Nothing shocked me more maybe in my whole life than that moment when she loved the silly, silly nickname.

“Really?” I checked.

“I find it just as surprising as you do,” she mumbled. “Sparingly. Maybe only sweet times or… Sparingly.”

“Sparingly is good.” I studied her eyes. “It’s like waking up and saying it when asking for a good morning kiss so you forgive my morning breath.”

“You’re such a fucking romantic that it really makes me melt,” she whispered. “Fine, you can have a drawer or two. I like the name.” She kissed me before I could respond and made it clear that it was time to get back to the sex.

And I was never so happy to get a couple of damn drawers.

I cupped her face and took her other hand in mine, linking our fingers and moving our hands by her head. She moved her leg over my hip and I thrust forward, both of us gasping in the other’s mouth at what we felt. It was something different.

Something closer… And I didn’t mean physically.

“Don’t leave me when the contract is over, Ellie,” I breathed against her lips before moving again.

I held her gaze as I made love to her, completely in tune with her and everything her body needed.

If she wanted deeper, I knew it before she did.

My wolf was so locked in on her, using all of his senses to give our mate what she needed, that I missed nothing.

A man worthy of her would do no less.

“Can’t,” she gasped when got close.

“Trust me,” I demanded and moved faster. “Not yet. With me. Always with me, Ellie.”

“ Can’t ,” she whimpered, and we both knew she wasn’t talking about our orgasms.

“You can,” I begged. “I’m worth the risk. This is .”

And again, we both knew I wasn’t talking about the sex.

A few more minutes of driving her higher and higher and I finally growled the word she wanted. “Now.”

I kissed her and swallowed her cries of pleasure, snarling almost my own climax was so unreal.

It kept going and somehow I knew it was something she was doing.

I would have said we’d taken a potion or maybe one of those romantic candies witches and warlocks sold for couples, but whatever it was it was fucking ridiculous.

Everything was with Ellie.

Her eyelids fluttered close when we were finished and I thought she was out, but she said something so quiet that I could barely hear it over my panting. “I want to extend the contract, but I’m scared you’ll turn away again if you learn more. I’m so much worse than being a doctor, my Alpha.”

I opened my mouth to promise her that I’d be better and it wouldn’t happen again, but a cute snore escaped her lips even as her heart still raced. Shit, I was so sunk that something this simple undid me.

Really I was.

I got us cleaned up and tucked into bed, thinking about what she’d said for way longer than I should. Then what happened with my family. All of it raced through my mind until I realized I didn’t sleep at all and it was morning, Ellie stirring in my arms.

She blinked awake slowly but then did a double take. “How long have you been awake?” She frowned when I didn’t answer. “What’s wrong, pup?”

I let out a huff and she tried to hide a smile which was too sexy.

“What’s wrong, my Alpha?” she tried instead as she pushed up.

“You didn’t feed from me,” I grumbled as if that was remotely the reason. “I’m feeling neglected.”

She gave me a look that she knew that wasn’t true. “I had bagged yesterday because I was stressed and down and you had your own shit. I wasn’t even sure you were coming.” She let her fangs slide out and licked them as the sheet dropped away showing off her glorious tits. “I could have a sip now.”

“I won’t push you away even if you told me something crazy about yourself, Ellie,” I whispered, mentally wincing when she flinched.

“What did I say last night?” she mumbled and reached for the sheet to pull it up.

I grabbed it instead and pulled her closer deciding to deal with this.

“That you wanted to extend the contract, but you were scared I’d be a dipshit again.

I won’t be. I’m going to be a dipshit in another way because I’m spiraling out with my family and this other shit. I feel secure with you and get it now.”

“I don’t—”

I flipped us so she was completely naked against me and she couldn’t flee.

“This is something real for me, and I will wait as long as you need as long as I know you’re not playing with me.

I’m not pushing for more. I’m not pushing you past what you need.

I’m being honest and not trying to play games that the contract is all I want.

“I want you for real. All I need from you is to say you’re willing to go past the contract.

That’s what I need to hear. I don’t even need it right now.

You gave me the code and drawers and that’s amazing, my sweet kimchi.

You were here for me ready to help when I needed you.

That’s what I need, and I’m not turning my back on you ever again. ”

I moved my fingers over her mouth and gave her a look to just accept that.

I waited until she nodded and then did everything she loved.

I licked, sucked, and nibbled her tits until her bedding was wet with excitement.

I kissed all over her body before eating her sweet cunt for over an hour.

I ate her ass too knowing she did it more for me, but she was coming around to enjoying it.

Good because I’d never wanted anal sex like I did with Ellie.

“There was something I was going to bring up before the code and drawers and it has nothing to do with starting my day off this way, but fuck do you persuade like a master,” she blurted when she was recovered.

“Anything,” I accepted, staring over her sated body and thinking if there was any way for me to tactfully ask for sex.

She cleared her throat and sat up and then snapped in front of my face to tell me to stop being a perv.

I met her gaze but shrugged. “You cannot blame me when you’re so fucking perfect and I want to gobble you up all over again. I would do that all day if you let me.”

“Okay, first, I want to work that into our schedules and see if I really could have a day like that,” she muttered, seeming adorably stunned which was a new look I wanted to see more often.

She cleared her throat again. “I’ve heard other vampires talk about—a lot over the years about biting in other spots and how… ”

“It’s exciting or inspires different reactions?” I offered when she seemed stuck. I nodded when she did. “Like a fetish or—I knew a mate who loved being bitten on his upper thigh during a blowjob. He would hook up with vamps just for it, but we all thought it was nuts to allow fangs near his cock.”

The look she gave me was less than friendly.

“With someone random ,” I clarified. “Okay, we need coffee for this conversation because I’m not going to be eloquent.”

“I thought you were doing fine,” she forgave as I rolled out of bed and grabbed her robe. She gave me a kiss in thanks and I threw on my shorts. “But yes, you need to trust the person to do it. I do agree with that. It’s why I’ve never done it either.”

“Never?” I hedged, my wolf wagging his tail that we could have some part of Ellie no one else ever had.

“Never,” she confirmed before walking into the bathroom. She did her business and came back out. “Only the wrist if it was just blood or the neck if a lover. I thought since you’re into exploring and doing more—maybe it would—”

“Yes, I’m very interested,” I purred as I snagged her around the waist and held her against me so she felt I was hard. “Are you thinking upper thigh?”

“Yes, but don’t laugh,” she warned. She waited until I nodded. “I’ve wanted to bite your sexy ass.” She moved her hand over her face as she probably blushed in embarrassment but was already flushed from what we’d done.

“I’m not against that. It’s hot even but like…” I wasn’t sure how to put what I was feeling into words. “I’m off on the logistics. Like sexy back rub and a nip before I turn over and onto a front rub?”

She moved her hand and blinked up at me. “That’s it? Not teasing or telling me that—”

I moved my fingers back over her lips, understanding this was about how she’d been treated before, not anything I’d done.

“You’ve been very accepting of my wolf and his needs.

Things will probably get worse with this shit with my family.

You want to explore feeding with a lover and the sexual side of being a vamp. Yes, I’m into it. Yes, I support it.”

“Thanks, Ha-joon,” she whispered and stood on her toes for a kiss.

One I gladly gave.

“That sounds like good logistics. Yeah, I like it. I wasn’t really sure either, but I just had dreams and that I was over you drinking from your sexy butt and you loved it. I woke up wet and—”

I swooped her up in my arms, ignoring her startled yelp. “Coffee or I’m going to fuck you over the kitchen counter.”

“While the coffee’s brewing?” she checked.

Yes, I did. It was exactly what we both needed, and the fact she stayed there while I made our coffee so I came back to see my cum dripping down her thighs was how she got fucked again.

“No,” I snarled when we were finished. “Shut up.” Horror filled me when Ellie gave me a hurt and angry look. “Not you. Sorry, my wolf—sorry, sorry. He’s being—extra doesn’t really cover it after yesterday, but you aren’t the solution to what happened. Especially when you weren’t the problem.”

“What does he want?” she asked after a few sips of her latte. She chuckled when I didn’t respond. “That bad, huh?”

“It’s over what I feel comfortable asking as not your official partner and maybe even then,” I mumbled.

She took in a slow breath and eyed me over before nodding. “Noted, but I trust you that you’ll give me something just as special in return, and now I’m very into that idea of you tending only to me tomorrow. Massages and maybe toys.”

“That’s not—that’s a fucking gift for me, Ellie,” I groaned.

“And this could be for me, Ha-joon,” she challenged before taking another sip, amusement dancing in her eyes.

Fuck, she won. She always did.

“He wants—”

“You both do. Admit it,” she corrected.

Fair. I nodded. “He suggested, but we both want you to take off your robe, show off your lush body and say only I can touch and have all of you and however I want today as much as I want. Then kneel before your Alpha and suck me off better than you’ve ever sucked any other man off, bite me where you’ve never bit another man before. ”

Interest was in her eyes and she licked her lips, seeming like she was ready to get started… But I wasn’t done.

“Then ride me in your kitchen while telling me everything I’ve done to your body that you love—better than any man ever has and what I can do better to satisfy you.

Once you gush all over me, bend over the table and beg me to eat your ass out because you liked that and promise your virgin ass to me when we become real and there’s a chance for that one day. ”

She swallowed loudly at that last part. “Anything else?”

“Yes, we want to eat your pussy in your office when you’re having a rough day.

We’re yours and you should be able to ask that of us.

Tell us and I’ll come between patients and eat your sweet cunt when you’re stressed.

My wolf doesn’t like that other people tend to your needs in your office and we don’t even if what they do isn’t sexual. ”

She gave a slow nod that she understood and even who I was talking about probably. Though I would suspect that sometime in the ten years they were involved she’d done something with Tommy there. It wasn’t only about Gerald always running for whatever Ellie needed.

Ellie took another sip of her latte before standing and losing her robe. She let down her hair and played with her tits before touching her cunt. She turned and touched her ass—all of it. Did it all again while saying what I wanted and more.

Then she knelt before me with the confidence of a goddess and told me to fuck her mouth and grab her hair because she trusted me.

My eyes rolled up in my head as she gave me the best blow job of my life, and that was before she drank from my upper thigh by my groin and rocked my world.

I blew my load all in her hair and got her face a bit which I felt bad for, but she seemed as into it as I was, climbing up on my cock and riding me with her fangs out.

What came out of her mouth was unreal and everything my wolf needed to hear. She sounded a bit high on the strength of my blood and we rocked each other’s world that time.

And for the rest of the weekend.

I would seriously go feral if she dumped me when the contract was over.