Free Servicing the Undead by Isabelle Drake

trailing behind. The click of a lock came from behind
him.
    Hayden went to Rachelle and set his hands on her bare ass. Her
skin was warm and soft. Alive. She wiggled her hips and looked at him over his
shoulder. Her eyes were glazed, cloudy. Hayden eyed Matthew.
    “Yes, it’s the same tea Mattie made for you.” Matthew looked
at Rachelle. “She likes it, don’t you, baby?”
    “Oh yeah, mmmmm, but it’s making me be a bad girl, Hayden.
You need to fix me, you know, teach me a lesson.”
    Hayden stepped back. This wasn’t the woman he knew, his
girlfriend. It was someone else, a half person, a half creature, under the
influence of the seductive tea. His stomach quivered.
    “What’s the matter, Hayden?” Matthew taunted. “You losing
your hard-on? You need me to come in there and help you?”
    Rachelle crawled to the edge off the straw and pushed
herself up. She tiptoed to Hayden and took his cock in her hands. “I’ll take
care of him, Matthew.”
    But the other man was already on his feet and coming toward
the cage. He stopped at the door and wrapped his hands around the slats and
leaned closer. The scent of his body pressed in, a mixture of leather, cold
earth and even colder sex.
    Hayden spoke over the bile in his mouth. “Did you already
fuck her?”
    “Actually, no. I was told not to.” He tipped his head at
Mattie. “And I think you owe her for that.”
    “Common decency isn’t enough of a reason not to?”
    The man threw his head back and howled with laughter. “We
left that behind years ago, and it was the best decision we ever made.”
    Hayden caught the wince Mattie tried to hide.
    Matthew spotted it too and scowled. Tension simmered and
rose up in waves between them. “Not now, Mattie. Not when we have
some…entertainment.”
    Mattie looked over her shoulder. “Entertainment?”
    “That’s right,” he replied. He turned back to the cage.
“What else would you call it?”
    Mattie didn’t accept Matthew’s challenge, instead, she
crossed to the chair he’d left empty, dropped herself into it, and stared
straight ahead.
    This was a side of Mattie that Hayden had not seen—a side
that did back down from a challenge. He continued staring at her, waiting to
see if she’d look his way, but she didn’t.
    Matthew turned his attention to Hayden. “Why are you just
standing there?”
    “What is it you want?” The question came from his mouth
before he had a chance to think, to accept that he already knew the answer.
    “A show, Hayden.” Matthew lifted one dark eyebrow.
“Entertain me.”
    Hayden shoved Rachelle back onto the bed of straw. She fell
willingly, spreading her legs as she tumbled down. Hayden spun, tilted his head
and offered Matthew a slanted smile of his own. “Let me finish that thought for
you. If you don’t like what you see, you’re going to come in here and show me
up. Right?”
    “Mattie told me you were different and now I see what she
meant.” Matthew nodded as he looked Hayden up and down. “I like fast learners,
Hayden, but I don’t think that’s the only reason Mattie has a thing for you.”
His gaze darkened, his face becoming a mask of evil. “I just want you to know,
I intend to figure out what it is about you that has her so worked up.”
    “It’s just the sex, Matthew,” Mattie cut in. “Wait until you
see him fuck her, then you’ll understand.”
    “You sure it’s just that?” he asked, still eyeing Hayden
with squinted eyes. “There isn’t any more?”
    “Look at him,” she replied. “What else could it be?”
    Matthew considered, taking his time, looking Hayden up and
down. The other man’s gaze was thorough, lingering, caressing. “I see you
switched back to the metal neck ring,” he said, casting his comment toward
Mattie. A slow smile spread across his mouth, and he spoke again, this time to
Hayden. “Did she tell you why she put the ring on you?”
    Hayden shrugged, rejecting the bait. Or was Mattie the one
Matthew was trying