‘auras’ by my kind. Mine should be almost blue, yours should be closer to white. Vampires run cooler, metaphysically speaking, because we exert more energy out into the world. A human tends to have a higher energy level because you don’t express psychic energy. This time, try to remain in your own mind instead of rushing into mine, take deep breaths, and focus. Keep a hold on your cord. Do you understand?”
Aidan nodded but was still unsure. “You think this will help?” he asked, letting his eyes slide shut.
“It should. Now focus,” Sky commanded.
This time Aidan felt the tendrils of relaxation begin to overtake him in slow degrees. Feelings that he now realized were his unfettered response to Sky’s own filled him. He recognized the cords for what they were and felt his grip loosening on the cord nearest him. He seemed to slide along the other until he felt the pressure of Sky’s mind on his own.
“Pull back. You’re getting lost in me.” Sky’s voice tempered his reaction and allowed him to pull back. This was a lot harder than he’d originally imagined. “Good.” Sky’s praise slid over him like a physical caress. Aidan shivered in response.
This is what Andren meant. We’re more intimate now than ever . He was connecting to Sky on a level that made it almost impossible to be anything but 100 percent honest in his reactions. He felt Sky, and Sky felt him, and there was no deception this deep into one another’s minds.
“When I touch you the connection will deepen, but without it we won’t be able to win against Jessup.” Sky’s voice was so sweet. It made every sentence seem more powerful, more intimate, touching deeper and deeper with each verbal plunge.
Aidan allowed his eyes to open and lock on Sky’s full lips. God, I feel so warm. His mouth literally watered looking at his vampire companion. “I want to kiss you so badly I ache. This is the alchemy you were talking about,” he said. It made sense why Sky was reluctant to share the definition of alchemy with Aidan previously. His body began to prepare itself to fuck, hardening and lengthening. He continued to speak before he could filter himself. “This is insanity. How am I supposed to concentrate when all I can think about is your lips wrapped around my cock?” He blushed as the question planted itself directly into Sky’s psyche. “Oh shit,” he murmured. “Sorry.”
The embarrassment was so thick in his voice, Aidan wasn’t surprised when Sky laughed at him. “The point of this lesson was to show you exactly what we were getting into. I think that we’ve had enough today. We’ll start learning to move together tomorrow as well as focusing you more on yourself. We have plenty of time.” He withdrew himself from Aidan’s mind and stood.
“So that’s it, we’re done?” Aidan asked in surprise. He’d anticipated long hours and hard, sweaty sessions of physical exertion as they trained to battle Sky’s challenger. After Sky’s lecturing, it had only been twenty minutes that they worked on the mind-to-mind nonsense. What game was he playing at?
Sky gave him a sheepish smile. “I want to ease you into the sensation. If I pushed much harder you would’ve jumped me, either to pummel me again or make me ‘wrap my lips around your cock.’” Sky said the last with a grin. “You did very well for someone previously unexposed to vampire connections.”
“Why did we do this half-naked?” Aidan asked, ignoring the echo of his earlier statement altogether. The last thing he wanted to do was remember the flash of image that had Sky’s mouth stretched over his needy prick.
“Skin-on-skin contact increases and tightens the connection. The best vampire-servant combaters are typically lovers or at least sexually involved. However, in our case, I know you don’t want either, so we’ll be touching quite a bit without actually getting intimate,” Sky answered. Aidan’s eyebrows shot up. Great. In a world which
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