Chapter 16: Bond
“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils” —Baltasar Gracian.
“True,” he says.
“Then what are we waiting for?”
He chuckles at my impatience. “You do realize that blood bond is almost like a familial bond, right?”
“Yeah, so?”
“It’s one thing if you drink from your parents. It’s another thing entirely if you drink from a stranger—”
“We are not strangers,” I add.
“—Aside from parents to child, vampires drink from each other because they are lovers.”
“Which we are not. But bonds between friends also exist.”
“Soulmates, you mean?” he inquires.
“Yes. Soulmates are individuals who ideally suited one another, and I am beginning to think of us as close friends now. That should be an enough reason to form a bond, right?”
Theo massages the back of
