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Nathaniel isn't expecting you to fall on your knees and propose. I didn't know that was part of your official job description, he said. If Jean-Claude hadn't been so certain that it would work, I would have argued. He stopped me with a raised hand.

I could do it again. He's a stripper at Guilty Pleasures, I said. We have very carefully left him untouched while we sought to feed, so that you might feed on him yourself. He was like walking rage with a big muscular body to back it up.