“Please don’t.”
Gavin’s voice stilled Matthew’s hand as he reached for the light switch in the kitchen. “Oh. You’re still awake.”
Matthew’s deduction went ignored, and Matthew had to admit that as he wasn’t getting teased for making it in the first place, that was all right. It didn’t take a researcher working on a postdoctoral fellowship to come up with such a groundbreaking conclusion.
“It never really worked right, you know,” Gavin said. His voice was low and deep. Tired, probably, though whether from lack of sleep or from life in general was anybody’s guess. “I’m oversensitive to light. I think I might have said it already, but most vampires aren’t like this. Not to this degree. Sure, sunlight, direct sunlight, but not the rest of it. Did you know that candlelight is the only light
