Courts and Cabals 2 by G.S. D'Moore (best novel books to read .txt) 📕

“And we snuck down here to this room for privacy,” the old guy was the last person I expected to come to my defense. He was the only human aside from me present, and a smile from Lilith would probably give him a coronary.

“I can’t blame a man for wanting to watch you. You’re stunning, my dear,” his words of wisdom calmed the restless vampire. I made a mental note to ask him how he did that.

“Fine,” the vamp sighed, as the sound of hurried feet approached.

The elder vamp and a much younger red-haired woman appeared at the end of the hall. “Caroline,” the elder’s tone told me she yelled at this particular vamp frequently.

“It’s nothing,” Lilith stepped in to defuse the situation as seamlessly as the old man. “Just a little misunderstanding. We’ll be honored to participate in the turning ceremony.”

That stopped the elder in her tracks. It allowed all the vamps to leave with the old man in tow, and their dignity intact. As my adrenaline subsided from the short fight, I didn’t even have time to think about how I’d moved faster than a vamp. Lilith and Xamira disappeared back into their rooms, but Dani approached me. She got in my personal space and pressed her breasts into my chest.

“You know, if you want to . . .” she left the rest of the statement hanging.

I wanted to. I really, really wanted to. I wanted to pound my cock into Dani’s firm ass and then blow my load all over her tits, but I knew I shouldn’t. I was in a strange place. I’d been caught kind-of-but-not-really peeping on a BJ. The face the elder vamp made whenever she looked at me told me she wasn’t a big fan. We also were down to fifteen minutes before we needed to be ready, and I really needed some alone time to get my shit together.

Dani read all of that off my face and gave me a knowing grin. “Next time then,” she kissed me on the cheek and left me with a now-flaccid penis to take a shower in peace.

Chapter 5

The lobby answered a lot of my unasked questions. This was indeed a swanky joint. The sauna room and personalized suites were just the tip of the iceberg. The lobby had a commanding view of a city it was nestled next to. Most cities never slept, but blinking lights and cars buzzing in and out of the entertainment district like agitated fireflies told me that was truer here than most places.

“Reno,” Dani stepped up next to me to look out at the city. “The biggest little city in the world,” she didn’t say it with fondness. For some reason, Dani and Reno had a complicated past.

A lot of things clicked into place with that statement. The first was our ultimate destination. It only made sense. Where else would a cabal be located, that spent a millennium hiding from the rest of the world, and was full of supernatural creatures that tended to feed off humans in some form or another? Via had said she could get us close, but not all the way. By my calculations, we were just under five hundred miles from our final destination. A destination that promised safety from anything anyone could throw at us.

“Vegas baby,” I grinned.

I’d never had the pleasure. I was only eighteen and couldn’t even get in to the casinos. Something told me that was about to change. Not only was I Lilith’s First, a position of some prestige – even if I still didn’t know what the hell I was doing – but Via said Lilith’s mother had plans for me. Lilith’s mother, the woman who ran the entire fucking cabal, had plans for me? I wasn’t going to worry about the spider-web comment until I met the woman. Something in my balls told me it would be quite the experience.

“They’re almost ready,” Lilith informed as she appeared beside me.

Her hand found mine and gave it a comforting squeeze. The sensation sent a jolt through me, and I blushed like a kid on his first date. I wanted to say something suave, but all my mind came up with was, “blah”. I frantically looked for something to talk about.

“I can’t believe these prices,” I croaked, and then grunted to force more saliva into my suddenly-dry throat.

Dani scoffed, and Lilith just shrugged. I’d been right in my assumption that this was a fancy spa for the rich. You could tell because there was a list of services on the wall behind the check-in counter. You could tell it was for rich folk because there were no prices listed. Prices just didn’t matter to these people. I’d managed to find a list with prices in the suite I’d showered in, and my jaw dropped. Mani pedis were hundreds of dollars. Full spa treatments ran into four digits, there were coffee scrubs, mud baths – who the hell wanted to bathe in mud – and a bunch of stuff I didn’t even understand. I knew vamps were big in the health and wellness industries, but I had no idea they were this successful outside of biomedicals and pharmaceuticals.

There was even pricing for the privilege of being bitten by a vamp. I mentioned that to Dani and she laughed.

“You’ve clearly never been bitten,” the wistful look on her face made my dick sit up and take notice. “It’s quite the experience.”

She was right, I knew about a vampire’s bite – known in some romantic circles as the vampire’s kiss – in theory but not in practice. Again, Makaylah had filled me in on a lot of it. The feeding process for a vamp couldn’t be painful. First off, they couldn’t have people screaming and thrashing as they drank from them. That would lead to shredded arteries, people bleeding out left and right,