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“But it’s easier to do it now, isn’t it? Compel me, like they say in the books”
“Dev, all vampires have some compulsion ability, even on unmarked humans But I don’t need to compel your free will That’s not why—”
“Well, thatto his feet, though he didn’t back off a step “As long as you don’t need to do it, I’m free to walk around and do as I please Until you decide I’er She can read o have a beer or two and she’ll be apples’ ?” Herto say You’re not my full servant, Dev”
“What’s the bloody difference?” he snarled
“I haven’t asked you,” she shouted
“Why bother?” Irish tereen eyes were like brilliant e in his furious face He yanked at the collar of his shirt, opening it several s in onceobvious that’s what you want from me”
Danny blinked She was experienced enough toto say to that Though she kneas rather i A denial? Some type of retort that would turn this conversation in a different direction? Because the truth, that she was entirely out of her depth on this, was not an acceptable admission
Dev turned away froust, retrieved his knife and walked back to the tree where he’d fucked her senseless
Danny stood watching hih her She usually didn’t feel the cold, but for soer had stirred her, this abandon
When she pushed past that into hisJusthe was tired Very tired And sad An overwhelered backward several steps He wanted to go back to the way his life had been several days ago Where solitude was his pris so he didn’t feel too ratified by the thought, she felt sha those desolate thoughts in his mind
She was a young va too much for humans No one denied that fully marked servants, bonded to a vampire’s very soul, were cherished in the unique and various ways that vaht be valued highly for their intelligence and resourcefulness, it was important not to lose perspective
She also knew that, though ht mark a human once or twice at will—or even on a whim, as she’d done it—only a foolthe human desired That hat Dev didn’t understand Of course, sometimes it seemed he understood more about their situation than she’d even admitted to herself
Sheto dare the possibility of da, and the boots he’d thoughtfully stuffed with her socks to keep creepy-crawlies out of the the same dirty clothes on, but at least her body was cleaner
“You said you wanted me to scrub your back,” he said
She turned to where he was sitting in the shadow of the tree He had his hands linked over his knees
“I figured I’d asked enough of you for one day”
“I’ll give you anything you ask, love Anything” His voice was low, thick “I only mind what you decide to take”
“I don’t kno to say I’m sorry for it, Dev If it helps, I didn’t intend to hurt you with it” She turned to hi oddly vulnerable without any clothes on, hi her
“Can you explain why you did it, then?”
Good luck with that, when she couldn’t explain it to herself “I justot a little carried away in the moment, is all The
It’s intimate, the ability to link with your ”
“Can I get into your mind the same way?”
She shook her head “Only if I let you I can let you hear thoughts I speak to you, but typically a vaive a hu, for one thing”