Holding onto Augustus, Gregory did everything he could to hold the tears back. The tears did not fall. Gratitude filled him.
“I’ve never known anything like this.” Augustus cupped his face and then pulled Marianna in close. “The control you both have is unheard-of in vampires. I’ve never even heard of it.”
“Maybe you’ve been looking in the wrong places. Marianna and I are different. We’ve been hit by loss when we were human. There is nothing holding us back. We’re in this together.” Gregory stroked her face. Desire struck him hard in the chest. Pressing a palm to his heart he felt … nothing. No beating or pounding. His heart no longer pulsed with his life. “Amazing.”
Marianna laughed. “It really is something. Come, drink,” she said.
He followed her over to the sofa and took the drink she offered. Gregory took large gulps, taking as much of it as he could. The taste was sweet and delicious.
“Do you feel any different?” Augustus asked.
Gregory shook his head. “No. I feel the same. There is nothing different. I don’t feel any urges or anything.”
He sensed his friend’s gaze and turned to see Augustus staring at him.
“What is it? What’s the matter?” he asked, looking between Marianna and his friend.
“I’m plagued by blood lust, and Marianna is addicted to sex. You’re neither of those. You’re neutral.” Augustus looked excited. “We can make this work. All the other times throughout the years are because the other people I turned were plagued with my curse or pushed me to kill them. I didn’t want to run the risk with either of you, but you’re both different.”
He’d never seen Augustus look so excited before. Gregory twirled Marianna’s hair around his fingers watching as her breathing deepened. Her nipples hardened.
“Did you ever expect to have a friend and a woman to love?” Gregory asked.
Augustus pulled Marianna to him. “We’ve got a woman to love, and the future has never looked so tempting.”
He watched as Augustus tilted her head to the side and kissed her neck. The touch reminded him of what it felt like to have Augustus’s fangs in his own neck. Standing up, Gregory tore the shirt she wore from her body, revealing her tempting curves to him. Running his hands up and down her body, Gregory relished the newfound freedom to hold her. When she’d been human, he’d been scared to hurt her. Marianna as a vampire with him as a human, he’d been scared of her lack of control.
Together, all three of them were on equal footing. There was no fear, only love, lust, and friendship. He saw the love in Marianna’s eyes when she looked at him and the friendship in Augustus’s life.
Gregory never thought Augustus would turn him. He imagined the rest of his human life would be spent begging to be turned only to die an old man.
“We’ll have to keep moving,” Augustus said.
“No problem.” Marianna gasped the words out as Augustus sucked on her breast. Gregory opened her legs to find her molten hot centre. She was dripping wet with her cream leaking down the sides of her thighs.
She moaned, whimpered, and wrapped her arms behind her.
He kissed her neck and watched Augustus go to his knees before her pussy. “He’s going to suck you, Marianna. He’ll lick all of your cream off and swallow it down.”
“Open her for me, Gregory.”
With his fingers Gregory opened the silken folds of her pussy to reveal her swollen centre. Gregory caressed her clit, feeling the swollen nub pulse against his fingers.
“She’s so wet and desperate,” Gregory said.
“Neither of us has to hold back. Marianna is ours to share with each other and fuck.”
Gregory cupped her face and claimed her lips once more. “No other man will ever know the pleasure of being with you.”
“I don’t want any other men. I only want Augustus and you.”
He claimed her lips as she cried out. Breaking from the kiss, Gregory saw Augustus sucking her clit into his mouth.
Within seconds of Augustus sucking her clit, Marianna erupted. Her orgasm rode through her body. Gregory held her in his arms as she rode the wave of her climax. The scent and watching her come apart was the most addictive thing he’d smelt and witnessed.
“Are you finished?” she asked.
“We’re not even close to finishing, are we, Gregory?” Augustus asked, wiping the cream from his chin. The other man picked her up and laid her out on the bed.
Staring down at his body, Gregory was amazed. He was dead, and yet it was the best he’d ever felt in a very long time. No one could take his future away from him. There were no drugs, or silly accidents. His future was filled with Augustus and Marianna, and he’d never been so excited about his future before.