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"Which side do you sleep on, sweetheart? I'h room, I invite you to sleep atop me"

Mercy "Even if eren't to ree of you when you're in this condition"

Mirceo cast hirin "If I say pretty please?"

"You'd hate "

Growing serious, he said, "I could never hate you"

Nor I you Though Cas had wanted to How much easier that would be Even when he'd believed Mirceo had betrayed hiains on you with every drop It's about to hit You'll soon be comatose"

Mirceo squinted "Are those holes in the walls?"

"Maybe a couple" Cas's earlier frustration seeo He could never have predicted what had been in store for him

The va bite

Keep control, Cas He helped Mirceo out of his coat, then sat him down on the bed "Arms above your head" Mirceo dutifully complied, and Cas pulled his shirt off

"I like it when you take care of me, demon"

"You need soue I' to be that male He quickly added, "Because you often act like an unthinking child"

"Fair point" Mirceo leaned down and atteain

Chuckling, Cas knelt to help him

"Thanks They seeht now"

Cas pulled therabbed Mirceo's ankles and tossed the vas up onto the bed

Mirceo sank back "The pillow s deeply When he looked at Cas again, his eyes flickered with desire "My drea his mind, Mirceo said, "You like the way I look in your bed"

Where you belong Inner shake "Arrogant leech" He pulled the covers up to Mirceo's chin

The vampire shoved them down to his waist "Not a denial Now that you know I'er"

There was still hope

"We s I do for my 'friends'"

"Enough of that"

Mirceo started shucking his pants "Can't sleep confined"

Mercy! To distract hiainst the coht of dawn They faced west, but he'd take no chances Another blanket for the sideOnce he'd sun-proofed the room, he turned back

Mirceo's pants were on the floor, and he had the covers up to his waist again

Thank gods "You need to sleep"

Relaxation had stolen over the vampire's body, but he wasn't ready to pass out yet "Stay with me"

"Should I read you a bedti?"

"Do you have erotic ones in your repertoire? Perhaps an original"

"You have an answer for everything"

Mirceo waved at the blankets "You really do care about me, don't you?"

Cas pulled a chair up to the bed "Because I don't want my drunken vampire friend to fry under my watch?" He removed his own boots, then kicked back He would sleep out on the deck tonight Not in the bed with Mirceo NOT in the bed

"Aside from my parents and Mina, you're the only person I have ever cared deeply about After my mother and father wereup in Dacia didn't help matters"

"Do you knoho killed them?" Mirceo had said only that a cowardly royal had taken their lives

"My uncle Stelian's father beheaded them in their sleep"

Was Cas better off not knowing his parents than to have lost them so brutally? "Why?"

"Millennia ago, a princess in our faht and destroy ourselves until we crowned the rightfu

l heir--Lothaire For generations, Dacianos schemed and manipulated to seize the throne, and I' to himself, he said, "I think Trehan hunted down Stelian's murderous father to protect Mina and myself"

"That all sounds insane"