15/03/2026 07:46

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I reached out to him, half-afraid he'd move away. Richard turned back to stare at the bed and the rest of us. From a distance, you couldn't tell he was crying. Ronnie had had problems with me dating a vampire, Jean-Claude in particular, but her main objection seemed to be the vampire part.

I remember, I said. It was a metaphysical emergency. His hands had grabbed mounds of the sheet, and his body strained, and bucked against the bed. Oh, that just wouldn't be fair.