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What is this hold you have on me, Reagan?” “No hold. I’m a naked chick and you’re a creepy dude. Your reaction is pretty standard.”
Seriously, who actually called people anymore? Now I had to physically put the phone to my ear and listen to a voice message. The horror!
Bing, bang, boom, you finally get to see if the curtains match the drapes.”
“I meant, do I taste as good as I smell, you donkey.”
A soft spot on you is about as comforting as a brown spot on white carpet. I don’t know how it got there, I don’t know exactly what it is, but I’m expecting the worst.”
“For some reason I can’t identify, I feel an overwhelming need to protect you. The primal side of me views you as mine, solely. I cannot pinpoint when this need took hold, just that it continues to grow stronger. I crave you constantly. I dream of you when I haven’t dreamed in over five hundred years. I take blood from others, but nothing quenches my insufferable thirst. We are not tied through blood, and even if we were, the bond shouldn’t be this consuming. Yet I am powerless to absolve my desire for you. In addition—”
you are incredibly valuable to me. Your abilities and lineage ensure it. There has never been anything as precious to me as you, be it as my beloved or as a bartering chip. My primal side wishes to claim you, but worse, my logical side realizes I must do that as a man claims a woman, as a husband claims a wife, in order to sustain your happiness. It is absolutely unheard of, not to mention absurd, for an elder to feel this way, yet…”
“Questions such as those will likely insult her, and then she’ll assuredly hurt you in some way,”
“But by all means, waste our time. It will benefit me.”
“Yes. You firebombed a kitty.”
“That’s because men are dependent and can’t do anything on their own. You think you run the world, and then you get sick and everything stops while you mope and whine.
“You are genuine. You are a fighter. A survivor. You would not play nice to my face and then stab me in the back. You are much too honest.”
“It means we are up shit creek, and we better hope my mage friends brought an outboard motor, because paddles won’t be enough.”
Blind terror that I would be lost, and his soul would be lost with me.
“Reagan, for the second time in my life, and the first time as a vampire, I am falling in love. I didn’t think it could happen after I changed into…what I am. I have never heard that it could. But here I am. I was seeking a solution to undo this change in me, but after Seattle…I have gone too far. I no longer want the antidote. I want to lay claim on you. I want you to let me. And for the first time in my history, I want to feel what happens when love fully matures.” I
“In contrast, I probably will see humor in someone kicking your ass. But I promise to avenge you right after I stop laughing.”
