Page 133 of Origins of Eternity

“I get it. She just got to be with you for three hundred years, so that’s a lot to take in.”

“Look at it like this,” Iro said. “Sheonlygot to be with me for three hundred years. You get to be with me forever.”

Arwen smiled at her, and Iro unlocked the phone and looked through it.

“She sent a list to people. It’s in her sent emails. Someone named Alexia. There’s a Sarah, Amy, and–”

“Those are the vampires who lived with her.”

“It’s a list of the vampires she has in certain positions. She made a fucking list of vampires she made. At least, some of them, anyway. There are over a hundred names here. Jesus! That’s a prime minister.”

Iro continued to scroll.

“Shedidsay she wanted to take over the world,” Arwen noted.

“We need to find out if she alerted them or something; to do whatever she wanted them to do.”

“And we will, but not right now. Now, you’re going to lie back, drink more, and try to heal your body.”

“Arwen, we can’t sit on this.”

“We won’t. I’ll just ask them to tell me what they know when they get here. They’ll all be here soon. I’ll talk to them. We’ll find out what these other people know.”

“Okay. I need to be there, though.”

“Nope. You need to be in here, sleeping, getting better.”

“Sweetheart, I–”

“Iro, I love you, but you need to heal.”

“Touch me.”

“What? Now? You’re thinking about sex right now?”

“No, not like that. I mean, yes, like that as well, but sex, just like blood, heals, Arwen.”

“Wait. It really does? You said it helps with cravings.”

“Yes. I don’t know why. I didn’t make the rules. Cassia never explained why, either. It just does.”

“So, your body will heal faster if I give you an orgasm?”

“I swear,” Iro replied.

Arwen slid a hand into Iro’s shorts and said, “You better not be lying to me, Iro Black.”

Iro smiled and said, “Never again. I’ll never lie to you again.”

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“Okay, we’ve got them in the car. I think it was good to wait until it was dark,” Zara said. “Now, we’ll take care of it from here.”

“Thank you,” Arwen said.

“I cleaned up the blood, too,” Sarah added. “You might just want to clean the floor better than I did later, though, or it’ll smell like blood for a long time.”

“We will,” Arwen replied.