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I cleared my throat. “The demon didn’t really seem to care what I wanted, though, so I still need to find a way to drive that point home. Like, literally. Through his forehead.”
Eddie started up his pacing again, running his hand through his hair. “You’re tainted.”
I blinked. “Umm, fuck you?”
He shook his head, the slightest smile on his face. “I meant in the demon’s eyes. I found a book last night before our...”
“Sexploits?” Jacek offered. “Is that the word you’re looking for, Smiley?”
Eddie glanced at me and I chuckled.
“Is this the same book you showed us last night, Eddie?” Sawyer asked.
He nodded. “I’ve been standing here thinking about what it means since my Sanskrit is a tad rusty and the passage was so vague, but I think I have it. There was another slayer who was being stalked by demons, but then it came out that she was associating with several different vampires. It was the associating part that wasn’t all that clear, but the demons left her alone after that.” He stopped and looked at me head-on. “I bit you, Sunshine. You’re marked by me, and you have my blood inside you. Whether or not that’s enough to drag you down to our level on the supernatural totem pole, I don’t know, but...”
I frowned down at my biology homework on the table, considering. “So...is that something the demon will sense or...? I mean your bite is so faint, not at all like a hickey, so even if I stripped to my underwear in the middle of the cemetery, would he be able to see that?” No question I would do whatever it took for the demon to take my big fat no back to hell with him.
“Or...choice three,” Eddie said, rubbing his chin.
“What happened to the second choice?” Yes, I was keeping strict count since this whole choosing thing was so new to me.
The three vamps shared a look.
Sawyer took his hand from my thigh, slowly and with great care. “Eddie’s book said this slayer was associating with several different vampires, though it could already be enough that you’ve...associated with Eddie.”
“So you and Jacek can’t just bite me?” I asked.
Eddie smirked. “There is no just. Biting another always involves sex or death as a precursor to vampirism. But since you can’t easily be changed into a vampire...”
“So basically, the third choice is”—Jacek leaned in and pressed his lips to my neck with a hint of fang grazing my skin—“let the associating continue.”
Chapter Eight
“Whatever you decide, that will be the right choice,” Sawyer said and stood. The other two followed him out of the kitchen.
So in other words, why choose just one vamp when I could have all three? Damn. Had I died and gone to horny slayer heaven?
