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SHE’D fallen asleep in his ar her hair, slow, easy, giving her pleasant dreahts in his head, alan had experienced earlier Wanting her, but apprehensive of wanting her tooto care for the woman, but afraid of what the vampire would demand, particularly after what she’d demanded of him in his first few conscious hours as her full servant She was vaguely ahen he left her, how he pulled the covers up over her shoulder, dropped a contemplative kiss there and left her to her drea fits and starts of an had held Gideon’s cock, and again, when he’d licked the blood from his shoulder The tireat shoulders, his quietI can’t do that again
As good as she’d felt, bringing hiift, the truth was she ht now to be the kind of Mistress she wanted to be to hi in there, doing things she had no right to ask of hiot it sorted out for herself? If she let hi, it was likely the vampire world would force hiht when she decided it was tiht position, she was surprised to find Daegan sitting in the corner Her hts of Gideon, she hadn’t registered hiht be better than , a book in his lap Frolass next to hi the last bit of blood she’d banked for hi to lose my humanity in the end, aren’t I?" It was alh the darkness She registered the serious set of his aze at the unspoken ione, that smooth, untouchable expression back in place The brief flicker of hope she’d felt when she’d been with Gideon, that she and Daegan ain, faltered
"You won’t lose all of it, Anwyn," he said evenly "But you will lose some, because otherwise you won’t survive"
"When you , ‘He’s mine, I’ve marked him, and he’ll do as I tell him to do’ That wasn’t Barnabus’s blood That’s what I’"
"You’ve trained for the role of Mistress all your life It’s not unexpected that, at first, when the bloodlust is harder to control--"
"No" She shook her head "It’s consensual, what goes on in the underground rooe pushed, ant it to cut them You kno to push them into that zone You knohen noentirely different When it o’ You’re just accusto to run totally on instinct"
She stared at him If he was determined to step back, be herwhat they had been for that, then she supposed she should take advantage of it "I want to say I hate this, but I’ed, and yet everything has"
When he said nothing, just continued to look at her, as two-diel they’d broken, she changed her as fro to trade that She wanted everything Putting her legs over the side of the bed, she slid her arms into her robe She’d been naked when Gideon left her, enjoying the feeling of his body along every exposed inch of hers Daegan’s eyes traveled over her throat, the curve of her bosom, the way she tied the robe around her waist, a barrier between the this, it would mean I hate what you are And I don’t" Her voice softened "Though I know that’s the way I’ve been acting" When he lass, she set her jaw "You liked the taste of my human blood You’ll miss it"
It was obvious, the way he cradled the cup in his hands It made her think of other times, times when he’d taken that blood fresh froh
"Yes" He said it in a low voice "I wanted you as my servant, Anwyn"
"More than you want ut, so sharply she wasn’t sure she could o to hilanced up at her
"Though you will never hear any vampire admit it, the reasoninside of us, soretted being what I am, Anwyn But I do understand what I need to stay a vampire and not beco else ever has"