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"I meant, that he didn't mind my species Or my diet"
"No, vampirism is not the obstacle" He should be so lucky In order to have Caspion, Mirceo would've eaten food and lived like a deain pesky bodily functions andGods, I would"My masculinity, however"
"Please don't take this the wrong way, brother, but I don't think sweet Caspion would spurn you if you were everything perfect except for yourmaleness"
Mirceo frowned "Then by that reasoning, are you saying I'm imperfect?"
"I'ht be at work"
He exhaled a gust of breath "Maybe I ae--because I don't have the fortitude to change the things I can"
"That wouldas a person" For such an innocent fely incisive "Which would take work"
Perhaps Mirceo could be a touch less arrogant Maybe a bit less vain He could take things more seriously
How boring I'd be! "Damn hiet back to our enhanced friendship"
"Much has happened since then" In a lower voice, she added, "With his defeat in the Iron Ring He must hate Trehan so much"
"After his trials, ht haveexiled himself To the Plane of Lost Years"
Mina gasped "How long was he there?"
"He spent five centuries away from me" Mirceo couldn't hide his hurt The dehts and dreams, but Caspion hadn't even looked back
Mirceo had half a , how bad could it truly have been?
"Five hundred years? Is he ed?"
"I only spent a fewmade me insane--but I suspect Caspion's boyish charier and somehowdarker" Yet no less attractive Just the opposite
"Oh, Mirceo, ill you do?"
"I'll go to hiht Try to wear hi after another How the worm had turned!
"Will you be true to him?"
"Utterly"
She raised her brows
"You doubt amous before?" Mirceo let others believe that only his selfish need for conquests drove his appetites Did he enjoy a good conquest? Of course; who didn't? But his situation was more complicated than that
He'd never woken beside a partner without an inexplicable anxiety overtaking hi him
Surely he wouldn't feel panic after Caspion claimed him Their connection would cure Mirceo of that Fate wanted theether
"Be good to my new brother" Mina's eyes were filled with syh so much"
"That's why he needs me" As the last medo the castle and all those within it Maybe the need to care for others had been ingrained in them
Mirceo wanted to safeguard his new mate, to soothe the worry from his brow
As Mirceo and Mina passed one of Dacia's blood fountains, the scent reminded him"I drank fro because they didn't want anyone else
's recollections to interfere with their clear, cold ent--had denounced the bloodtaking taboo In fact, theexpected his subjects to drink froht from my mate's neck"
Mina looked scandalized Alas, Lothaire had been king for just a few months, and revolutions took time "Will you see Caspion's memories?"
They would co into his consciousness "I hope so" Mirceo's mind had never been clear and cold anyway "I want to learn anything I can about my mate"
"What's your strategy to win him over?" An expert on h that lens
"Play on his jealousy? Reether?" Caspion--a hunter--loved to collect bounties; perhaps he and Mirceo could bond over that interest
"Do you have Uncle Trey's scry crystal?"
Mirceo reached into his coat pocket, knuckles brushing the talisainst Caspion so much that he'd offered Mirceo the use of the priceless crystal