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“Because I want you to appreciate your life, not just… run off and want to toss it away because you’re being stubborn or thinking that you’re going to do everything alone. Stop making yourself out to be the monster and do something selfish.”

“I feel like everything I do is selfish! I just hurt people and take and destroy, and what have I done in return? If I could kill Abel, then maybe that’d be one thing I could do? Then maybe people wouldn’t think that all I do is shitty things?”

“If that’s how you’re planning on doing things, have at it. I’m done talking about this.”

Ender rushes up and grabs my arm before turning me around to face him and pressing me against the table in the corner of the supply closet. “Don’t be done.”

“Why not? You’ve decided that you might as well throw your life away. You might as well decide this.”

“I decided that I want you in my life. I decided that you’ve made me a better person. You’ve made me see myself in a whole different light. I’ve decided that I can’t do it without you.”

I stare at him as I try not to let his words get to me. I shouldn’t let him win. He’s being stubborn and impossible to deal with, when all I want to do is care about him.

He presses against me until his body is flush against mine before his hands slide up into my hair. “I’m not letting you go. I’ll become a monster and keep you by my side if I have to.”

“I’m not going to be with someone who tosses their life away,” I warn him as I try my hardest not to get pulled in by his lips or the way his hand feels as it cups my cheek. I can’t be swayed by any of his nonsense.

“I won’t. I promise that I’ll toss away someone else’s life,” he says.

I give him a look. “You know that’s not what I meant.”

“I’ll just grab as many council members as I can, and I’ll pit them against Abel, and I will sit back and watch just for you.”

“You’re not going to make me laugh and forgive you. I’m a very stubborn man.”

“I’ll throw Finn at him if I have to.”

“Don’t throw the damn human at him!”

“Hey, he defeated Watson, he has a solid chance. He is part robot, according to Rylee.”

“No,” I say, biting my lip to keep from grinning. “Stop.”

“What about Senor Fluffybottom? Maybe the cat can break him down too. I mean, if that cat can sucker me into liking him, maybe he can sucker even that man.”

“What if you work together with the VRC? That sounds like a good idea. I’d love to say I would help, except that I’m atrocious in a fight. But I will be there to help in other ways. More… Soupy ways.”

“You’re just going to blow the whole place up?”

“Maybe… maybe not. It’s more of a last-ditch effort, you know?”

“Understandable. So… does this mean you forgive me?”

“It means that I’ll consider it,” I say as my eyes catch his dark ones that are watching me so closely. “You’re not supposed to woo me so easily.”

“I would never do that. You seem to think I have social skills that I’m quite positive I lack,” he says as he lifts my leg and presses me harder against the table, but what it accomplishes is that I can feel his cock against mine.

“You… are you planning on seducing me into forgiving you?” I ask, like I can’t believe he’d try such a tactic.

Ender’s hand runs up my thigh, and even though I have jeans on, his touch makes me shiver.

He leans forward and I feel his breath against my neck before he kisses my throat.

When he nips it, it’s like I’m fucking putty in his hands.

I moan and have to grab him to keep from just melting onto the table.

I’m over here trying to be like “I’m a brave man who will stand up to this ferocious vampire” when all he has to do is kiss me, and I’m just gone .

“I’m not forgiving you,” I insist.

“Yeah? Not at all?” he murmurs as his lips travel down to my collarbone while one hand slides under my shirt.

“Not at all. Never going to,” I say.

“Hmm? Never?” Ender asks as he pulls back, and suddenly, I’m regretting everything I’ve ever done or said. Like what the fuck? I’ll forgive him if he comes back!

But before I can just cave right then and there, he turns me around and pushes me back against the table, hand reaching around to the front of my trousers which he swiftly unbuttons before pushing them down enough to reach my cock.

“You made me jealous when you talked about fucking your boss in your office. Maybe you’re the one who should apologize,” he says, even though I’m well aware he’s making this much more dramatic than it actually was.

“Ah yes, because me having sex with someone… fuck…” I groan as his hand grips my cock before running along it as I feel something cold drip into the crevice of my ass cheeks. Where the fuck did the lube come from? It runs down between them and his finger follows.

“What was that? I feel like you were chewing me out about something?” he asks.

“I… think I was. I definitely… I very much was,” I say as his finger skims over my hole, making me question what I’d even been going on about.

“You were proving a point,” he reminds me as his finger circles around it before dipping inside of me. “I’m dying to hear this point.”

The way his finger pushes inside as his hand strokes my cock has me prepared to agree to anything he has to say, but I do manage to blurt, “I… I was making a point.”

“Which was?” Ender asks, but his fingers rubbing inside of me make me question if I even care at this point. Wait! No! I do care!

“I was saying that… having sex with my boss is nothing… oh fuck… nothing like you trying to sacrifice yourself, dammit!”

“Yeah?” he asks as I feel his hard cock nudge between my thighs. “Tell me more.”

“I’m… I’m telling you a lot!” I threaten but my mind is blank. He’s added another finger as he stretches me and strokes me, and I’m prepared to just agree at this point. He teasingly nips my throat as the realization hits me that he has practically suckered me into agreeing with anything he wants.

“No! I’m a strong man,” I declare.

“Oh yeah? Tell me everything you want me to hear.” Ender’s voice is so teasing in my ear, making me shiver.

“You will not put yourself in danger, you hear me?”

“I do.”

“You will listen to me!”

“I will consider it.”

“Do more than consider or I’ll refuse to have sex with you.”

“You’d refuse this?” he asks.

And the way his fingers move inside me almost convinces me to just cave.

“I would because I’d rather you be around in the future than just have sex now.”

“Okay… I promise.”

“Thank you,” I say as I press back into him and turn my head so I can kiss him.

His lips find mine, pulling me back into the pleasure of it.

His fingers draw out of me, then his slick cock rubs against my hole before pressing against it.

He pushes against me until I open up as his thick cock fills me up.

I let out a soft moan as he rocks his hips slowly, withdrawing slightly before pushing in deeper. His hand slides under my shirt and up my back as his other hand settles on my waist while he begins to fuck me.

It’s like he already knows every part of my body, like he knows just how to move, just how to drive into me. My fingers grip the edge of the table as he pulls nearly out before plunging into me. His hand skims down my back before wrapping around my cock.

“Bite me,” I beg, and I’m surprised by my own words but suddenly, nothing sounds better than his thick cock inside of me and the euphoria he makes me feel when he bites into my neck.

Ender doesn’t bite me immediately; instead, he pushes me closer and closer to the edge until I don’t know how much more I can take. And just when I’m at that point, he buries himself deep inside of me as he sinks his fangs into my throat.

Ecstasy tears through me, and I’m blinded by it as I moan.

I can still feel him moving inside of me and I can feel his hand on my cock, but it’s like the pleasure of it all surrounds me and drives me over the edge as I come.

I can hear his moans while he comes inside of me, and I’m wrapped up in the bliss of it.

When I slowly come back to myself, he’s licking my throat as he pulls his cock out of me. I’d come into his hand, which is significantly better than all over the table in some borrowed lab. I do feel a smidge guilty about having sex here, but his kisses on my throat wash all of that away.

I turn around so I can kiss him more easily. And even though I don’t ever want to pull away, I know I need to get back to what I was doing before someone returns and realizes that I’ve just been having sex with Ender in the storage room.

“You better keep your promise,” I threaten.

“I will,” he says as he accepts another kiss from me. “I will.”

“Good. I can’t lose you now that I’ve found you.”

“You won’t,” Ender assures me. “I’m not going anywhere.”

And I really hope he can keep that promise.

I pull him in for one more kiss… just in case.