Page 89 of Absolution

“Yes,” Luca moaned. “Please.”

I pulled my fingers out and put my hands on Luca’s hips to turn him, giving Con better access by putting Luca on his back, ass facing Con. Of course, he was getting hard again. “He is like the energizer bunny,” I remarked.

Con laughed. “Right? And so dirty.” Con rubbed Luca’s spend into Luca’s skin. Some of mine leaked from his gaping hole and I spread that over him too. It was odd how comfortable I felt in that moment. Luca sprawled out between Con and me, all three of us in union of one thing, Luca’s pleasure. My pleasure was great. Watching Con was good too, but unraveling the cool and calm exterior Luca showed at work? That was well worth basking in.

My stomach grumbled, reminding me I needed a snack. I leaned over Luca licking down his come covered chest as Con coated his hand in lube. I traced my tongue over Luca’s hip and down to his thigh where the sweet smell of his blood was strong and throbbing along with his heart and his quickly filling cock. I nipped at the vein a few times playfully, feeling Luca nuzzle my cock, though it would take me longer and more blood to be ready to come again any time soon.

I watched as Con worked into Luca, adding fingers, which were long and thin, delicate looking despite the ink across the knuckles. He started with three, then four, twisting and pressing part of his hand in, tucking the thumb close and rounding the fingers until he got to the knuckles. Those he worked at Luca’s ridge for a few minutes while I licked at sucked at Luca’s thigh.

As Con pressed in, working past the knuckle and finally the palm, I bit into the vein in Luca’s thigh. His blood filled my mouth, while I added thoughts of intensity to go with the pressure of Con’s entire fist disappearing inside Luca’s body.

Luca screamed again, body bucking in pleasure, while Con rolled his fist and I fed from Luca’s lifeforce. This was both the beauty and the horror of being a vampire. It was all about the blood. Feeding it, feeling it race in pleasure, and tasting the release beneath the copper bite. And that was okay. Watching Luca’s pleasure, sharing it with Con to create our own? That was worth living for.

Epilogue

From the short Samhain

Seiran Rou

The house flickered with eerie lights as I pulled my minivan into the driveway. I wondered if the effects were intentional since it was Samhain. It was just after six and almost completely dark. Every other house I’d driven by had already lit their pumpkins to shine into the night and ward off spirits. But most of the world celebrated Halloween, and the day was all about candy for them.

I glanced back to the two carriers strapped into the second-row seats. My babies both mumbled unintelligible things and moved their little fingers. At almost five months, Mizuki and Sakura were quickly outgrowing their baby stage. Mizu was sitting up and rolling over often, on the verge of crawling, and Kura was fighting hard to not fall behind her big brother. I could put the two together on a play mat for hours and they’d entertain each other. It was often how I worked, only interrupted on occasion by infectious baby laughter, which had the rare power to make me smile.

They kept me going. Without the twins I wasn’t sure how I’d wake up each day. I was learning to be stronger thanks to therapy that often added my friends and family to help work things out in a group rather than just leaving it all in my head. My kids deserved better than what I’d had growing up, and I was trying to provide that for them.

I put the car in park and stared at the house. It’d been a while since I’d actually gone inside. Hanna and Ally had bought the mansion late last year with my mother, and my older brother, Jamie’s help. It had been a fixer-upper, now it was grander than the Rou Mansion. It was in the heart of downtown St. Paul just off Grand Avenue. The street lined with amazing houses and architecture that inspired awe. The yards were small, but they’d had it fenced for security. It was smaller than the house my mother had built for me, but not by much. It was also a little too close to the neighbors for my liking.

The main door of the house opened. Hanna stepped onto the porch. She wore a black dress that swept her ankles in flowing dark spider webs of lace and had a pointy witch hat on her head. “I guess they are waiting for us, babies. Let’s go celebrate the harvest.”

I got out of the van, walked around the side, and then stripped off my coat and threw it on the passenger seat before opening the door to free my babies. Mizu’s eyes were wide.

“What, you don’t like it?” I asked him as I twirled in my catsuit. It was molded brown leather custom ordered from a cosplay website. With a few minor modifications, including a dark green leather kilt to hide anything the suit showed off since there would be kids around, the outfit was perfect for the mini-masquerade that Hanna was hosting. “Daddy’s a tree. Can’t you tell?”

I lifted my arms to display the branches and multi-colored leaves I’d woven through the fabric. Those leaves were real like the ones in my hair. My hair was green, a bit of my Father Earth power let out to play. The flowers and leaves real there as well, though I’d had Bryar help make it look nice. I’d styled it up so it would be out of the way and not a tempting handle for small grabby hands. Both babies had watched me play with the leaves with fascination on their faces. The fact that I’d made them from the brightest fall colors possible probably helped as all the books I read about babies stated that their eyesight would still be developing.

Mizu squinted his eyes, and then sneezed. Sakura giggled.

“Oh goodness, we better make sure you’re bundled up.” I crawled inside the van to unlock the baby seats and stepped into a pile of leaves. “How did those get in here?” Had I left the door open? The leaves crunched beneath my feet as I kicked them out the door. “Earth just follows us everywhere, doesn’t it babies?”

The twins were dressed as pumpkins. Matching orange jackets, quilted and padded like pumpkins, though the jack-o-lanterns on the front were different, thick gloves and a brown stem hat that covered their ears, made up the outfit. Once they were both unstrapped, and put in the stroller, I double checked their zippers and ties. Everything was in place. Time to go inside, couldn’t avoid the crowd forever. I pushed them toward the door and where Hanna waited. She had known to give me time. They were all walking on eggshells around me, and it was annoying but I was still grateful for the space.

“Look at our beautiful babies! Oh Ally, come look!” Hanna squealed as she came around the car to help with the carriers.

Ally, her spouse, stepped out of the house looking like Marilyn Monroe, blond hair teased up, and frilly white dress. She barely spared me a glance, though since she treated the twins well, I ignored it.

Two seconds later she too was squealing over the twins and talking baby talk. Mizuki and Sakura could reduce anyone to single syllable and high-pitched tones in half a heartbeat. “Their costumes are great! Perfect.”

I’d been working on the costumes for weeks. Hanna had asked me a million times if I just wanted her to buy them something cute and simple, like a lion or those weird penguin suits. But I’d been adamant. My babies were going to celebrate Samhain the right way. Costumes were handmade, candy simple, the night began with lighting candles and ended with blowing them out.

Jamie, my older brother, stepped out of the house and he was dressed like a giant teddy bear, pawed mitts and all. Kelly, his lover and my best friend, came down the steps behind him dressed as a hockey player, though instead of ice skates he had roller blades.

“So this is what you were working on,” Kelly said. He kissed each of the twin’s foreheads. “Making them perfect little pumpkins.”

“Press their tummies gently, right where the nose is,” I told him and pointed to the jack-o-lantern grin.

Kelly pressed Mizuki and a pale glowing light poured through the little pumpkin.

Hanna squealed again and turned Sakura’s suit on.