We stared at each other as we laid side by side, my hand running absently over his chest as his fingers trailed over my side. The afterglow of that love making was intense and yet so satisfying. And it stood somewhere between sweet and rough. “What are you thinking?” he kissed my nose as he asked and I smiled. “How incredible that was. And how I’m glad that I waited in taking anyone’s blood while doing that.” Grayson pulled back and really looked at me. You could see the worry written in his eyes and I shook my head. “Grayson…” He pressed his fingers to my lips and shook his head as he cut me off. “What I have done, was nothing like this, at all. I have never felt anything so deep or longed for anything so badly, ju

