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"I’h the e, and you are a journalist That brings you extra scrutiny"

"Whew! Okay My lips are sealed What happens if I bite you again? Do I become a vampire?"

"No, it’s little more complicated than that, and I like you the way you are But" He grew far too serious all over again "If you continue to drink aze "Like forever?"

"For as long as we choose to continue," he amended "But it will link your life to ether, the stronger the link, but even e’ve taken from each other already, I could find you alht, because we got a tip But once there, I could sense that you were alive and in that house Now thatthe house I could track you fro steady?"

He laughed, and she reached up again to touch his cheek "You should do that more often," she said

"Do what?"

"Laugh It’s a good look on you"

"I’ll keep that in mind, but, Sidonie, this is serious The hter it binds you to ed "Okay I’d rather have a diaood, too"

ADEN STUDIED Sidonie as she gave him a sweet s herself to hiinable Their bodies would be linked This wasn’t some romantic human ceremony with pro to blood If she stayed with hiether She would re as she drank his blood, but, by the saht, and he let her roll the her hands on his chest, she stretched up and began kissing his face all over, light touches of her lips on his mouth, his cheeks and forehead, his lowered eyelids one at a time

"I love you, Aden," she whispered, and his heart clenched as his arms closed around her But she wasn’t finished She slid fro hihs as she slid doard She kissed the pads ofherit to hardness, then locking her teeth over it and biting gently

His cock flexed hungrily at the feel of her e to take control, to obey the hard-earned instinct screaed for release He liked, he needed, to dominate his lovers

"Aden" Sidonie’s whisper cut into his thoughts, and he looked up to find her eyes ith emotion and filled with tears "I knohat they did to you, baby, but it doesn’t have to be that way Let me love you Let me do this for you"