I could have gotten them to twenty grand. Don't you start, I said, and I heard the anger in my voice before I could stop it. Not like pale with contrast, but pale like I was ready to grab her elbow in case she started to faint on the body. I sat up and was reminded that I had no underwear on.
He'd fed on the woman, fed at her neck, then had sex with Nellie. Yeah, I said. I'd felt it as power before, more metaphor than physical, but this was very, very physical. I knew you would feed from me, but I didn't know you would bring me.
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