The horror on Roran’s face almost did me in. I came within seconds of crumbling to the ground, defeated.
But, instead, his hand came up and curled around the back of my neck as his other hand raised my chin. “He attacked you? Attacked your throat.” He ran his fingers carefully over the skin.”
Words left me, so I just nodded.
“It’s healed well…”
Choking, I forced the words out. “Aiko…”
His gaze speared mine. “Healed you?”
“Gave me his blood, and that healed me.”
Big, fat, terrified tears ran down my cheeks.
Roran’s fingers felt amazing on my throat, tracing lines only he could imagine. “Savion tore your throat out, and awakened… the vampire part of you? Then left you for dead?”
My nod was terse.
“And Aiko saved you with his blood.”
Another nod.
“Now, you need blood, because you’re half vampire.”
I collapsed in a heap at his feet.
“Kimber!” Roran swept down and lifted me off the ground, and carefully put both of us on the bed that was on the other side of the room.
Words I couldn’t hold back managed to force their way out. “I’m an abomination. I shouldn’t exist.”
Roran pulled me close and settled me on his lap as he leaned against the headboard. “You’re an impossibility, not an abomination,ilati. Aiko has taken care of your need for blood?”
I leaned against his chest and nodded. “Yes. And I his. We tried to bring blood for him, but the ocean had other ideas.”
“Is his the only blood you can have?”
“We don’t know. It seemed safer to assume that.”
Roran nodded. “I agree. For now.”
It was quiet, the silence filled only with the snapping of the logs in the fireplace. I had a few sobs wrack me, but he just held me to him and let my hysterics pass.
I hiccupped and smeared the tears away.
“Better?” He smiled at me.
“A little. Are you…” I didn’t know what I was going to ask him. I let the words trail away.
“Surprised? Yes. Upset? Absolutely. Disgusted?” He shook his head slowly. “No. You remember that I had a vampire lover for a while, don’t you?”
I blinked. He had told me that. It seemed like years ago, but it was only just three weeks before.
The smile stretched my skin after the tears. “You did. Yes.”
I froze again, though. With that confession was the knowledge that he knew the pleasure a vampire’s bite could bring. “Roran…”
“There is nothing to be done about the sexual aspect of the bite, Kimber. Did you fuck him?”
