“She exhaled curtly. ‘I’m a serryn. That’s all you see. I’m just something to be tortured, slain or sold off as a commodity. That’s hardly the most appealing of traits.’ ‘Tell your eyes that. Because you really shouldn’t look at me the way you do. No serryn has looked at me like that.”

“I’m not punishing you.’ ‘No?’ ‘No. You’d know if I was. Trust me.”

“I’m more than twisted. I’m the worst kind of vampire… But you’re the one who’s craving me, so what does that make you?”

“What are you most scared of, Caitlin? What I can do to you, or how I make you feel?”

“You need me, Kane. Maybe even more than I need you.”

“You breathe too fast to be convincing,' he goaded.'You don't breathe enough to judge me.”

“I will not be threatened. Do you understand me?’ He leaned closer again, his lips less than a couple of inches from hers. ‘Now try saying it without trembling.”