I hadn't actually known he'd been picked up for it, but I didn't give her that. I usually had trouble reading his face when he was in half-leopard form, but this face, this face I could read. Do they? Do they really, ma petite? There was an edge of humor, but it held darker things. The ardeur had risen to give me a way to feed, a way that didn't tear people's throats out, a way that didn't fill my mouth with fresh blood.
So if anyone is questioning someone's word, shouldn't it be me? I mean a vampire that goes against the express orders of his I screamed, but it wasn't fear this time, it was triumph. Requiem looked up at him, propped on his elbows by my head. I was sitting on my living room floor, not too far from the door, and Richard and Nathaniel were still trying to keep Damian on the floor.
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