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“Nnooo,” Quinny moaned as my hands parted her silky thighs. Lightly, I ran my index finger down the middle of her damp pussy lips.

“I wanna fuck you so bad,” I said before I pressed my lips into hers, kissing her in between my words. “Real soon, Quinny, I’m going to have you cumming and moaning all over my dick.”

Breaking our kiss, I stepped back, taking in the sight of Quinny. She was drunk with desire, lust dancing in her eyes, her legs wide open, giving me the perfect view of her beautiful pussy. I had to take a mental picture of this moment.

“Stop teasing me. If you want me as bad as you say, fuck me then,” Quinny seductively replied.

I smiled, my fangs nipping at my skin. Fuck. I wanted Quinny so bad right now. My dick felt like it was finna bust from my pants if I didn’t feel her soon. Shit. I was literally fighting with myself right now, and the longer I stared at Quinny, the more it felt like I was losing this battle. The thing about finding your soulmate is you have this all-consuming desire to love, protect, and be with them. As bad as I wanted to be inside of Quinny, her protection had trumped my physical desires for her. I might have been playing it cool about the Dante situation to keep Quinny from worrying, but I had to figure out what the fuck he had going on. It could have been something as simple as him wanting to live a double life. Or it could have meant Dante was working with somebody to do some skept shit. Whatever the case, with Quinny being involved, I wasn’t going to be at peace until I got to the bottom of it. As long as my soulmate was potentially in danger, I wouldn’t be able to fully relax. That meant holding off on my desires to complete our blood mating bond.

“Trust me,” I chuckled, “I am soon. Real soon. I have to make sure you’re safe first.”

Quinny rolled her eyes and sucked her teeth. She glared at me evilly as she said, “Don’t wait too long. I might change my mind.” She crossed her legs, then aggressively turned herself back towards the counter.

I wanted to say something slick to her, but I decided to let her have it. The quicker I took care of this situation, the sooner I’d be able to give Quinny a reason to smile.

A Few Minutes Later

I ended up walking to my dad’s house. I had to do something to calm myself down. I couldn’t get that image of Quinny outta my head for nothing. My dick had never been this hard before in my life. If I would have driven or flashed to my dad’s, I would have shown up with a hard dick sticking straight up. I doubt my dad or brothers wanted to see me like that. As I walked down the long-ass hallway that led to my dad’s conference room, I prepared myself for the shit talking that was finna happen when I walked in the room. I was forty-five minutes late, and since I was the one who called this meeting, I knew mainly Benji was finna run his damn mouth. As soon as I opened the door, the first thing I heard was:

“About fucking time. Damn, I was finna leave this bitch.” Benji scowled at me.

“Shut yo’ bitch ass up,” I said, flicking him off as I made my way over to an open chair at the round red, black, and gold marble table.

“Fuck you,” Benji grumbled. “Tell yo’ soulmate to answer yo’ house phone tomorrow. Sutton gon’ call her.”

“Why tomorrow?” I didn’t get why Sutton couldn’t call Quinny tonight. When I got back to my house, I planned on asking Quinny if she wanted to call her sister.

Quinny had been real vocal about seeing her sister. I wanted to give Benji a little time to get Sutotn settled before I barged in his house with Quinny. It wasn’t no telling what Benji had going on with Sutton. I did know he had a bunch of shit he needed to get in order. Mainly what he was going to do about Melinda. She wasn’t about to let him leave her willingly, not after spending a hundred years with him. Melinda didn’t have anyone besides Benji. Her entire family had died years ago. Melinda had made herself a part of our family by any means necessary. If Sutton was anything like her sister, she wasn’t going to come second to no one else.

“I’ma be tied up until tomorrow,” Benji replied, leaning back in his seat.

“So what, you got your soulmate out in the middle of nowhere alone?”

“Nah, I got a patrol out there, and I, uhm, compelled Sutton. She can’t leave the house.” I couldn’t do anything else but shake my head at Benji. He wasn’t doing shit but digging himself deeper into a big-ass hole.

“Y’all completed y’all’s Blood Mating Bond?” Tahji asked Benji skeptically.

If that was the case, Melinda should have been on her way out the door. From the nervous expression on Benji’s face, that wasn’t the case. He was on his good bullshit.

“Not exactly. I drank a little from her. We wasn’t fuckin’ all the way, so the bond didn’t happen.”

“What exactly do you plan on doing with this situation, son?” Our dad finally spoke. His seat was in the middle of the three of us. Our dad was a combination of all of us: my skin complexion, Benji’s nose and lips, Tahji’s eyes and head shape. You could literally see all of us in our dad.

“I mean, what can I do? I found my soulmate. Ain’t no fighting that shit. I gotta break it to Melinda. I just want to do it the right way. We spent the last hunnid years together. I ain’t finna toss her ass out there like she didn’t mean shit to me,” Benji responded, sounding conflicted.

“The sooner, the better. You know I know firsthand how hard being in this situation is, but learn from my mistakes, Benji. The sooner, the better. Melinda is going to be hurt no matter how you tell her. Do it and get it over with,” our dad said sorrowfully. Our dad always carried the guilt of our mama killing herself. I honestly didn’t blame him because he couldn’t control her actions. Our mama knew how this shit went with a soulmate. Instead of going to find her own, she took the bitter way out. Then he turned his attention to me. “Kenji, what did you call us here for?”

“Long story short, when Quinny, my soulmate, called herself running from me, her ex popped up. Turns out he is a vampire named Dante. After I fucked him up, he called for backup, talking about we weren’t going to live past the night. It’s some weird shit going on ’cause Dante ain’t from around here. From his accent, it sounds like he is from the Second Region, and he was with Quinny for two years. Never drank from her or nothing. She ain’t know he is a vampire until tonight.” I gave them the watered-down events from tonight.

“What a mutha fucka from the Second Region doin’ down here?” Benji asked with a frown.

“Right, he had to be plotting on Quinny, but I’m tryna understand why. Quinny, from what I can tell, don’t be in shit,” I said, exhaling. “I couldn’t even question Dante like I wanted ’cause he had backup coming, and I didn’t want to risk Quinny getting hurt.”

“Shit, you think she will tell you where his bitch ass live at?” Tahji asked. “We can pull up on his ass ASAP. We not finna play with him if he plotting.”

Benji smacked his lips. “Yo’ ass just tryna get away from Koa’s annoying ass.”

“Keep on flappin’ yo’ gums. I’ma go tell Sutton myself you gotta mate already. Keep fucking with me,” Tahji threatened.