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“Fuck,” I hissed She really didn’t get it “No, that’s not the reason—”

“Then tell me why I can’t be in your bedroom, when you’ve been in mine dozens of times—”

“Because I’ll feed from you!” I shouted

Her jaw dropped and the rooe between us only intensified

Damn it She was the reason I couldn’t feed, couldn’t think There was no use hiding froht in the face like this

Jocelyn tilted her head, took three measured steps into ers “So feed”

Yes Yes Yes

“You have no idea what you’re asking for” My cock did, though I was harder than the stone of the walls surrounding us “Go, Jocelyn”

“Feed,” she repeated “You let me when I wanted to” She drew her hair back and pulled it over one shoulder, locking her eyes with mine

“It is not the saround out, frozen in the middle of my chamber One step and I’d be on her—in her

“I think the terms are pretty equal” She took another step

“No You don’t understand I don’t want to feed from you” She winced, and I cursed

“Okay, you’ve htly on that last word and the sound crumbled as left of my control, my decency

In a flash, I had her against the wall oppositeher to the drywall, my hands braced on either side of her head “I don’t want to feed from you, little witch I need to feed fro difference”

Her breath caught, and where there should have been fear—would have been fear in any other feardless of species—there were only swirls of stars and answering need in her eyes

“You think I don’t want you,” I whispered, rollingthat assumption was

She sed a moan, and tilted her chin “I’ood at keeping your professional distance the last couple of days”