Abusing the Alpha (Seraphine Thomas Book 4) Read online

  “The federal government,” I assured him. “No one’s King or Queen in Chicago, Vlad. That’s the whole point here. The only lines I crossed into vampire territory were because you pushed me over them. I have people to answer to. It’s time you did too because your council sure as hell won’t police you.”

  I turned to leave, Hagan and Reagan at my back, Simone with us.

  “What is the name of the club you will open, Simone?” Vlad called after us. “It had better be good to keep up with the current level of Chicago nightlife.”

  I almost fell with the need to laugh. He would die when he heard this.

  Simone gave me a wink before answering as we turned around together. “I’m still playing around with the name with my new partner, one stronger than Noe. Right now we kinda like Siren’s Kiss. What do you think?” Vlad’s look was priceless. His eyes darted between us, realizing he’d gotten played. “Oh, did I not say my new partner was Sera? Silly me. Maybe this will teach you not to fuck with my businesses anymore, Vlad.”

  “Don’t worry, I’m a silent partner. We simply came up with some ideas on how to subterfuge the mess of people knowing there’s an unprotected siren in Chicago. I’m sure some of our customers from out of town who want to play with a siren will stay at Timequake.”

  And with that, we left, Vlad’s shocked face filling me with some vindication. We were almost to my SUV when suddenly I was spun around and lifted into a huge hug. It took me a moment to realize it was Noah.

  “Why didn’t you tell me the plan?” he whispered in my ear.

  “Honestly I thought you might kill him immediately if I told you what I suspected about the night I went to dinner with him and Igor.”

  “I might have, having seen the condition you came home in.” He leaned back and kissed me, and while it was meant to be gentle, sweet, the full moon was riding me so when he pulled away, I grabbed his head and almost devoured his mouth while taking a few sips of him. Then I hurried to shove him away.

  “Sorry, shit, sorry. She’s hungry, really hungry, and you’re ours now, and fuck, the moon is making my skin crawl. I think I need sex, like oh my god, sex.” It took me a few tries to catch my breath. “Noah, the vampires will need blood because I think I’ll be feeding off of them.”

  “Got it. I’m up for the sex too. I mean, before or after you bind me to you.” I blushed, and he smiled widely. “Or is that how you bind me to you?”

  “Yes. Without using blood, it’s sex.”

  “Oh, count me in. I’ll be over soon with blood and to show you that present we discussed.”

  I flicked him off, and Noah laughed all the way back to the doors of Vlad’s place. I watched him the whole way because apparently, in that moment, nothing was more fascinating than Noah’s ass. Dear lord, this was only the beginning of the lunar cycle. What else would happen?

  And what present?

  3

  “Oh, you’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” I growled as I looked around the secret room in my house. The one Noah had built in. Yes, he’d said something about changing the plans, but I never thought the “change” was a goddamn sex dungeon. I turned to him and shook my head. “No, the boys live here, Noah! The basketball court is just—”

  “It’s completely soundproof, even for us.” I gave him a disbelieving look. “Step outside and seal the door. Simone can scream her head off if she wants because I know you wouldn’t trust me.”

  I gave a glance to Simone, and she shrugged. I stepped out and secured the sliding door, marveling at how well it was hidden. If someone didn’t know to look behind the water heaters for the access panel, no one would ever know there was a door or room off the storage room. It housed three of the now five water heaters the house had, instead of four like before, and two of the HVAC units. So really there was no reason for people to be in there and tiny chance someone would stumble upon it.

  “Did you know about this?” I asked Hagan and Reagan.

  “He said he was doing something and you’d be okay with it, but we thought weapons hold or maybe indoor hot tub room, but this? No, we didn’t have a fucking clue,” Hagan assured me with a chuckle. Reagan also shook his head. “Not that we’re complaining, though.”

  “Guys, the boys are here. How can we have a sex room?”

  “You want them to hear your screaming always?” Reagan challenged. I stuck my tongue out at him. The door slid open, and Simone popped her head out.

  “Could you hear me?”

  My eyes went wide. “No, not even a peep. What were you doing?”

  “We both were yelling at the top of our lungs, I swear it. I snarled and yowled and pretty much wore my throat out. This is amazing, Sera. I want one.”

  “I can arrange that,” Noah chuckled with a smile that said he clearly thought he was awesome. I shook my head at him and went back inside to take a look.

  “How did you even dig out a room this big in such little time? Without making a mess? What size is this room even?”

  “Twenty by twenty,” he answered. “And vampires are fast and quiet when they don’t have to act human. The crew I know understands people don’t want their rooms to be found out, so to act fast if they want work again.” He gestured around the room to the empty shelves. “You’ll have to fill it up with what you like, of course.”

  “Are you kidding me?” I hissed at him, giving him a shove. “I wouldn’t even know what to buy.”

  “Oh, I would,” Simone chuckled, smiling as well. “I think you’ll learn, Sera.”

  “Don’t encourage them,” I grumbled but let it go when she threw her arm over my shoulder. “You’re thinking we should get his guys to soundproof the club like this, aren’t you?”

  “See, I knew we would be good partners. You can already read my mind.”

  I ignored the comment and looked around at what was already installed. There was a hanging swing with all kinds of attachments I probably didn’t want to know about. Also, there was some stuff in the corner that didn’t look assembled yet. But what I found my eyes drawn to was the metal framed, swirl-type chaise lounge that was bolted to the floor—since we had enough power to move things easily—and had all kinds of restraints hanging from it.

  “Look, I hate to lose my place in your mind as next time you have sex, but you need to feed, and I think it would be smart if you tied Noah to you as soon as possible so Vlad doesn’t pull anything or make a fuss about your delaying or how you might do it,” Hagan suggested. “We also don’t have all that much time before we have to meet at the pack lands for the joint gathering with all the local shifters.”

  “Right, right.” I bobbed my head and glanced anywhere but at Noah after having stared at the chaise for so long. “Okay, give us room then. Leave us in the hidden sex room in my house. God, I never thought I would say something like that in my life.”

  “I want to play on the swing tomorrow,” Reagan whispered in my ear and then kissed my cheek.

  “I want to borrow this room until I get my own,” Simone teased, not being as quiet.

  “Soon,” I promised Hagan, feeling bad that Noah was like skipping in line.

  “Yeah, soon, but he should get first dibs in the room he built for you. The tub was my idea.”

  “Then maybe tonight we should try it out after everyone’s asleep.” We hadn’t moved in yet, but given the odd situation, we were pretty much living at this house now on air mattresses and sleeping bags. There was a lot of work to be done, and it helped our help to be local.

  “It’s a date.”

  Everyone left, and Noah showed me how to secure the door.

  That was when things got awkward. I’d never been in a room like this, and to just be left in there with Noah, who I’d only been with once for the purpose of sex and making my siren happy… It was all too weird.

  “I didn’t mean to weird you out so much,” he murmured, giving me a hug. “And it’s not a sex room or dungeon. It’s a soundproof adult fun room. You like fun.”

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bsp; I couldn’t help but smile at how he framed it in such a Noah way. “I do like fun.”

  “Thank you for freeing me, Sera,” he sighed, leaning his head on my hair. “God, I haven’t felt this excited since I woke a vampire and realized I wasn’t dead.”

  “I don’t think you ever told me how you became a vampire.”

  “It’s not a sexy story,” he warned as I pulled away, but then gave in when I shot him a look I wanted to know now that he’d brought it up. “I was mortally wounded in battle. A vampire who pretended to be a priest that had been on the other side, blessing those warriors, went through after battle and turned those he thought were worthy having seen the fight. He picked me and two others.”

  “Not Vlad?”

  “No, Vlad didn’t make me. I’m actually older than him.” He smiled and ran his fingers through his hair. “No, my maker went bat shit crazy about fifty years later, and someone ancient put him down. That was all I knew, and I was just glad they thought me sane. I’ve been with a few masters before Vlad. And honestly, Vlad’s still the best of them.”

  “I know. I never had any intent of ousting him.”

  “Glad to hear it because you scared the shit out of me when you brought it up. I don’t want to be the Chicago Master even if I could. I’m a soldier, Sera. I’m good at training. I like training. I don’t want to be in politics.”

  “I know the feeling. Welcome to my world having to deal with Alpha shit.”

  “Yeah, you have Hagan and Reagan. They’re good with that kinda stuff now that you’re all settling in a bit.”

  “Yeah, they were the best choice I could have made.” I cleared my throat and glanced away from his intense eyes. “All this serious talk doesn’t really put me in the mood. Bet no one ever says that in a soundproof adult fun room.” I heard rustling and glanced back to see Noah taking off his shirt. I swallowed loudly, realizing we were really doing this, frozen as I watched.

  His eyes met mine as he pulled off his boots and socks. Then went his belt. Next the jeans and with them whatever he had on as underwear. Within minutes, Noah went from us talking pack and politics to naked and hard.

  “How do you switch gears like that so fast?” I murmured, staring at his perfect male body.

  “Oh, I was hard from the moment we came in here and I hoped I’d get to see you naked,” he assured me. I watched as he walked over to the chaise and sat down. My throat went dry as he laid down and reached above his head, securing his wrists in the restraints attached to the top of the chaise. “Come and sovereign me as yours, Sera. Be my mistress I will serve faithfully for eternity.”

  My feet moved on their own, and suddenly I was pulling off clothes as I went to him, hungry and wanting. Then I thought better of his position and leaned my now naked body over him to unlatch the restraints. “I decide how and when you will be tied up.”

  “Even better,” he moaned as my breasts brushed across his face. I aligned with my siren and let her have fun because she deserved it.

  “Be warned, vampire, if you become ours, a regular in our bed, you will have to leave the playboy lifestyle behind.”

  I argued with her. That was who Noah was. She promised she’d give him passes, but he needed to understand that being in our house meant that was the only house he slept in.

  Made sense.

  “I knew that when I first suggested a room here,” he assured me.

  “Then come and feast, worship your new mistress as you should.” I wasn’t sure what she meant, but she moved Noah so we traded places but instead of lying so my feet were on the elevated part of the foot rest, my ass was hanging off there. “Kneel before me and show me you’re worthy, Noah.” I sighed when she sounded more normal. I hated when she referred to us as an “us.” “Ready me for your body.”

  “Gladly,” he growled and buried his face between my legs as he moved my thighs over his shoulders. Noah and I had only been intimate once, and it had been a quick, adrenaline-filled fuck after our public fight at Vlad’s casino.

  I now found out what I’d been missing with skipping to the sex. Noah had a gifted tongue. An even more talented mouth and… Oh hell, he gave oral like a damn god.

  “I’m really glad you’re going to be living in the house. Anytime I’m stressed, I might just come and ask for that kind of release,” I panted after the fourth orgasm he gave me in a row. “Shit, Noah. You should teach men how to do that. Your classes would all be booked.”

  “I would agree to please my mistress however she wanted, whenever she wanted,” he purred before giving me a long, slow lick that made me shiver. “And I’m only this enthusiastic with you. I told you, you freed me. You have no idea what that means for us. For me who’s had a master that even those good ones demand too much from for any of us to ever be free.”

  I realized this was a real thing with him and pushed up, seeing the tears and joy in his eyes. “Then let’s finish this so you never have to worry again.”

  “Please.” There was so much need in that one word, I couldn’t even believe Noah would be so vulnerable. He helped me up and then laid on the chaise. I shook my head when he went to put on restraints.

  “Another time. I won’t have you bound when I free you from Vlad and make you mine.” The joy in his eyes was worth me feeling cheesy for saying that. I leaned in and gave him a kiss, taking a sip. Noah let out a groan as he twitched. My siren was thrilled at the taste of the power and wanted more. “Again?”

  “Yes, fuck yes. That’s better than most blow jobs I’ve ever had. Feels as intimate too.”

  I smiled at his description, glad all the men closest to me liked it. I took another sip and straddled his lap, carefully sitting down as I took him in me. Noah was the best hung man I’d ever seen or heard of. I mean, he had some horses beat, so careful was the only way to be with him. As I moved to take more of him comfortably, I took another sip. This time Noah cried out.

  Which of course made me freeze, worrying that I’d hurt him.

  “No, it’s good, so good. It was like finishing inside of you for real when you’re wrapped so tightly around me.”

  “Interesting,” I purred, moving my hips. Once he was fully in me, I took one more sip and decided that was it because I needed him not wiped given I didn’t know how tying us together would truly affect him when there wasn’t blood involved. I moved his hands to my breasts and started the sinful dance. “In theory, we go together and I let all my power out, knowing I want to sovereign you.”

  “But you’re not sure?”

  “Not a fucking clue. Haven’t done this before. Tristan bit me, and we don’t want the side effects of blood, right?”

  “No, I hate jealous guys. Never want to be one.”

  I agreed. Which was why I didn’t like my siren’s jealousy or possessiveness. He sat up, fangs out as if he was going to bite my breasts as I loved, as we’d done before, and I freaked. I hit the heel of my hand into his forehead and bonked him away from me. “No biting. No blood. No, just no, Noah. Especially not now.”

  “Jesus, you’re scared,” he whispered, grabbing my hips and stilling me. “We’ve done that before. Why now?”

  “Because you didn’t see what my blood did to a councilman.” I closed my eyes and lowered my head to his chest. “Alena says it’s like a drug to you guys. I don’t want to be addictive that way. I don’t ever want to risk you that way. I couldn’t handle it if I made you bat shit crazy.”

  “Okay, I get it, Sera. No blood.” He slowly moved me so his mouth was by my breast and gave a small nibble to my right nipple. “That’s all I was going to do. I can’t help my fangs come out when I’m this turned on, but you said no blood before. I remembered. I’m in control.” I let out a shudder as he did it again. “I’ve got you, okay? You don’t have to worry about the crazy. You’re not even that tasty.”

  I couldn’t help it. I laughed quietly. “Liar.”

  “Oh yeah because you taste like liquid fire and a drug from even a few drops. Honestly, I w
ouldn’t ever want to feed from you because I think it would be too much.”

  “So I don’t have to worry?”

  “I don’t think you have to worry about any of your vampires trying to drink from you. I know the ancients are just as scared they could go the Igor route.”

  “Good. I don’t want that on my conscience again.”

  “Sera, Igor was scum.”

  “Still, I turned his brain to mush basically. Not something a girl wants to be able to do or live with the guilt from even if they’re scum.”

  He let it go after that, probably understanding since humans could become addicted to certain vampires’ bites. Hell, I fucking loved getting nipped during sex and would miss it.

  Apparently I just needed sex with Noah, because he knew how to bite just as I liked without drinking blood. “Close, close.”

  “Me too. Make me yours, Mistress.” His grip on my hips tightened and helped me move faster. That was all we needed. As soon as I knew the orgasm was coming, I let out all my power, hoping the soundproof room was power-proof as well so it didn’t leak out.

  I screamed at the intensity of it all, digging my fingers and nails into his shoulders as I came. I felt Noah go at the same time, and the power we shared and ours built, swirling around us and bringing us again and again as each brick or link of the bond formed between us. When it was finally done, it had to be at least minutes long.

  Which meant minutes of multiple orgasms between us. I opened my mouth to say how unreal that was but instead, collapsed against Noah.

  “Shit, shit,” he hissed and gently pulled me off of him. Then he laid me down and scrambled for his phone. “Thank god I made sure there would be a signal in all of the hidden rooms.”

  I made a mental note to tell him that was a good idea later. Right then, I couldn’t move. It was as if I was drugged, like a paralytic, but my eyes were open and I knew what was going on around me.

  “Get here now. She’s hurt. She needs to feed I think. I don’t know how to undo what I’ve done.” He hung up the phone and scrambled back to me, pushing my hair off my face. “I’m so sorry, Sera. God, I’m so sorry.” I wanted to ask “for what,” but nothing worked. “That was so amazing. I can’t even put it into words.”