“Wait, are you serious?”
“Yes,” Snod replied, aiming for casual even as his pulse began to thump heavily with excitement.
“We’ll do it really fast, get the blood, and get out of here.”
“My panties are already dropping,” the vampire drawled, unimpressed. “Take me now.”
“We have no other choice,” Snod snapped. “We can try to keep waiting, in which case I’m going to
die in two more days without water. You may take longer to starve, but you will die eventually, too.”
Snod knew what he was proposing was rife with sin. Sex outside of marriage, sex with another man,
and sex with a vampire were all damnable offenses to God. He didn’t know which was worse, but he
was not going to die down here.
The vampire was very beautiful. The Order wouldn’t have to know about it. He could continue
serving them loyally just as he always had. But to serve, he had to be alive.
“Who says I even want to have sex with you?” the vampire huffed in disgust. “Maybe you’re not my
type.”
Snod scowled.
“You did try to kill me,” the vampire pointed out. “Not exactly putting me in the right kinda mood.”
“If we survive, I’ll tell the Order you’re already dead,” Snod bargained. “No other hunter will come
here.”
The vampire didn’t look convinced.
“If it doesn’t work, and we don’t survive... at least I wouldn’t have died without knowing what it’s
like,” Snod said quietly, allowing a rare moment of vulnerability to shine through. Knowing that what
he desired was a terrible sin, he had resigned himself to being a bachelor. But maybe, just this once,
he would finally be able to know the true intimacy of that most passionate embrace.
The vampire’s face was perfectly blank, but his eyes flickered softly in the darkness. “There’s some
things you should know if we’re going to do this. And I haven’t agreed yet, but I want to be honest.”
“What?”
“You know about the blood bond?”
Snod’s confused expression indicated that he didn’t.
“If we share blood, which we are going to, we’ll be connected,” the vampire continued patiently.
“You’ll be able to sense me, just like I’ll be able to sense you. It’ll be strong at first, but eventually it
will fade. It won’t go away completely, but you should be able to ignore it after a while.”
