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Aries

Shaking out his cramped fingers, Aries lifted his head to peer at the cracked adjoining door across the room from the desk where Vin had settled him for the afternoon. Vin was just on the other side of the door, taking a nap. So close but also so far away.

Aries had finished coloring the map of the PAHL teams, this time without the help of his laptop, and had even colored one page of his farm animal coloring book. He’d also drunk two full bottles of water. So now what?

Kicking his feet, Aries considered his options. He wouldn’t mind coloring another page, but he missed Vin. Maybe he could take a little peeky-peek? That was a great idea! Aries would be super sneaky. Vin would never know!

He slid out of his chair and onto the ground. Aries was supposed to be coloring though, so if he got busted, he totally needed an excuse. He grabbed his coloring book and a handful of markers. There! Vin couldn’t say that Aries wasn’t following directions.

Crawling on his hands and knees wasn’t really easy while also having his hands full but Aries made it across the room to the adjoining doors. He gently pushed the door to make the opening big enough to look through.

Vin’s room was dark with the lights off and the curtains pulled closed. That was okay since Aries did have shifter sight. Vin’s big body was sprawled out on the mattress. One hand under his head and the other across his naked chest.

Yum, that chest. Aries really liked that chest. He’d fallen asleep again suckling Vin’s nipple, which was the best way ever. He always had really good dreams too when he slept in Vin’s arms. Okay, it had only been twice but that totally counted.

Aries scooted even closer. He wasn’t in Vin’s room technically. His butt was on his own side.

He opened a new page of his coloring book. Cows! Cows were cool. They didn’t mind bats. Some would even let Aries and his brothers land on them. Yeah, he’d color the cows.

Aries got one cow done then scooched on his butt closer to the bed. Okay, now he might be considered in Vin’s room. After every few strokes of his marker, Aries made his way closer and closer to the bed until he could lean against the frame. By the time Aries was completely finished with the page, he was on his knees beside the bed with the coloring book close to Vin’s hip.

It probably wouldn’t hurt if Aries climbed up into that big bed with Vin. He was just a little guy and wouldn’t take up much room. Carefully he stood then crept on top of the mattress. He watched Vin the entire time but the vampire didn’t even move.

Okay, cool. Now he was beside Vin, which, in Aries’s opinion, was where he should always be. He didn’t care if the team gave them separate rooms. Aries didn’t want separate rooms.

Now what?

Aries didn’t want to color another animal picture.

He fiddled with the baby-blue marker. Vin’s arm was right by his knee. Right there! Aries shuffled a little closer until his leg brushed Vin’s arm.

Aries didn’t have any tattoos himself, although both Nix and Gem had some, but nothing like the amazing artwork that covered most of Vin’s skin. His chest, shoulders, ribs, back. Both of Vin’s arms were covered, shoulders to wrists, with black and gray swirling designs.

The top of the baby-blue marker popped off.

Oops!

Bad marker.

Aries ran the tip of the marker across Vin’s wrist. The bright blue color between two thick lines of black. Oh! Oh! That was pretty! Capturing his bottom lip between his teeth, Aries colored in more of Vin’s tattoo.

Green! He needed green too!

This was so much better than coloring in a book!

* * * * *

Vin

His cock was hard as a rock but Vin made sure that he didn’t move a muscle. Other than opening his eyes so that he could watch his little one. He’d been woken when Aries had first climbed onto the mattress with him, but he’d been curious what his boy had been up to. If Aries had wanted to nap with him, Vin wouldn’t have complained.

The coloring of his tattoos was not what he expected the boy to do.

Without making a sound, his touch soft and barely there, Aries had started at his wrist before making his way up. Currently Aries was past his elbow and had used every color of marker he had.

The brush of the marker against his skin was a new sensation that Vin was pleasantly surprised about. Aries’s entire focus was on what he was doing. He hadn’t noticed that Vin was now watching him. Or that Vin’s erection pushed the fabric of his old gray sweatpants up.

Being colored was an extremely exotic sensation. This was something that he hoped to explore more in the future.

Aries made a sound in the back of his throat as he turned Vin’s arm one way than another, checking his work. The boy had gotten so into coloring Vin’s tattoos that he probably didn’t even remember that Vin was supposed to be napping.

“It’s very pretty, little one,” Vin said softly when Aries continued to stare.

Aries jumped. His gaze flew up to Vin’s.

Vin smiled to show that he wasn’t mad. “Hey, baby, whatcha doing?”

“Uh.” Aries flushed red. “Coloring?”

He chuckled. “Do I make a better canvas than your book?”

“You make a better everything,” Aries replied quietly.

His sweet boy. Vin sat up until he was leaning against the headboard but made sure that he left his arm in Aries’s lap. Aries started to play with his fingers.

“Is everything okay?” Vin asked.

“Are you mad?”

“Mad about what, baby?” When Aries was this quiet and unsure, it was usually because he was in a more little mindset and unsure.

“I crawled into bed with you,” Aries said.

“You’re always welcome in my bed,” Vin assured him.

“I didn’t ask. Consent is important.”

“You’re always welcome in my bed,” Vin repeated. “I consent to that.”

Aries nodded. “I colored you.”

“Yes, you did. And you did a wonderful job.”

“It’s okay?” Aries asked. His fingers dug into Vin’s arms.

“Yes, you can color me, baby.”

“I was missing you,” Aries confessed. “I was just going to sit in here and color but the bed looked comfy with you in it.”

“And then you decided I needed more color in my life?”

Aries giggled. “Maybe I just wanted to touch you.”

“I like when you touch me.”

Aries’s gaze drifted to Vin’s erection, not that Vin could do much to hide it, before traveling back to Vin’s arm. “I like when you touch me too.”

Vin watched as Aries’s entire face and neck turned red. Glancing down, he saw that he wasn’t the only one with a hard cock. “Do you want me to touch you now?”

Aries bobbed his head as he moved Vin’s arm over his lap. Yes, his boy was hard and wanting.

“Why don’t you give me a kiss?”

Aries snapped his eyes to Vin’s. “Yeah?”

“Yes, baby.” Vin helped Aries to his knees, urging the boy closer. Once he was close enough, Vin grabbed Aries’s waist and hoisted him into Vin’s lap.

Aries’s tight round ass pressed against Vin’s cock as Vin settled his boy. They both groaned.

“Kiss,” Vin repeated.

Aries leaned forward and Vin allowed him to control the kiss. Aries teased Vin’s lips before licking to get Vin to open.

Spreading his lips, Vin accepted Aries’s probing tongue. He ran his hands down Aries’s back at the same time until he was cupping Aries’s tight firm ass. As their kiss deepened, Vin helped Aries rock over his lap.

Aries’s hard shaft brushed over Vin’s stomach and the boy strained to get closer. Vin urged Aries to thrust faster.

“I want to come with you,” Aries panted against Vin’s lips as they broke the kiss, still thrusting.

“I want to come with you too,” Vin replied.

Aries rolled his hips again.

“Do you want me to take off your pants?” Vin asked.

“Yes please.” Aries rose to his knees.

Well, there was no hesitation at all. Vin gripped the back waistband of the pants Aries wore and pulled them down.

Aries cupped his cock and pulled it out as Vin shoved Aries’s pants to his knees. “You too?”

Vin was more than happy to comply. A wet spot had already formed in the front of his sweatpants from how long he’d been aching. He lifted his hips off the bed, which almost unseated Aries, but Aries grabbed hard onto Vin’s shoulders. He shimmed his sweats down his legs before motioning Aries to sit again.

Their cocks were pushed together by the position and Vin wrapped his big hand around the both of them.

Aries’s cock was a thing of beauty. Long, slim, with a thick head, already releasing precome.

Vin stroked them from root to tip with Aries shuddering hard.

“Again,” Aries gasped.

Vin didn’t need the direction so he kissed Aries hard. Aries began to suck on his tongue. Thrusting up so their cocks slid against each other, Vin quickly firmed his hold. It wasn’t going to take either of them very long to get off. Vin was already too worked up and by the way that Aries was panting against his lips while clumsily trying to kiss him back, the boy was also on the edge.

He kept his eyes open.

Aries was a vision to watch. This was the first time they’d been intimate and Aries had initiated it, making things even more special for Vin.

The boy’s trust in him was humbling.

Vin jerked their cocks in an almost frantic fashion until Aries pulled back and groaned low and long. Vin thrust his hips up, the head of his cock catching on Aries’s tip. Fuck! That was good.

He kept humping and jerking until Aries cried out and his seed covered Vin’s hand and chest. Vin didn’t slow his own rolling hips until he couldn’t hold back any longer. Aries leaned forward and bit at Vin’s nipple and that was all it took.

Vin came so hard that his vision blurred and he gave a rare shout.

He stroked out every drop of his release before he collapsed back against the headboard.

Aries’s arms were tightly wrapped around Vin’s neck as he gently began to suckle Vin’s nipple.

Fuck! He might need another nap.

And they needed to do that again soon. And more. Because he couldn’t wait to be buried inside his boy and claim him for good.

“No falling asleep,” Vin mumbled. He was talking to himself as much as to Aries.

“That was so good,” Aries said around Vin’s nipple.

“Very good. We need to get up and shower. Dinner and game tonight.”

Aries lifted his head. “I know you’re gonna make me eat chicken and rice and vegetables but I think I should get juice to drink.”

Vin chuckled. “You do, do you?”

Aries bobbed his head. “I finished my assignment, drank my two bottles of water, and made your arm all pretty.”

Vin turned to admire Aries’s addition to his tattoo. “One glass of juice.”

“Yes!” Aries threw his arms up in the air.

“But shower first,” Vin insisted. He was covered in come. Well, so was Aries since he’d been lying against the mess on Vin’s chest.

“Okay.” Aries climbed off his lap. “Now?”

For some crazy reason, Vin had expected Aries to be sleepy or drained after sharing orgasms. He really should have known better. The boy really did run a hundred miles an hour.

Aries leapt off the bed and stood wiggling with his pants down to his knees and his shirt barely covering his groin. He looked ridiculous but happy.

Shaking his head, Vin was a lot slower than Aries.

“We have to get a postcard too,” Aries said. “My mama loves them.”

“She told me. We’ll get her a postcard,” Vin promised. “Clothes off, boy.”

“Oh yeah.” Aries squirmed out of his clothes, dropping them on the floor where he stood.

Wow, he was… Vin was just speechless. What happened to the shy boy that had blushed when he saw Vin in his thin sweatpants?

Aries grabbed his hand before towing him toward the bathroom door. “You like hot showers, right? I do. The hotter the better. I always had to fight Nix to shower first because he would always use up all the hot water and cold showers are the worst.”

His boy babbled the entire time Vin worked to get the shower started and them both inside.

“This is the perfect temp,” Aries praised as he ducked his head under the spray.

Thank goodness for shifter hotels. They both fit inside the glass stall comfortably. Aries grabbed the hotel-provided bar of soap and lathered up his hands.

“I’ll wash your back,” Aries offered.

Oh, he would, would he? This was going to be fun. Vin turned, giving Aries his back. His little one hummed as he started to soap Vin up.

Vin relaxed back into Aries’s hands. Letting the heat, hot water, and Aries’s touch lull him into relaxation, Vin had to admit that this was the best shower that he’d ever had with another person. Until Aries made a sad sound.

“What’s wrong?” Vin peered over his shoulder at his boy.

“Your colors are coming off.” Aries pointed to where there was a mixture of colored water circling the drain, then at his arm.

“I guess you’ll just have to color me all over again.”

Aries cackled. “Deal!”

By the time he was rinsed off, Vin was hard once again.

He spun around. “My turn,” Vin said. He kissed Aries hard then pushed him chest-first into the tiled wall.

Vin lathered up his hands before placing his palms on Aries’s shoulders.

Taking his time, he worked until Aries was squeaky clean, erect, and panting. He added some shampoo to his fingers and nudged Aries’s legs apart.

“One more place to clean,” he teased.

Aries pushed his ass farther out. “I want to be all clean. Good hygiene is important.”

“Yes, it is.” Vin rubbed his digit over the crease of Aries’s ass then probed the entrance with just the tip.

He breached Aries with his finger, who widened his stance.

Vin plunged his finger inside gently several times before he searched for that special place he knew would light Aries up from the inside.

The first brush of Vin’s finger over Aries’s prostate had the boy crying out.

With his other hand, he reached around and grasped Aries’s erection.

Working his finger in and out while stroking, Vin quickly brought Aries to another completion.

Aries came all over the shower wall.

Vin released Aries’s cock to grab his own to beat off until he added his own release to Aries’s back.

His baby looked good covered in his come.

Aries face was bright as he turned toward Vin. Still the little shifter was full of energy.

Vin groaned. He just knew that something outrageous was going to come from the boy’s mouth.

“Can I ask you a question?”

“You can ask me anything,” Vin promised.

“Would you bite me someday?” Aries asked.

Vin had to slam his hand against the shower wall when his knees went weak. “What?”

“Bite me,” Aries said. He finished rinsing off. “Drink my blood.”

Vin quickly turned the water off before reaching out and snagging a towel off the rack. He passed the towel to Aries then picked up his own.

“Was I not supposed to ask that?” Aries questioned.

“No, it’s fine.” Was it though? It had been a long time since he’s had fresh human blood. Even longer since he’d taken blood while having sex. And he’d never had feelings for another partner like he did Aries.

He roughly dried off his body before stepping from the stall.

“Vin?” Aries said quietly.

Vin forced a smile on his face. “Maybe someday.”

“Okay cool,” Aries said. “I’m hungry. Are you hungry?”

“Starving,” Vin replied. He was hungrier than he’d ever been in his life. And not for the real food that Aries was always wanting. Now that the idea of taking Aries’s blood had been introduced, Vin’s mouth was literally watering. It was going to be a rough night. Good thing he had a game and opponents to take out his frustration on.