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something important that I have to tend to in the morning, and it will be easier to just stay here with you. Do not move.”
    He got up and strolled off to the bar cart to get me something else to drink.
    Anything but cranberry juice.
    As far as I can tell, vampires don’t eat food, yet Marcus messes with everything that gets sent down here through the dumbwaiter, though he’s limited himself to drinks now, since he almost killed me with food poisoning a while back.
    Don’t move, he’d said. Where the hell would I go? I can’t even sit upright. Oh crap. I really needed to shower now, as his sperm was leaking out of me and dribbling down my thighs onto the couch.
    He came back carrying cheese, crackers, and another glass of cranberry juice, and then saw my predicament.
    “ Shower first, eating later. But drink this now.”
    After I had choked down that vile drink, he picked me up with the ease of an adult lifting a child, and set me down in the bathroom. I hoped that he would take the cuffs off, but he reached in and turned on the shower for me, instead. Damn it. That meant he was going to wash me.
    He shoved me into the water and rested his chin on the top of my head.
    I fucking hate that.
    He laughed. He was getting aroused again as he soaped up my body. I was fighting myself, fighting not to get an erection so soon or really, at all.
    What’s the good in getting clean, only to get dirty and ugly again right away?
    “ I told you, you looked beautiful. You always look beautiful.”
    I scowled at him and turned my face up to the stream of water. A strong hand wrapped around my throat, and I was pulled back against his body. My tied hands were trapped between us, and my fingers brushed his arousal. What was going on? He shouldn’t be aroused; this would be—five?
    “ I have never lied to you, Sex. Why do you think I would start now? The way your face flushes when desire hits you is absolutely stunning. I can see the blood vessels open in your face to turn it that beautiful shade of pink. I saw hints of it in that bar when I approached you. You were curious, aroused even, but too afraid to show it. I could scent your arousal, that excitement and fear, and the fact that you were a virgin to man sex. I am so glad that your first time was with me.”
    Marcus took my hair in his free hand and pulled it out straight under the running water. “I had hoped that it would be longer by now. There is nothing that can be done about it though. It will grow, I am just a little anxious to complete your new look.” Letting go of me, he then proceeded to wash my tresses with all the efficiency of a dog groomer.
    I almost fell over when he’d finished and started drying my hair a little too vigorously after we’d gotten out of the shower. I had no idea what my hair looked like now, compared to what it had looked like when I’d been snatched off the streets. There were no mirrors in this place, so I couldn’t see how different it appeared. I knew that it brushed my shoulders, which was a lot longer than I’d ever worn it before, so it probably looked like a rat’s nest most of the time. I had never worn it longer than ear length in my entire life; my mother would never have let me.
    Marcus came up behind me again and started to brush my damp locks. I was a bit shocked. This was not the vampire’s usual routine, which was like a certain movie made a few years back—he comes, he eats, he leaves. And he’s done that, over and over. But now he’s staying to braid my hair. I didn’t even think that it would be long enough to do that. Wait, now what is he doing?
    He was taking my ear into his mouth, sucking on my ear lobe. That sensation sent shivers down my spine. I turned my head away, and I instantly received his hand on my throat again, holding me still. His tongue came out and licked at the scar on my neck again.
    “ At least it does not look like it is new. As the years go by it will fade, and someday, it will be almost