Page 83 of Origins of Eternity

“It feels good. It’s a rush, like a drug, only it’s not that dangerous.”

“Not dangerous? We could kill you.”

“Why would you do that when I’m here willingly, giving you anything you want?” She then looked Zara up and down and added, “You are a beautiful woman.”

Zara only then remembered that she was naked.

“Thank you. So are you.”

“Would you like a taste?”

The woman held out her wrist for her, and Zara thought about what Cassia had told her about Iro: how she only drank animal blood and not from humans, even when there was no risk of hurting them. Then, Zara thought about the fact that she hadn’t eaten yet and she was about to go see Arwen, who smelledso amazing to her that she’d nearly bitten her in the kitchen of their office. Instead, she’d stolen the bloody paper towel, put it in a plastic bag, and taken it with her.

“Yes,” she replied, putting her worries about unintentionally hurting Arwen over her jealousy about Iro.

The woman took a few more steps toward her, and Zara took her wrist.

“You’re sure?”

“Yes,” the woman said. “Please.” She closed her eyes. “And you can touch me, if you want. I’m gay. I know the one you turned isn’t, but Cassia mentioned that you might want to touch me.”

“She said that? When?”

“A few days ago.” The woman opened her eyes to look at her. “She mentioned that we should offer ourselves to you whenever you ask because you’re important to her.”

“But you want this, right?”

“Yes.” She giggled. “Please, taste me. Then, take me. I want all of this. I want to be like you. I know I need to earn my place, but I also want it, Zara.”

Zara realized then that this woman knew her name, butshedidn’t know hers. She thought about asking for a second, but shewashungry, so she bit down into the woman’s wrist instead and heard her moan. Zara growled against her skin.

“Yes, like that. That feels…”

Zara grunted and bit down harder.

“Fuck!”

Worried that she was hurting her, Zara stopped to check.

“No, don’t stop,” the woman said.

Zara lowered her mouth back down but didn’t bite as hard this time, and her eyes landed on the woman’s body as her hand moved over her breasts and under her shirt to cup one and then the other breast. This human was getting turned on by this.

“Well, I appear to be interrupting something.”

Zara stopped.

“No, don’t. Continue,” Cassia encouraged.

Zara took her in and noticed that Cassia was wearing a strap-on.

“I wore this for you,” Cassia said. “Would you like it?”

“Yes,” she replied as she swallowed hot blood. “Yes.”

“Good. Take care of her first. She seems to need you. I’ll be waiting.” Cassia sat on the sofa. “And watching.”

The woman put her wrist back into Zara’s mouth, and Zara sucked while she kept her eyes on Cassia, who seemed to be very happy with this development. Seconds later, Zara moved swiftly and pinned the woman against the wall, dropping the wrist and sinking her teeth into the neck. The woman then took Zara’s hand and shoved it into her pants without a question, pushing her pants down as far as she could get them right after.