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glowed a nasty dark red, and with a scary hiss she bit the crap out of Aphrodite’s wrist.
    Then Aphrodite’s
yikes
turned into a disturbingly sensual moan and her eyes closed as Stevie Rae’s mouth latched on to her, breaking the skin easily and causing the hot, pulsing blood to flow as my best friend greedily sucked and swallowed like a predator.
    Okay, yes. It was disturbing and nasty, but it was also weirdly erotic. I know it felt good—it had to. That’s how vampyres are made. Even being bit by a fledgling will cause the bitee (a human) and the biter (a fledgling) both to experience a very real jolt of intense sexual pleasure. It’s how we survive. The old myths about vamps ripping open throats and taking victims by force is pretty much bullpoop—well, unless someone pisses off a vamp pretty badly. And then, even though his or her throat is being ripped out, the bitee would probably like it.
    Anyway, we are what we are. And from observing what was going on with Stevie Rae and Aphrodite, it was clear that red vampyres definitely had the whole bring-your-human-pleasure phenomenon going. I mean, Aphrodite had even leaned suggestively into Darius, who wrapped an arm around her and bent to kiss her as Stevie Rae continued sucking on her wrist.
    The kiss between the warrior and Aphrodite had so much sizzle to it I swear I could almost see sparks flying. Darius held her carefully so that he didn’t cause Stevie Rae to wrench her wrist. Aphrodite wrapped her free arm around him and gave herself to him with anopenness that showed exactly how much she trusted him. I felt guilty watching, even though there was an undeniably sexy beauty to what was happening between them.
    â€œOkay. Awkward.”
    â€œSeriously. Could have gone my whole life without seeing that.”
    I’d looked away from Stevie Rae and company to see the Twins standing just inside the blanketed door. Erin was holding several packets of what were obviously bags of blood. Shaunee was holding a bottle of some kind of red wine and a glass, as in the typical kitchen variety that Mom pours the iced tea into.
    Duchess pushed past them and came wagging doggily into the room with Jack close behind him.
    â€œOhmigod, girl-on-girl action while the guy gets the benefits,” Jack said.
    â€œInteresting . . . to think some guys would really find that a turn-on.” Damien had come into the room behind Jack and was holding a paper bag and peering at Stevie Rae, Aphrodite, and Darius like he was watching a science experiment.
    Darius managed to break the kiss, pulling Aphrodite close to him and holding her tight against his chest. “Priestess, this will humiliate her,” he told me in a low, urgent voice. I didn’t bother to take time to wonder which
her
he was referring to, Aphrodite or Stevie Rae. Before he finished the sentence, I was already moving toward the Twins.
    â€œI’ll take that,” I said, grabbing a bag o’ blood from Erin. Totally diverting their attention from the scene on the bed, I used my teeth to tear open the packet like it was a bag of skittles, being sure I got a nice amount of blood on my mouth. “Hold the glass for me,” I told Shaunee. She did as I commanded, even though she was giving me an
eew
look. Paying her no attention, I poured most of the blood into the glass, making a point of licking my lips and catching the spattering of red that hung on them. Deliberately I upended the baggie and slurped out the remaining blood before I tossed the flattened pouch aside. Then I took the glass of blood from her. “Now the wine,” I said. The bottle had already been opened, so all Shaunee had to do was pullout the cork. I held up the glass. I’d filled it about three-fourths full with blood, so it took no time to add the wine and fill the cup. “Thanks,” I said briskly and turned, marching back to the bed.
    With a business-like movement I’d taken