Caramel: Book 3 of the Lord Emperor Vampire Series

Lied again, more smut.

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Chapter 109 :Earless

The water was scented with jasmine and the heat felt good on stiff joints. Posing was hard work. My muscles were tired. I leaned back on my bath pillow and let out a big contented sigh. A hand came up and loosened the warbraid out of it’s tight weave. Once in a while, I would hear a plink as a crystal bead was dropped into a soapdish.

Prior to getting into the warm waters of the tub, I wanted to stay pissy with Sasha, but how can you when he carefully and cautiously separated me from the limo floor. Carpet fibers stuck to the back of my overly gelled coiffed hair. It’s looked like a perm gone feral. But he treated me with loving care. He washed, and untangled and defuzzed my hair, brushing it sleek and even giving the back of my head a massage where it had been pulled harder to get me of the floor..

He had gotten me another pizza delivered. I happily munched on a slice and drank a can of diet cola as he turned on the biggest tub I have ever seen, tossed in something yellow then kissed my forehead before wandering off. Can’t stay mad at a man who does all that…and looks smokin’ hot in black leather pants and cat ears.

I thought that those ears would have been the first thing he threw off.

He wasn’t gone long. Chicken, green peppers and black olive pizza actually went well with the scent of jasmine. The lights went out. I turned on my hip and he came sauntering in buck naked carrying about ten lit candles on a tray. He took a couple of candles and set them around the wide lip of the tub, set one in the middle of my pizza box. He set the rest of the tray on the counter and let the mirror double the illumination.

I arched an eyebrow. My Sasha apparently was full of tricks. He was setting a scene of seduction…but whose? He picked up a soft bristled brush and sat at the edge of the tub, checked the level and temperature then shut it off. He moved behind me and I snuggled back against his open thighs. Mr. Happy bumped me in the back of the head.

“Close your eyes, lubov moya.”

A heavy cold collar settled on my neck. Collar? I brought my hand up to my throat and felt my locket. “It is partly my fault, Fallen. I knew that you and your brothers were rough and rumble. I should have got this for you from the beginning. It’s called a torc. In the past, it was a symbol of status.”

Father helped me up to my feet and I looked into the mirror. My locket was now looped through a flat curved semi circle, it had to be at least a quarter inch wide. I felt behind me. There was a thicker gold chain that latched it to my neck. “What is it now?”

Sasha came up behind me. I watched as his finger traced the gold torc down to the locket. “A symbol of my love. It can be easily taken off, if necessary.”

“It was an accident, Father. Neither of them meant to hurt you.”

“I know that…now.” He pulled on the warbraids. “Those photos will hit the streets soon. The way the Photographer was basically drooling, it might even be in three days. I do not think you will want to be wearing these when those advertisements go up.”

“Good point.” I picked up the end and looked at it. Damn fine work. I wonder which of the wonder twins did it. I had a feeling Hades would have more skill doing this than Liam. I suppressed a shutter at the thought that Hades was messing with my head while I slept.

“Come my Fallen. This will take a while. Let us soak.”

Which lead up to me basking on my naked warm bath pillow with a belly full of pizza, a heart full of love and a hard on drilling a hole in my spine. “Do you want me to take care of that?”

“It will go down.” Plink.

“So will the sun, but that doesn’t mean to you have to suffer through it.”

““I am not suffering, my Fallen.” Plink, plink. “Relax. Whoever did this, did an excellent job. The weaving is tight and it will take awhile. Sleep if you can. I will wake you when I am finished.”

“You don’t have to do all the work.”

“You do not get it, do you, lubov moya. I find joy in caring for you. Allow me the luxury of pampering you.” Plink, plink.

“As long as it doesn’t involve diapers, pamper away.” I snuggled my way on his chest and laid my head on his shoulder.

“You say the strangest things, Sex.”

I let myself be content. I hadn’t had that for a long time. Actually, I couldn’t recall being content. That was just sad. Plink, plink, plink.

I felt a kiss at my temple.

“I am done. We look like stewed prunes.” Apparently content is pretty damn close to sleeping. My hair hung in wavelets. My sister would kill for this. I remember her using her allowance to buy a crimping iron. Then she only used it twice. The first time, she burnt her temple. The second time she scorched her hair. I smiled. My sister. Lady Regent. I hope to god, the Vampire Nation doesn’t have to go up against the Hunters. Oh, we’d win, eventually, but the losses on both sides would be catastrophic. Blood should be thicker than water.

I got a finger under my chin and Sasha turned my head toward him. “What are you thinking about, Fallen that makes…” He rubbed at the furrows in my brow. “such lines in your face?”

“My sister.” I let out my breath and leaned forward resting my chest on my thighs, turning my head so my cheek sat on my knees. “I can’t pretend anymore. She is my sister. Those are my parents. Not X’s. Mine.”

Sasha climbed out of the tub. He grabbed a towel came back, sat on the edge and began to dry my hair.

“Sasha…”

“Sex.”

“You used your Indian motorcycle to get the hell away from Hades, didn’t you?”

“What makes you think that?”

“When he finally told you to get lost, you put it away. That would have been about twenty-two years ago.”

“I will have to watch what I say around you. Yes. It was my freedom. There were no cell phones to track me. When it felt I had been pushed to my limit, I would take Nakia and ride as fast and as far as I could. But I would always return. Marcus needed me.“

“Nakia – unconquered.”

“Hades attention was…a burden.”

I closed my eyes, “Am I a burden? I know X had to beg you to take me on.”

“You are a gift. I am grateful to be with you. I am honored, you feel I am worthy to be at your side, Lord Emperor.”

“But, you like women.”

“What is this about, Sex?” He caught me by the back of the neck and pulled me close. “I am here with you. I want to be with you. I have told you before that I will be here until you tell me to go. I do not want to go anywhere; Edward, Sex, my Fallen. I love you, more than I suspected I was capable of.”

I looked up at him and saw he still had the cat ears pinned into his hair. I started blubbering. I couldn’t call it crying. Crying could be pretty. This wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t even homely. Claudius dragged me out of the tub. A towel was on his shoulder and I buried my snotty nose into it. He carried me out of the warmth of the bathroom into the coolness of the bedroom. I shivered.

“I do not understand you, Fallen. Your emotions stun me.” I reached up and touched the black fur. A slow smile transformed his face. Even his blue eyes smiled at me. “They are there until you take them.”

“Lay with me.”

“I have to put out the candles. I would not like to foot the bill for burning down Shadoe Inc. Are you all right?”

“Yes…I must be tired.”

Claudius pulled the covers up and over me. “Rest. I will return.”

What the hell was that emotional outburst? I rolled over and grabbed a pillow hugging it to my body. I was scared. I’d been fucked over six ways since Sunday, but I’d never done the deed. I didn’t know whether to be glad or sad that both X and Az were possessive of their time with their men…poor Azrael. I didn’t want to be compared to Hades. I didn’t want my Sasha to have to climb on Nakia to get the hell away from me. He wasn’t going to take those ears off until…I loved him. A warmth erupted in my stomach. I loved him. I knew what the hell I didn’t like. Just don’t do that. I know what put my freak on. Maybe he would like it too.

I sat up and brushed at my tears. Performance anxiety. What had Hades told X? Carnage was a challenge. He was reluctant at first, but that was because he had only been with females. From what I could gather, he had only been with two since becoming a vampire, Katrina, his sire and Hades, his boss. Now,me…his Lord Emperor. I may have only been under Armor and Hades but I still think I was probably up about 400 fucks in three years. I sighed. There was nothing I could have done about it.

I thought I saw a bowl of roses at the elevator. I kicked my way out of the covers and headed for the door. Red roses…I wanted to make love to my Kitty Vixen on a bed of red roses. I jerked open the door and tripped over Haley. I went sprawling on the tile. The grey wolf yelped and turned ready to jump on his attacker. /Alpha, what are you doing on the floor?/

Oh, I was going to feel that in the morning. /Why are you laying in front of the door?/

/I didn’t think you wanted me on the bed./

I didn’t have anything to say to that. /How did you get here?/
/Hades and William brought Her Majesty and me here. You cannot run off like that without protection, Alpha Sex./

/Shade is here?/

/She is on the couch in the other room, closer to the main elevator doors. She said she is too old to be lying on the cold, cold ground. Can I jump on the bed now?/

/NO!/ He took a step back. /No, I’m not….done…yet…er…/

/You are trying to dominate your Father./

That sounded bad, but it basically was true. I nodded.

/I will guard the door, Alpha Sex. Your body dominates well. Your Father will like it./

Oh great, I’ve got a cheering section from the cheap seats. I pushed myself off the floor. Damn it. I cracked my elbow a good one. I padded down the hall toward the elevators. I grabbed five roses then turned back toward the bed room. I should say hello to the Hellcat Queen.

We had a cat in the barn that was supposed to be a mouser. It was the laziest thing ever. I guess Shayne and me sneaking it food, didn’t help. It would be laying up on the rafters and would drop a paw down and snag hair as you walked by. Shade’s pose on the couch was the same. She spied me and then rolled her eyes. I didn’t know cats could do that. She got off the couch and butted me with her head in the stomach. She sat down in front of me. “I have no clue what you want, your Majesty.”

She head butted me again, not so gently this time. I shook his head. She turned and closed her mouth around my wrist. Oh…..”You’re hungry…you want me to get X?”

She didn’t let go but backed up toward the couch pulling me toward it. Okay, it looks like I’m feeding time. I sat on the couch, naked on leather. A pillow got swiped onto my groin. I grinned down at her. Her golden eyes narrowed then she jumped up on the couch and flopped down on my lap. I fanged my wrist open and lowered it in front of her. It kind of tickled in a rough cat tongue sort of way.

I reached out and stroked her massive head. Her eyes closed and her tail twitched as she fed off me. I heard Haley yelp and an uncharacteristic curse come down the hall. The grey wolf scurried into the living room, his nails scratching on the tile.

/It’s cat boy!/ Haley did his little muttly snicker in my head. I glanced up to see Claudius round the corner. His knees were bright red from were he bounced off the floor. He halted when he saw Shade sprawled on me, and Haley was sitting on the couch by the end of her tail.

He let out a breath and leaned against the wall naked except for those funky little cat ears…kitten ears. “You come as a packaged deal, do you not?”

Schwing. I think the pillow moved. I know Shade felt it because her claws came out right into my thigh. They didn’t dig in, but they were there to tell me that she wasn’t done eating. “Is it such a bad thing? I was alone in the Dark for twenty years, Sasha. I’m surprised I’m not a raving lunatic. Haley, you get your nose away from there, you already scented her Majesty.” There was a whine from the wolf but the claws disappeared from my leg. Whew.

“Your experiences or lack there of, have made you, my Fallen. If you come with a circus, I am content. I want you, Sex, come Lycan or Hellcat.”

“…or Hashmallim or Endellion.”

“…or complete Armageddon. Look for me, I will be at your right side. Always.”

Shade pushed at my stomach. She was done. I lifted my wrist. Claudius pushed away from the wall and caught it. He had no fear of cat breath. His blue eyes watched me as he licked my wrist closed. Schwing with an exclamation point! “My Fallen Angel.”

A red paw came up and hooked around the back of Claudius’ head. He stilled. Shade pulled him close and rubbed her head against his then pushed him towards me. “I think you have her Majesty’s approval.”

She yawned and pushed herself back off me. I think that was the universal signal for begone from my sight. Claudius pulled me to my feet. He glanced down at my predicament. An eyebrow arched. “Is that for me?”

I arched my own eyebrow back at him. I parroted his own words back to him, “I have an erection for you.”

He blinked then brought his hand to my forearm. “I offered myself to you back on the day you tried to kill Hades to avenge me. You have shown me in so many ways that I am in your heart. My offering is a minor thing.”

“Don’t….don’t belittle yourself for me, Father; Claudius; Sasha, Lubov moya. You are the bar that I strive for. Let me reach you, don’t lower yourself.”

We kissed. A cherished token of affection that stirred the senses, the heart and the soul. His scent filled me. It warmed all the lingering dark places in my heart. I slipped my tongue into his mouth. Slowly, we entangled our mouths. Savoring. We had another day.

There was a deep throated chuffing behind me. Apparently, only Lycan liked to watch Vampires get it on. I picked up the roses I had left the bedroom to find and grinned as Sasha let me lead him back toward it. I heard nails on the tile and turned in time to swat Haley across the nose with the roses as he went to stick it in the only place he had yet to sniff.

/Nobody touches there before me, got it?/

/Yes Alpha./ Haley sat on the tile and whined as we headed down the hall.

“Do I want to know what you just said to the Pup?”

“I said your mine, paws off.”

My stomach muscles tightened as I escorted Sasha to his bed. I ripped the rose petals off and sprinkled them across the white sheets. Their fragrance filled the room. I turned to my Black Death and touched the gold locket at his neck. You could see the white and black locks of hair inside it. “I have never done this before. I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want to be Hades.”

Sasha reached out, locked my returned locket then stroked his knuckle up my throat to my chin. “You could never be like Hades. You asked me.”

I thought he was going to kiss me again. I raised my face and closed my eyes. There was nothing. I opened my eyes and Sasha was reclining back on the bed. His lids were hooded, barely a gleam of blue could be seen. His tongue came out and wet his lips and those kitten ears looked sooooo good against the white of the pillows. “Come my Fallen, let us figure this out together.”

“I want to touch you.” My voice was low and full of awe.

“Then touch me.”

I climbed onto the bed at the end and sat on my haunches at his feet. I ran my hands over the tops of his feet. They were so soft and smooth. Sasha’s hands were rough and calloused from knife work but his feet…I could see why Armor had a foot fetish. I took one and began to massage it. Oooh, I think I just found my kitten’s hyptinozing spot. He groaned and relaxed right back into the pillows. I rubbed my thumbs along his arch. Oh yeah, file this spot away under hot. I traced my hands around his ankles. He had a scar running from the back of his ankle up diagonally to the middle of his calf. It was invisible to the eye but my fingers followed the trail.

“Sasha?”

“I was young and stupid. I was a fledging and thought I was invincible. That cut, left me a cripple for 30 years before it healed properly and that was with blood baths every day.”

“Katrina healed you.”
“Yes, she did, Fallen. It was within her right to have left me as an invalid. I was injured because I defied her direct orders.”

I leaned over and tenderly kissed my way up that long brutal scar. I moved to the back of his knee and placed a sucking kiss there. I ducked under his leg and planted kisses on his inner thigh. His muscles jumped under my soft touches. I could feel the heat of his erection near my face. I turned and had to sweep my hair back to see him. “She healed you, because she loved you. I’ve hated her because she knew you first…I won’t anymore.”

“Sex, I….”

I swallowed Sasha deepily. I lazily sucked on him. I savored him. I simmered him. I made him incoherent. I smiled around his flesh. I could feel him stroking my hair as I worked on giving him the slowest blowjob in the world. I could have him shoot in minutes, if I wanted this over and done with. But I didn’t want it over and done with, I wanted it to linger. I worked a finger into my mouth beside his cock, making sure it was thoroughly soaked. I ran it down the sensitive area behind his balls leading to his portal.

His hips thrust up into my throat. I gagged and pulled back a bit. Memories of the limo and having to strap his ass the seat filled my head. I did the next best thing. I climbed on his thighs, set one arm across his groin and pressed my weight forward. I took him back inside my mouth, running my tongue along the crest of his cock. I flicked at his portal. I licked the slit of his cock. I pressed my nail into him. I pressed the tip of my tongue on the weeping slit then slapped at it with the underside of my tongue. He thrust up again but this time, I was able to control the depth of penetration.

“Ah…hrmph…..ggggerrr”

I breeched his portal. He stiffened. I forced my head down and took as much of him as I could without gagging myself. I hummed. I got the same reaction. While I overloaded his senses, I buried my finger deep within him and kept it steady. When he came, I could feel contractions around my digit. I twisted my finger and searched for that special spot. If I was bull riding, I would have won the belt buckle because Sasha thrashed for more than eight seconds.

He finally had to pull on my hair to get me off him. “Too much…..Sex….oh…Fallen.” I kept my hand buried against him.

“You like?”

His pupils were dialated to black, the blue iris seemed to shine and there was a red cast around his eye. “Oh…yes…” I rubbed his special spot again. His head arched back exposing his throat. I felt my fangs slowly come down. “Take me, lubov moya.”

“We need more foreplay.”
“I am ready…I need you inside me, Sex.” He reached under the pillow and pulled out a tube. “We have played all night. I need more.”

“I don’t want to hurt you.”

Sasha sat up. He pulled me to him by the back of the neck. He buried his nose in my hair and sucked my earlobe. “I said, you will never be Hades. You have already given me more pleasure than two hundred years with him. Take my ears, Fallen.”

“How do you want this?”

Sasha untangled us and got on all fours. Oh dear lord. I had to close my eyes and concentrate on breathing. That was the most erotic sight I have ever seen. Pearly white globes, a slim lean back widening out to swimmers shoulders…the arch of the neck framed by all that wonderful black hair, topped off with perky kitten ears. I bit my lip.

“Sex?”

“Doing some math problems…hold on.”

He gave me a husky laugh and wiggled his ass. My jaw dropped. “You’re not going to make this easy.”

“I do not want it easy. I want it hard. I will be satisfied with whatever you can give me, Sex.”

I had to blink away tears. I moved over him and wrapped my arms around his waist, as I laid my face against his back. “I’ve had hard, Sasha. I never want that for you.”

He reached back and laid a hand along my side. “That is all I know.”

“Then it’s time for something different.” I began to press kisses on his spine. I let my fingers stroke his sides and belly. I began working my way down past his lower back to the cleft of his buttocks.

“Sex….”

I gently parted his cheeks and looked at the reddened portal. I began to rim him, gently. Letting my tongue travel where my fingers had gone. I breached him. His hands gripped the sheets hard enough to shift us on the bed. X liked this from Armor. I think Sasha liked it too. He was making some interesting noises. The lube bounced off my shoulder.

“Now…”

I ran my hands along the front of his thighs and let his renewed erection rest of the back of my hand. I sat back and opened up the lube. I coated my fingers and slid one easily back into his portal. He groaned and lowered his face to the pillows. I pulled back, since one went in so smoothly, I twined them and pushed them forward. Sasha’s back arched then tension and I stopped. Once his body began to relax, I slowly began to wiggle thrust my fingers forward.

“Sex…”

I spread lube on my cock and grimaced at the sensitivity of it. I wasn’t going to do him any good. Concentrate on breathing. Tide comes in, Tide goes out. Relax. I maneuvered behind him. Sasha spread his legs wider and lowered his hips. I pressed forward to his portal. I expected more resistance. I expected some resistance. I slid in to the hilt. Tide comes in, Tide does out.

I slowly began to move. I let my hands spread out across his back and cup his waist.

“uuuuhhh.”

Those cat ears mesmerized me as his head moved from side to side and up and down. I controlled my breathing and began to thrust harder into him. I pulled at his bicep until his arm moved back. I brought his hand to his now hard cock and he began to stroke himself. Make this last….make it god for him….show him how love is supposed to be. I gritted my teeth. I felt his hips jerk and a clench of his channel threw me off rhythm. He gave a cry as he jerked himself to completion. He squeezed me hard and I lost it.

“AAAAhhhhh. Aaaahhh..” I jerked hard into him once, twice….thrice then collapsed on his back. I panted hard as he slumped forward, allowing me to slip out of him. I slid off his sweaty flesh to land in the bed beside him. I was panting like I had just ran a marathon. “Sa….sasha?”

He was laying face first in the pillows. “Sasha?”

He groaned and flopped over onto his back. “It was never like that.” He laid a forearm across his eyes and panted slightly.

“Was it okay? I couldn’t last….”

He perched up on one elbow and leaned over to me. “I have never had a better partner, Fallen.” He caught me by the arm and pulled me up the sheets toward him. The kiss….aaah the kiss. I lay on my back as he pressed his weigh on me. “I have never been given so much, Sex.” He reached up and tugged an ear out of his hair. He laid it on my chest covering a nipple ring. He did the same for the other ear.

“To the victor go the spoils.” He smiled and nipped at my chin. “I expect those to be properly mounted in your bedroom.”

“I thought you said, you were properly mounted.”
I got a kiss to the temple. “Thank you, Sex.”

I lowered my head to his arm, “I wanted to show you what love should be like.”

“I was never in love with Hades. I was never in love with Katrina. I know that now.”

“I’m sorry.”

“For what?”

“I didn’t mean for you to doubt that you loved your sire, and your wife.”

“I have never felt as much as I do when I am with you. Katrina gave me a life. You let me live it. You are weary, Fallen. I can sense it.” Sasha wrapped himself around me. “Rest here in my arms, my precious fallen angel. You have shown me a glimpse of heaven I did not know I could reach for. You will have to take me there again some time.”

“Okay.” I closed my eyes and leaned against his chest. Cinnamon and cloves and roses filled my head. “…kitty.”

“Only you will ever call me that, Sex. I will stab anyone else who even tries.” He whispered into my hair and settled in beside me.

I almost awoke when the bed dipped. I blinked through my snowstorm of hair as Nightshade walked up the bed and dropped beside me. She made another chuffing sound then flopped over and stole half my pillow. I dropped my arm across her neck and she wiggled back into me. I used her like a body pillow. Claudius rolled toward me searching for warmth and I drifted off again. The bed made another dip. Haley laid his head across my calves. My bed was a menagerie -- A Hellcat, a kitten and a pup.

“What the hell is going on here?”

Claudius slapped my shoulder as he sat up in his bed. I couldn’t sit up because somehow Shade was now on my arm and it was numb under her. I turned, flipped my hair out of my eyes and stared at Ping. A supremely pissed off female Lycan. We, the brothers three, have a talent for that. I then looked passed her. There were five more hulking Lycan brutes behind her. Holy crap.

“This is why no one came to the airport to pick us up?”

The covers pushed lower and human headed Haley popped out from between Claudius and I. Oh my god. “You said 6 o’clock.”

“I did not just see you climb out of bed of two vampires..”

“I got cold. You said 6.”

“A.M.”

“Oh.” He rubbed at his eyes then leaned over and stuck his nose up Claudius’s ass. That now only left Chesterton.

I didn’t need X’s talent with Nightshade to know that she was laughing her ass off. “Get off my arm.” She shifted enough so I could wiggle my way free.

“What the hell is going on!” Claudius shoved Haley clear off the bed. Unfortunately it took all the covers except for the sheet Shade was laying on..

Haley bounced back to his feet and kicked free of the covers. He grinned at his wife. He held out his hand. She glared at him for a second then dropped her dainty hand into it. “Alpha Sex, Lord Claudius, may I present my bondmate, Ping Saitou, Elek to the Blood Emperor, Xavier.” And he said this all while naked.

I flipped the sheet over myself and Claudius. “Welcome. Sorry about the mix up.”

“I should have confirmed with your personal assistant.”

“Hey…”

“Who are they?” Claudius gestured to the rugby team standing behind her.

“Alpha, I present the Imperial Male Alpha Pack. My sisters are gathering the candidates for the Female Alpha Pack. When the trials are completed, they will arrive as well to serve.”

Holy Toledo. I nodded in their direction.

“I understand there is a residence set up in Von Drachenfeld. I will have your Zsigmond take us there right after you are finished.”

“Finished?” I didn’t like the sound of that.

“You must dominate the pack, Alpha.” Ping stepped sideways. “All of them.”

Oh. Dear. God.