The Vipers Temptation | Completed (edited)

Chapter 17 - Bloody Night

I wring my hair through my hands before sliding open the glass door to enter the apartment. I decided to take a late night because I have trouble sleeping when Nico isn't here. I don't know where he is or what he is doing at this hour, but I guess it's none of my business.

Wrapping the towel around my body, I freeze when I step through and notice Luca's slightly concerned expression coming from the bottom of the stairs. When his gaze meets mine, it deepens.

"Uh, Callie. You should probably spend the night in the safe room."

My eyebrows scrunch together, "Why?"

"Because Nico isn't really himself at the moment."

"Is he okay?"

"He's fine. It was a tough night and it's-" I don't let him finish before I'm climbing the stairs and heading towards Nico's room next to mine.

I softly knock on the door and ask, "Nico?" After no answer, I grow worried and open the door. "Nico?" I turn on the lights to see him sitting on the end of his bed leaning on his knees. Covered in blood.

I rush over and kneel in front of him, "Nico," I'm afraid to touch him. "How badly are you hurt?" At the sound of my voice, Nico's head whips up and meets my gaze. I gasp at the darkness I see swirling in them.

"Not mine."

"Oh," I whisper in shock. I'm glad he's not bleeding out, but whose blood, is it? "You should get in the shower." Nico nods and I help guide him into the bathroom, still not a hundred perfect convinced none of it is his blood.

I turn on the shower for him and I'm about to leave to give Nico privacy when he walks fully clothed into the shower and just stands there leaning his head against the wall. He looks lost. Maybe he's in shock or something.

I sigh deeply and run a hand through my hair before hanging up my towel still wrapped around me and entering the shower with Nico. I'm still wearing my black one-piece bathing suit. Nico obviously needs someone to help him, and I don't see Luca coming up here and doing this.

"Nico," I whisper not to startle him. When he doesn't so much as flinch, I place my hand on his arm and say, "Nico, it's Callie."

Slowly, he raises his head and turns his body towards me, and I gulp. To be under the weight of his attention when he's in this state is intimidating.

"You shouldn't be in here," Nico tells me gruffly.

I straighten my shoulders and meet his gaze, "You need help, and unless you want Luca in here with you..." I turn to leave, but Nico grabs my wrist to halt me.

"You drive me crazy," he growls in my ear. I take that as a sign to continue and turn back towards him.

I start with his suit jacket and slip it off his broad shoulders then start to unbutton his shirt with shaky fingers because Nico isn't looking away from me. That burning heat that exists between us is emerging again. I slide his shirt off and notice the trail of red mixing with the wall on the floor of the shower and part of me knows I'm helping him destroy evidence.

"Pants?" Nico asks.

I narrow my eyes at him. He's milking my help for all it's worth. I grab and remove the belt before tugging down his pants. He steps out of them.

I hesitate. The only thing left is his boxers. I blush when Nico smirks. "Those can stay on." I quickly avert my eyes anywhere but his dick when I see it becoming hard. "Ok, I think you've got this now."

"I need help washing my body." I glare at him.

"Do you really?"

"Maybe?" Nico is watching me with so much heat that my nipples start to harden. "What are you? Scared?" Nico mocks.

"Fine," I grab the body wash from him, "But keep your hands to yourself." I pour some on my hands, foam them up then start spreading it around his chest. Fuck, I need to think things through. It feels way too good to have my hands on him. I massage the soap into his skin and even trace some of his tattoos with it. "Why the snake?"

"Because everyone has their own agenda at the end of the day."

"That's a sad way to view people," I tell him while I guide him under the water to rinse off.

"It's what the world has shown me," Nico is glancing at her chest and knows he's noticing her hard nipples through her bathing suit.

"It's not polite to stare," I huff.

"When did I strike you as polite?"

I cross my arms and glare at him. "You've been cleaned. I'm getting out now." I turn to leave but stop when Nico crowds me from behind. I feel less of a barrier between us and sigh. "Did you take your boxers off?"

"You should have never come into my room tonight," Nico growls.

I rub my thighs together as I ask, "Why not?"

Nico begins sucking on my neck and I lean my head back against his shoulder with a quiet moan. "Nico," I sigh, "We shouldn't." But I don't stop him as he turns me and kisses me. I'm so turned on from washing him that I don't think I'm capable of walking away. I wrap my arms around his neck and pull him tighter into me. He grabs my ass like he owns it and continues to claim my mouth. I climb up his body like he's my own personal tree as he lifts me. I wrap my legs around his waist then remove my mouth and start kissing his neck. Nico groans.

"Is this Callie unhinged?" Nico chuckles.

"Shut up and kiss me," I tell him as I dig my hands into his hair and force his mouth back on mine.

My back is slammed into the shower wall as Nico pulls the straps of my bathing suit down exposing my breasts. Slowly, he kisses his way down until he reaches my left nipple and sucks it into his mouth.

"Fuck, Nico," I moan as I lean my head back against the wall. "Take it off, now." I push his shoulders.

Nico lets me down before dragging my bathing suit off. Now nothing is standing between us. Nico helps me hop back up then slowly slides into me and we both groan. I wince a little at the pressure. This is only my second time.

When Nico looks at me questioningly, I nod, and he begins moving and I sigh in relief because it feels much better now. That feeling of euphoria starts to tighten in my lower belly, and I beg Nico to go faster.

"What have you done to me?" Nico whispers in my left ear.

"What do you mean?" I pant.

"You must have cast some kind of spell on me or something. I can barely stop thinking about you."

"I'm close."

"Come for me, baby." That dam breaks and I come hard as Nico groans and follows me, by pulling out and shooting it all over my stomach.

After a few minutes, I come down from the high and stand fully on wobbly legs. Nico is using the body wash to clean me and I blush.

"I can do that," I mutter.

"I just had my dick inside you and it's me, cleaning my cum off you, that's embarrassing for you?"

"Nico, don't be so...vulgar."

"I don't understand women."

"You didn't use a condom." Panic runs through my body.

"No, but I'm clean and so are you, and I already know you're on the pill for cramps."

"Stalker," I playfully shove his shoulder, and he laughs. At least, he's not as doom and gloom anymore.

Nico rinses me then shuts off the water and helps me out before towel-drying us both. I gasp when Nico suddenly lifts me, wrapped in the towel and all, and carries me into his bedroom. He plops me down on the bed and I grunt from the landing.

"Okay mister caveman, what was that?" He throws me one of his T-shirts which I quickly throw on.

Nico turns off the light and gets into bed on the other side before pulling me against him. "I'm holding you. Goodnight."

A smile breaks out on my face as I snuggle deeper into him. "Goodnight, Nico."