Pulling Kayla even closer against him, she continued riding his cock as he brushed her hair aside and started kissing up her shoulder. He could already tell she was so close, her perfect, warm, softy pussy clenching around his cock and her eyes rolling back.

Ezra’s own self-control was fraying as every thrust pushed him closer to climax, and Kayla’s request for him to bite her wasn’t helping either. To sate two hungers at once was a powerful experience, and being someone’s first bite was no small thing.

But she wanted it, and who was he to deny her when she looked at him with a new wildness in her eyes, her body wrapped around him and her tight pussy drawing him in deeper and deeper until the edges of his vision started to blur and darken.

Kayla shivered lightly as his tongue snaked out of his mouth and he licked his way up her neck. Goosebumps erupted on the sensitive skin there, and her hands on his shoulders held on tighter.

Ezra’s fangs were already out as he circled her pulse with slow deliberation, his body humming as Kayla’s pulse thundered in his ears. He let his teeth graze her throat and she moaned, bucking her hips against him, her nipples rubbing against his chest.

Burying one hand in her hair, he pressed her neck against his mouth, kissing and sucking until he couldn’t take it anymore. There was the softest pop as her skin gave way and his teeth sank into her, and her sweet blood started to pour into his mouth.

Kayla gasped in his arms as he buried his cock deep inside her again and again, while sucking her lifeblood into himself, feeling the warm liquid fill him up.

“Oh my god…” Kayla muttered as she melted against him, her breath ragged as her fingernails dug into his shoulders.

A moment later, she tensed, her pussy tightening around his cock as a powerful shiver ran through her. She was still grinding into him as her orgasm gripped her, and with her blood in his mouth and her velvety pussy milking his cock, Ezra let go.

The release that rocked his body a moment later was indescribable, with Kayla still clinging to him and riding out her own climax. Ezra’s fangs retracted as he licked at the wound on her neck, the bleeding stopping almost immediately.

They stayed entangled there for a good while, Kayla catching her breath and Ezra wondering why he had never felt like this with anyone before. When they finally fell back onto the bed, and Ezra pulled the covers up to make sure Kayla didn’t get cold, he was taken by the way she was lazily smiling at him.

“The lady approves?” he asked with exaggerated flourish, resting his head on his elbow as he stared at her beautiful face.

“Does she ever,” Kayla chuckled. “And that bite…” she trailed off, her hand moving to touch her neck. “That was something else.”

“I told you it can be amazing,” Ezra raised a brow at her. “And you are the sweetest woman I’ve ever tasted.”

“Must be all the chocolate I eat,” she remarked, laughing at her own joke.

“Really? That’s what you’re going with?” Ezra grinned back at her.

“Shut up, I’m hilarious,” she said, nestling closer to him and resting her head on his shoulder.

Pulling her close, with his arm around her shoulder, he kissed the top of her head as they talked for hours, about Kayla’s career aspirations and Ezra’s complicated relationship with Stephen, until Kayla finally dozed off right before sunset.

Listening to her breathing softly by his side, Ezra felt more at peace than he had in a long time.

* * *

“Wait, so you slept with this Robert guy’s wife and that’s why you had to get out of town?” Kayla asked, chewing on a piece of bacon as Ezra sat opposite her.

“Pretty much,” Ezra shrugged. “Robert is very old, which means he has a lot of powerful connections. Stephen didn’t want to risk a conflict between his line and Robert’s, so it was better if I made myself scarce. And then there was the whole thing of him wanting me to start turning people…” he trailed off.

“Wow. Vampire stuff is complicated,” Kayla commented, lost in thought for a moment. “And his wife – Lilith, right? – she told you it was all good? That she and Robert had an open relationship or something?”

“Yes,” Ezra confirmed. “I don’t usually get involved with married women if I can help it, but I have to admit I was somewhat flattered someone as old and powerful as her took an interest in me.”

Ezra studied Kayla’s expressions closely, worried about what the truth would make her think about him. He wasn’t ashamed of his past, per se, but he did hope it didn’t affect the way she felt about him. Meeting her had made him reconsider some things, and suddenly, her opinion was the most important one to him.

What has even happened to me? When did this engagement go from stalling for time with Stephen to being all too real?

“I get the feeling you’re what people might call… slutty,” Kayla remarked with a smirk. “No shame in the game, just putting it out there.”

“I have a feeling you and Stephen will get along great,” Ezra shook his head at her, a grin tugging at his lips.

“Ooh, planning on taking me home to your Maker already?” she replied.

“Why, do you have a problem with that, Ms. Clarke?” he asked, getting up and walking around the counter to pull her into his arms.

“None at all,” she said, and it was just what he wanted to hear.