Children of the Night

Chapter Thirteen: Finders Keepers

Aleksi watches Evangelia give him the middle finger. Sweat dabbed on her face and her body stumbling backwards as she does it. He can't help but chuckle. She never changed and never will.

Eva always used her voice and spoke up for herself. Growing up and needless to say, she always backed them both up whenever Aleksi got into a fight with the other boys in the village. Blood spewing down his face and his bottom lip swollen after a fight.

She tended his wounds and roundhouse kicked one of the boys off Aleksi. He admired her for that. But now, something is cowering, and he hates that it's because of Will.

He watches her walk off down the village and wishes he can follow along. But he can't and never will be able to. The woman in bed plays with herself, one hand down below and the other cupping her breast, pinching her nipple.

The door parts a few inches and he sense Nikolay standing in front of it. He turns his head a little to the side but keeps his eyes outside. At the same spot Eva stood calling him an asshole.

"Leaving this beauty alone?" Nikolay purrs as he makes his way to the female, a high smile on her parted lips. His large body dips the bed and trails gentle kisses up her leg. Until he kneels between her spread legs and bites her inner thigh.

She moans at the sharp feeling, grinding her low half up and down. Aleksi doesn't watch but listen—swallowing the tight air that reeks of blood. He wants to leave.

As he heads for the door, Nikolay pulls away and licks the excess of blood off him.

"Aleksi, wait." He stops, his back to him still. Nikolay mutters something to her ear before she stands and walks out of the room. Her small hand running across Aleksi's chest.

"You can have her," Aleksi mutters as he watches her enter another room and closes the door. "She knows what she's doing." He adds and Nikolay jumps off the bed, his chest stained with droplets of blood. His shirt still undone since Eva left.

"Women are ravenous creatures. They're beautiful. All of them." His voice is low and husky when he says it. Aleksi closes the door and whirls around to face him.

Nikolay is leaning his back against the bedpost, his arms crossed over his chest.

"What do you want?"
"Evangelia was here." Aleksi grinds his teeth together when he hears how soft her name sounds on someone else's tongue. He wants to rip it out.

"I know."

"I know you know." He grins and keeps still. Aleksi shifts from one foot to the other. The woman's blood still lingering in the back of his throat. Nikolay locks contact until he raises his brows. Teasing, he says, "You want her."

Guilty, Aleksi slowly nods. Since he's been with Nikolay, he's the only person he can trust in this place. His maker. His blood. His mother means nothing to him anymore—just a human he quietly greets from afar. Watching the hope in her eyes slowly die over and over again.

You want her.

It brings a tingle down Aleksi's spine. It waters his mouth and burns his veins. It makes his head pound and his eyes blur. He wants her more than anything. Even when Eva wasn't here, he would think about her—dream of her and all the other things he wants to do to her. He was and still is adolescently, in love with her.

"You want to fuck her?" Nikolay adds which catches him off guard. He feels himself harden. "Taste her? Everything? Well, I don't blame you. She brings a powerful aura around that's so...tempting." He whistles and Aleksi smells something lingering off Nikolay. Sexual desires.

"I swear if you touch her." Aleksi growls and Nikolay's eyes glow in surprise. He greets Aleksi's predatory stance but stays laidback.

"Don't worry, Aleksi. She's all yours. I'll see how you will manage." Aleksi envy's how Nikolay can manage his control. Aleksi can too but some vampiri mark their territories. Aleksi marked Eva and is now very protective of her.

"I don't know if I can control myself around her." He sounds like a child when he says it. No control around someone he has known. But this is different now. His needs are different, his likings are different, his cravings are different.

"I think you should see her. She's very stubborn and... agitated." Nikolay suggests and Aleksi looks down at the ground.

"I don't want to hurt her."

Nikolay approaches him and places a hand on his shoulder. "You're going to be okay. Find her alone because I don't think Will is a fan of any of us."

"Okay," Aleksi doesn't know why Nikolay is encouraging him but he's welcoming it. He does want to see Eva. With a firm squeeze, Nikolay's sharp eyes catch Aleksi's. "But I don't want you to intervene with what she has."

Aleksi slowly nods, swallowing the stale taste in the back of his throat. He knows he wouldn't hurt Eva in any terrible means, but nothing is stopping him from finding what she's searching for. 

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