Page 99 of Imprisoned with the Vampire King

He cut me off. "Will never happen."

"Well, at least you have your venom to help you start things between us. That's a nice biological advantage."

"That biological advantage hasn't exactly been pulling its weight," he pointed out.

"My survival instincts have been outweighing your biological advantage."

"Your life isn't in danger if you fuck me."

"My sanity is, though."

He made a noncommittal sound.

"So, what's the craziest place you've had sex?" I asked him.

"A hotel room."

"Seriously? A hotel room?" I sipped my drink again. The straw made an obnoxious noise as I reached the bottom of Mimosa #2, already pleasantly buzzed. "You need a sexual education."

"Are you volunteering?"

"Of course not. I'll drop you off at a sex club. I develop feelings too easily to go back there."

"That's why you stopped? You started developing feelings for the people you were with?"

"Don't growl at me about it."

I straightened, leaning back against the bench a little.

Dante's arm draped over my shoulders, and I was tipsy enough to snuggle closer rather than lean away.

"Who did you develop feelings for?" he asked.

"They weren't feelings for anyone. They were feelings about the situation, and things I was missing. Physical touch. Connection with people. Snuggling. I wanted more, every time I was with someone. It was too hard on my mind to only get them casually."

"You want those things?"

"Of course I do. I'm a person, even if I'm a walking dark cloud."

"Some of us like dark clouds."

"You just want me to agree to educate you sexually."

"Well, I wouldn't turn that down."

Our food finally came out, and our conversation ended while we ate.

I pounded pancakes until I felt sick.

Dante finished before I did, his arm still draped over my shoulders.

I liked it. The warmth was nice. The weight of it was, too.

Having him pressed against me the way he was made me feel things I usually tried to avoid. Good things.

"I'm still waiting for a list," Dante said, when I finally set my fork down and leaned against him a little more.

"You're going to be waiting a damn long time."