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existence of vampires. I won’t
tell anyone your secret.”
    “No, the end is ‘I will keep your secrets.’ The wording is
such so that you aren’t just promising not to tell with your mouth, but not to
give away the secret in any way. Not in writing, not by playing twenty
questions until someone guesses, not by leaving hints.”
    She repeated it again, he said it correctly this time, and
she nodded and gave him what she hoped was a reassuring smile as she said,
“Very good. Abbott will stay in the room until you’ve said the words, and then
he’ll leave. If you don’t say it right, he’ll correct you and you can say it
again, repeating after him.”
    Kendra walked to the sofa and sat down. “Come sit with me,
please?” She wasn’t submitting to him just yet, but knew he didn’t like to be
told what to do.
    As he got up and walked to her, she realized why he was
doing this. “You’re in this for the experience, aren’t you? A life experience
few get to have?”
    He smiled. “Maybe a little. I’m still not completely
convinced, but I’m willing to see where this leads.”
    She grinned back at him. “Adrenaline junkie.”
    Still smiling, he used the same affectionate tone of voice
she’d just used to retort, “Bloodsucking vampire.”
    He was sitting beside her now, and she leaned forward to
kiss him, but changed her mind. She wanted him to kiss her, so she sat back up
and asked, “Kiss me?”
    He didn’t make her say please, and his eyes went dark as he
angled his face and lowered his lips to hers, the kiss more demanding than
sensual, though it didn’t lack passion. Dominating her, even for those few
seconds, took away the smell of fear and seemed to lift his mood.
    When he released her from the kiss, she zeroed in on his
neck, smelled and felt and heard his pulse, knew exactly where the sweetest spot
would be, and bit , suppressing a groan as her teeth sank into his skin
and she got her first taste of him — all sunshine and forest, with a hint
of evergreen, as if his pores had soaked in the forest and made him part of it.
    He jerked at the impact, but she quickly numbed her entry,
and then put the binding agent in as he said the words, “I will tell no one of
the existence of vampires or the supernatural. I will keep your secrets.”
    Two heartbeats after the final word left his mouth, she
injected the right combination to make it pleasurable, gave it a second to be
carried away from the bite, then added the orgasm cocktail, waited a few
heartbeats, and then, finally , she stopped sipping and drank him into
her.
    As he climaxed, she took on a little of his life force as
she felt their auras swirl together. They didn’t join, there wasn’t enough of a
connection, yet, but their energies still danced and twirled in a way that
doesn’t happen with a stranger.
    When she finally pulled back, she ran her tongue across the
bite marks to heal them, and then reached to hold him to her. However, instead,
he pulled her head to his chest, holding her instead of the way it usually
worked after a feeding. Yes, indeed , if they managed to make this work,
it would be different than anything she’d ever had before.
    Kendra heard Abbott returning and warned Eric, “Abbott’s on
his way back in.”
    “Why is he really here?”
    “Two reasons, the first is because the binding had to be
witnessed and will have to be tested, which he’ll do in a little bit. The
second is, well, consider Abbott kind of like a big brother figure in my life,
and you’re the new boyfriend he wants to meet.”
    Abbott was back by then, and added, “I also want to explain
a little bit about our society. If you’re going to be in and out of our coterie
house, there are things you need to know. First, let’s test the binding. Kendra
will step outside for a moment for this part.”
    Eric stood. “Hang on, I need to, ummm, I’ll be right back.”
     
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    He’d come in his fucking pants, without anyone touching his
cock.