“Interest pales next to what I feel. It is need and desire, thirst and hunger… Not just for your body, despite its beauty, but all the things which make you—you. I demanded to mate you because while, yes, I did not want to see you suffer the touch of a stranger, in truth I could not bear to even imagine you in the arms of another. I demanded you because I long for you and need you. I have burned for days for only you.” “What is this between us?” she whispered back. “I do not know,” he replied, and she heard the honesty in his words, “but I cannot tolerate being separated from you. I need you,
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