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groused.
    Dominic didn’t reply. Instead he turned and hurried out of the room, nodding at Efraim as he passed. The two guards shut the door behind him, yet Patrick could still hear his footsteps moving down the tiled corridor. He listened until they faded beyond reach of his hearing, which was so much more powerful than it used to be.
    He blinked and let out a slow breath, as the aching need in his body slowly subsided. His crotch was a heated juncture and his cock was throbbing in a way he remembered from when he was an adolescent. This was different, though. He would have to think about this, when he was alone.
    He looked up and around the room and realized that while the two guards were looking steadily into the middle of nowhere, Kate, Roman and Garrett were all looking at him expectantly.
    Patrick swallowed again. The silence stretched on. So he cleared his throat. “I gave myself away, didn’t I? Even to Kate.”
    Kate shook her head. “I can’t sense things the way these two can, but I know how to read Roman and Garrett. You have their full attention at the moment. That tells me that something is going on with you.”
    Roman had been bending over the sofa with his head close to Kate’s. Now he stood up and stretched, making it look very casual.
    Garrett gave Patrick a warm smile. “You can’t hide anything from us. That’s just the way it is.”
    Patrick licked his lips, feeling awkward. “I’m not trying to hide it,” he said. “Especially not from you. The truth is, I’m not even sure what it is that I should hide. What happened then?”
    “You met a human who aroused you,” Garrett said.
    Roman snorted. “He’s being polite. Something about Dominic’s human trail appeals to your vampire senses. It made you want to fuck him.”
    The crudeness jolted Patrick. At the same time confusion swamped his thoughts.
    “That’s Roman for you,” Kate said, with a small sigh. “Subtle as a sledgehammer.”
    “I… I don’t…” Patrick trailed off helplessly, not entirely sure what it was that he was trying to say, or not say. He had started to deny something, yet there was a raw truth in Roman’s words that he couldn’t refute, especially to these three. Denial would be hypocritical. So he stopped, cleared his throat again and fell silent.
    “Are you about to say that you don’t bed men?” Garrett asked.
    “Remember what I said about reassessing all your old human standards and values?” Roman said. “I wasn’t just talking about justice, honesty and all that good stuff. I meant everything.”
    Patrick nodded. He had absorbed this interesting facet of becoming a vampire quite early on. In fact, he had used his fame and the influence that it wielded, to bring him to this point where he could be made a vampire himself, just so he could grasp the altered values becoming a vampire would give him. Altered values, altered consciousness, altered needs. Becoming a vampire offered him hope, when every human intervention had failed.
    And because these three had been instrumental in giving him that hope, he tamped down his irritation at their assumptions. Instead he kept a mild expression on his face and answered evenly. “I’ve had sex with men before,” he said. “This is Hollywood. There were directors… And getting the parts I wanted didn’t always come easily for me.”
    Kate gave a heavy sigh. She out of everyone in the room would understand this better than most.
    Patrick shrugged, just a little. “I was trying to say, I think, that especially now, I don’t do relationships.”
    There was a small silence as they absorbed that.
    Then Kate smiled reassuringly. “I wouldn’t worry about it too much,” she told him. “Dominic gives off that air that he’s not interested in a relationship with anyone, either. He’s one of those loners who wander the world all by themselves.”
    Patrick thought Kate’s simple observation came far closer to explaining Dominic’s nature than anyone else had