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“What about if he just bled into a cup? No biting or saliva needed?”
Kase shook his head. “It doesn’t work like that. The saliva that is produced during feeding is part of what preserves the blood and allows me to use it. There’s a reason that vampires don’t just used bagged blood—that is essentially rotten to us. There is no way to feed without the bite, and there is no way to bite him without the reactions that come with it.”
An ache started inside me at how I’d never know, that because of whatever I was, because of however fucked-up I was, he’d never have that with me and neither would I.
Then I stilled as the picture shifted, adjusting to the reality we were in.
I bit my bottom lip as an entirely forbidden idea came to me. “What if I took care of you both?”
The heat in the room went up a few degrees, and a near-identical groan left them both.
“The saliva, the blood, it causes lust, but that doesn’t mean you two have to spend it on one another, right? What if you used me instead?”
Kase was the first to speak, and everything in his tone said he hated his answer. “It is still an unfair thing to ask of either of you.”
Troy let out an unhappy snarl before yanking his shirt over his head. “Let’s get this over with.”
“Why?” Kase gave Troy a hard look that screamed of stubbornness.
Nothing was happening until Troy answered.
He snorted softly before lowering himself on the foot of the bed. “Because we aren’t even at Lucifer’s Court yet, and the reality is that we need every last one of us at our best to keep Ava safe. If that means I open a vein for you, well, I’d do a lot worse for her benefit.”
Kase stared, as if looking for the truth of Troy’s words. I could see the fight in his eyes, the war between how badly he needed to feed and his worry about taking advantage of Troy.
Funny, given exactly how little Kase seemed to care about most things, had killed no shortage of people,thiswas his line.
And yet, it endeared me to him more than anything else could have. After what had happened to me, after how my foster father had abused me, the fact that Kase hadthatline mattered.
Finally, Kase nodded after letting out a long breath.
Suddenly, it became real. I sat on the bed with Kase and Troy, and I was about to have sex with the two of them.
My time in hell was starting to look up…
