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I honestly saw nothing wrong with polyamory. Yes, my sexual connection with Vincent deepened our emotional connection in unique ways. I didnât feel any more connected with Vincent than I did, say, with Raina, however. Or Jack. It wasnât better, it was just different. There were even emotional needs that Vincent couldnât fulfill for whatever reason⊠I needed my friends.
So I have two types of friends I thought, sexual and non sexual. And I need both. So why is it only okay to have one of the former when you can have unlimited of the latter?
It was, I surmised, bullshit. A tool of the patriarchy to control us through sex.
If I said that out loud I thought, Raina might change her mind about fucking me. Sheâs been preaching the campaign against the patriarchy for half of her life!
I couldnât start with Raina, however. I knew that I would face little resistance from Vincent if I decided to propose the whole poly-thing⊠everything written by or about real vampires said that they were never exclusive with their relationships. Even when he and Angelique were at their height of a sexual relationship, they indulged in experiencing a wide array of lovers. That had even included an old affair with Gaia⊠almost a hundred years prior. Vincent and Angelique had spent an indeterminate amount of time swapping places in her bed.
I have to hand it to him, heâs really been doing the exclusive thing with me pretty well thus far! If I had even started something with Gaia, I probably would not be able to resist her being around all of the time!
If I was going to expand my⊠I donât know what to call it, my âcircle of loversâ? Way to sound like an aging hippie⊠I knew where I should probably start. I had a history with her. A lot of history.
Fuck no. Thatâs too scary. Way way WAY too fucking scary! If I wait for that, Iâd be the only monogamous poly-person in history!
What to do?
I leaned over and started kissing Vincentâs earlobe while running my hand over his chiseled chest. He smiled.
âAre you trying to tell me something?â he said.
âI need you.â I breathed into his ear. âNow.â
I'm sure that it looked like we just disappeared because in under a minute Vincent was carrying me into our tent, into our Tudor bedroom with a four-poster bed. He closed the door and pulled my clothes off.
* * *
âSo what do you think?â
We had made love for what seemed like hours, winding up tangled in the sheets and each otherâs bodies. I was curled up against Vincentâs chest, playing with his hair while I went over why I thought Iâd like to try polyamory. He reacted like how Iâd predicted.
âYou know Iâm okay with it.â he said, shrugging. âItâs how Iâve lived for the last four hundred and twenty years. I mean, sure Iâve spent years⊠even a few decades⊠not having sex for various reasons, but this past year has been the only time Iâve been exclusive for any length of time since becoming a vampire.â
âAnd yet youâd stay monogamous for me if I asked?â I said.
âSure.â he said.
âAnd never be poly again?â I asked further.
âNow, I donât want to sound cold, but youâre thinking like a human.â he replied. âYour lifespan is finite, even for a being with extended life like the Sorceress. Vampires, however, arenât so limited. Once you get to my age, very little can kill a vampire, so Iâm looking at possible eternity. Thousands of years, at least. So the question isnât âcan I permanently change myself?â, but rather âdo I love this person enough to limit who I have sex with for the next sixty⊠or, in your case, hundred, hundred and fifty⊠years?â. Thatâs easy. Yes.â
âAnd yet you also kept looking for me.â I said, kissing his chest.
âMe and Angelique both.â he said. âWeâve always wanted a world where youâd be poly again, so we wouldnât have to compete. Itâs been a while, culturally.â
âVincent,â I said, swallowing hard, âI hope I donât sound shallow, but that is WAY too fucking scary for me to even think about right now! I get instantly overwhelmed, and it feels like my stomach is trying to drill through the floor in search of oil. I donât know when Iâll be able to entertain such a thing any time soon.â
âHey hey hey,â he said, kissing my head. âItâs okay. There are no time limits here. You can go at your own pace for everything.â
âIs Angelique going to hate me for⊠exploring with someone other than her?â I asked. âI know that itâs probably a dream for her to spend the night with me again. I know this! If I⊠have fun with someone else first, will I be throwing it in her face?â
âAnnabelle, itâs true that Angelique dreams of being with you. I did, too, before we connected.â he said. âWe only chose me to reach out to you first because nothing in your past suggested that youâd even considered being with a woman, so I won via heteronormativity.â
âSo sheâs held out hope from the beginning?â I said.
âSheâs found and lost you dozens of times since sheâs become a vampire.â he replied softly. âShe doesnât hope, she knows that sheâll find you again. And she knows that, someday, sheâll hold and love you again. She doesnât worry about when.â
He moved me so he could look into my eyes. âWhatever path you have to take, sheâll be patient.â he said.
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