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"Yes" She wiped a tear off her cheek

"Baby, why didn’t you come to me? I would have helped you"

She shook her head "I couldn’t do that to you"

"Were you afraid that I would rip his throat out or lose hed heavily and held out his hand "Come here"

She walked over to the bed and took his hand He pulled her onto his lap,her straddle hi theround

Ephraim cupped his hands on her hps and pulled her forward "Can I have a kiss? I’ve missed you"

Her hands dropped to the bed on either side of his face as she leaned over hiht you said you were done with ently caressed her hips "I’ll never be done with you I’ such an assle, but you hit a bit of a nerve for me"

"About babies?"

"Yes"

"So, you can’t have babies? You know that for sure, don’t you? You tried with that woainst hers "I don’t know anything for certain, baby I have no clue As far as that woman is concerned the answer is no I never slept with her She wanted to years and years ago Her Master, who at this very moment is not too happy with me, tried to make a deal with me and offered up twenty fenate any of them I could keep the babies in return the master wanted to be like ers threaded through her black hair "No, I didn’t do that I didn’t want a child with a vampire"

"So, how do you know you haven’t fathered a child before?"

"That’s easy I never finished inside of a woman before"

She searched his face to see if he was joking "Never?"

"No, never It was one of the best ways to prevent by-blows"

"By-blows?"

"Bastards"

"That’s not very nice"

"Sorry, that’s what they were called back then My father told us what to do"

"Your father encouraged you?" A thought occurred to her "I’ve heard stories that ht their son’s to whorehouses, did yours?"

He used her hps to push her up so that her neck was right above hiskisses to her neck "No, he didn’t bring me The last time I saw my father was just before I was taken away Before that I looked like a little boy No self-respecting whore would have touched h so he probably would have"