You fed off of Requiem about how long before we fed? I thought about it, tried to do the math in my head, and it was harder than normal, because that little flutter of panic was so loud. It was as if we could have we would have climbed into each other's skins, wrapped ourselves through each other, closer than skin or flesh could survive. There'd been enough dead females to account for Nadine and Nellie, the pair that had seduced Avery Seabrook. The taste of our own blood in our mouths, bitter.
As if he knew what I'd seen. He still had his hat on, as if his round face would have been incomplete without it. I felt that flare of warmth spill out from him to the bigger man. I've said enough, he said.
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