Rowan
I don't follow her or let her know I'm awake when I hear her get up, contrary to popular beliefs, vampires DID sleep, they just, didn't really need to. But I hadn't slept at all, and I'd closed my eyes pretending to the second I could hear her blood and heartbeat quicken just slightly as she stirred awake. Letting her move out of the bed, letting her search for clothes of mine and escape without saying a word.
I'd laid there, running a hand through my hair, wondering if I should have said something. I was too much of a fucking coward though, after biting her like that, drinking her fucking blood, almost....almost fucking killing the only thing that made my fucking immortal dead being feel somewhat alive again. I'd almost ruined it all. Almost killed her. So, if she wanted to run from me, I couldn't blame her. So I let her.
I turn off my mind, not wanting to listen to her as she speaks to her sister. Not wanting to invade her privacy ontop of nearly killing her. But the second my pretty creature starts to touch herself....her blood is mine now...so when it pumps faster, calling to me, I let my senses open wide, taking in every sound , I zero in on the fall of water around her, the soft curse of her mouth and my name, my fucking name on her lips as she cums.
I fist my cock, stroking it as I lay there listening, a small tug on my lips as I listen to her speak to me, because she knows, fucking knows I'm listening. I'd told her as much, that I always listen to her, everytime she cums.
I spill cum into my fist when she bursts with another orgasm, cursing at me. "fuck you, fuck you Rowan" she cries and I groan, my cum dripping down my fist as I squeeze my dick.
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Downstairs, I'm met with the gaze of half my family and their counter parts.
"Get that thing out of our house." Magnus scowls at me and I look down, watching the little green eyed black kitten pounce and run across the kitchen floor chasing a bottle cap around. I feel my lips tug slightly.
"Before I drink it's blood." Magnus adds and his wife Elena rolls her eyes.
"You're not going to drink a kitten and you know it. Grump." she says and he looks at her, wanting to glare at her , but she gives a slow smile as if to dare him to say otherwise, as if to dare him to argue with her at all. If anyone could tame my asshole brother , it was Elena. I think we were all fucking thankful when he found her and fell in love with her. My brother was the moodiest asshole vampire I knew.
"It's Winter's." I say.
"Then fucking take it to her." Magnus growls and Elena lifts a hand and slaps the back of his head.
"Quit being so grumpy." she scolds him. "It's not cute."
He looks at her and immediately the air is charged with their tension and arousal.
"Last I checked, you didn't love me for being...cute." he says with a low growl.
"Must've been that foul charm of yours." Jagger my brother says making Magnus scowl and Elena laughs and lifts a hand to the back of Magnus's head and scratches his hair at the nape along his scalp.
"That's exactly what it is. I must have an affinity for that handsome scowl and bad attitude." she says and Magnus turns his head, fangs snapping into place and Elena snaps hers back.
"Gross." Clarissa my sister says as we're all forced to watch the foreplay of those two.
"Excuse us." Elena says and stands looking at Magnus who follows the woman as if she herself is a witch and has him under a spell. I just shake my head, bending down to scoop up the little black ball of fur and hold him against my chest as his claws sink into my shirt and he climbs up my shirt and to my shoulder.
"So where is the little death defying mortal?" Jagger says and his wife Claudia nudges him and I frown.
"Shut up" She hisses at him.
"She left." I say and pull the little cat from shoulder and set it on the floor and watch it hop around after the bottle cap again. Silence in the kitchen as I look up at the pitying face of the females still sitting there, Claudia, Jaggers wife, and Clarissa my sister. Kairos, Clarissa's husband and Jagger both just look at me with surprise.
"You let her leave?" Clarissa asks in surprise.
"What was I supposed to do? Demand she stay?" I ask lean over the counter with a heavy sigh.
"Uhhh...You ARE a vampire" Jagger says and I look at him and level him with a stare.
"I'm not going to force her to stay or use mind compulsion on her." I say through half gritted teeth.
Jagger shrugs. "Then what's the point in dating a mortal?" he says and I know he's just kidding but Claudia his wife gives him a good smack on the leg for me.
"We dont DO mind compulsion , you know that." I say and he smiles and laughs at his wife and then looks at me.
"I was kidding." he shrugs.
Mind compulsion was a last resort, only when absolutely necessary , and tricking Winter into wanting to stay with me wasn't even close to being a justifiable reason. Plus, I didnt want to MAKE her want to be with me, or be near me. She'd come around, I think.
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A few hours later, I can't wait another second. With her Christmas music blasting, her and her sister dancing around in their living room and laughing as they add ornaments to their tree. I decide I've given her more than enough time. You'd think for a vampire with an endless amount of time to wait around for her, I'd be a bit more patient. But I was not.
"You're coming with me" I say bending over picking up the little black haired full ball that hasnt stopped bouncing around, climbing on furniture and batting around everything it could possibly get its little paws on.
I'm wearing my standard dark jeans and a black v neck when I knock on Winter's door. I wait, the music still blasting, the girls both singing a Mariah Carey christmas song at the top of their lungs, not hearing my knock, so I ring the door bell.
A few seconds later the music is turned down and there's hushed whispers that are not hushed at all as I hear Willa tell her it's probably me at the door.
There's silence from her end and I can only imagine the silent glare she's giving her sister, because she knows I can hear them.
"I've got your cat." I say loudly. That sets her little feet moving across the hardwood floor, I can hear each little slap of her bare feet and then the door unlocks and opens and....fucking hell. She's beautiful. So god damn beautiful as she looks up at me. My eyes go to her throat. Her hair is piled up in a sexy little mess ontop of her head, I flinch slightly at the bite marks on her neck, torn between hating them for what they represent, her almost death, and loving them because it marked her as mine.
She's wearing a white , chunky knit , loose cream colored sweater and a pair of black leggings with little reindeer on them. Her feet are bare, toes painted red and white stripes like candy canes. Fucking adorable little human.
"she's a monster." I say and hold out the kitten. She steps to the edge of the doorway and takes it into her hands.
"Takes one to know one." she says and then flinches and I do too.
"Winter I-" I start to apologize, she thought I was a monster.
"I ...I didn't mean it like that." she cuts me off and looks up at me while scratching the kitten's head. "A bad joke." she says.
I shut my mouth and I nod.
"Invite him in it's cold outside." Willa yells from the other room.
I watch as Winter rolls her eyes and turns yelling into the other room.
"Vampires don't get cold." she yells and then Winter looks back to me and her brows pinch.
"Do they?" she asks and I give her a small smile and shake my head.
"No. They don't." I answer her.
"I'm not inviting you in." she says.
"That's alright." I say and she looks at me. As if she's debating something in her head and I just wait and wait, cause my patience comes easy if I'm able to look at her while I wait.
"I need to buy some things. For the kitten." She says and I nod.
"I can go buy them." I say.
"No." she says and I shut my mouth.
"I....I was going to ask you to come with me." she says.
I swallow and nod. "Yes."
She fights a little smile and then looks down at the kitten.
"Just give me a few minutes. I need to change and put on some sneakers and fix my hair." she says.
"You look perfect just like that." I say and she lifts her eyes from the kitten to me.
"I'm a mess." she argues. I frown briefly.
"Hardly, I've never seen you look a mess, and I imagine if I was still mortal, you'd make it hard to breathe every time I've ever looked at you." I say and she blinks at me and I hear a little squeal from the side and Winter turns and sighs and I smirk slightly as Willa peeks her head around the corner.
"Hi Rowan" she says and reaches out and takes the cat from Winter.
"Hello Willa." I say with a nod.
"My sister would like to apologize for her rudeness this morning" she says.
"Willa!" Winter scowls and shoves her sister inside.
I watch Winter roll her eyes and look back to me.
"Give me...just give me a second." she says and I smile, taking a step back with a nod.
I can hear Winter scolding her sister, telling her to keep her mouth shut and mind her own business as she shuffles up the stairs to her room.
A moment later the front door opens slowly and a smiling Willa is looking up at me.
"She really likes you" she whispers.
I bite my lips together with a smile.
"She always has" she says and looks over her shoulder and then back at me, the kitten still in her hands.
"You're like, into her right? It's not just sex?" she asks boldly and I laugh and shake my head.
"Not just ...sex, no." I say, and she nods.
"Good....she's my little sister...if you fuck it up...i'll have to find a more powerful vampire to handle you." she says half serious, but still with a giddy smile on her face.
I nod. "Understood." I say, because only Willa Windsor would dare to threaten a vampire on her sisters behalf.
"Okay, well....I'd invite you in..but she'd kill me for it. So...I'm gonna close the door now." she whispers. I smile and nod.
"Good to see you Willa." I say and she smiles. Before closing the door all the way she opens it again with a curious cock of her head.
"Do you have any like...vampire cousins that are single?" she asks.
"Willa!" Winter yells at her, her feet coming down the stairs.
"I was just checking if he knew any single vampires!" Willa whines and Winter flings open the door shaking her head, and I smile when I see she didn't change or touch her hair, but instead, only threw on some socks and warm boots.
"Let me knowwww" Willa sing songs. I laugh and lift my hand with a wave as Winter shuts the door on her sister with a grumble.
"She's insane. Literally, I think she needs to be medicated." Winter says and I let out a small laugh and she looks up at me. I smile softly as we just stare at one another.
"I'm sorry for last night....well...not all of it...but..."
She nods. "I know."
"I'm sorry for leaving without saying anything...I just...needed to think." she says.
"About?" I ask.
She shrugs. "You."
"What about me?" I ask , I wasnt trying to be pushy, I just wanted to make sure if she was thinking about never fucking talking to me again, I wanted to put up a fight.
"I don't know. Just...you." She shrugs.
"Were you awake when I left this morning?" she asks. I nod.
"And you just let me go?" she cocks her brow.
"I didnt want to force you to stay, you clearly needed time to think about what had happened." I say.
"And three hours was your max for letting me think?" She raises a brow again , with a tiny teasing smirk.
"I missed you." I say with a slight shrug. She bites her lip.
"oh Rowan." she sighs. I lift my eyes to her.
"yeah?" I tilt my head. She smiles.
"We're taking your car." she says and I smile and nod.