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Better than? Vexing fe about yourself For instance, do you have a mate or family?"

A hint of sadness flashed over her face "Neither I’m all by my lonesome"

A lone vampire without even a coven? Maybe that was how N&iua Orion a powerful female vampire, an asset

"Do you have a Mrs Rune you routinely cheat on?" she asked

He gave her a thin s around? Would that take another dark fey?"

There was no possibility of his siring offspring He hedged "My kind is very rare in the Elserealms In Gaia, it’s more accepted for different species to breed Even fey and demons"

"Have you been with a dark fey?"

"I haven’t" But he’d once gotten so close His first brothelone to Rune if he satisfied a particularly perverse client over an entire season The things I did

Rune had beenthe dark fey fenored How the hed

The prick had sold off the pair When freed, Rune had searched for them in vain

Yet as much as he’d burned for that kiss, he craved Josephine’s ht made him uncomfortable, so he said, "I have a lead on a dark fey female in your very city"

The vampire seemed to mull this information "So you’ve never been able to do whatever you want in bed?"

"Correct" He longed to twine his tongue with another’s as they traded o down on a feht from the source He sed He could with this one "But you learn not to h "Bullshit"

"You sound like you speak from experience What do you miss that you can’t have?"

She studied the sash on her robe A dead end

For now "Tell me about N&iu her?"

"I’er than he’d been a whore "She’sdowndown the entire Gaia realm and all its connected planes if she continued unchecked

"Who are your allies?"

"Brothers Not by blood, but by choice We’ve banded together for most of my life"

"But they’re not dark fey?"

"They’re ih they had little in coht so in Gaia

When asked what he desired, Blace had cryptically told Rune, "I want my blood" Typical for a vampire, he supposed