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Chapter 301 – Warm Enough

DaxNoah strips like a wolf, fast and without a shred of modesty, right up until he catches me checking him out. Then he looks at the trees."Nobody's out here," I tell him."You don't know that.""Werewolves, remember? I'd hear them.""You wouldn’t hear them over the sound of the creek, because I can’t hear them over the creek."He folds his shirt, which is my shirt, and leaves it where he can grab it in a hurry."And in about five minutes you won't hear a monster truck barreling down on us."He's not wrong. My dick's been paying extremely close attention since he said yes to coming out here.We've had the house to ourselves for a few days, and this is the first afternoon hot enough to drag him down here. The bend's deep and still, and the far bank is one big shelf of flat rock that's been cooking in the sun all day.I want him on it."Race you," I say. "Far bank. Winner tops.""You're going to lose.""In the water? I've got the reach.""You've got the drag." He looks me up and down.

Chapter 302 – Rematch

NoahI won, so I get to look.Dax is flat on his back right where I told him to lie, in full sun, on a rock so hot I'm shifting from foot to foot just standing over him.His hair's fanned out on the stone, drying blond at the ends. Those gold eyes are fixed on me while creek water drips off me onto his chest, and he doesn't even twitch.He loves this. Being looked at is right up there with food and winning, and since he just lost a race, he's milking it. He folds his arms behind his head, settling in, and every muscle he's got rearranges itself for my benefit.Obviously it has the desired effect.I live with this man, so his size shouldn't surprise me anymore. But laid out on this rock with the sun all over him, he goes on forever, like a gilded statue of a Greek god.His cock is lying hard along his stomach, and mine twitches at the sight of it."Is this it?" he asks. "I lose a race and you just look at me?""For now. You agreed to my terms.""I agreed to those terms under extreme du

Bonus Chapter 1 – Not Receiving

Maxim"The Master is out," Mervyn tells her.I gave him one job. I gave it to him the moment her heart turned onto Caldwell, which was long enough ago that any vampire with a shred of sense would be three streets away by now.Instead, I'm still at the corner table in the dark, holding a glass of red I poured an hour ago and haven't touched. Two centuries of making whole rooms go quiet just by walking into them, and I'm hiding from a bookkeeper behind a goth."Okay," Heidi says, perfectly pleasant. "When will he be back?""He didn't say." Mervyn doesn't move out of the doorway. "He's out at the corner table. In the dark. Sulking at a glass of wine. He's been out like that for weeks.""Thank you, Mervyn," Heidi says, very politely."Mervyn."I don't need to raise my voice. I let the growl come up under his name, and from across the room I listen to his pulse trip over itself."You told me to say you were out," he says, still facing her. "I said it. You never told me to stop talking afte

Bonus Chapter 2 – Off the Books

HeidiSomething lurches through me that isn't mine.Panic, I think. Big, wide-eyed panic, coming off a man who's spent his whole long life making other people feel it.His fingers lock around mine, then let go of all that pressure at once. I think he's just remembered what his grip could do to a human hand."You've felt that every night." His voice turns cold and very precise, which, I'm learning, is what it does instead of shaking."Yes. Constantly.""You should have told me.""You closed your bar. I figured you wanted to be left alone, so I stayed away as long as I could stand it."I squeeze his fingers."Now I can’t take it anymore. That's why I'm here."He looks at me like nobody's ever admitted something like that to him before.He moves aside so I can get past and shuts the steel door behind us. He doesn't lock it, and I think I'm supposed to notice that and feel reassured.I've pictured what's behind this door a ridiculous number of times. Back when I only knew him from Dad's f

Bonus Chapter 3 – Fair Game

Maxim"Left at the gravel road," I tell her. "Just past the mailbox shaped like a fish."Heidi takes the turn like she has somewhere to be, and my knees bang into the glovebox again.Her car is small, red and built for people who've never had to fold anything longer than an umbrella. I've had the seat pushed all the way back since she picked me up on Caldwell, and I'm still sitting like a man in a doll's house."You could have just told me where we're going," she says."I could have."I spent a few nights planning this. Tonight Mervyn's running Vintage unsupervised again, which is how badly I wanted to see her.The bar's only just opened its doors again, and if I come back to find he's painted the walls black and started serving absinthe, I'll have nobody to blame but myself.I don't get nervous about things. It’s a terrible habit I rid myself of after my first century of life. I've been jittery for days.The trees fall away, and over the tops of them a Ferris wheel is turning against

Bonus Chapter 4 – Blackout

HeidiMaxim spots the choker from the far end of the bar, and the Merlot he's pouring overflows the glass and spreads across the counter.It's black velvet, about an inch wide, and it sits exactly where he's spent months not looking. It's a billboard for my throat, and I wore it on purpose.I take my usual corner like nothing's happening. He mops up the wine, comes over with my board and puts it down for me. There's twice as much cheese on it as usual."That's new," he says, looking very hard at my eyebrows."Do you like it?""I'd like it better on my bedroom floor.""Is that an invitation?""It's a complaint."His want lands low in my stomach, and mine answers it so fast I have to cross my legs.He spends the rest of that night as far from me as his bar allows, explaining tannins to a man who didn't ask.I've let him decide how close I get for long enough. It's my turn now, and my plan is simple. One step further every night, until he stops holding back.I get that he’s scared of put

Bonus Chapter 5 – Do Not Disturb

MaximThere's just enough dark left for me to get home, if I leave this second and don't stop for anything.I step into her bedroom and shut the door behind me."You understand that once the sun comes up, I can't open that door again until it goes down?" I ask her. "The rest of your cottage is all windows.""That's the idea," Heidi says.Every reason I've got left for leaving is cowardice, and I'm not about to turn coward in front of this woman.I'm also terrified. She knows it, too, because she's eyeing me like a stray that might bolt.I check her window before I do anything else. Every edge, corner and seam, faster than she can follow. She's used enough tape on it to mummify a horse, and there isn't a gap anywhere.I've survived plagues, wars and the invention of the selfie, and I'm about to be undone by a bookkeeper with a roll of tape."Did you just inspect my handiwork?" she asks. “Did I pass?”"A countess once swore to me that the curtains in her castle were sunproof," I tell he

Bonus Chapter 6 – Captive Audience

HeidiThe tape on the top corner of my window lets go with a long, sticky rip, and a stripe of sunshine slaps down across my pillow.Maxim's head was on that pillow. Now it isn't. He's in the far corner of my bedroom, behind the chair, holding my stuffed bat in front of him like a riot shield.I've never moved so fast in my life. I'm out of bed and across the room stark naked, shoving the bag flat against the glass with both hands. The plastic's so hot it nearly burns my palms.Thank God past me left a roll of duct tape on the nightstand. I tear a strip off with my teeth and tape it down, tape over the tape and do the whole top edge again, because I'm not losing this man to some cheap glue."Black plastic," Maxim says from behind the chair. "In full sun all morning. The glue went soft.""Oh god, I’m so sorry. I thought it was secure. Did it get you?""No." He sounds deeply offended. "In two hundred and twenty years, I have never once been ambushed by a sneak attack."He looks down at

Bonus Chapter 7 – Prepared Remarks

MaximSomebody's giving a eulogy in my bar, and from halfway down Caldwell, it sounds a lot like it’s mine."Maxim Drake was vain," Mervyn says, from behind the door. "He was cruel. He was rude to everyone who walked in, and he was almost completely without gratitude."I stop under the streetlight to listen. Vain, I'll allow. I'm not walking in on my own funeral until I know whether it's any good."He corrected my pronunciation of Gewürztraminer whenever I said it, and I always said it right. He banned capes. He threatened to kill me every time I called him Master."Paper rustles."Brave soul that I am, I continued to call him Master regardless. I know how to show proper respect."I've heard enough to know he's underselling me badly, so I go in.He's sitting at my corner table with the lamp off and a single candle burning in the middle of it. There's a little stack of index cards in his hand, and he's tied a black armband around the sleeve of his black shirt, so the only person who'll

Bonus Chapter 8 – Due Diligence

HeidiThe relief that radiates off Maxim is so huge I have to lean on my car. I felt the panic surge in him the moment the words left my mouth.I can’t believe he actually thought I’d driven out here to break things off with him. How could I ever do that when this thing between us feels so absolutely right?I’m his mate. And ever since he nicked me with his fang and opened that channel between us, I’ve had no doubts. We’ve spent months dancing around each other and the only thing holding me back before was worry that he’d get bored and cast me aside eventually.Now I know, without a shadow of doubt, that he’d never be able to do that. We’re bound the way Dax and Noah are and it doesn’t frighten me. It feels too serendipitous to leave room for any doubts.The only obstacle is his fear, and I’m going to use every tool in my arsenal to move him past that.Poor man. He’s still got his keys in the lock and his whole body turned toward the curb. My guess is he was on his way to my place.Al

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