 

you will never betray me. No other will hold the slightest interest for us.”  Dimitri explained, trying to calm his body at the same time.

            Caleb contemplated this information, his past had always made him wary to even contemplate building a relationship of any kind with anyone, but looking into this man’s eyes he knew his world would be a dull and boring place without Dimitri in it. He asked himself a very important question, and the answer was a definite yes. Caleb loved this man and it didn’t matter to him at all that Dimitri wasn’t human. There were crueler and stranger things out there. Dimitri has done nothing but cherish and care for him from the moment they met. “I want you to bite me, I want to feel what it feels like, but before we go any further answer me one question then we take it from there.”

            “Anything.” Dimitri said running fingers over the smooth skin of Caleb’s face.

            Caleb smiled and climbed over Dimitri’s to straddle his lap and nestle himself right over his hard cock. He leaned forward and kissed him gently on  the mouth. Running his tongue along the seams of Dimitri’s soft lips and as he expected Dimitri opened for him and his busy little tongue traced his lips and then his fangs, savoring the taste of his man. Caleb felt a little thrill as Dimitri’s big palms tightened against his hips, effectively holding him still as he ground against his ass, making his dick pulse and leak, so wet with desire. Before  Caleb lost his nerve he had quietly whispered. “Do you love me?” 

            Dimitri gently cupped caleb’s face in his hands and looked him straight in the eyes. “Ever since the moment you knocked me over in the bookstore and ran away.” He said with a sincere smile.

            Caleb could feel his heart flutter in his chest and he couldn’t help but to smile as he leaned forward and planted a searing kiss, penetrating Dimitri’s mouth and deliberately pricking the tip of her tongue on his teeth. He could taste his blood in his mouth before Dimitri groaned and sucked Caleb’s tongue deeper into his mouth and strongly latched onto it.

            Leaning backwards, Dimitri broke contact with Caleb’s lips and ran his tongue along the sensitive skin of his neck, swirling it in circles over the frantically pounding pulse. He took his time tantalizing Caleb, nibbling and nipping, building anticipation.

            All of sudden Caleb felt the sharp piercing of Dimitri’s teeth deep into his flesh and his cock pulsed and throbbed like it has it’s own heartbeat. There was only a brief second of pain, and then his body flared and was now burning passionately. The ecstasy was almost too much to bear, his hips bucked forward looking for some kind of friction against his man. Dimitri suckled  at  his neck as gently as he could manage, the motion of his lips and tongue was causing Caleb to move his hips restlessly against Dimitri, rubbing his sex against him through their clothes. There were no words to describe the feeling, and all too soon Dimitri withdrew his fangs from the tissues of Caleb’s neck, swirling his tongue over the spot where his teeth were just buried to heal the two puncture wounds completely.

            Dimitri took a minute to settle his senses. His body was too excited, coiled and tense, he wanted more, his body yearned for it. He mentally focused on anything but the feel of Caleb’s warmth against him  and his scent surrounding him.

            Caleb felt the tension riding Dimitri. It was the same sexual tension that was riding through him. He knew Dimitri needed a minute but he was past aroused, he was on fire. He moved his hands from Dimitri’s shoulders, sliding them down his long, muscular arms his waist. He found the hem of Dimitri’s shirt and pulled it over his head in one swoop.  Throwing it aside and ran his hands over the wide expanse of Dimitri’s warm exposed chest. Leaning forward he used his tongue to follow the path of his hands.

            Caleb nipped at his nipples and felt Dimitri’s hands on hips tighten even more on his hips. Slowly moving upwards he traced a hot path up the side of his neck to his ear and swirled his tongue inside the shell of it before moving across his cheek to capture his lips. His hands traveled back to Dimitri’s waist, and managed to unbutton his shorts and pull down his zipper. Scooting back a little Caleb gave himself room to slip his hand inside and wrap his fingers around Dimitri’s solid erection. Gently flexing his wrist he pumped Dimitri’s thick shaft back and forth. Gently squeezing it and using the precum as lube to continue to slide his fist up and down Dimitri’s rock hard member. 

            Dimitri’s hips bucked, driving his cock deeper into Caleb’s  hand and began to move hips to follow his rhythm. He wasn’t going to last much longer if  his sweet boy kept up this pace. He quickly eased up and pulled his pants down just enough to free himself more. He jerked Caleb’s shirt off and pulled his boy’s pants off, throwing them out of the way. He stuck his fingers into Caleb’s mouth and told him to suck. He used his other hand to stroke him firmly from toot to tip and watched Caleb’s delicate little tongue flicker over and through the digits in his mouth and his throbbed and pumped out even more precum. He couldn’t take it anymore. He slipped his fingers from on between Caleb’s pretty pink lips and dove right into his cheeks finding his puckered entrance. He massaged and teased his fingers into Caleb’s warmth and scissored him, preparing his sweet boy to bury his cock deep into him. His cock was leaking like a faucet and he used it to his advantage. He lined the blunt head up with his baby’s entrance and snapped his hips up burying himself in one go and he hissed at how good it felt to be buried balls deep in his boy.

            The air left Caleb’s body with the force of Dimitri’s powerful thrust directly to his core. His short nails dug into Dimitri’s massive shoulders as he used them to steady himself as he began to ride him eagerly back and forth, up and down, his muscles quivered along the length of Dimitri’s thick shaft. Using his thigh muscles he eagerly pumped himself up and down on his cock, taking him to the hilt only to reverse direction. Caleb’s breath was sobbing out of him as the friction caused heat to build and pool where they were joined. He rode  Dimitri faster and faster. His face blurred in front of him as his balls drew up  ans his white spots crowded his vision ans his body trembled as he shattered, Caleb cried out as line after line of hot cum exploded from his pulsing cock coating Dimitri’s chest and abdomen.

            Dimitri felt Caleb’s muscles contract squeezing him even tighter, milking his cock relentlessly until he felt his own orgasm slam into him with the force of a wrecking ball, sweeping him away. He groaned out Caleb’s name and grabbed his hips steady him and he pumped one last time into his sweet  channel emptying himself completely. 

            Caleb rested his head on Dimitri’s strong shoulder and worked to regulate his breathing and heart rate back to normal. He felt completely boneless and sated. Dimitri’s  big hands was rubbing his back soothingly and he sighed. He loved this man with every fiber of his being, he admitted to himself. Lifting his head he kiss Dimitri gently on his lips, then sliding off his lap he excused herself to the bathroom.

            While Caleb was in the bathroom Dimitri got up and cleaned himself of with tissues from the nightstand and fixed his clothing, throwing the tissues in the trashcan by the sofa, he fluffed the cushions on the sofa. He went into the kitchen and put the kettle on to make them some tea. He had to leave soon to get ready for work. He remembered his method of arriving last night and wondered if he should just call Stavos to bring a suit and pick him up on the way to the office. That sounded like a great idea, he thought as he pulled out his cell phone and made the call. He was just disconnecting the call after no answer when  Caleb reappeared in entrance to the kitchenette.

            Smiling, Caleb walked up to him and wrapped his arms around Dimitri’s waist. “So am I going to get weird cravings or anything now that you have staked your claim?”  He teased as he nuzzled his man’s neck.

            “Yes, unfortunately the urge is going to get stronger for me to complete the mating ritual and you will notice changes in your senses. Cravings, I am not sure, I have never had a human mate before, but I am told you might get the urges too, but it all has to do with you claiming me.” Dimitri explained as he finished making their tea.

            Caleb took the mug Dimitri handed him and led the way to the dining table and sat down, thinking over all that Dimitri has explained to him. “I am not grossed out by the blood or anything but I don’t know about craving it, even if it yours.” He honestly stated.

            After taking sip of the hot liquid Dimitri replied. “I don’t know if you will crave blood now, but I know you will once you decide if my lifestyle will be yours and the conversion happens. I just want you to be sure.” He said as he reached for Caleb’s hand and held his much smaller and slender one in his.

            “Well, you will be the first to know. But, what happens if I choose otherwise?” Caleb asked quietly.

            Dimitri laced his fingers through Caleb’s and looked at their joined hands before answering him. “We would have to separate, to give you time to overcome the urges and return to your normal self.”

            Caleb nodded his head and let it soak in what Dimitri was telling him. He would from here begin to crave Dimitri in ways he didn’t understand and if he didn’t choose Dimitri’s lifestyle. He would have to leave him. It was going to be a tough choice and he couldn’t picture his life without Dimitri in it, but he would have to give up his humanity to keep him in it.

            Caleb smiled and kissed Dimitri before detangling himself from his embrace to take care of his morning routine. While he was in the bathroom changing, Dimitri knocked and said he was heading home to get ready for work. He called out and acknowledged his statement and went back to his brooding over the situation at hand.

            Dimitri flashed home to an extremely quiet house for this time of the morning. He sighed deeply and padded across the carpet to his wardrobe. He entered the large closet to see Gustav already there busy picking out his attire for the day.

            “Good morning.” Dimitri greeted his friend as he changed route and pressed a series of button on his jewelry safe and picked out his Rolex watch and other pieces for the day.

           “It has been an interesting evening in your absence.” Gustav said as pulled an immaculate Armani suit from the impressive designer collection.

            “How so?” Dimitri asked as he followed him into the main salon to begin dressing as he listened to the account of the Stavos and the twin’s escapades during the evening and later by the pool ending up at Stavos’ bedroom door. He laughed as he made a mental picture of the scene. This was going to be a welcome distraction to his own love life at the moment to watch Stavos’ fall from bachelorhood. And he had no doubt that it was going to happen. Ahron and Ayden seemed for more than capable of dealing with the man. The thought gave him a little comfort in the fact that Stavos needed the kind of love and closeness that could only come from a mate.

Chapter 17

Chapter 17

(Sexy Stavos and his Twins———>) 

  Stavos rubbed the back of his neck and wondered if it was safe to go home. Dimitri was sitting behind him with a know it all smirk on his face that he just wanted to smack right off. He wondered what those two little Devil twins had in store for him when he got home. After a tiring day in the office he needed to burn off some steam and he was sure that the mischievous two would be shocked to the marrow of their bones if they realized just how he accomplished doing that. 

 “Stop brooding Stavos, it will give you wrinkles.” Dimitri teased from the back seat of the car.

 “I am not brooding, and shouldn’t you be more concerned with your mate right now anyway.” Stavos snapped back at his best friend.

 Dimitri shook his head. “Touche, my friend.” He replied and sat back and decided to just sit back and watch. In the next few minutes they arrived at the gates of Dimiti’s home and the car glided silently around the drive. They came to a stop and Stavos got out making sure to scan the area before opening Dimitri’s door. Gustav as usual was waiting in the open doorway.

 Stavos was a few paces behind Dimitri as they made their way inside. “Good evening.” Gustav replied as they filed past him.

 “Where are your nephews?” Stavos asked as he made his way into the informal sitting room, he was silently glad that Dimitri came in here instead of heading straight into the kitchen, where he suspected the Devils were at this moment helping Irina with dinner.

 “Why, do you need your mates to attend to you?” Gustav asked with one eyebrow cockily raised as Dimitri stifled a chuckle with a cough.

 Stavos sat down in one plush chairs and sighed. “Gustav, you are so funny you might even manage to make me smile.” He deadpanned as he glared at the other man. “You have known me for several decades. You know what I do, what I need from a partner. Do you think those two innocents can deal with that, with me and my nature?” Stavos seriously asked his friend, putting his fear out there for his two best friends to see.

 Gustav thought it over for a minute before responding. “You never know, those boys parents controlled every second of their lives. It’s like they are floundering and constantly looking for the guidance. I believe you are perfect for them. Now what happens in ya’ll bedroom that is between you and them.”

 “On that note, I am going to dinner. Stavos just think about it and give it a chance. The twins are your mates. That is a beautiful and rare thing to find.” Dimitri stated as he placed a comforting hand on his friends shoulder before leaving the room.

 Gustav got to his feet as well. “Are you coming to dinner?”

 “Nah, I just need some blood and some sleep. The security team is on hand and is monitoring the house.” Stavos said as he cracked his neck and stood up. He shrugged his massive shoulders out of his designer jacket and followed Gustav to the door. He made his way quickly past the kitchen just in case Irina caught sight of him. He didn’t feel like dealing with her mother hen tendencies.

 He was almost to his room when movement caught his peripheral vision. Turning his head he managed to peek through the barely cracked doorway of the twins room further down the hall. He saw them seated on the bed facing each other, they were shirtless and close. Their slender upper bodies on full display. He couldn’t help himself as he was drawn to the sight and scent of their desire. He slowly made his way to the door and the twins. Pushing the portal wider his breath caught in his throat and he had to suppress a moan as he watched them kissing each other. They were so engrossed in the act, their hands caressing each others bodies. Stavos could feel himself go instantly hard. Their plump, kiss swollen pink lips glided over each others, their tongues flicking and teasing. Ahron broke away and glided his pretty pink tongue along his brother’s jawline down to his neck. Stavos cock jumped and leaked precum as Ayden released the sexiest sound he had ever heard. He watched spellbound as Ahron opened his mouth revealing his sharp fangs a second before sinking them into the soft flesh of Ayden’s neck, causing the sexy young man to arch his graceful spine, clutching fists full of his brother’s hair as he was suckled. Stavos dick twitched and leaked like a faucet, he let  out the groan that was building up in his chest  and both of the twins snapped their attentions to him. Ahron smiled seductively and he leaned over and licked Ayden’s skin effectively closing his bite wounds.

 Stavos closed his eyes, he was sure they were glowing bright gold for his vision had tunneled in straight on them blocking out everything else. He held himself rigid and willed his control back into place. His eyes snapped opened when he felt two warm bodies press flush against him.

 “Did you like what you saw?” Ayden whispered as he ran his lips lightly over Stavos’ jaw. Ahron ran a hand over his chest, sliding his fingers through the opening trying to get to his skin. Stavos silently cursed fate for blessing him with these two sexy temptations. Their scent swirled around him, made even stronger by the fresh blood Ahron had drawn from his brother. He was fighting a loosing battle. He stepped back suddenly and spun on his heel. He could feel his fangs pinching his lip as the desire to mark and ravish his mates fought through his system. He made it to his room and slammed the door closed. Dammit, he was a breath away from slamming the both of them against the wall and claiming them. He had pictured himself restraining them, having them kneel at his feet and taking turns or together sucking him off. He cursed and made his way to his fridge and pulled out several bottles of blood, popping the caps and downing one after the other. His body almost revolted, it didn’t want this cold relief, it wanted the warm fresh living blood of it’s mates down the hall. 

 Once his fangs finally retracted back into his gums he got undressed and padded into his en-suite bathroom. He closed his thoughts off to everyone in the house. Turning on the water he looked down at his still throbbing hard on and sighed heavily. He could feel the desire for his mates pulling at him and he was fighting it with everything he had. He stepped under the warm spray of water and lathered his body, he washed his shaft and balls and rinsed the soap from his skin and turned off the water. He stepped out and dried his body.

 Wrapping the towel around his waist he walked back into his bedroom only to come to a dead stop in his tracks. He mentally groaned and called to the heavens for patience as he spied the twins sitting comfortably on his bed.

 “You two have no self preservation, right?” He stated as he continued over to his walk in closet. He pulled out a pair of sweat pants and slid into them. He usually slept naked but with these two here he didn’t dare try it. He stepped back out from his closet and leaned against the wall, staying as far from them as the room allowed. “I am tired and I want to go to sleep, so if you two would be so kind and get lost.” He stated with a stoic face.

 “We have self preservation that is why we are in here, because we need you.” Ayden simply stated as they rose as one from the bed and made their way over to him.

 Stavos could feel the shiver of pleasure run down his spine at those words. He cautiously watched as they approached but he didn’t stop them. If they wanted to play with fire. Then he was getting ready to ignite at any moment. Ahron pressed against his left side and Ayden to his right. The two as if in sync used the tips of their pink little tongues to trace the line of his jaw, swirling their way to the side of his neck and licked his pulse points there. 

 “We want to please you, to make you see that we are meant to be.” Ahron whispered in his ear before he licked the shell. Stavos had his body under rigid control but he still felt the burn of heat in his blood as Ahron’s tongue connected with his ear. Ayden was steadily sucking and nipping, his fangs scraping on the sensitive skin of his neck. He added a little pressure almost piercing the skin and Stavos snapped. His suddenly pushed away from the wall grabbing each young man by the neck and slamming their backs into the hard surface of the wall, pinning them there.

 “I have warned you, I have tried to keep my distance. You don’t understand what I am what I need. I tried to shield you from that side if me, but you will not listen.” He growled at them. Their eyes wide but they showed no fear, only burning lust and the desire to please. Their bodies were actually trembling with anticipation.

 “Then show us, tell us what you need. We need you, we need for you to be our everything, to care for us, cherish and love us as we do the same for you.” They said together as they brought up their hands up to caress Stavos’s forearms.

 He closed his eyes as their words washed over him. He waited a minute or two before opening them again. “I am a sadist. I need to cause pain, to restrain you, and forcefully flog , beat, whip, and go through power exchanges. I need the release it brings, nothing else will do for me. I have to have control, over what you eat, when you wake, when you come and touch yourselves. That is who I am, I will bring you to the brink  of pain and pleasure as I see fit, I may grant to release or I may withhold it. It is how I function and I don’t make any excuses for it. Can you do that? Can you both submit everything you are to me. Trust me to care for you, to know your needs and fulfill them as you fulfill  mine without any doubts what so ever unconditionally.”

 Without any hesitation what so ever, they both replied. “Yes, Sir.”

 Stavos studied them for a long while before stating. “Starting tonight, you will sleep here. I will determine when we will complete the mating ritual. If you two can handle my nature in the days and weeks to come, then we will proceed, until then we will learn together. You are to call me Stavos. I don’t need the Sirs or Masters, but you will respect me and follow my instructions with out question. Now get in the bed, like I said I am tired.” He finished and watched as they scrambled to get over to his California King size and snuggled under the covers.

 Stavos silently made his way over to the bed after turning out the lights. He climbed over Ayden and settled into the middle of the bed. He held his arms open to his boys and they gladly planted themselves against his sides, snuggling in and resting their heads on a muscled shoulder. Ahron got a little daring and ran his hand across Stavos’ chiseled chest and over his pronounced eight pack abs. When Stavos didn’t stop him, Ayden joined by running his fingers over the delicious length of Stavos erection. Stavos groaned at their attentions and decided to let them have their fun. He encouraged them by caressing the back of their necks with his strong fingers. The twins leaned up and each took a turn to gently kiss Stavos’ firm warm lips. Both of their hands made their way under the waistband of his sweats. Ahron’s hand took his firm flesh in his warm fist and began to stroke him up and down. Ayden hands cupped and massaged his balls. 

 Stavos slid his hands down their lean chests and abs sneaking into each of their boxers. They each purred against his neck as he firmly stroked them from root to tip. Rubbing his thumbs over their slits spreading the precum over the silky head of their members. He tested them by tightening his fist almost painfully, causing them to each whimper and thrust themselves further into his fist. They continued to stroke each other frantically picking up the pace. Stavos lifted his leg and kicked the covers off their writhing bodies to the end of the bed. Ayden whined while Ahron keened, they were close and so was Stavos. He panted as he felt his balls quivering. “Come Now!” He demanded them as he felt the head of dick shudder as he shot hot come all over his stomach and Ahron’s hand. They each gasped and whimpered into his neck as their bodies shivered out the last of their orgasm. Stavos reached over to the nightstand and opened the drawer pulling out a packet of wipes. He cleaned each of his boys and himself disposing them in the bin by the bed. Ayden grabbed the covers and they settled back in. They thanked Stavos by each giving their man a sweet kiss before settling to sleep for the night.

Chapter 18

Chapter 18

(Sexy Marcos, Caleb’s bodyguard———>) 

  Dimitri walked into the kitchen to find Irina at the stove flipping pancakes and Gustav setting the table. He greeted both of them and thanked Gustav for handing him a steaming mug of coffee. Taking a seat at the table he enjoyed his first sip of Java.

 “Has Stavos made an appearance yet this morning? I haven’t heard a peep out of him since yesterday evening?” Dimitri asked his friends.

 Irina smirked and exchanged a knowing glance with Gustav. “He slept in, as a matter of fact I went looking for the twins this morning and I couldn’t find them. I wonder where they have gotten to?” She voiced with fake innocence.

 Gustav could barely contain his glee. “I am sure I know where there are, I just hope they survived their over night endeavors.” He stated as he took a seat across from Dimitri.

 Dimitri almost choked on his coffee. “You mean to tell me that those two have been with Stavos all night, they succeeded in penetrating his armour?” He asked incredulously.

 “I am not one to spread rumors.” Gustav stated with a straight face and Dimitri guffawed at that comment, knowing full well it definitely wasn’t true. No one gossiped more than his friend, especially with the encouragement of his beautiful mate.

 Just as he was going to open his mouth to say something Ahron and Ayden made an appearance in the entrance way to the spacious kitchen. “Good Morning.” They chirped in unison before making there way to the counter to help Irina serve up the food on platters to be placed on the table.

 Stavos wasn’t even five minutes behind them as he entered the kitchen with an easy stride. Everyone watched aptly as he glanced at the boys and they flushed prettily pink at his glance. No one missed the fact that Ahron broke away and handed him a mug of coffee while Ayden handed him a napkin, both of them brushed against him discreetly and flushed some more before going back for the dishes of food. Dimitri had to step on Gustav’s foot to keep from commenting. Irina just kept her gaze down, but you couldn’t miss the small smile on her lips.

 Everyone settled around the table to eat and  again no one missed the fact that the twins pulled their chairs closer to Stavos, almost sitting practically in his lap. Once the food was dished out and everyone was eating, Dimitri bit the bullet and asked what was on his mind. “So then, are you guys together now?”

 Three sets of eyes turned his way, two set of mischievous blue and one steely gray. Stavos simply answered. “Yes.” His jaw clenched, as if expecting what Gustav was no doubt going to start in on at any moment. Dimitri raised a brow in surprise when Gustav refused to take the bait. Especially when both boys each laid their heads on Stavos massive shoulders. Irina couldn’t help but to say “aww” at the sight of them. Stavos rolled his eyes and the boys just wrapped their arms around his huge biceps and snuggled into him more. Under all that blustering and glaring Dimitri could see that he was really pleased, happiness glinting in his usually chilly gaze. Dimitri felt a yearning deep in his chest for his own mate. He wondered what Caleb was up to this morning. For the last couple of days he had to work as well as straighten out his classes for next  semester at his school. Maybe if his own schedule permitted it, he would surprise his love with lunch today. Dimitri smiled at the thought and excused himself to finish getting ready for his day at the office. Stavos followed suit, the twins stayed behind to help Irina and Gustav clear the kitchen.

 Caleb studied his course schedule as he made his way across campus back to his car. He had met with his Student Adviser and he was so relieved that these where the last classes he had to take towards completing his degree. The smile on his face could rival the brightness of the morning Miami sun. He was busy checking the time schedule when someone bumped roughly into him causing him to drop everything in his hands. He scowled and looked right into the malicious black eyes of tall raven haired woman. She was absolutely stunning, but the sneer on her face ruined her beauty. “Watch where you are going, fairy.” She snarled and Caleb’s frown deepened. He decided to ignore her crudeness and bent down to pick up his keys and schedule. He cried out in shock and pain when her foot stomped down on his hand. She bent over to glare into his face. “I know you think you have him, but I am here to tell you that he always been meant for me, not even my stupid sister who thought she was his mate could take him from me, and you, you stupid human think that you can. I will remove you from the face of the earth. You better be glad he has your pathetic ass guarded but he can’t have eyes on you all the time.” The woman snarled and just as abruptly as she appeared, she was gone. Caleb sat back on his butt right there on the ground and cradled injured hand to his chest. He was more than confused, she must be referring to Dimitri because she used the word mate and she mentioned her sister. 

 His hand began to throb painfully and he winced as he got up and gathered his things with his good hand. He just managed to get back to his feet when a good looking man stepped up to him and he jumped back wary of strangers now at this point, but something about the man was familiar.

  “Are you okay?” Marcos asked Caleb, concerned. He had only caught a glimpse of what had occurred, the woman’s back was facing him from where he was parked in the lot as he waited for Caleb to finish what he was doing.

 Caleb recalled the man from the time he had a flat tire and it clicked. He fumed silently, he had specifically declined a bodyguard when Dimitri had offered one and still Dimitri ignored him and obviously had someone following him. His hand tingled painfully reminding him of his injury, he tried to flex his fingers and pain shot through all of his fingers, he groaned and Marcos instantly snapped to attention. Before Caleb could utter a word, he was hustled towards a very expensive looking Mercedes with darkly tinted windows. “But my car.” He began but Marcos just said it will be picked up and not to worry, he had to have that hand looked at. Caleb was surprised when Marcos first called his job telling them he was injured and will not be in and then he tried but failed to stop him from calling Dimitri. He just closed his eyes and rested his head against the cool glass as he listened to Dimitri’s voice booming out reprimanding Marcos for letting someone get close enough to harm Caleb. He demanded to know which Emergency room we were going to and promptly hung up the phone.

 After waiting for about twenty minutes with an ice pack on his hand and a seriously pissed bodyguard at his side a nurse finally called his name and he got to his feet. Marcos shadowed his every step as he made his way into the waiting area. He was barely seated on the stretcher when there was a commotion out in the hallway and then the curtains fluttered as two large and very concerned vampires made an appearance, making the small examination room feel even smaller. The flustered nurse bristled and firmly stated that they could not all be in the room. Dimitri solved that problem by shooing Marcos and Stavos back out into the waiting area then he gaze snapped right back to me. He almost shoved the nurse out the way but caught himself in time and he anxiously watched her remove the ice pack and examine my now purple splotched hand and swollen fingers.

 “You poor thing, this looks like a definite break, love.” She cooed as she gingerly prodded Caleb’s hand. She bustled some more as she took his temperature and blood pressure making notes on the clipboard beside her. She smiled warmly and told them the doctor will be in shortly then Caleb was going to gave my hand x-rayed. She bustled out the room leaving Caleb with my angry boyfriend.

 Dimitri sighed heavily and came to sit next to me on the stretcher. “Tell me what happened.” He quietly demanded him.

 Taking a deep he described the best I could of the incident with the woman, what she said , what she looked like, and so forth. Caleb got concerned and reached out with his good hand when Dimitri seemed to go pale. He had no idea that vampires could do that, seeing they were constant need blood.

 “Do you know this person?” He asked a still pale Dimitri. 

 Dimitri just nodded his head, but he didn’t clarify any further on anything. He just stared off into space. Caleb was almost relieved when an orderly showed up with a wheel chair to shuffle him off to the Radiology Department. Before he could get me out of the room, Marcos appeared and silently shadowed me down the maze of hallways to the x-ray rooms. Caleb had wanted to question Dimitri but now was not the time.

 Dimitri cursed under his breath as he angrily strode out of the exam area back into the waiting area. He caught Stavos’ eye as he continued on his way out the sliding glass doors into the sunshine outside. When Stavos caught up with him, his jaws where clenched with tension. He could feel it radiating off of him in waves of malevolence. “It sounds like Natasha twisted ass has shown up once again. Why after all these God Damn years has she chosen up now to wreak further havoc on my life? I was too lenient the last time, letting her go even after I suspected she may have had a hand in his previous mate’s, Clarissa’s death, her own sister, the twisted Bitch. Now she out right attacks my current mate.” Dimitri confessed to his friend.

 “Well you know what you have to do this time. If it was definitely her, she will die no questions asked.  But you know, even with Marcos, myself, and any other security you place on Caleb, she is cunning enough and powerful enough to get around it, you may have to consider turning him sooner than you thought.” Stavos informed his friend cutting straight to the chase. It was a matter of giving Caleb an equal chance if she struck again. That demented Bitch, she had gotten it into her head years and years ago that Dimitri was supposed to be her mate, she, who has never had a mate didn’t understand or cared to understand the pull true mates experienced for one another, so when Dimitri mated her sister instead of her she went of her rocker. When Clarissa had died decapitated in some freak accident, she tried to get with him, but in his depression Dimitri fled Europe for America. After another few decades he took another mate and she and the babe she was carrying died in child birth. She did not intake enough blood to sustained a healthy vampire pregnancy. Dimitri had then refused to mate with anyone again. He resolutely became a man whore,  that was until a certain pretty little boy stumbled innocently into his path. Now this. 

 After watching Dimitri endure the pain and finally heal after losing his mates, he vowed that it was not going to happen again. Now having Ahron and Ayden, just the thought of losing them caused a pain so sharp he couldn’t even phantom what Dimitri had experienced. Now he truly understood the mating bond and he would rip that Bitch limb from limb first, tear her very heart from her chest with his own hands. He looked at his friend and stood quietly by his side offering what strength he could. He could feel the worry and the anger coursing around Dimitri like a shroud. Caleb should better know that he was now never going to leave Dimitri’s sight.  Stavos’ mind was running a mile a minute, he had to find Natasha and he had to find her soon.

 Caleb felt a like he was floating from the pain medicine that they had given him when they had put the cast on his wrist. He didn’t even register when Dimitri carried him from the car into the house. Gustav answered the door and the twins fluttered and cooed at him as Dimitri carried him up the stairs to the master suite. After laying him on the bed he barely had time to move before the twins descended and striped Caleb and redressed him in one of Dimitri’s shirts in no time flat, coverinf him with the plush comforter. All the while fluttering about him being so fragile and pretty. Stavos just shook his head as he grabbed a bottle of blood from the mini fridge and opened it handing it off to his friend. Dimitri needed to focus and center his thoughts right now. His fear for his mate was clouding his senses. Stavos turned his attentions to his boys and silently mind linked with them for them to leave the room. He assured them that they could check on Caleb later, that his mate needed to be close to him right now. They nodded and they each brushed their lips across his cheeks as they left. He could feel his cock stir with the simple contact but this wasn’t the time nor place for that.

 Finishing of the bottle, Dimitri placed it in the disposal bin and shrugged out of his jacket. He informed Stavos that he was okay for the evening and to have Irina prepare a tray later for Caleb when he woke up, then he disappeared into his closet to change. Stavos didn’t broach the subject of Natasha any further, time enough for that in the morning. He quietly exited the room and made his way downstairs. He already had Marcos along with several others trying to get a sense of her trail from the school grounds, they would go from there. He made it to the kitchen as watched Ahron as lithe body stretch as he reached for a mixing bowl on the top shelf for Irina, Ayden was happy chopping vegetables, popping pieces of carrots into his mouth here and there. He mentally groaned as he watched those plump pink lips close around the food. Pushing away from the wall he headed for his room to change. He was going to work of some energy in the home gym. The exercise would serve to clear his mind and allow him to focus on removing this threat from their lives, because if Dimitri looses Caleb, he was sure Dimitri was going to go into a spiraling depression like no one has ever seen before. Stavos didn’t think that Dimitri would choose to stay among the living and suffer through loss of another mate.

Chapter 19

Chapter 19

(Dimitri’s blood and juice cocktail––>)

  Dimitri jerked awake and looked over at Caleb. He was groaning in his sleep. His brow was furrowed and he was cradling his hand in his sleep. Throwing the covers off his half naked body, he rose from the bed and walked over to the mini bar. He opened it and studied the contents, there were the usual bottles of blood, but there were also several selections of juices. Choosing a organic grape juice, he pulled the bottle from the fridge. Popping the cap he selected a glass and poured some in a glass. Caleb moaned again gaining his attention. He closed his eyes and willed his fangs to descend from his gums. He bit into his wrist and when his blood pooled and flowed from the wound, he held his hand over the glass and let a few drops of the viscous liquid fall into the fruit drink. Licking his wrist to seal the wounds the stirred the contents of the glass with his finger. He checked the bottom of the glass to make sure it was blended well.

 He carried the glass back to the bed and set it on the night stand. He gently gathered Caleb into his arms and called his name, slightly shaking him awake. Caleb opened his eyes and tried to focus his gaze. The first thing that he registered was the painful throbbing of his wrist and he winced. Dimitri held him securely to his chest while he reached over and picked up the glass from the nightstand.

 “Here drink this, baby, it will help with the pain.” Dimitri instructed him and his gaze heated as he watched his love’s tongue run the length of his plump bottom lip. He placed the glass up to his mouth and Caleb daintily sipped the refreshing juice. It was like nectar on his tongue. The taste was absolutely delicious. He had never tasted anything like it. He sat up abruptly and took the glass from Dimitri with his good hand and proceeded to drain the glass in a few greedy gulps.

 “Mm mm….this is so good, can I have some more?” Caleb asked Dimitri handing the empty glass back to him.

 Dimitri smiled, shaking his head and tried to temper the desire heating up in his blood with the knowledge that his baby loved the taste of his blood and wanted more of it. He could feel his fangs descend yet again. Caleb leaned forward all of sudden and peered intently into his face. His pupils were fully blown indicating his arousal, a side affect from drinking from his mate’s blood. 

 “Your eyes have changed and your fangs are there, are in need of something?” Caleb sexily purred and climbed into Dimitri’s lap, locking his ankles behind his back and wrapping his slender arms around his powerful neck. His fingers twining into his luxurious head of hair.

 Dimitri knew that Caleb was experiencing the aphrodisiac effects of his blood, his inhibitions were now practically non-existent, to respond to him in this frame of mind would be seriously taking advantage of Caleb. He was attempting to hold it together, but that flew out the window when Caleb licked his way across his lips and rolled his hips against him effectively causing a searing friction of heat along both of their rigid erections. Dimitri groaned deep in his throat as his big hands flew to those delicate hip bones to try to still their rocking motion, but Caleb was having none of it. He used his tongue to wiggle through the seam of Dimitri’s perfect lips and he ran the tip of it over one of the sharp protruding fangs in Dimitri’s mouth, he traced the length of it and flicked the tip of the muscle across the pin point sharp tip effectively piercing his tongue. As the metallic taste of blood filled his mouth the speared the wayward tongue deeper into Dimitri’s mouth firmly fucking his man’s mouth. Dimtri shivered and groaned as the pleasure of it traveled down his spine.

 That was it, that did it for Dimitri, all his good intentions flew through the door and his inner beast was released and it roared in victory. The only warning Caleb had was the quick flash of silver in his smouldering gaze before he went flying through the air. He landed on his back with a loud “omff” in the middle of the massive bed. It wasn’t long before the heat of Dimitri’s body covered his shivering one. Caleb moaned and his back arched as Dimitri viciously attacked the sweet spot of his neck as he ground his hips hard against Caleb’s leaking cock. Caleb threw back his head and moaned in sheer ecstasy. It was the hottest sounds that Dimitri has ever heard. He growled deep in his throat and practically shredded their boxers in his haste to feel his boy’s skin. 

 Caleb clung to Dimitri, panting and mewling as his man licked his way across his chest, nibbling and licking first one beaded nipple and then the other. Oh God, he was going to loose his freaking mind. His hips took a life of their own as he spread his legs like a common whore and whimpered some more as the blunt head of Dimitri’s cock came into contact with his quivering entrance. He tried to buck some more to capture the head of it inside of him, but Dimitri was not cooperating. The next thing he knew he was flipped over onto his stomach and Dimitri’s talented mouth attacked the back of his neck. He kissed and licked his way down the line of his spine and Caleb felt like with each pass of his man’s lips over each vertebrae turned the fire raging through his veins hotter and hotter. 

 Caleb rubbed his dick into the silky sheets. The mattress causing a delicious friction against his heated cock. His balls drew up and he didn’t care that he was a writhing moaning mess. He cried out in the  painful pleasure as Dimitri parted his ass cheeks and blew against his hole. It was the only warning he received before he felt Dimitri’s face dive in between his trembling ass latching onto his puckered entrance. The first swipe of his tongue and Caleb screamed and gripped the sheets in a white knuckled grip. He brought his knees up and pushed his ass further into Dimitri’s face. Dimitri continued to lick and plunder the sweet ass he was buried in. He applied more pressure with each lick until he breached the tight ring of muscle, fucking his man with his hot greedy tongue.

 “Please, please….I..I..ne..need to feel you inside.” Caleb stuttered, begging shamelessly for what he wanted, no, what he needed. He was flying high and he wanted nothing more than to feel the burn of Dimitri’s endowed cock plowing deep into his body. Dimitri growled and reared up, he leaned over and grabbed the lube from the bedside table. He popped the cap and liberally lubed his throbbing cock, he turned the bottle upside down and squeezed the slippery liquid into the beautiful crease of Caleb’s ass. He took once finger and smeared the liquid up and down the crevice. He used his free hand to still Caleb’s gyrating hips and he eased his finger into his warm channel. He pushed pass the ring of nerves and muscle and Caleb whimpered and begged some more. Dimitri was so far gone his fangs were so far down he could barely close his mouth. He pushed knuckle deep and withdrew the appendage starting a mind blowing rhythm, he added another finger, and brushed against Caleb’s prostate. Caleb nearly jumped off the other side of the bed with the luscious contact against his sweet spot. 

 Dimitri pulled his fingers out and lined his lubed pulsing cock up with the Caleb’s begging entrance. The blunt head slipped right in and the threw back his head and growled. The feeling of Caleb’s hot channel pulling him deep inside was beyond anything words could describe. He pulled back and continued pushing forward until he was balls deep. Caleb trembling arm could no longer hold him upright, he flopped forward on his elbows muttering and whimpering. He felt so full and the burn was so intense he was a deep breath away from cumming all over the sheets. Dimitri held his position and willed his blood to calm down. He leaned forward completely covering Caleb’s slight frame with his much larger one. He started a slow thrust with his hips, shallowly penetrating Caleb with sharp searing jabs. He gradually picked up the pace, Caleb’s moans guiding him. He righted him self and started pounding Caleb, each powerful thrust rocking Caleb’s entire body forward, but the grip Dimitri had on his hips brought him back and he was speared over and over again. Jesus Christ…he was being fucked senseless. He writhed and thrashed underneath the powerhouse that was his lover. 

 Dimitri could feel his orgasm burning through his balls. He reached around Caleb’s hip and grasped his hard dick and began pumping the rigid shaft in time with his teeth jarring thrusts. Caleb reared up bring his back flush against Dimitri’s sweaty chest and he continued to be pounded within an inch of his life. Dimitri’s huge arms clamped around Caleb’s chest to keep him in place. He felt Dimitri’s tongue run along the line of neck and he leaned his head to the side begging for it. Dimitri’s lips left his neck and a fraction of a second later he felt the sharp strike of those powerful fangs buried themselves deep into his jugular vein. Caleb’s balls exploded and he cried out loosing his damn mind as his entire body seized with the excruciating force of his orgasm, shooting all over Dimitri hand and his abdomen and chest. Dimitri grunted and Caleb felt the thick cock buried deep in his ass throb and the warmth of Dimitri’s semen coating his insides with each twitch of his magnificent cock.

 They stayed like that for a heartbeat, then Dimitri released his neck and licked the wound closed. Caleb’s muscles released and his entire body slumped against Dimitri’s. Dimitri gently lowered him to the bed and came down right behind him bringing him against his chest. He kissed him softly on the lips as his big hands ran soothing circles across his back, centering him from his sexual high. Another few moments later Dimitri untangled himself and went to the bathroom for a warm washcloth. He cleaned his baby and then himself. He went back and threw the cloth in the hamper and hurried back to bed. He climbed in and pulled Caleb back into his arms. Caleb sighed in utter sated contentment and snuggled into Dimitri’s warmth. He didn’t even register any pain from his injury anymore. It didn’t take him long to drift off into the oblivion of sleep with Dimitri following right behind him, completely lethargic from his feeding on his mate’s delicious blood.

 Dimitri woke at the crack of dawn, the sun barely making it over the horizon. His body and mind clear and sated. He looked down Caleb snuggled into his side and smiled. His baby’s pretty pink lips where slightly parted  in his sleep and his beautiful creamy skin glowed with health. He sighed deeply. He was going to have to be careful from now on not to give Caleb anymore of his blood, it could begin the turn since he couldn’t help himself and bit him for the third time last night. He was going to have to extra careful because Caleb was going to start to feel the pull of the mating bond, it was like he was going to be in heat constantly and the drive to drink from him is going to cloud his senses, he was going to have to get a chaperon because just as Caleb urges were going to intensify, so was his. He eased out of the bed and tucked the covers around Caleb’s delectable body. He headed for the shower. He needed to get the hell out of the room and find Stavos and Gustav to rope them in on helping with the mating heat.

 After getting dressed he made his way downstairs. He just entered the kitchen when Irina came out of the pantry carrying some ingredients for the breakfast she was preparing to make.

 “Good morning to you. I am surprised you are not in a coma.” She smirked as she raised and eyebrow at him.

 Dimitri sighed, that was the problem when you lived in a house full of Vampires, even with sound proof rooms, they still heard everything. “Aren’t you supposed to be asleep at night!” He stated as he poured himself a cup of coffee. Irina’s laugh tingled over him and he couldn’t help but smile.

 “From the way you had poor Caleb hollering in the night, who wouldn’t hear you guys asleep or awake. Anyhoo, I take it we are going to be roped into trying to cool the hormone surges that are sure to come since you can’t keep those fangs to yourself.” She said as she mixed the batter for pancakes. Dimitri just nodded his head at her and she giggled like a school girl. Gustav came striding into the kitchen at that point and he opened his mouth to say something but closed it again as Dimitri held a finger up and waved it at him.

 Gustav just smiled, “Ahh, young love.” He stated and went to help his mate with breakfast. “I will take breakfast up to Caleb when he awakes. Stavos wants to go over some things with you in regards to our latest visitor to the area after we eat.” Gustav informed him as he cracked eggs into the skillet.

 Dimitri just nodded again and let his mind drift. He tried his best to temper his rage. This time Natasha was going to loose her life. No one threatens his mate and lives. He had given her the consideration as the family of his previous mate, he let sentimental weakness cloud his judgement. Now, he was out of sympathy and when there eyes meet again, he was going to kill her, and he wasn’t going to be merciful about it either.

Chapter 20

Chapter 20

(Sexy Stavos—–>)

Caleb woke up to the sound of the bedroom door opening. He winced as he went to sit up. His ass and lower back reminded him vividly of his excursions of the last twenty four hours. As the events of the previous evening became clearer and clearer in his mind his hand flew to the side of his neck, but he felt nothing, just the smooth unblemished skin of his neck, but the memory of Dimitri’s fangs sinking into his neck had him so hard and so quick he felt light headed. He flopped back onto the plush pillows and he registered that someone was in the room with him when he heard the muffled comment of, “Here we go.” He looked up and locked eyes with Gustav. He watched as Gustav placed the tray on the table in the little sitting area of the room. The aroma from the covered dishes made his mouth water.

“Good Morning, Caleb. I trust you slept well.” Gustav said as he gallantly snapped open and held out a robe for Caleb to step into. He had an all knowing gleam in his eye that caused Caleb cheeks to pink up a little as he threw back the covers and got up to put his arms into the sleeves of the garment. He hoped in vain that the ever observant Butler didn’t notice his raging hard on. He felt a little flushed and his very clothes were a little uncomfortable as they brushed over his heated skin, but he paid it little attention because his was ravenously hungry at the moment. He thanked Gustav and made a beeline for the breakfst tray on the table. He uncovered plates of bacon and eggs, another with warm fluffy pancakes, and a bowl of fresh fruit. His stomach rumbled and he dived into the food.

Gustav watched and smiled as Caleb literally stuffed himself. He knew exactly what the young man was going through and soon Caleb will realize it too, once his sated one hunger the other will manifest itself, the call to mate will overtake him in the next few days. The heat had already started, he could smell it’s exotic scent permeating through Caleb’s skin. He almost felt the need, like a good friend to mind link Dimitri and tell him to get the hell out of the house for a while, almost,  but didn’t because this was going to be entertaining. Almost as entertaining as watching Stavos reign in his beast from taking his nephews completely, tt was a loosing battle for all of them. But these young ones now a days never listened to the voice of wisdom, so he was going to enoy the show very much watching these two warriors fall devastatingly at the feet of their mates. He almost chuckled out loud. He decided to busy himself by changing the bed and gathering clothes and tidying the room. He laid out loose fitted drawstring pants and one of Dimitri’s many shirts for Caleb. With the heat coming on, he was going to need something cool and light on his body.

Caleb finished eating and politely made sure that everything he used made it back onto the tray and that he didn’t make a mess. Noticing that Gustav seemed to be waiting patiently for him to finish up, he turned to give the man his attention. He watched as Gustav gracefully made his way over to him and sat in the winged chair on the opposite side of the table.

“Caleb, I know this is a delicate subject and I know Dimitri has explained some of it to you already know about the mating process between s human and a vampire. It is all about your choice, you choosing this existence. The reason I am talking to you and not Dimitri is because he wanted you to focus and really think about what you want. You are going to start to crave him and he wanted to make sure it is your concious choice and not your desire that will rule your decision.” Gustav stated and paused to study Caleb to make sure he was understanding what was being said.

With Caleb’s serious gaze staring back at him he continued to explain. “Last night Dimitri bit you for the third time, it wasn’t intentional, but it’s done. I am sure you are already feeling the effects beginning to take place, you are literally going into heat.”

“Wait, heat, you mean like an animal or something?” Caleb interrupted incredulously. He sat there as Gustav words sank in.

Gustav smiled and gently replied, “Yes, something like that, your body is going to drive you to complete the mating, that’s just the evolution of things so be sure it’s what you want, otherwise you two will have to part ways in order for you to go back to being fully human.” Gustav got up and placed a comforting hand on Caleb’s shoulder before picking up the tray and quietly left Caleb in deep in his thoughts.

 Caleb sighed and made his way to the en-suite bathroom. He felt a flash of heat over the surface of his skin, it traveled through his muscles and pooled in his groin causing his semi erection to get  fully hard again, it stood straight up in the air. Groaning deep in his throat he quickly shed the robe he had on and walked over to the shower and turn on the taps setting the temperature to cold. Air hissed through his teeth as the cold water pricked over his heated flesh when he stepped under the water. It was a momentary relief, he wanted Dimitri with everything in his soul. Caleb moaned again and totally retreated into his head as he followed Gustav’s advice to think about what he really wanted.

 Stavos tried his best not to grind hid fangs off in his attempt to control his rage. Despite his best agents in pursuit of Natasha, they still haven’t found anything concrete on her whereabouts, and it was pissing him off  constantly to be telling Dimitri that he had nothing yet. He may have to track her himself and he was sure if he got to her first, he would not be able to restrain himself from killing her. Dimitri would go thermonuclear if that happened, he has serious vengeance in his soul for that woman, but she was cunning and more than manipulative enough to slide through the cracks, but not this time. He would be damned if he lost his friend or Caleb, more like his brothers really.

Stavos turned his head and watched said brother hunkered down into the leather sofa. He fidgeted every few minutes and his fangs were very prominent. He was definitely feeling Caleb’s heat, the poor bastard, hence the reason he is hiding out in the security house. He bet Gustav had popcorn and soda ready for the show because it’s going to be epic watching those two come to terms, Dimitri is going to be in full avoidance mode unless Caleb convinces him that he accepts our way of life, but the call to mate is going to make it difficult to believe, that’s why the decision is made before the bites. Dimitri sighed heavily and shuffled some more and Stavos had to swallow his laugh and made his way over to the bank of security cameras that spanned the entire property and the house.

Glancing quickly over the screens one in particular caught his eye, the camera facing the pool and patio area and once again his naughty water nymphs were up to no good. All thoughts of Dimitri and everything else flew right out of his mind as he watched his boys as they peeled off t-shirts and slowly ran their delicate hands over each others upper body, leaving the flawless skin gleaming in the morning sun.

“Damn,” he thought and discreetly shifted his hard on into a more comfortable position in his pants. He internally debated with himself whether or not to begin the mating bond by giving them the first bite, shit, just the thought of sinking his fangs into them made his dick jump and pump out precum like a faucet. He gave Dimitri an assessing glance set him a quick mind link that he would see him later and dematerialized into thin air.

 Ahron had just finished smearing sunblock onto Ayden and took to the recliner and laid back letting the sun warm his limbs when a shadow suddenly appeared across his torso. Using his hand to block the sun from his vision, a silent gasp passed his lips as he made out the ginormous silhouette of his mate’s broad shoulders and stacked body. The possessiveness and sensual aura coming off Stavos made him instantly hard. Ayden was fairing no better, the combined desire coming from Ayden only made him hotter. Stavos bent over and ran his fingers gently over the side of his neck and down grazing his collar bone. He couldn’t hold back the shameful whimper that released from the back of his throat. “Both of you gather your things and go to the bedroom.” Stavos whispered to them and promptly disappeared as suddenly as he had arrived.

 The twins sat there for a half a second, then they both jumped up. Ayden opened the tote bag they had brought and promptly shoved everything inside. Ahron scooped up the towels and the both took off at a dead run towards the house. They barely managed a greeting to their Aunt Irina as they burst through the back door into the kitchen and down the hall to the bedroom they now shared with Stavos. Their mad dash came to a complete halt in the doorway of their room as they spied the man they had fallen for standing in the middle of the room shirtless, with his awesome muscles on full display. They rippled in just the right way as he turned and held out his arms to them.  They were transfixed and swore they were drooling as they dropped everything they were holding in their arms to the floor and quickly made their way into his embrace. Ayden cuddled into his left side and Ahron to his right. They sighed in unison as he softly kissed them on their pretty pink lips, first one then the other. They were practically dry humping his massive thighs and purring in pleasure.

 Stavos felt his heart warm at having his babies all over him. It made his cock jerk in delight. He ran his big hands over the line of their perfect spines. The heat they were generating relaxed him even more. He could feel the tingle of his fangs as they descended. He allowed them free reign as their busy hands got even busier. Ayden was busy caressing his pecs and back, while Ahron was fumbling with his belt and slacks. He lifted his head from the sweet fragrant curve of Ahron’s neck to see the silent questions on their faces asking permission to proceed. He gave them a slight nod of consent and watched as they now unhesitatingly went back to the task of undressing him and caressing his skin. He hissed when he felt Ahron’s warm hand clasp around his erection, and outright moaned when he felt Ayden’s fangs graze over his Adam’s apple.

 Ahron dropped to his knees and looked at the beautiful cock he had in his grasp just mere centimeters from his face. He licked his lips in anticipation of sliding it into his mouth. He hand pumped it back and forth and he watch a pearl of precum bead at the slit on the mushroomed head, he flicked his tongue out to taste it and mewled in delight. He leaned forward and gave the sensitive head a open wet kiss before drawing it into the warm cavern of his mouth. He ran his tongue all over it, making it nice and wet as he took the shaft and head deep into his throat. The moan that released from his man ignited the fire in his veins even more, he hollowed his cheeks and began to suck vigorously as Stavos hips bucked back and forth, fucking his mouth. 

 Ayden was busy tasting the skin and flavor of Stavos’ neck. He ran his tongue along the strong jaw line and flicked his man’s earlobe before nibbling on it. Stavos hand traveled up his back and his fingers latched into the hair on the back of his head, his other hand snaked under the waist of his swim trunks and latched around his weeping erection. He opened his mouth to moan but Stavos lips had latched onto his and his tongue thrust into his mouth. He immediately latched onto the muscle and sucked on it. Writhing with delight under the ministrations of Stavos’ busy hand on his crotch. Stavos pumped him and his hips followed each hand movement. He shivered as fire shimmied down his spine and around his abdomen to pool into his already over stimulated groin. He could feel his balls draw up and he groaned around the tongue in his mouth. His movements getting frantic as his orgasm bore down on him. He clutched the massive biceps and dug his nails in.

 Stavos released Ayden’s mouth and tilted his head to the side.  Ahrons lips and tongue on his member was driving him to the brink but he held his control. His desire to mark his mates overrode his need to come at the moment. His fangs had dropped and were very prominent. He ran his nose down the line of his mate’s neck and savored his delicate sweet scent. His cock jerked in Ahron’s mouth and he was pleased when he felt the vibration of his groan along his shaft. His lips continued to brush delicately over the pounding pulse point of Ayden’s neck. Ayden’s entire body was quivering with anticipation and expectation. When he felt the points of those sharp fangs pierce his skin he screamed and came right then, his orgasm hit him so hard that tears fell from his eyes. Stavos teeth sank deep into his flesh and his whole body convulsed with a second even more painful release with each pull on his neck by Stavos lips sealed to his skin. His voice deserted him as he opened his mouth in a silent scream. He had never felt anything like this, it felt so damn good. He vision blacked out as the intensity of his feelings were matched and increased by Ahron’s, even with his ears ringing he vaguely heard but surely felt Ahron’s orgasm and he projected the delicious delight and euphoria of Stavos’ bite.

 Stavos had erupted and spewed his load directly down his throat. He sucked every last delicious drop from his man and licked him clean before standing and watching his brother writhe against their man. Ayden pupils were fully dilated and he was completely senseless and he clutched his body along their mate’s powerful frame. Stavos released his fangs from Ayden’s throat and sealed  the wound with a decedent lick. He turned his body effectively bringing Ayden around and laid him gently on the bed. Ayden immediately curled up and snuggled into the soft mattress. Ahron gulped quietly because he knew it was his turn and he began to tremble with desire and a slight fear. He wasn’t sure if his body could take the pleasure of his mate’s bite, even though he had found release his senses were still wide open. He pupils dilated even more as he watched Stavos stalk back over to him. His fangs were very prominent and promised an aching fulfillment. The predatory look he was getting from his man made him want to run away and towards him at the same time, but he couldn’t move even if his life depended on it. He felt Stavos hands as they slid into his hair, his body flush against his. He closed his eyes and brought his hands around Stavos’ waist and up his chisled back latching onto the massive shoulders and mewled as his lips were gently licked. 

 Stavos licked his mate’s lips before sliding his tongue into Ahron’s mouth letting him taste Ayden’s flavor along with his own mixed together on his tongue. Ahron groaned and latched onto him. Stavos continued to kiss and caress him gently, slowly bringing him into a pleasurable space. He broke away from those sweet lips and let his mouth travel along his jaw and Ahron eagerly tilted his head to the side encouraging his man. Stavos growled at the balant inviatation and he struck without further notice, sinking his fangs deep into the quivering flesh. Ahron screamed as his whole body jerked and shook, his vision blurred and his knees threaten to give out. A flash burn overtook him and he came in his shorts, his dick spurting over and over again until his balls hurt. His senses couldn’t take anymore and he slumped into his mate’s huge frame. Stavos withdrew his fangs and lciked the spot. He effortlessy swooped Ahron’s unconcious form up into his arms and carried him to the bed. He could feel the leathargy of  drinking from his mates bearing down on him. He barely had the stregth to rearrange the both of them, he undressed and climbed into the middle of the bed. They immediately shifted and snuggled into his body. Their warmth surrounded him as slep overttok his senses.

Chapter 21

.  Chapter 21

Okay my supportive, awesome fans, another story is drawing to an end. There will be one more chapter and then the epilogue left of Rescue Me, it has been great you guys showed your support and love for this story although THE CEO seemed to be the favorite and that is great. Soon I will be startubf Stavos’ story. Thank so much you guys are truly the best. Enjoy the chapter and let me know what you think. xoxo

(The Evil but Pretty Natasha———>

 

 Dimitri strolled through the gardens of his Mansion trying to bide his time before going indoors. He was trying his best to ignore the mating pull to Caleb. His mind and body was ravaged by the unquenchable desire to take him and finish their coupling. He prayed that Caleb would make his mind up soon, especially with the threat of Natasha lurking around out there. He knew he had to find her soon before she had the opportunity to cause unimaginable harm and death to his mate.  He growled deep in his throat as he came up to the pool deck and plopped down into one of the loungers there. He was never one for patience, when he wanted something he relentlessly pursued it, but in this case he couldn’t. It was too important and he couldn’t influence Caleb’s decision in any way. It had to be his choice.

 Laying back onto the lounger he stared up at the Miami sky watching the stars twinkle down at him. He could sense Caleb in the house. He was currently in the Master Bedroom. He groaned with the picture of how he had left him a few mornings ago. Everyone had managed to convince him for his safety to stay at the mansion. He knew he needed to explain the situation with Natasha to him, but he didn’t trust himself to be anywhere near Caleb’s sweet temptation right now, not until Caleb sought him out to either damn him by leaving or blessing him by staying.

 The wind picked up a little and blew through the pool deck and Dimitri caught a familiar scent that he recognized but couldn’t place. He slowly sat up and stretched, feigning like he was ignorant to his surroundings. He sent a quick mind link to Stavos telling him on and intruder on the property. He opened his senses and he caught a slight movement deep in the garden. Getting up from the lounger he ran his hands through his hair and purposely lured the unknown towards him. The scent got stronger and it registered. Natasha, damn, she had the temerity to invade his home without tripping any of the alarms. He mentally catalogued his plan of action.  If he got the chance he was going to end her tonight, right here, and right now. He prayed that she would give him the chance.

 He opened his mid to Stavos to that he could see and hear everything that he was at the moment. He casually strolled over to the pool and watched the water. To anyone looking at him, he seemed deeply engrossed in thought, completely unaware of his surroundings, but he was hyperaware of every blade of grass and every stealthy step she made slowly advancing on him. The dumb bitch was so full of herself she didn’t realize that he was much more powerful than her both in age and ability, but she was always the delusional one. He was just sad and upset that he never recognized it before now, before her craziness and dementia caused the death of two of his beloved mates. He be damned if she would cause the death of another one.

 Dimitri stiffened as if surprised as slender arms slid around his waist and someone purred in his ear. “Ahhh, my love, what has got you so occupied that you didn’t feel me, oh mate of mine.” Natasha whispered against the skin if his neck. He shuddered in disgust at her proximity, but he had to reel her in. He turned keeping his arms behind his back not encouraging the embrace what so ever. His eyes should have given him away, he was unable to mask the contempt he held for her from leaking into his cold hard glare.

 “Natasha, what are you doing here, and how many times have I told you that we are not mates?” He spoke patiently and quietly, his tone brooking no arguments.

  She just giggled. “Oh come now, Dimitri, why hide it, none of those pathetic creatures who claimed they were your mates have outlasted my love for you. How can you deny what we have?” She cajoled as she ran her hands greedily over the expanse of his chest.

 He stepped back and threw her arms from his body. “They died at you twisted hand, that why. You couldn’t stand for anyone else to have what you coveted so you issued your own sentence and cut their lives and my happiness short. You don’t love me. You are a selfish, evil being. Delusional is your own grandeur.” Dimitri spat in disgust.

 Natasha’s nostrils flared and her claws formed as she railed at him. Me, delusional, it’s you who can’t see what you have right in front of you. I have offered myself to you over and over again and yet you refuse. Now you expect me to believe that a filthy human boy, a fucking queer is your mate over me. It’s you that can’t open your eyes and see that we belong together. Maybe if you see that this puny human, a nothing, a no body can’t even survive a stroke of my hand you will finally open your eyes.” She spewed her venom right in his face.

 Dimitri’s body shook with the rage and violence that boiling in his blood. Everyone was in place and he wasn’t going to lose the opportunity to kill her, so he scaled back and played along. He moved towards her and to her surprise he gently gathered her in his arms. “Hmm, you maybe right, a mere human couldn’t understand our ways and you have been there, surpassing those weaklings, Maybe if we mate then you can prove to be my life partner, you wouldn’t leave me to grieve and mourn. You are strong enough to stand at my side.” He stated although he had to practically force the words out of his mouth.

 Natasha smiled in triumph, she was so focused on almost obtaining her goal that she didn’t attune herself to the presence of the others behind slowly advancing on them, she had lusted after this man for centuries and her stupid father had given his blessing for her sister to take him from her. So he was the first to die. She was always the stronger and prettier one, and no one ever recognized it. It was always her stupid cow of a sister. Well now she had her man and all she had to do was rid herself of this annoying human.

 She cuddled into his chest. “Now my love, I am so glad and relived that you are finally beginning to see things my way. Prove that you care as much for me as I do for you and get rid of that creature calling himself your mate, Lets split him open and drink him like the dinner he was meant to be.” She purred as she turned around. When he eyes caught sight of Stavos and Gustav standing there she shrieked and twirled around. “What is this Dimitri? I don’t think so.” She screamed and before she could make a step or even dematerialize Stavos threw the silver mesh netting over her effectively binding her where she stood, causing her powers to be null and void, she was trapped and it pleased Dimitri mmensely.

 She shrieked and wailed fighting the netting as it burned her flesh causing a horrendous stench. Irina stepped up and dashed the scared herbs on her thrashing body masking the scent from the nearby humans. Dimitri watched with extreme satisfaction and she burned and her skin oozed from the poison of the silver melting her flesh. If he had his way he would leave her to suffer slowing cooking under the charmed netting until she died a slow painful death, but with all the commotion she was making he feared it was going to draw to much attention.

  She watched in agony as he stepped up to her. “All I ever wanted was to be with you and you do this to me. For what a human, if those weaklings were your mates they would have fought harder to live. I damn you for all eternity, Dimitri.” She screamed her vile at him. She watched as Stavos handed him a silver bladed sword, sand in one powerful swipe of his hand the blade whistled through the balmy night air and severed her head from her body. The head dropped to the ground with a sickening thud and the body stayed upright for a few seconds before falling backwards, it and the head immediately combusted in a flash burn, rendering it to nothing but ashes as the sea breeze blew it away into the night. Irina stepped up and sprinkled the sacred herbs all over the area. As Stavos used his gloved hands to retract the silver mesh, balling it up and stuffing carefully into the canvas bag he had pulled it from.

 Dimitri ignited the blade in his hand so the fire could cleanse the blood from it, once the flame died out he sheathed it and handed it back to Gustav to return it it’s resting place.

He glanced to the house and prayed that Caleb was a witness to none of this.

“The twins have him in the movie room. They all but dragged him there when you linked with Stavos. Come let’s make it good. We did manage to catch someone’s attention and the police are coming up the drive as we speak.” Gustav explained.

 Irina finished cleansing the area and restored it to its former pristine elegance. Gustav carried everything and placed them back where they belonged and Stavos went to answer the door to Miami’s finest. Dimitri stood for a moment and felt the weight and worry of Caleb’s life ending at the hands of Natasha evaporate like her ashes, he felt lighter and more optimistic, the only thing still troubling him was Caleb, and what his choice was going to be. He raised his head and watched as two uniform officers approached him, with a chuckling Gustav. Irina was standing off to the corner of the pool with an award winning pout in her face and her arms crossed over her chest.

 “Dimitri,my good man. I was just explaining to the officers that my lovely wife id responsible for disturbing out poor neighbors over her fear of that silly little garden snake that had the audacity to cross her path, a few moments ago.” He said as he came to a stop at Dimitri’s side with the officers right bedside him. Just then Stavos appeared holding a slender green grass snake in his hands.

 “Yeah, you would have thought someone was dying or something the way she was carrying on over this little thing.” He deadpanned as he held up the serpent for inspection. Dimitri had to bite the side of his tongue as Irina huffed and flounced off in regal fashion leaving us all standing there, stately making her way back into the house. Stavos excused himself and went into the garden He assumed to release the snake.

 “Well Mr. Alexsandre, We are sorry to bother you , but we had to check out the call for disturbance. Have a good evening and please keep her away from snakes sir, your neighbors really did think something menacing was going on over here.” Good night they nodded and Gustav escorted them back to the house. Dimitri just shook his head as Stavos glided by him hands in his pockets, whistling a tune as he followed the path back to the house. He knew Dimitri was still in full avoidance of being near Caleb. He sat down as the excitement of the night and the joy of his kill leaked out of his body. Instead of them finding her, Natasha was so arrogant and so extremely bold as to find him in his own home, and thus, finding her death. A part of him felt despair because she was sick, her thought processes warped, but it was either her death or live in fear that yet again she would take his life from him, because every time she slaughtered one of his mates, that is exactly what she did and couldn’t let that happen again. He couldn’t condemn Caleb to that having to choose to give up everything, his very life for me just to die and her demented hands.

  He waited until the house went quiet and he sensed Caleb’s heavy breathing as he slept in his room. Irina had put a little something in his tea to help him from suffering the heat of the mating bond as well as to help him get some rest. Dimitri rose to his feet and made his way to the back kitchen door. He entered the house and the when he closed the door the alarm immediately blipped on and Stavos made an appearance in the doorway with a bottle of blood in his hand. He threw the bottle and Dimitri neatly caught it, popping the cap and took a deep drink.

 “So, my friend, how do you feel?” Stavos asked him as he took a smaller sip and sat down on one of the bar stools.

 “Relieved.” Dimitri answered and sat back in the chair. He was tired emotionally drain and felt that tonight was as good as any now that the threat of Natasha was removed to go into true sleep. He needed to recharge and regroup to deal with the bond. The urge to resist was getting weaker and weaker and he was sure that Caleb was felling it too, if Gustav and Irina weren’t lightly dosing him with a mild sedative then his ass would be grass by now. He just needed to rest. He got up and threw the bottle in the trash just as Gustav came into the room carrying Dimitri travel case with his toiletries and a pair of pajama bottoms.

 “Come on Casanova, your bed awaits you in the downstairs guest suite, far enough away that Stavos’ kinks with my poor nephews won’t disturb you.” He provoked Stavos wiggling his eyebrows lewdly at his friend. Stavos just smirked at him and pushed off the wall.

 “Unless he can wake the dead I won’t hear anything. Stavos please keep your senses attuned to Caleb, you too Gustav. I am going into true sleep tonight, Lock down the house and do not wake me until I am ready to do so. Anythign from the office handle it. I am unavailable until further notice, wake me only if it is concern to Caleb nothing else.” He said and his friends nodded their acknowledgement. Gustav handed him his belongings and watched as he made his way down the hall to the guest room.

 “Well that is one way to deal with the pull of the mating bond. Die until further notice.” Stavos claimed and patted Gustav back as he choked on his own spit trying not to laugh.

 “Shit, you kill me man.” Gustav sputtered as he cleared his windpipe. “Let’s go to bed. I have a lot of kissing up to do with my mate.” He groaned and it was Stavos turn to laugh at Gustav sad puppy dog expression. They separated in the hall as they went to the warmth and comfort of their own mates. Each a little worried and afraid to voice their fear of Caleb choosing not to be with their friend and the heartache it would cause. They both sent a silent prayer that everything would work out for the best.

Chapter 22

Chapter 22

A/N, okay loves this is the last chapter of Rescue Me (sniffle, sniffle). Thank you all my beautiful fans for supporting this story. The Epilogue wi;ll be posted soon. I hope you like it, let me know what you think. All my love, ladydianna, xoxo**

(Dreamy Dimitri——>)

 

  Flipping over in the massive bed onto his back, Caleb kicked the covers off of his overheated body. Dimitri’s cotton t-shirt clung to his sweat soaked skin. He felt like my whole body was on fire, and I wanted Dimitri, he felt like he needed him, his fingers itched to feel Dimitri’s hot skin, to run his hands over every square inch of his magnificent body. He sat up feeling extremely lonely in the middle of the big bed; glancing at the nightstand at the little clock there, he saw that it was just little after three on the morning. He slid to the side of the bed and scooted off the high bed frame, his feet sinking into the plush carpeting of the floor. Padding his way over to the bathroom, Caleb turned on the light and made his way to the glass enclosed shower stall. He shrugged out of the t-shirt and boxers he had worn to bed, stepping into the shower he set the temperature of the water to cold, he hissed as the frigid water cascaded over his overheated body.

 A short while later he turned off the taps and grabbed a towel off the rack, he quickly dried off feeling better and much cooler but his desire for his man didn’t fade in the least. He made his way back into the master suite and sat down on the side of the bed with just the towel wrapped around his waist, he stared off into space and wondered why he was torturing himself as well as Dimitri, and from what he was told, Dimitri was suffering the heat of the bond right along with him. He sat there and thought about living his life with Dimtiri forever, the mere thought made him happy. Ever since Dimitri came into his life he was a happier person and he felt that he finally belonged to someone, that he wasn’t an obligation to be taken care of until they didn’t have to have the responsibility anymore.  Dimitri loved him, brought him into his family. Irina mothered him and Gustav pampered him while Stavos protected and watched over him. The twins he was still getting to know, they were like naughty younger siblings that you couldn’t stay mad at because they were so cute.

 He really wondered what he had to go back to if he rejected Dimitri. The lonely existence of solitary living compared to waking up next his man every morning and going to sleep next to him every night. That was what he wanted and needed and if it took losing his human life to have this man forever then so be it. The pros far outweighed the cons. Dimitri gave him everything he needed, even things he never thought he could ever have. With his mind made up he shot up from the bed and grabbed the robe Gustav always had ready for him at the end of the bed. Tying the sash as he made his way to the door, he wondered where in this mammoth of a house Dimitri was sleeping.

 For some reason his body took a mind of its own and his feet carried him down the ornate spiral stairs to the first floor and towards the kitchen, he turned down the hall by the kitchen and he passed several closed doors before he came to a stop outside of one at the end of the hall. He was  turning the knob when someone clearing their throat caught his attention and he turned to face the burning black gaze of a half dressed Stavos standing in front of a open door further up the hall, his huge arms crossed over his massive naked chest, and his silky pajama pants hanging real low on his hips.

 “Be sure Caleb, for you have the power to utterly destroy him if you make this choice then go back on your decision.” Stavos warned the young man.

 Caleb stood up straighter and faced Stavos full on, his gaze never wavering from the bottomless black eyes staring back at him. “I am sure that I can’t live without him, and I love him.  Simple and plain, I love him.”

 Stavos actually gave him an honest to goodness smile, not one of his sarcastic smirks and Caleb felt his heart lighten that he made the right choice. Stavos nodded at him before disappearing back into his room quietly closing the door behind himself.

 Caleb turned back to the door in front of him and took a deep breath and turned the knob. He stepped into the dark room and immediately his heart rate picked up as Dimitri’s mouthwatering scent washed over his senses. He stepped further into the room and closed the door. He slowly made his way over to the big bed and saw Dimitri lying in the middle of it, the covers bunched around his delicious abdomen displaying the sculpted ridges of his chisels eight pack abs and smooth chest. His mouth watered and his gums were tingling. He gasped and put his hand to his mouth his fingers feeling along the top gums. He shrugged and dropped the robe from his body.

 He climbed up into the bed and settled under the covers with his man. Dimitri didn’t flinch as he ran his hand over once warm pec tracing the defined muscle with a fingertip. He went a little further and flicked the brown disc of Dimitri’s nipple with the tip of his tongue, it instantly pebbled up hard. Dimitri stirred and quietly moaned, his body arching instinctively towards his mate. Caleb continued to lick and nibble tracing a path from one nipple to the other, the heat in his body rising by leaps and bounds. He felt his cock throbbing painfully and he scooted closer to his man. The rigid flesh coming into contact with Dimitri’s muscled thigh and he mewled at the contact. He started gyrating his hips causing a delicious friction against his weeping cock. He leaned forward and buried his face into the warm skin of Dimitri’s neck. He licked the skin right under his ear and was rewarded by thick muscular arm wrapping around his back, fingers sinking into his hair and gripped in tight. He lifted his head and came eye to eye with Dimitri’s glowing silver orbs.

 Dimitri came to a conscious state pulled out of true sleep by the warmth radiating from his mate, the sight and the scent of his mate in heat beckoning him. His body immediately came alive as Caleb’s unique smell assaulted his senses, making him so damn hard the sheet around his waist was tented straight up in the air.

 “Baby, please, please if you still haven’t decided to ne with me you can’t be here. It is dangerous, I can’t hold back any longer.” Dimitri warned as he tried to untangle himself from Caleb to try to scoot off the bed, but Caleb had other ideas, in a flash of movement his was up and over Dimitri large frame, straddling him and lying his upper body down on top of his so that they were chest to chest, face to face.

 “I am sure Dimitri, take me, I love you, understand please. I want to be yours and I want you to be mine. I want you in my life forever making me a part of you.” Caleb said as sweetly kissed Dimitri’s sexy warm lips. He raised his head and looked him directly in the eye. “You are my family right along with everyone else in this house, this is my life and I choose to live it with you by my side for as long as we can manage it, so yes I am sure.” He finished and kissed him again.

 The next thing Caleb knew he was flying through the air only to land on his back at the edge of the mattress with a loud “omff.” He looked up in surprise to see a trillion tons of unleashed vampire bearing down on him and his cock jerked and pumped out precum like a leaking faucet. He felt Dimitri weight as he was pinned to the bed. His arms over his head held firmly by one big palm. His legs played wide open Dimitri settled firmly in between his thighs rubbing the length of his impressive hard on along the length of his. He mewled as Dimitri leaned forward and scraped his fangs along the side of his neck causing him to shiver in anticipation.

 Caleb was so hot for him he was mumbling incoherently begging and bucking his hips, wanting everything that his feral vampire was doing to his aching body. Dimtri felt Caleb writhing and mewling underneath him and it just fueled his desire even more. He slid down Caleb’s body licking and sucking, nibbling his way to his prize. He threw Caleb’s legs wider as he settled his huge shoulders in between them. He used his hands to hold them placing Caleb’s thighs over his shoulders and his tongue flicked out and gathered the milky drop of the sweet fluid on the head of his pulsating cock. Caleb moaned and arched his back off the bed. His hands buried into Dimitri’s messy hair, holding on for dear life as his cock was sucked deep into the hot cavern of Dimitri’s mouth. When the bulbous head hit the back of his throat he lost it and he bucked his hips forward fucking his man’s mouth with abandon.

 “Oh My GOD! Dimitri please, please, please…inside me, I need…..” Caleb panted and moaned out. He needed Dimtri inside of him now, he wanted to be filled, and he wanted to be complete. He pulled at Dimitri hair begging and pleading like a needy whore. He didn’t care, he wanted his man with every cell in his body. Dimitri granted his wish. He slid his hot mouth off the delicious flesh of Caleb’s rigid hard on and traveled upwards using his mouth and tongue to kiss and lick back up Caleb’s luscious body. Caleb hands immediately went to Dimitri’s cock and he wrapped his slender fingers around it and started pumping him, priming him. Dimitri groaned and prayed that this room had some lube or something in the nightstand as he reached for the drawer.  When his fingers found a small bottle he mentally thanked Irina for her efficiency.

 He wasted no time as he breathed through his mouth; his fangs had dropped to the point that he couldn’t close his mouth. With unsteady hands he popped the top and squirted the oil into the palm of his hand. He looked down at his baby as he lubed himself up and thought that he has never seen him sexier than he was right now. His pretty pink lips were parted and wet as he panted for him. His flawless skin was flushed with anticipation and his beautiful cock throbbed and beckoned him with its beauty. His chest got tight and he was overwhelmed with the amount of emotion running through his heated body right now. His love for this delicate creature almost choked him.

 Caleb felt Dimitri’s warm slick fingers parting his cheeks and he shuddered as they came into contact with his fluttering entrance. He opened his legs wide and brought his knees up to his chest holding them there completely exposing his puckered hole to his mate. He watched as Dimitri licked his lips, his busy digits working their way into his hole and he groaned deep in his throat as he was penetrated, the burn of it igniting his blood even further. Dimitri pumped his fat finger in and out of him pausing only to massage the little gland inside of him that caused his whole body to arch off the bed screaming his man’s name as the pleasure of it all rushed through his body causing his balls to pull up and quiver. He once again started to plead and beg as another finger was added.

 Dimitri continued to fuck Caleb with his fingers as he positioned his strong thighs under Caleb’s round ass cheeks. He placed Caleb’s thighs over his own muscular ones and slowly pulled his fingers out of his entrance and watched the pretty pink hole stretched and shuddering for him. He immediately lined up his cock with the fluttering entrance and pushed his way inside. Caleb’s sexy little noises urging him on. Dimtri leaned forward and scooped Caleb up into his arms and he thrust up burying himself balls deep into the tight slick hole deep inside his mate’s body. There was no other feeling compared to this as he had Caleb straddle him. Their chest pressed together as he captured his sweet lips pushing his tongue deep into his throat, his fangs scoring the soft flesh drawing a little bit of his scrumptious blood.  The kiss was hot, primal, and wet as they devoured each other. Caleb rolled his hips signaling to his man that he was ready for the ride.

 Dimitri didn’t need anything else as his hands grabbed Caleb’s slender waist and moved him up then down on his rock hard shaft. He thrust upwards at the same time creating a brutal rhythm as he pounded away into his mate, over and over again; his thrusts getting stronger and deeper. Caleb sank his nails into the massive shoulders throwing his head back and moaning like a porn star as he bobbed up and down in Dimtri’s lap. He was so full and so stretched. He loved it; he reveled in it as the very air was fucked right out of his body. Dimitri held onto him and leaned back until he was flat on his back with Caleb still straddling him. his cock deep inside his hot body.

 “Ride me, baby.” He growled as he placed Caleb’s small hands on his chest and bucked his hips forward burying himself even deeper inside his sweet body.

 Caleb didn’t need to be told twice as he leaned forward and rolled his hips. He slowly began to do just that, ride his man, rolling up and down the rigid shaft almost dislodging it before reversing direction and sinking deep onto it. The fire on his blood spurred him on as he picked up the pace and literally bounced up and down on the throbbing cock, his muscles milking and quivering all around the piercing rod.

 “Yeah, FUCK…..that’s it baby, just like that, don’t stop.” Dimitri growled as he grabbed his hips spurring him on. Caleb watched as his man threw his head back, his fangs prominent as he opened his mouth in a silent scream. He watched the veins in his neck pulse as they strained right under the skin. He mouth tingled again and a needy whimper escaped his throat. Dimtri’s scent got stronger and assaulted his senses as he felt the need to bite him prickle across his skin, causing his mouth to tinge even more. Dimitri eyes flashed open and he watched as Caleb rode him, the bond was pulling at him causing his balls to swell and draw up into his body. His muscles quivered and lusted for it. He brought his hand up and unleashed one of his claws.

 Caleb was almost senseless as he thrashed and writhed on top of Dimitri, chasing his orgasm with determined abandon, with every thrust, every stroke, he never took his eyes off the pulsing spot at Dimitri’s throat. He felt heat wash over him and he mewled again leaning forward to press his lips to that spot. He licked it over and over again, the scent and heat coming off that area beckoning him, hypnotizing him.  Reached up Dimitri scored the area with his sharp claw like nail causing the skin to tear and a river of blood to pour from the wound.

 “Drink and be one with me Caleb, share my life, my love. Be my mate from this day on. “He whispered and Caleb answered. He felt his orgasm flash through His body as he leaned forward and licked the wound. Caleb’s eyes rolled into the back of his head with the taste of Dimitri’s blood, words couldn’t describe how good he tasted, it was like heaven. He latched on and began to suck deeply the very essence of his life into my body. I felt his body go rigid under mine. Dimitri’s cock jerked hot and hard, pulsing over and over again deep inside of him coating his insides with hot fluid marking him as his for all time. Caleb felt the flash burn wash over him as he released his mouth from Dimtiri’s skin. His vision blurred and everything went black as he spiraled into a tunnel of blissful darkness. the last thing he remembered was Dimitri’s soothing hands traveling the length of his spine as he whispered comforting words as he gave himself over and blacked out.

 Dimitri untangled himself from Caleb unconscious form and gently pulled out of his body. He gently eased to the side and placed Caleb on the mattress. He shifted and rose from the bed and headed for the bathroom; he got a washcloth and warmed it under the flowing hot water faucet before carrying back into the bedroom. He meticulously cleaned Caleb and pulled the light sheet up and over his beautiful body. He brushed the hair out of his face and went back into the bathroom. He turned on the shower and climbed in and washed the sweat and blood from his body. He hurried because Caleb was going to go through the change and he wanted to be there for him and offer comfort through the painful process. He pulled on a robe and tied the sash, when he stepped back into the room Irina was already there, her pretty hair on a messy bun on top of her head.

 Gustav followed not shortly behind her carrying the ancient medicinal pouch containing the sacred herbs and candles. They set about placing and lighting the candles, Irina sprinkled some of the herbs in a dish and lit them on the night stand next to where Caleb slept. His body already flushed and heated from the change happening in his cells. The soothing scents of the healing herbs and candles permeating the room. Dimitri cuddled into Caleb’s side gathering him into his arms as his body started to tremble from the change. Gustav and Irina were joined by Stavos and the twins. They sat on the end of the bed holding hands and chanting the ancient words to carry Caleb’s human soul into the world of the vampire realm.

 Dimitri held Caleb’s body projecting all the comfort he could muster into his mates straining muscles. Caleb thrashed and mewled as the burn of the venom took over the cells in his body. They continued to chant as Irina brought a cool cloth from the bathroom and bathed Caleb’s face and neck with it. This continued through the remainder of the night and well into the day. When Caleb’s body finally relaxed and became still. Dimitri inhaled his scent deep into his lungs and was satisfied and relieved when he caught the change and his own scent mingling in Caleb’s blood. He was grateful that his mate came through it well and he gathered Caleb deeper into his chest and rocked him gently from side to side.

 Irina kissed him on the forehead and brushed his hair aside. She smiled at Dimitri and told him she was going to prepare something for all of them to eat. He nodded his response. Caleb was going to need not only blood but food as well when he woke up. He thanked his family as they tiredly made their way out of the room. His appreciation and love in his gaze. He looked down at his mate and leaned forward to place a gentle kiss on his forehead as he continued to gently rock him in his arms. He vowed then and there to love this man until the end of his days, to cherish him and protect him with everything that he had. He quietly thanked him for the ultimate gift of giving himself, his life to him and he shuffled down onto the bed with Caleb firmly in his arms as he let the love and peace of having his mate at his side lull him to sleep.

Epilogue

Epilogue

Two years later……………

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**A/N, Yes this is it the last chapter. I wrote this book in the third person POV and it was tough, this book was originally going to be Manxwoman as some of you have picked up from all my poor errors in the beginning when it was prewritten and my editing skills sucked. I will eventually get around to fixing that, but you guys have stuck with me and this story and for that I wanted to send you a heartfelt thank you to everyone who have commented and voted and just plain encouraged me to keep going. I wrote this chapter in Multiple POV rather than the third person. I wanted the characters to have a say. Our Total Submission will begin soon now that Rescue Me is completed. Many of you are waiting for Stavos’ story with his twins :-P..Lol. Thank you again it’s been a wonderful ride writing for all of you, xoxo, ladydianna.

(Picture of the Gazebo—–>)

 Walking through the community center I stopped at the indoor gym and watched the inner city kids of all ages playing games interacting with each other and it made my heart swell. When I graduated last year and heard about this job from an interview with the Department of Children and Family Services, I jumped at it. At first it was rough because the kids that came here were from single parent’s homes and the group homes in the rent controlled area nearby, most where latch key kids and the community center was the only thing keeping them from falling into trouble. The area was rife with crime, drug dealers and such, enough to entice a poor kid to run drugs for quick money as the dealers flashed their fancy cars and clothes at them to lure them in. I had to on more than one occasion call the cops. Dimitri wasn’t pleased at first about my choice of jobs, more the locale and the environment, but having volunteered here, along with Irina and the twins, he caved. It was even on his donated funds that he updated the building, donated the games and computers. Stavos also updated the buildings security system and showed up here all the time seeing his mates spent a lot of time here helping the children.

 Ayden and Ahron were currently in a heated game of basketball with some of the older teens. I must say they were great with them, very patient and willing to look pass the belligerent attitudes to the good kids they really are at heart. I sighed and turned back down the hall to my little office. I had some paperwork to fill out on the progress of some of the newer children in my program. The center worked with DCF when they placed kids from neglected homes in the group home around the corner. The kids came here for counseling and supervision away from the group home. That is where I came in, I am the community center counselor and Social Worker. The community center was destined for demolition not so long ago and after I first started here, after fighting with the city and DCF, the community as well as myself, several prominent city commissioners, and a lot of Dimitri’s business associates, we managed to convince to keep the place open and running.

  A lot of those companies chipped in and even offered program studies and academic scholarships for the kids to be able to go to college and work. We had community colleges come here all the time and talk to the parents and high school kids about their options to further their education. We provided parenting classes as well as family planning with the local hospital and clinics, too often young girls came to me distraught and crying that some man or the other even a family member got them pregnant. It was heart breaking work sometimes, but this was what I wanted to do, I wanted to give help where I could and my mate understood my needs and where they came from, and if it was up to him he would most likely take them all in and take care of them to ease my mind and to make me happy. I couldn’t have asked for someone better as my mate, the love of my life.

 Getting back to my office I closed the door and sat behind my desk. I started on the necessary paperwork and filled out the forms. I scanned them into the computers and emailed them off to the individual case workers that needed them. I glanced at my watch and noticed that I still had at least another two hours of my business day, so did my mate. But I it was Friday, the kids usually hung out and did movie night with the other younger counselors here, then the center would close at ten. I sent a quick mind link to Stavos letting him know my plans and he just smirked and promised to send Marcos and some of the guys to watch over the staff and kids this evening until he could get here to join in movie night and later lock up and take his mates home.

 I locked up my office and I stepped back into the outer office to tell the girls I was leaving for the day. They winked at me and told me not to hurt my man, they could read me like a book, but that’s what happened when you worked closely with a group of people in an emotional soup box for long periods of time. You get to really know one another. Although I must admit that no one here knew I was Vampire. That was not necessary information anyone needed for me to perform my job. Getting into my car I started the engine and listened to it purr. Dimitri bought me a cute little Mini Cooper for a graduation present. I vetoed all his other car choices; they were too flashy and screamed wealth, totally inappropriate for my job. So he settled on my cutie after having Stavos wire it like a tank.

I made my way home and I thought about my life since my decision to stay with Dimitri. I lost my human life but I had gained so much more. My thoughts flashed back to that eventful day after Dimitri turned me. I had woken up not in the guest room where he had made hot, mind blowing love to me, but I was firmly encased in the middle of our now massive bed in the Master bedroom, cocooned in blankets and a very worried muscle bound Vampire. I had opened my eyes and had to close them almost immediately everything was so bright even with the heavy curtains pulled over the window. Dimitri had hushed me and caressed my face. He explained that I was going to be hyperaware of everything involving my senses for a while. I remembered as I had slowly opened one eye then the other to see him hovering protectively over me, still stroking my face and I had felt every stroke, every caress right down to the marrow of my bones.

 My poor man had just braced himself because he knew what was coming. A heat had flashed over my body making me feel like I was on fire. My back undulated clear of the mattress as my desire for his body and blood rolled through my body. Dimitri smoldering gaze had never left my heated one as he had watched me writhe and whimper for him. I was rock hard and I had reached out him and he caught me. He had cared for me, drawing me to his vein and had instructed me to drink from him. It was and still is one of the most erotic things that we do, sharing our blood with each other.

 I had used his body on more ways than one all day in those following days. It was a mark of his strength and stamina as the sex had pounded on and the feedings had continued for almost two days. He had never complained and he was always ready and attentive to my needs. It still brought tears to my eyes whenever I think of that time in my life, where my life actually began. I never saw my human death as something to be mourned. I always referred to it as my real birth into my love and my family.

 I pulled up to the guard house of our home and entered the pass code to open the gates. I waved at the security guard and drove through. Getting to the house I watched our security gates swing open and I passed through driving the length of the driveway to park my car, Stavos and Gustav always argued about my going straight to the garage. They preferred that I parked in the drive and one of them or the security team would park it for me, they said Dimitri decreed it so that they could make sure that everything was in working order and that my gas tank was always full. I picked my battles and just let them have at it.

  As if on cue, when my foot hit the top step Gustav was right there swinging the ornate front door open and greeted me with a much too innocent smile. I stopped and eyed him warily. “What are you up to now?” I asked, afraid to go inside. I mean between him and the twins I didn’t know which one was worse, he even hauled Stavos into his schemes a majority of the time, then played the innocent bystander, but I must admit it was all in the name of our welfares. Even though we hated to admit that we have been handled into whatever at the time. Sometimes whatever the situation, it was for his own amusement and that’s when he took to disappearing or Irina had to step in and handle the mess he created, that woman was an Angel I tell you.

 “Good evening Master Caleb.” He crooned as he waved me into the house. I got even more concerned with his tone of voice and the smirk on his face. I rushed through the door screaming for Irina at the top of my lungs as I ran for the kitchen.

 She came bustling towards me like a beautiful avenging Mother. “What is it baby?” She asked as I ran straight into her open arms and buried my head in her neck. She always smelled like sunshine and flowers.

 “Your husband is up to something and it’s scaring me?” I pouted against her skin.

 She laughed and eased her shoulder forward bring my face out to look at her. She smiled that soothing motherly smile as eased my hair off my forehead. “Don’t worry baby, he is just messing with you, he has nothing up his sleeve tonight, I can assure you off that, now go have a nice long bath, while I make dinner.” She stated as herded me towards the stairs. I walked by the chuckling Gustav on my way to do what she said.

 I poked my head out of the pantry where Irina had shoved me and got the all clear from Gustav to come out. Caleb almost ruined the surprise I had for him by coming home early. It was a good thing he had let Stavos know that he was leaving work early and made plans for the center to be secure and locked up after movie night there. My poor baby was so involved that he didn’t realize that today was our two year anniversary and I had plans for my baby. I just hoped that Irina could finish setting it up before he caught wind of it. She was currently bustling around with the last minute details. I intended to have a commitment ceremony and replicate our first dinner together in the gazebo I had recently built in the back of the house. The entire back patio would be lit up as we exchanged our pledges. All of our family would be in attendance, we were already fully committed as per the Vampire mating ritual but I wanted to go the extra mile and surprise him with the ceremony effectively and legally recognizing him as my life partner.

 The twins and Stavos arrived shortly after to help set everything up, Ayden went upstairs to occupy my sweet boy so that he wouldn’t pick up on the arrangements. Right when the day turned to night I wanted to pledge my undying love to him. I trusted Irina to work her magic as Gustav dragged me down the hall to the guest room to shower and change. The food had already been arranged by the caterers, thank goodness, by the time Caleb had gotten home, so he wouldn’t see the delivery trucks. Now, it was up to Irina to get Caleb into his tux without tipping him off and again I trusted her fully with that. That woman was a force of nature and I told a Gustav on a daily basis that he was a lucky son of a bitch, to which he smugly agreed.

 Dimitri was so gone for his cute little mate that is was so funny to watch him interact with the slender young man. I must admit that Caleb in all his fragile beauty did bring out the protector in you to the fore front, and Dimitri kept me real busy making sure that not so much as a hair was ever disrupted on his love’s little head. I saw eye to eye with him on that as I watched Ayden come back down stairs to be dragged off my Ahron to get dressed. Those two surely kept me on my toes. Either they were tempting the devil out of me or frustrating me to no end with their evil naughtiness. They definitely needed to be taken in hand, and I was enjoying in doing so to the fullest. I couldn’t imagine life without them though even with all my demons and ghosts from the past haunting me from time to time they managed to settle the beast riding just under the surface of my skin.

 I heard arguing and whining coming from the guest room and I made my way there to see what was going on. I almost barked out in laughter as Gustav was trying in vain to hold Dimitri still with a tweezers in one hand trying to pluck his eyebrow. He was ranting about the Barber missing a spot and Dimitri was struggling just as hard to be left alone. I decided to be the good friend depending on which side of the coin it was to help Gustav. I came up behind my huge friend as used my arms over his burly ones clamping down on his chest and pulling him back into my body rendering him still, his arms pinned to the side. I knew he was just humoring us because he was as strong as an ox and if he wanted free, even with my vampire strength, he would be.

 “I swear you are as stubborn as an old goat.” I muttered as I plucked the offending hair from my friend’s brow. God between him and Stavos they would have managed to give me gray hair if it were possible.  He just screamed in agony and rubbed his eyebrow when Stavos released him, one would think that I had cut his head open and performed a lobotomy or something. I continued to scowl at him as I got him into his tux. I was just arranging his cuff links when Irina let me know that the Justice of the Peace arrived and to get him outside and entertained.  She was almost done with Caleb. I left Dimitri with a severe warning not to do anything that ruined my efforts at his perfection. I rolled my eyes at Stavos grinning at his side and left the room to do my precious wife’s bidding.

 I wondered what all this fuss was about, I should have known they were up to something when I came home to Gustav’s too innocent face. Now Irina was hustling me into a tux. She kept going on and on about some dinner Dimitri is hosting tonight at the last minute for some business associates. It would have been nice if he had linked with me to let me know something about it. Now I felt flustered and a little bit annoyed. Irina had only left me to slip into a gauzy confection of Lilac that suited her figure and complexion perfectly. Her hair was done up in some sort of intricate up do. These people he was entertaining tonight must sure be some fancy big wigs or something.

 She turned me towards the full length mirror in the wardrobe where she had polished me within an inch of my life. I must say I was impressed. The Valentino White tuxedo fit me to perfection and not a hair was out of place. I didn’t have time to linger as she hustled me out of the room. I wanted to ask where Dimitri was but she had the determined glint in her eye and everyone knew not to mess with her when she was on a mission. I would find my wayward other half in a minute. She ushered me into the sitting room and I gasped, there was the object of all my desires standing so mouthwateringly handsome in his own Black Valentino suit. Oh my God, I have died and gone to heaven, no pun intended.  Irina closed the door quietly behind her as she gave us some privacy.

 I watched as he stalked over to me, my mouth dry and my breathing picked up. This man has never failed to render me stupid with his movie star perfection and sexily dangerous aura. I could feel my blood already setting up for a slow simmer. He stopped in front of me and picked up my hand, sending those amazing little tingles shooting from our point of contact and up my arm.

 “Baby, I have a surprise for you tonight. If you recall it has been exactly two years to the day that you walked through those front doors of our home for the first time and captured my heart forever.” He purred and I could feel the tears already gathering at the back of my eyes as my heart galloped away in my chest. I refused to cry though, fighting it stubbornly as I waited for him to continue. “You have come into my life and given me everything right down to your own life so that I may live. Tonight just outside those balcony doors. I want to pledge myself to you by the laws of man. By Vampire tradition I am already yours and you are mine, but tonight in front of our family I want to give myself to you, for you to wear my ring and carry my name as in human tradition.” He whispered against my trembling lips, and that did it, I was done, big fat happy tears rolled out of my eyes and I nodded my head for the lump in my throat was firmly lodged there. He gently gathered me into his arms and kissed away my tears.

 I managed to pull it together and he took my arm and led me to the patio doors. He threw them open with a flourish and led me out onto the cobbled patio, and my jaw dropped. Millions of lights lit the entire back of the house. There where enormous arrangements of potted white roses and fluffy green chrysanthemums scattered throughout. A spectacular lighted gazebo draped in even more roses and lights stood in the center. Dimitri led me through our grinning family and into the gazebo, there were two photographers snapping away recording this event on film, once in the Gazebo there was a man holding a bible standing there smiling at us. Behind him was a silk covered table. I gasped again, because on it where several photos of Dimitri and I over the course of our relationship. One of us together on vacation, a couple of them of us fooling around, but there was a big one of us curled up on the chase by the pool fast asleep locked in each other’s arms.  And, yep, yet again, I was struggling with the water works as he turned me towards him. Taking my hands in his as our family gathered around us to witness our vows.

 I couldn’t help it as I blotted my eyes with my husband’s handkerchief.  It was too beautiful to watch my boys as they exchanged their vows. Anyone could obviously see the love and affection they shared, this was an extraordinary bond. I snapped my eyes over to my nephews and watched as they each were attached to Stavos’ side, their mate. Gustav leaned over and pecked me on the cheek, no one was more ecstatic than him at these turn of events, he always feared for his best friends for different reasons, that they would never find or settle into having a mate, not after Dimitri’s heartbreak of losing his mates or Stavos’ determination for whatever reason to exist alone with any other bond than that of his friends standing here tonight. I am so pleased at these turn of events, so euphorically happy that Caleb, Ayden, and Ahron came along and captured their hearts and in doing so rescued my men from a long and lonely existence.