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vanilla?”
    “Honestly, because I still don’t believe it. I occasionally do straight missionary position with the guys, and I consider that about as vanilla as it gets.”
    “Not the way you do it,” Jason said.
    I looked at him and knew it wasn’t an entirely friendly look.
    He laughed. “Hey, it’s the truth.”
    “What would be straight vanilla missionary then?” I asked.
    He looked at the other men, and Envy and I got to see them exchange a series of looks that were suddenly very male, like some arcane handshake that we didn’t understand because we didn’t have penises.
    “What?” I asked.
    “Yes, what?” Envy asked.
    “Well, you can’t try to gnaw your way to freedom with bite marks and fingernails when the guy is on top, that’s definitely not vanilla,” Jason said.
    “I don’t mark you up all the time, not if you tell me you have to go on stage that night.”
    “You forget sometimes,” Nathaniel said.
    I sighed, felt my shoulders begin to slump. Domino hugged me. “It’s okay, we’re not complaining, but we’re all glad you like angles for intercourse that put you farther away from our skin, or I am. I don’t really like pain during sex.”
    “Is it a buzzkill?”
    “No, but I won’t put myself in a position where you can really sink your teeth in like Nathaniel will, that’s all.” He kissed my forehead and hugged me again. “Don’t make more of it than there is, Anita, it’s just differences in what people like. I love that you get so into the sex that you forget and give up your control like that, it’s sexy as hell. I love it even more that you forget just as much with me as you do with Nathaniel, or Jean-Claude, or Dev, or Nicky. I love that I can do things to you that you enjoy so much you lose yourself in the sex.”
    “That’s what Jade needs,” Envy said.
    The topic change was too abrupt for me. “I’m sorry, what?”
    “Envy,” Domino said.
    “No, Domino, we agreed to talk on Jade’s behalf, so let’s talk about it.”
    “Talk about what?” I asked.
    “Jade is your lover, your only female lover.”
    “I’m aware of that.” I tried not to hunch my shoulders or get embarrassed; I still wasn’t completely comfortable with having a woman in my life like a man. Yes, I had metaphysical powers that I didn’t have complete control over, and the power that had attracted Jade to me, and me to her, had been a great icebreaker, but it didn’t help me deal with the fact that I’d never been attracted to women before, or that when I was most into the sex with her, I kept forgetting I wasn’t male. I had centuries of memories in my head from Jean-Claude of the women and men he’d seduced, or who had seduced him, but I didn’t have the equipment to act on those memories.
    “She needs sex so good she forgets everything.”
    “She hasn’t complained to me,” I said, and tried not to sound as grumpy as I felt.
    “She wouldn’t, would she? She’s so happy to be free from the master vampire that tormented her for centuries that anything is a step up.”
    “He was an evil bastard to her.”
    “She’s happy, Anita. She loves being with you and she’s beginning to trust men again thanks to Domino, Nathaniel, and Jean-Claude, but she still prefers women, and you’re her only woman.”
    “I’ve offered that she should find another woman if she wants to.”
    “Neither Domino nor Jade has found other lovers. Of all the tigers that are bound to you, they’re two of the few that haven’t gone elsewhere.”
    “Is that like a black tiger clan culture thing?” I asked, and looked at Domino as I said it.
    “I don’t know. I was raised by the white tigers. Crispin and I were raised together, but he’s found other lovers,” Domino said. He’d been a foundling taken in by the white tigers, and had actually never been with another black tiger until Jade. We’d all believed the entire clan had been wiped out.
    “So why haven’t you?” I asked.
    “Jade and I