Zane slammed his fist down on the table indignantly. “Excuse me? I’ve made sure our mate has had multiple orgasms every fucking night. If that’s not taking care of her, I don’t know what is!”
Kai appeared at the door, but upon hearing raised voices, he spun around and disappeared. My heart fell. I barely saw my merman as it was, thanks to our conflicting timetables and his habit of rising early.
While Maverick and Zane bickered, I silently resolved to drag Kai back to my bed later. He needed me as much as my bear after all the drama with his ho-bag of a mother.
I’d also seen very little of my bestie lately. She’d been preoccupied with something and didn’t seem inclined to talk about it.
Maybe a movie night was overdue. Glynda loved romantic movies. I’d ask my bear to download some good ones onto his laptop so Glynda and I could watch them. The vampire dorm had no TVs or any form of modern entertainment. I guess the vamps hadn’t been interested in television back in the day.
I turned to Rasmus, who’d taken a seat beside me, and asked him.
“No, we prefer other forms of entertainment,” he told me. “My parents’ court held weekly balls, and most nights there was dancing and a blood feast.” He lifted his glass of synthetic blood and took a sip. A faint grimace was the only sign he found the fake blood unpleasant.
He hadn’t fed from me in a week, but I wasn’t sure how to raise the topic. Part of me wondered whether he still liked my blood. Did I taste nasty?
“No, my darling. You taste divine.” Rasmus leaned in and inhaled. “You smell divine too.”
“But you haven’t been feeding from me,” I whispered.
“Only because you need your energy. I don’t need to feed all that often. I am old, and older vampires are less reliant on blood.”
“Is that why you survived?”
“I believe so.”
I pondered that while I chewed my food. If Rasmus had survived because he was old enough not to need as much blood, then surely his family would have survived as well?
He shook his head.
“Not necessarily,mea amica. Even if my family hadn’t succumbed to the bloodborne virus, being blood-starved makes us vulnerable. Our family’s estate in Europe, as well as our other homes, was heavily warded against intruders, but the wards may have failed if not renewed by the witches on our payroll.” His scowl suggested he thought at leastsome of those witches might have had good reasonnotto help their vampire clients, but he stopped short of saying so.
The food in my mouth turned to dust. I hated knowing he had no idea whether his family was still alive. Adam, Willow, and the other witches back on the farm had been my family growing up, and at least I knew they were safe.
Which reminded me, I’d promised to visit them at Beltane, assuming the headmaster permitted us to leave campus for the holiday. With all the lockdowns lately, I wasn’t hopeful.
“Maybe we can travel there to check on them?” I wasn’t sure if Zane could teleport us all that far, but if he could…
“Thank you for caring, my darling.” He nuzzled my neck, and I shivered. Stars, it had been less than an hour since my last orgasm and already I wanted more.
“I would like to feed from you later,” he told me in a low, husky voice.
“No,” my bear snapped, having heard Rasmus thanks to his shifter hearing. “She’s mine for tonight.”
I rolled my eyes and slammed my cutlery down.
“This is ridiculous. I’m not a toy you can pass around! We all share a room, or I sleep alone.” My males glared at each other as I folded my arms. Kai wasn’t here, but I’d talk to him. Of all of them, he was the most willing to bend to suit my desires, even when it made him uncomfortable, which sharing did.
“I have no issues with sharing your sweet body, pet.” Zane winked. “And I doubt vampy does either.” Rasmus slid his hand over my thigh.
“I love to share,” he purred.
Only my bear seemed less than enthused, but he huffed and nodded.
“Fine.”
“I’m not sharing with the pig,” Kenji muttered from where he lay curled up on a chair. “It stinks.”
“Fig doesn’t smell! I bathed him after you complained.”
