"You can love more than one person with equal degrees of intensity, Nat," he says as he rests his arms around his waist, comfortable with the closeness. Though he's listening to how Nathaniel sounds while he's talking, he's wondering if Asher didn't just roll him, and this is the aftereffect. He hasn't fed that particular vampire before, though he's heard of what his bite does.

He doesn't know if he'd call what he has for Anita love, yet. But he won't express that, not to anyone. "Hasn't someone made love to you before now?" The uncomfortable...innocence is all but tangible, discussing the softer side of intimacy.