"You still want to court her and have me," Russ said. He wasn't sure how he felt about that either. They hadn't defined their relationship, if that's what it was. He knew about the slave boys too. Like Carrick knew about Noctis. He had never expected to feel like this about the vampire. Nor had he wanted anything exclusive. His courting Eterna probably had something to do with vampire politics locally that he wasn't aware of. He looked at Carrick's grey eyes. "We knew this would get complicated at some point. I just wasn't expecting it to happen so quickly. I don't want to give you up either."