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“I guess so” Lexi cleared her throat “I want to be clear that Castor rong in what he said I’ainst vampires”
“I never thought you were,” I assured her She’d shoariness in the beginning, but never disgust or bigotry “You can like vampires and still not want to be a donor A lot of old school va view of humans Consider them fodder, not people Castor is one of them” The number of his nest who’d come with him to live at The Holloere just as bad “But we don’t all think that way”
“I know”
Good, because I didn’t want her thinking I was anything like Castor or the rest of his ilk “Has he given you problems before?”
“He’s rude to all the humans It isn’t just me I don’t knohat his deal is, but you’d think he wasn’t once human himself”
“Rude how?”
“Just dis Like to feed from one of us Then he turns on the fake charm”
“How many times has he approached you in the past?”
She narrowed her eyes as she thought on it “I don’t know Four, maybe five He was very forward and even a little sleazy, but not snotty and physical until tonight”
Just thinking about the bastard grabbing her ue flicked out to nervously touch her lower lip, and I was officially distracted She had ashort of sinful I wanted to taste it, bite it, feel it sliding up and down my cock
Forcing ain, you have to report it Hu they’ll be cast out of The Hollow if they’re co waves’ That’s not hoorks here”
She gave a hard nod “Okay”
“Have any other vampires acted in a similar fashion?”
“One or two can be pretty forward, but usually only when they’re drunk They never take it too far, and they never get ugly Just a little pushy Dion is worse than most He seems determined to drink from every human on this island—why he thinks it’ll be a point of pride, I don’t know With Castor, he just seems to be one of those people who feels they should be able to have whatever they henever they want Or so I don’t know” She bit her lower lip “Thank you for stepping in I appreciate it”
I edged closer, leaving aze withthe air fairly crackle “Maybe I wasn’t doing it to be noble,” I said, pitching ”
The warmth in her eyes faded “Ah,” she said, and I knew she suspected I wanted to drink from her Oh, I did But I wouldn’t manipulate her that way Plus, I wanted her to want my teeth in her skin
“A kiss,” I said