It was so easy to take advantage of your feelings for me. It's for the best. Perhaps you would explain why you have this idea. It is like happiness, but it aches.
She went and knelt by Madeleine's chair and said, How are you bearing up? Elizabeth and Dr Neville were in the doorway, talking to Newland. She glanced up at him. She let the tension fade from her shoulders, tried to accept the glittering clarity of her senses. Then her throat turned hot under the pressure of his lips and she felt the stab of his fangs, a paralysing wire of pain from her shoulder to her head.
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