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People can perfect whatever façade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.”
“I enjoy challenges, but I don’t think it will be long until you’re in my bed.”
People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.
“Give me a break. Another reasonably good-looking dead guy would rev my engine, too, so don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back.”
My body is the only thing that’s truly mine, so I don’t give it away as though it’s worthless.”
“Surprised? Is it impossible to believe that I think a day will come where I’ll be held accountable for each life I’ve taken, every drop of blood I’ve spilled . . . and yet I continue to do whatever is necessary to keep my people safe?”
“This house has dozens of vampires. Vlad could have summoned any one of us to give you blood. He gave you his blood instead. That makes you his more than if he’d branded his name onto you.”
I was getting drunk. Rip-roaring, stinking, worshipping-at-the-porcelain-altar drunk.
“This is our true tie,” he whispered, his breath falling hotly onto my lips. “You’re meant for me, and I will have you.” Then his mouth lowered in a hard, claiming kiss. A groan parted my lips and his tongue snaked between them to stroke mine with sensual dominance. He tasted like sin made into wine: dark, heady, and impossible to resist.
“Beautiful and diabolical. You make me impatient indeed to claim you.”
I can give you honesty, monogamy, and more passion than you can stand, but not love. That emotion died in me long ago, as I suspect you already know.”
“I was worried that you’d turn into one of those obsessed, emo movie vampires, and that would be embarrassing for both of us.”
“Don’t. This blood you can only shed once, and you gifted it to me. That makes it worth more than these sheets, this bed, and most anything else in my house.”
Family is always irreplaceable, even when they’re also irreconcilable.”
“We are all more than the sum of our sins,” he said in an even voice. “You know that better than most people, Leila.”
“So was Van Helsing, yet in every movie, he beat the vampire in the end. Never underestimate the power of humanity.”
