10/03/2026 04:40

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You've drained yourself for me. I was thinking the desk, I said. You should have explained it to them yourself, Bert. I broke first, because just watching him kneel there, head bowed, made me want to comfort him, and that would go badly.

I thought it would be sexy, you know, vampires, the clothes, the romance. You keep saying that, he said. The woman went up on tiptoe, and the man bent down so she could whisper. To me, anyway.