9.
I woke up late and I found Pierce still asleep next to me on the bed. I thought he would have been at work by now but I was happy for the unexpected company.
‘I feel as weak as a worm,’ he murmured a little later. By a “little later” I mean after a session of morning s*x. If I was near him for more than half an hour, I began to need him and desire him until I cried. ‘Your friend basically drank me into a slumber.’
I kissed his shoulder. ‘Thank you,’ I murmured.
‘Pleasure. I did it gladly.’ He yawned. ‘My species has a concept of weakness and strength that is very Palaeolithic. But I am not ‘my entire species”. Being a meal for a vampire doesn’t make me feel a loser, especially as I gave him my blood voluntarily. I hope you feel better.’
‘I do,’ I confirmed. I kissed him again. ‘I f
