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“No,” I say, ood Coo soers around his bicep “I’ve ful look to communicate exactly in ay I’ve missed him

All of a sudden he’s draggingroo to notice us Ethan pushes me away from him and studies me from top to toe

I try to get close to hi ht here”

He rubs his hand over his forehead, and even though he looks i about his demeanour that tells me he’s tired I didn’t think it was possible for vaet tired; they just seem so impenetrable

For a e lust Heme very nicely these days, but I still care for him I’m not the kind of person who can sleep with someone, even if it was only once, and not feel a certain level of affection for them

“What’s wrong?” I ask

His steely blue eyes pierce me “Do you understand how difficult it is for me to be around you after what you did? Because of you I have lost s that I have spent years building were all taken from me I was outlawed by my people because I let some pretty little piece of skirt fool me”

I frown “I’ to fool you I was just trying to do the right thing”

Even to ht or wrong in this situation All this tiRebecca, because let’s face it, it had been theto do But on the other side of the coin, I hadn’t really been thinking about what Ethan had lost because of me I always just saw him as this ancient, wealthy va a house or a stupid night club, or the respect of his people How fucking clueless could I be?

“How long had you been living in that house?” I ask in a quiet voice

Ethan’s eyes, which had been trained on the mantelpiece, come back to me “Almost sixty years”

Jesus That’s practically a whole lifetime for a human

“I’m sorry,” I let my eyes drop to the floor

“You are young You haven’t yet had the need to call a place ho a place that’s yours can be one of the few things that keep you sane” His face that for a second went soft, now hardens “I don’t have that any up to ive you That’s a low an”

“That’s not what I’d been doing I don’t knohat’s wrong with me, but my body wants you Is it maybe because I drank your blood yesterday?”