"In this case, no means no. Have you considered that I might be more interested in who you are rather than jumping between the sheets with you?"

Their current arrangement, the fact that they knew each other in the slightest at all was enough to know her too much to sleep with her. He had his rules.

"Consuming human blood is not unlike taking methamphetamines," he elaborates further. "Whatever it is that you are--" Devin pauses, considering how to word it, and taps out a pattern lightly against the table. "I hesitate to say that it felt more alive, but I have few examples to compare against for better vocabulary. The effect was subsequently more intense." He sounds chagrined about this. "Do you have any idea how you came to be this way?"