Taken by the Gay Vampire Regent: A Dark MM Romantasy Vampire Romance

I keep the ledgers of a court that could drain me on a whim, and I keep them perfectly.
Being useful is how a man with a heartbeat stays alive here.

Maxwell Utterback has ruled here three centuries and has never let his hunger off its leash.
He comes to the archive at night. He does not need the books. He comes anyway.
Last week our hands crossed over the debt ledger and he did not move his.
Then he told me quietly that he is lonely. That frightened me more than the fangs ever have.

That is the shame of it. Not the court. That I turned my head and gave him a clear view of my throat.
He says my name across the archive and every pulse in me answers.

Tonight he wants me at the throne once the hall empties.
Kneel. Hold still. Let the fangs go in. Be marked as the regent's and nobody else's.
The ledger in my hands could crown him or condemn us both, a regent cannot be seen to need a man like me, and I go up there anyway.
He notices every tremor I fail to hide. He always has.
What is left of me once he takes it? What is left of him if I close the book?

A full-length dark gay vampire claiming and blood bond erotic novel featuring a court archivist and the regent who marks him.