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Disturbed on so many levels, most of them erotic ones that screamed at me to get naked for some sweaty fun, I moved out from between them. The space separating us didn’t help, for looking upon them standing side by side, I had to fight the urge to throw myself back on them and take them up on the offer.

  So different looking, yet each tempting in their own way… I needed to leave before I got in too deep-or should I say, they go into me deliciously deep. But, I still had so many questions.

  I opened my mouth to voice them when music started playing.

  Touch me, touch me. I want to feel your body.

  I blushed when Gene arched a brow and grinned at me devilishly. I followed the singing to my purse which Simon had apparently rescued along with me. I dug my pink iPhone out and answered. “Hello.”

  Claire’s voice squealed in my ear. “Where the hell are you? Lana said she went to your room to see if you wanted coffee and your bed hadn’t been slept in. Are you okay? Do you need us to rescue you?”

  I waited for her to take a breath and then hurried to reassure her. “I’m fine. I was waylaid after work, but a good Samaritan came to my rescue.”

  “Oh my God. He must have been hot for you to spend the night. You’ve never done that before.” Claire sounded awed.

  “It’s not like that,” I stammered. “Listen, I’ll be home in a bit and explain everything.”

  “Lana says to bring some donuts and coffee for giving her a heart attack.”

  “I will.” I hung up with Claire, my overprotective roommate who turned furry and floppy eared every full moon. Think that was strange? Then you needed to meet my other roommate and BFF, Lana, the siren who was scared of the sea.

  “Everything okay?” Simon asked.

  “My roommates got freaked when they saw I didn’t make it home. Speaking of which, I need to go, but I’d like to meet with you guys again.” At their matching sensual smiles, I blushed. “For information, if you don’t mind.”

  Gene’s grin widened. “Anything you want to know, feel free to ask-or, even better, touch.”

  As come on lines went, his was laughably crude, but it worked, dammit. Simon shook his head at his friend. “You’re not the only one who is curious,” rumbled Simon. “I’ll program my number in your phone while you dress.”

  “Or she could just make a wish,” Gene said with a short bow in my direction.

  “Speaking of clothes, can I borrow this t-shirt?” I asked mentally wincing as I imagined the state of my outfit from the previous night-ripped and bloody, and while the wounds on my flesh healed during my forced nap, I doubted I could say the same for my clothes. Or so I assumed. After all, I hadn’t undressed myself. I wonder if Simon liked what he saw?

  “I can do better than that old t-shirt,” Simon replied with a grin. “In the bathroom, you’ll find everything you need. And if I haven’t lost my touch, the right size. Just go back to the bedroom and you’ll find the bathroom.”

  I left the guys and went back to the bedroom easily finding the clothes on the bathroom vanity. The leggings were a perfect fit as were the bra, clean panties and top. He’d even provided a pair of slip on shoes. All of it was brand spanking new-and white, surprise!-which raised some interesting questions. Did he go shopping while I was passed out or did he borrow these from a female friend? An unfamiliar feeling gripped me at the last thought, and I was shocked to realize it was jealousy. A strange reaction for what had been a really odd day, even for someone like me.

  I exited the bedroom to find the two men facing off, but at my arrival, they turned with smiles that did nothing to hide the tension bristling between them.

  “Well, thanks for helping me out,” I gathered my purse from the side table and took my phone from Simon’s extended hand.

  “How are you getting home?” Simon asked.

  “Oh, I’ll just grab a cab.”

  “Nonsense,” said Gene stepping around Simon’s restraining arm. “Just tell me where to take you.”

  “That’s okay. Besides, I need to get donuts and coffee on the way or my roommates will shoot me,” I said.

  “Done.” Gene snapped his fingers and a moment later, he held a tray with three steaming Styrofoam cups and a box of donuts.

  Cool. And now I was curious. “So, if I tell you I live at five-five-five Parkview Crescent, you going to snap your fingers and call up a flying rug?”

  “Stand over here and you’ll find out,” he said with a wide smile. Simon just snorted.

  “Okay. Just give me a second.” I walked over to Simon and grabbed his shirt to yank him down. I plastered a kiss on him whispering, “Thanks for rescuing me.”

  What I intended as a small kiss turned into a panty wetter as his big hands swept around to cup my buttocks and lift me so he could thoroughly thank me with his tongue for thanking him.

  When he set me down, I was a tad wobbly and so freaking horny I wanted to tear his clothes off and ride him until the cows came home.

  But Gene, with a, “Hey, can I join in?” ruined the moment and I stepped back stunned at my reaction to a simple kiss. I need to get out of here.

  I moved over to Gene and at his nodded head signal, stood between his outstretched arms still holding the coffee house delights.

  “Ala Samantha,” he announced and wiggling his nose, he took me home in the blink of an eye.

  As transportation went, I liked it. Fast, free and I would assume environmentally friendly. I held out my hands for the breakfast treats and with a resigned sigh, he handed them over. “I guess this means you’re not going to ask me up?” He waggled his brows at me hopefully.

  His engaging grin almost did me in, but knowing the inquisition awaiting me upstairs, I resisted. “I doubt you’d enjoy the major girl gab fest. They’re going to want all the details. Which reminds me,” I said my eyes widening as I chastised myself for my distraction. “What happened to the vamps that attacked me last night? Should I be looking for a new job?” Or looking to move to a new zipcode?

  Gene scoffed. “You have nothing to fear. Simon would have dispatched them before bringing you home. He can’t stand the nasty creatures and takes great delight in sending them to the great beyond.” Then, as if realizing what he said, he stammered. “Well not that he’d hurt you of course. You’re not really a vamp, even if you-Ah, screw this.” He stopped talking and in a motion too fast for me to track, plastered a hot kiss on me that left my legs shaking and my pussy screaming “Take me, now.” Then without even a goodbye, Gene, my genie out of his bottle-and I suspected partly of his mind-left. And silly me, I was sorry to see him go.

  I trudged up the stairs to my apartment, the elevator being on the fritz again. I consoled myself with the fact that the exercise meant I could eat more donuts. I’d just made it to the door when it was flung open, and Claire, hands on her hips, stood glaring at me.

  “Just where have you been all night, young lady?” she asked sternly. Then she burst into giggles. “Get in here and tell us what happened. And where did you get those wholesome clothes? I’ve never seen you cover up so much of your body. Is this a new fad?”

  I smiled at Claire’s babble and walked into the home we’d built ourselves. A collection of mismatched furniture and knickknacks, there was no rhyme or reason to our decorating other than comfort. Lana waved at me from the couch, her feet dipping in a basin of water, probably liberally laced with salt. While tap water helped hydrate her, she needed briny water to truly make her siren side comfortable. Given her irrational fear of the ocean-which I swore I’d keep a secret-she made do with baths, both the full body and foot ones.

  We’d learned the hard way that a PMS-ing siren who craved saltwater was nothing to joke about. Although the singing was quite pretty if you managed not to kill yourself while listening to it.

  Claire, bouncy and energetic like her werebunny alter ego-and the Energizer one-perched on the couch arm, still babbling.

  “So, what happened? Bruno said you left before doing your second set and he was not hap
py by the way.”

  I handed out coffee while I debated what to tell them. While we knew each other’s secrets, I tended to gloss over the more violent side of my existence. “I’ll deal with Bruno when I go in tonight.” A smile and stroke of his hand and he’d forgive me anything, a plus from my succubus side. “I had to leave. Some of the guys from the days I was locked up found me at the club.”

  Lana, mid chew on a chocolate donut, choked and spat out a gooey mouthful. “That’s not good.”

  Claire’s eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. “No shit. What happened?”

  “I fought them with a little help.” A giant who cleaned their clocks and then rescued me princess style without once taking advantage-the jerk. I omitted the bloody killing part in my retelling.

  “But they’re vampires?” Lana said, her eyes narrowing. “So who was nuts enough to jump in and help you? Or should I say what?”

  “Well, I never did find out what Simon was, although I do guarantee he’s not human.” That got the girls bouncing in excitement.

  “Is he hot?”

  “Does he have a brother?”

  I laughed at their reaction. “He is drop dead gorgeous and built like an ox. And while I didn’t find out if he had a brother, he does have a friend who’s a genie.”

  Claire squealed and Lana leaned forward eagerly. “This I need to hear about.”

  I told them about waking up at Simon’s place and meeting Gene. They giggled when they learned about his actual bottle. They sighed over my description of both men. And exclaimed when they heard how I’d gotten home with magically produced donuts.

  Lana held her donut in front of her and eyed it suspiciously. Shrugging, she took a bite. “Damn, for a magic donut, it sure tastes good.”

  “So when are you seeing them again?” Claire asked.

  Good question. “I don’t know. Simon programmed his number in my phone and Gene jokingly said he’d come if I wished for him. But, I don’t know. How do I know I can trust them?”

  Lana fixed me with piercing stare. “Oh please. They had ample opportunity to hurt or take advantage of you, and instead, you made it home, unmolested, bearing food and dressed like a nun.”

  True. Maybe I should have phrased it differently, like I don’t know if I can trust myself around them because since the moment I met them all I want to do is touch them-and lick them, and ride them and take them up on their offer of a sandwich. A first for me since I usually fed my succubus need for sexual energy with one partner at a time. I did, after all, still have some warped set of morals.

  “I think you should call them and set up a dinner date.” Claire clapped a hand over her mouth and blushed.

  “I think Beth understood you meant the real food kind,” Lana said dryly.

  I pondered her suggestion. “I will admit, I’m curious. They knew what I was right away. And they implied they’d met others like me before, although by the sounds of it, they were all killed.”

  “All the more reason to find out more,” urged Lana, the usually levelheaded one. With her encouraging me, I felt more confident that my desire to call was reasonable and not just hormone driven.

  “So when are you going to do it?” asked Claire bouncing again in excitement.

  “Don’t you mean do them?” I laughed at Claire’s red cheeks. For a waitress in a strip joint, she was fairly prudish when it came to sex. Actually, if I were to believe her-and I did-she’d only ever been with one guy, and a piss poor one at that judging by the way she shied from relationships. She avoided advances from men and the times I’d questioned her about her reticence, she claimed she was waiting for the one. I thought it was cute even though I didn’t believe in love myself. Not that I didn’t think I could fall in love, I was sure I could. But given my succubus side, any man who ever declared himself-and they were many-did so not because he knew and liked the real me, but because my pheromones made him. And yet Simon resisted me? Could it be that love still remained an option for me, albeit with guys who’d missed the boarding call for humanity’s ship?

  It was nice to have hope.

  “I’ll call them in a day or two.” I didn’t want to seem too eager to see them again, even if I missed the guys already. They’d certainly made an impression on me. And when I masturbated in the shower, I didn’t imagine one or the other as I stroked my slick flesh-screw that, I fantasized about them both, together with me.

  Simon paced his living room awaiting Gene’s return. His emotions and thoughts were in a turmoil, a state far from his usual calm demeanor. I have one feisty hybrid to thank for that. Not that he regretted meeting her, how could he when his whole body sang at the sight of her. He couldn’t help remembering the sight of her luscious body which he’d gotten a peek at when he’d cleaned and dressed her while she lay unconscious. His cock twitched and Simon shifted his mind away to more mundane items like where the hell was Gene? Irrational jealousy tried to rear its head as an image of Gene seducing Beth-without him-filled his mind. He shook the thought away, and before another troubling thought could hit, Gene returned, a look of bemusement on his face.

  “Can you believe she didn’t even invite me up?”

  His friend sounded incredulous and Simon chuckled. “She certainly is unique.”

  “No shit, considering the rest of her kind are dead,” Gene replied dryly. Simon winced at the reminder. “Where did you find her?”

  Simon’s lip curled in amusement. “Would you believe outside a strip joint?”

  “You? In a den of debauchery?” Gene’s eyes went wide with incredulity. “Kill me now, for I never thought I’d see the day.” Gene flopped onto the couch with his hands clasped to his chest.

  Simon shifted uncomfortably. “I was outside, not in, when I found her and scented the foul ones.”

  Gene sat up. “That’s right, she mentioned vampires when I dropped her off. I assured her you would have dispatched them.”

  “Of course I killed them. There’s no way I was letting those nasty bloodsuckers run around my town.”

  “How many did you send back to Hell?” asked Gene.

  “A half dozen.”

  Gene looked thoughtful. “That many working together? How unusual.”

  “Funny, but I don’t think that’s as interesting as the fact I found a Nephilim.” Simon didn’t want to talk about the foul ones even as he struggled to understand his attraction to the hybrid female who by birth, happened to be half vamp.

  “You always did have a knack for sniffing out treasures.”

  Simon glared at his friend. “She is not an object.”

  Gene raised his hands in a conciliatory gesture. “Sorry. No, she’s not an object, but you can’t deny her value, or the beings who will want her, either dead or alive.”

  Simon growled when Gene brought up the all too real danger to Beth. For a moment, his iron control wavered. Frost formed on the edges of the furniture around him and crystallized on the concrete walls.

  “Calm your beast down,” Gene said, not at all alarmed by Simon’s uncharacteristic show of power. “She’s not in imminent danger, yet. But you and I both know that it’s only a matter of time before others, like the vamps, come after her.”

  “Then we shall protect her,” he stated flatly, including his friend without request. For the last several hundred years, they’d done most things together: battling the same foes, sharing homes, tag teaming the ladies. The only thing they hadn’t done was each other-there were some lines he wouldn’t cross, and thankfully Gene felt the same way.

  Despite their long time together, never before had they both experienced an instant interest in the same woman-make that possessive interest. Simon knew for a fact that Gene didn’t show his bottle to casual lovers. The fact he’d taken Beth into it, and promised she’d come back, said a lot. As for himself, he couldn’t deny his insane attraction to Beth-and the overwhelming need to be with her and protect her. I’ve walked this earth for over two thousand years and finally, after such a long
search, I think I’ve found the one/./

  Gene chuckled, snapping Simon’s attention back to him. Simon frowned, not understanding Gene’s sudden mirth. “What’s so funny?”

  “Well, it just occurred to me that if we’re going to keep an eye on Beth, then we’re going to have to spend some time at her work. What a hardship, staring at naked ladies shaking their assets.” Gene leered comically and Simon’s lips twitched.

  “I guess it could be worse,” Simon admitted grudgingly. “Now, if you’re done screwing around, I want you to scout around unobtrusively for information on her. Something doesn’t quite add up.”

  “Yes, the term babe in the woods and innocent do come to mind. I’ll see what I can discover without tipping our hand. And just so you know, before I returned, I laid a protective web over her building to let us know if anything untoward occurs.”

  Simon grunted in acknowledgement. Gene popped out to do his thing, and Simon pulled out his laptop to do a search of his own.

  He scoured databases both human and not, searching for anything that stood out. Other than an increase in vamp sightings and kills starting a few years back, nothing untoward came up.

  After a few hours of fruitless search, he gave up. He needed more info, and for that, he’d need to spend more time with Beth.

  What a hardship-or should I say hard cock.

  Chapter Four

  I sensed them the moment they walked in, which kind of distracted me as I was hanging upside down on a pole at the time. I managed to make my unintentional slide down look like part of my routine; however, in my new position, I couldn’t see Gene or Simon, even though my hormones were jumping up and down screaming “They’re here!” I unwrapped my legs from the pole and rolled to lie on my stomach on the stage. I pushed up with my arms in a hands and knees position. I crawled slowly, and flicked my head up and down to make my hair arc and flutter in silky strands around my face-I called this my lioness move, guaranteed to make men purr. My doggie position-also a bedroom favorite-allowed me to scan the crowd and I thanked my enhanced eyesight that allowed me to see past the glare of the lights that spotlighted me on stage.