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~~Beatrice~~
The ball didn't last long after that. Antoinette left, and she took Jack with her. The poor kid looked pretty scared as the most powerful Kindred in the city dragged him off with a firm grip hand-in-hand. He'd looked Julias's way, with 'she's angry' printed on his face. Julias gave a small wave, and Beatrice did too, but hers was far more teasing. She had no idea what Antoinette did when she was upset, and Jack probably didn't either, but he was going to find out.
"Fuck man. Just... fuck." Beatrice was leaning over the railing next to white knight. "So much for peace."
Julias nodded. "Quite the gamble of Lucas."
"Yeah. I wonder what the fuck he thought was going to happen?"
"Maybe catch Antoinette on a good day?"
They both managed a nervous chuckle, but Beatrice knew there was more to it than what they had observed. Lucas was up to something, her nightly exploits had discovered that. Hell, this whole visit by Lucas and his 'flock' seemed really out of place too.
But it wasn't her problem. Lucas probably had his eyes on the Prince, not her. And the Prince could take care of herself. More importantly, Julias kept giving glances, complete with juvenile smirks while those eyes of his kept falling to her ass.
"Hey. So, should we go?" Beatrice said. The word love was ringing in her head, another secret in her pocket.
"Mm? Yeah sure, let's."
He took her arm, she took his, and they walked down the stairs into the atmosphere of unknown. People didn't care about either of them anymore, they cared about what hell Lucas had just unleashed on himself. And she kind of liked that. She could just hold arms with her man and no one gave a shit anymore.
Julias gave a shit, apparently. He walked a little faster, and a little faster, and she had to almost jog to keep up once they were outside.
"We in a rush?" she said.
He looked over his shoulder at her. Those eyes of his were hungry, starving even. He took them around a corner, away from the crowd of leaving Kindred and wandering kine. The living who were watching the coming-and-going crowd talked with wild confusion. Who were all these people and why would they attend such a short party?
But with the way Julias was pulling on her, she was pretty fucking happy the party ended short. When was the last time she'd run off with a guy after a party -- not a ball of course, but a real party with booze and open-minded people -- to go home for a good fuck? It made her smile.
But they didn't get home. Julias took her down one of the alleys, pristine and clean because everything was in this neighborhood, pinned her against the wall, and pressed his body against her.
"Blush for me," he said.
Oh wow. He'd literally pinned her against the wall, hands about her wrists, body against hers, and his voice had grown dark. He was so much taller than her, wide shoulders burying her, and his hands were huge against hers. Tall, dark, handsome. Since when did her Superman have a dark side?
She blushed. One moment, she was a lifeless husk of pale skin and cold bones, the next her skin was warm, her lungs breathed air, and her color returned. And her body was on fire.
He blushed too, and she found herself pushing her body against him a little.
"Hey," she said, and smiled up at him from behind her veil. "You uh... you're being awfully aggressive." She was stronger than him, at least in a pure physical strength sense. It wasn't like she couldn't push him off, but look in his eyes was animal. No way she was going to douse that fire.
"Seeing you stand up to everyone like that? Show off to everyone like that?" He pushed his body closer to hers until she had practically vanished from sight underneath him. "A lot of eyes were on you. A lot of eyes wanted to fuck you."
Had they? She knew Joe was startled by her makeup and stuff, and definitely had a look of lust on him. But a lot of eyes? "I didn't... I know I saw you staring at me, but you're a freak."
"A lot of eyes," he said again, and he let go of her wrists. His hands moved lower, and she put her claws on his forearms while those hands reached behind her to cup her ass with tight, squeezing fingers. He was kneading the meat of her ass, digging the fingers into her, prying apart and pushing cheeks together like a young school boy who didn't know what he was doing, just driven by sheer arousal.
And she really liked how Mr. Perfect's composure was thrown to the wind by her. Antoinette had guessed it perfectly; that bitch was too damn smart.
His hands went further down, and then Julias was lowering himself down her. A moment later he was on his knees. Superman on his knees, in a dark alley, with his hands sneaking under her long skirt and lifting it higher, and higher. Holy fuck.
"Hey what're you doing? Someone will see."
"Let them see."
It was dark, and she was still wearing her face veil. No kine would be able to see her extra teeth in the black. Julias knew it, and the man had every intention of taking advantage of it apparently. Her skirt was up to her hips in no time, her back against the wall.
"Where'd you get these?" he said, and he hooked his fingers around her panties. Before she could say anything, he'd slipped them off. She was forced to step out of them as he brought them to her feet.
"I... um...."