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I touched his chin with my finger.His eyes popped open. He came up on his elbows."You're back," he said when he saw me. "I fell asleep." His brow crinkled in concern. "Are you okay? I was worried."I was going to tell him that I was okay. I was going to tell him that I was sorry. I was going to say thank you for having my back and thank you for the money. I was going to say a lot of things, but in the end I buried my face against his shoulder in shame."I left you, Paul. I can't believe I did that. I didn't protect you. I was so busy trying to get laid. I should have never left you."Paul put his arms around me. "It's okay." He hugged me. "Um ... get laid?"I looked up at him. "No, I didn't." Not exactly.He stroked my hair and looked at me for a long time. "Even if you had, it's just the blood. It's not you. I do get that."It was just the blood. He was right. This was only the succubae in me, but it wasn't me. I smiled. "You are just so cool. You do mean it? You're not just
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I moaned. My head was pounding, and I felt sick to my stomach. Another hellafied hangover. Wait a minute.I sat up and remembered what had happened. How long was it going to be like this? How long would I experience two seconds of amnesia thinking I was still human? I sighed and felt Paul snuggled up next to me."Paul." I shook him gently. He opened red-rimmed eyes at me. "My God! You look more like a Vampire than I do!"His eyes were hollowed, and his skin was ashen.I reached out to touch his face, and it was clammy to the touch. I leaped out of bed. This is my fault! I was killing Paul!He propped himself up on the pillows. "Calm down," he said. "I'm not dying. Mei Wah said that I lost too much blood." I stopped pacing long enough to give him a long look. "Newsflash. Blood loss causes death!"He smiled. "You're really worried about me. I'm not going to die. Mei Wah made me some soup that's supposed to enrich my blood quickly. He says it happens to us donors all the tim
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"Please, don't get up." I sat across from him.He placed the book he was reading on the side table. "Is everything okay?" he asked."I'm worried about Paul."Mei Wah nodded. "Oh. Yes. He lost much blood and he lost it quickly. But he will recover in short order. I made a special soup that will fortify his blood.""How close did he come to dying?""Close enough that I would not let him go home in case he got hurt and lost more blood. He has no reserve. Do not feed from him for one week."I sighed."Don't be hard on yourself, Miss Kim. Many newbies kill their first food. It's pretty obvious that you really care for Mr. Paul. He will be all right.""Tony freaking out that he stayed?""Tony left as soon as he awoke. He will not return for a couple of days. He said that you and Mr. Paul could make yourself comfortable here and that I was to take you anywhere you needed." I wondered how much of what Mei Wah had said was his own polite interpretation."What I need is to get to tho
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"He wakes before me," I said half to myself. "I've noticed that." "Well, he gave me permission to stay here, although I'm not going to." Paul grasped my hand and led me into the front room. "These rooms are a bit much for me." He sprawled out on the cushions, and I sat across from him.He watched me for a moment. "I think the fancy clothes are great, but you really look good in jeans and a T-shirt." I smiled shyly. "Thanks. You look ... equally good in a towel." He studied one of the cushions. It seemed we were both making an effort not to relive the night before."Amanda and I broke up," he said."Oh, Paul. I hope it's not because of me because I didn't want to disrupt your life.""No." He shook his head. "She came to my apartment last night and found your pajamas, and then she saw my bloody T-shirt. I never did clean that mess up off the floor, and there was blood all over the place apparently. It scared her, and she tried calling me on my cell and at work. The job said t
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He straightened up. "I've been thinking about this a lot. Tony told you that you can shield yourself, hide your glow after feeding and cloak yourself so that you can't be read. It's something they do intuitively. But I think it's something you should be able to teach yourself. Then maybe when you feed, you won't feel everything so strongly." He shrugged. "Not that I mind for myself, but since I have to share you, I've been thinking about self-meditation techniques that might help.""I think I understand. How would it work?""After I'd made my first million, I was under quite a bit of stress.""You're first million?" I said."Well, yeah." He at least had the nerve to look sheepish when he said it. "I started to meditate. I even spoke to a guru. He taught me that if you can make your mind blank, then you can build whatever ideas or concepts into it. You said that Tony told you that feeding wasn't about sex unless you chose it to be.""Yeah. But Alexis said that I had more succubae i
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Paul and I glanced at each other."He was a sadistic bastard," Monica said.Mara had tears in her eyes now, too. "He was unnecessarily cruel.""You mean that Vampires can take human donors and mistreat them and nobody's accountable for it?" I was shocked."No," Karen said. "If a Vampire mistreats a human, then that human is supposed to be able to report back to the territorial leader ... which was Johan. Since he was a Council member, we really had no recourse.""Damn," I said."That's another reason that it's important for you to take control," Karen said. "There are a number of things that are not right within his territory. So far, though,"—Karen smiled—"you've already killed two of them."Each of the ladies nodded. Tony made it seem so benign. I was outraged that humans were being mistreated by Vampires!"She's not angry with you," Paul said. "No, not at you," I said, being careful to calm my features. I must have gone all hissy- faced. "Look," I said, "I need to feed. No
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With an effort I pressed the tip of my tongue over the wounds in her neck until the blood stopped coming.I looked at Paul as I released her. He helped Monica to sit on the cushions. I had taken much more from her, and her eyes looked glazed. "How are you holding up?" he asked. "I think it's working. I feel a little ..." I couldn't describe it. Not horny but excited, but not anything like what usually happened. Of course I was cutting the feedings down to only a minute or two.Karen came to me anxiously. She took off her jacket and draped it carefully over the chaise. She swept her hair over her shoulder and closed her eyes.Because I was already feeling heated, I pictured the wall even before I touched her. In my mind Karen placed her hand on one side of the wall. I placed my hands on the other. We both pushed against it, but it wouldn't budge. I lowered my head and fed. Now it wasn't about satisfying my hunger. Now I fed to fill myself. I tried to picture the white wall once
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I liked it, The house had everything that I would normally love. There were gardens and a Rookwood floor in the solarium. It was a traditional home versus Tony's modern mansion, but it was way too big. There was like twenty-two rooms! Yeah, I should have been hoo-ha! But I still couldn't help feeling that there was no reason why this should all come to me. It didn't seem real. So when Monica told me my liquid assets were fifteen-point something, something million, she might as well have said, "You have a gazillion trillion dollars in the bank." It was too overwhelming to think about."Tony was here," she said after showing me the fifth guest bedroom. This time I did a better job of hiding my reaction. "Why?"She looked at me in confusion. "You two are an item, aren't you? I thought ... at the Council meeting he said you were under his protection."I looked at her. "It didn't mean anything more than that.""Oh. He was angry and took away the pills that Johan had been feeding us. P
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