13/03/2026 01:23

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I'll try to find out how long this no-blood-oath policy has been in effect, I said. It reminded me of another man in my life, who'd left me with a laugh this morning. I shook my head. You never told me about feeling crowded before, I said.

We don't work as each other's one and only. I'm sorry, you just smelled so good. How? He looked at me, and the pain was still raw. I realized in that moment that he had been paler in life than any vampire I'd ever seen nude, and his body was almost ghostlike in its coloring, as if somehow he wouldn't be real.