Benedict smells it long before he ever sees you.
Fresh blood, sweet young bodies in the flushes of arousal; it makes him hungry in every sense of the word. The almost painful need to feast and fuck. He inhales deep, lewdly, letting the tempting scents fill his being. He pulls on his cloak and goes out to find you.
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Mrs Dorset.
You practice the name, sitting at the vanity table of their rooms at the inn, feeling cosy in the soft candlelight glow as the autumnal wind howls portentously beyond the window. The quill scratches the paper as you loop the letters, learning the structure of your new name as it flows under your hand.
"What are you doing, my love?" Thomas rounds behind you, returning to your rooms with steaming hot tea as promised.
"I am practising my new name," you reply proudly, twisting to look up at your husband of merely two days as he places aside the tea tray, squeezing your shoulders lightly.
"Oh, I see, that is... well, that is wonderful," his cadence wavering. It seems as if he is embarrassed at how something as simple as your desire to write his name could make him burn physically, the glistening, dark, looped strokes causing a primal wash of possession. His fingers flex instinctually, mapping your collarbone, your flesh irresistible under his fingertips. You squeak as he rocks his body into your back, something insistent pressing into your spine.
"Husband," you drawl, meeting his eye in the vanity mirror. "Are you aroused?" Your question isn't judgemental, but pure curiosity and desire, leaning back into him.
"Yes, darling wife. You have my name. It is.... Appealing," he answers honestly, a touch winded, his fingers trailing lower over your warm skin onto the swell of your breast.
Your eyes flash in the reflection, and then suddenly, you spin around on the stool and bury your face into his trousers, nuzzling his hardness. His growl is deep and wracked. So utterly undone by how forthright you can be with your intentions.
You look up at him, fluttering your eyelids as you pluck open his trousers determinedly, push down his underwear, and wrap your hands around the back of his thighs to draw him even closer. Immediately you encase his tasty warm cock in your mouth, so very keen for him.
He groans to the ceiling as if disbelieving in his luck.
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Benedict finds himself outside the quaint country inn barely a quarter mile from his country home. No wonder he could smell it so strong.
As he stares up at a mullioned window, russet leaves swirling around his feet on this cold, crisp night, he sees the glowing candlelight signifying the room's occupation. Indeed, it is the only one lit as such on the first floor. He surmises the couple are likely newlyweds, perhaps passing through the area on their honeymoon—the first ones who have done so since he was turned a few months back.
While he has trained himself on the scent of the people in the proximal area and taught himself they are not food, he is powerless to resist this. Them. From scent alone, they are in their twenties, and right now, they are engaging in something carnal. He can smell ripe juices swirling in the air along with the thronging of their hearts, blood coursing. It makes his cock strain painfully against the wool of his britches.
He never used to be like this—a creature of such base instinct. Yes, when human, he had his fair share of lovers of all persuasions, but it had been an occasional bacchanalian indulgence. Now. Now, he can barely contain himself. His tongue licks around the point of his fang, tasting the air, knowing without a doubt they will be under his thrall within moments of meeting and lost in a temporary reverie of how he will enjoy them.
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Benedict Bridgerton Regency Imagines || Benedict Bridgerton
FanfictionOne-shot imagines I have written for Benedict Bridgerton. These are originally published on Tumblr and AO3.