Page 57 of Love Bites

And my fucking fangs kept descending for no reason. Now that I’d been fully sated for the first time since I was a teenager, going a week without feeding felt like my stomach was trying to climb its way out of my throat. I usually only drank two blood bags twice a week. I just had to suffer through the initial pain to readjust to that.

Clem looked surprised by the question, but she was the friendliest of the bunch, so I knew she’d answer. “Usually like once a week to stay strong. We feel our best if we feed twice a week, though.”

I looked at her sisters, and a few of them nodded in agreement.

I’d thought I felt lust coming off Blair for a few days, but wasn’t sure if it was just because of how badly I wanted her. No one had reported feeling affected by it.

Maybe because she was keeping to herself…

I met her gaze, where she was sitting next to me. “You’re hungry.”

“Am I?”

I narrowed my eyes at her.

She lifted an eyebrow at me. “I’m not eating if you’re not.”

I growled at her, and she yawned. “Wow, I’m getting tired. About ready to call it a night.”

“It’s seven PM.”

“Late,” she agreed.

“Bullshit.”

“Okay,” she said sweetly, standing up and tucking a long, loose strand of soft, golden hair behind her ear.

My gaze tracked the motion predatorily, and by the time I snapped myself out of it, she was striding across the room.

I stood abruptly, but one of her sisters hooked a foot in the leg of my chair and yanked it back. It caught me off guard, and I sat down.

“We need to talk, asshole,” Zora said flatly.

I looked over my shoulder, trying to catch another glimpse of my female, but she was gone.

“The situation between you two is fucked up,” Zora said, and I finally looked at her. “Fix it.”

“What do you mean, fix it?” I asked.

“She’s going to starve herself as long as you refuse to drink enough of her blood. She’s been going through with the injections. They make her hungry, and she’s fighting it hard,” Clementine explained. “You don’t want to try to out-stubborn Blair, believe me. If you think her walking down a hallway naked is bad, you have no idea what you’re in for.”

My nostrils flared at the reminder. “Drinking from her is a risk to her life.”

“You’d been bleeding for an entire day the last time you tried it, and you didn’t kill her then,” Izzy said drily. “How much more could you take from her?”

My jaw set. “I’ll negotiate with her. Feeding twice a week would be enough to keep me functioning.”

Functioning better than I was at the moment, at least.

“You can try, but Blair doesn’t negotiate if she knows she’s right,” Clementine said with a shrug.

“She’snotright.”

“Your doctor disagrees. It’s hard to argue with the scientific data,” Izzy said.

My nostrils flared. “I’m trying to protect her. And the rest of you, for that matter.”

“Getting our sister’s mate killed is a shitty way to protect any of us. Especially her,” Zora said. “We were against her plan at first too, but when you talk to your doctor, it becomes pretty obvious that she’s right. Pull your head out of your ass and fix it.”

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