Chapter 7: Waiting
Neil
There wasn’t a whole lot Neil—or vamps in general—could do to create a romantic atmosphere. Or maybe that was just Neil’s inexperience or lack of imagination, because in the past when he’d thought about romance, his ideas had centered around things like candlelight dinners. But now they didn’t have “dinner” in the same sense as when he’d been human, and candles that added a scent would not be appealing in a closed space—and “unscented” put off an odor vamps could detect, and it wasn’t particularly appealing. The scents even ruined bubble baths—not so bad yet for Neil, but bitingly strong for Albert.
He could pour their blood into wineglasses, but with the viscosity of blood causing it to cling to the sides of the glass, transferring it to a second vessel before d
