Let me see you naked.”
Piece by piece, I slide off your clothes, you making no attempt to resist. That’s one of the reasons we want you.”
“We? And then when you came just now and cried out, I saw your fangs. I don’t know how it got there. Why do you talk so posh, I asked, to change the subject, and what’s that accent, anyway? Of course I’ve been discreet in watching her. But this girl, helpless in her bed, her throat pulsing with blood, had only one thought of them, that they were lovely. No sign of her. You can be assured these tasks are all within the scope of your normal proclivities.”
I fought to control my thoughts. I’ll stop by at that town for a day or two.”
He said nothing, just pressed down on the accelerator. Damn you, and damn me for what I must do to you, but I love you. Whatever he was up to, I had no desire to have any part of it. Her words hit me like a blow, a harder blow than I’d felt in longer than I remember, when she said she’d missed me and was looking over town for me.
