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"That’s it" She lifted herself until their sexes separated, and would have gotten to her feet if he hadn’t held on to her "I’m done with this I as and shove them"

"These are my dents acérées," he snarled "They are quite real, I assure you"

"All right, then Do it" She extended her arm "Go on Bite me, suck ht now" When he didn’t ht actually draw some blood I’ve had an HIV test I’m clean"

Robin kept his eyes locked with hers as he seized her wrist and brought her forearm to his face He breathed in her scent and traced the veins running beneath her skin with the tip of his tongue When he felt her shudder, he lifted his s in her

Chris inhaled sharply

He drank fro once, twice, and then lifted his s had made "There It is done"

Chris had not cried out or said anything while he had fed on her, and now she stared at him, her eyes wide "They are real" She touched his lips "Unless… are they implants?"

"After I feed they retract See for yourself" He guided her fingers to the sharp tips so she could feel them retreat into the twin recesses in the roof of his ertips gently over the open apertures before she took her hand away "No, they can’t"

He didn’t have to ask her if she believed hione, crushed by the truth He thought he saw pain as well, and realized only then that he had taken her without any preparation "Forgiveyou It seems you are immune to my scent, so I could not bespell you first"

"It didn’t hurt thatelse you said is true, isn’t it? About being a vampire or whatever you are About Norman and the bank"

He nodded

"He left his suicide note for et away, and that he was too tired and sad to start over" She dragged in a deep breath "He told uys in the Chicago office thought ere sleeping together"

"But you weren’t"

"No, the only guy I’ve slept with in the last couple of years is you So what does that aze moved from her wounds to his face "Food Food that you have sex with Oh, Jesus" She put her hand over her eyes "That’s why you blindfolded ht Why I tasted blood when you caet it froirls in your hare hareed blood, Chris The saainst him and held her until some of the stiffness left her body "You are not food to me We do not think of humans in that manner We need only a little blood to sustain us We do not kill for it"

"Then what do you need me for?"

There was a terrible bleakness in her eyes The despair of someone who had seen too much truth and known too little tenderness

"It rhy her over hiroaned and opened her one at each other like aniht when she had co and curious and oh, so passionate He lifted her and carried her to the back of the apartnorina’s bedrooold velvet duvet covering the bed

"Pretty" She stroked the material "We shouldn’t use her bed"

"She does not need it, and I alass" He pulled off his clothes and bent to re love" Her expression turned be?"

He smiled down at her "Move over and see"

She rolled onto her side as he joined her, and stroked his arm with her hand "I’ent; you’re an international art thief I’ and live forever You have a hare to work"

"I do not have a haree of her jaw "What do you have?"