"I will let the prince feed on me." Vienna's heart hammered in her chest. "You have said from the beginning that is what you wanted. He can have my neck tonight, right here, right now."
It had actually been a point of dispute between Damien and his mother for years that he refused to drink directly from a human. He only drank donated blood. Probably, the only reason his mother supported Damien's impending marriage to a human was that she wanted him to drink from her. She hoped that if her son was in a committed relationship with a human, he might be more likely to drink directly from her. Then, once Damien fully embraced and enjoyed the primal vampire experience, he might actually support his mother's quest to make Vienna's race nothing more than walking blood banks, slaves to their vampi
