"Painful? No. You're still not just a walking blood bag to me."
It was the truth. It was more complicated than that, but when wasn't something complicated? He was silent for a moment as he tried to think about how to explain things to her. He didn't think he could put it in a way that would actually answer the questions she had, but he was pretty sure there was no way to truly quiet any questions she had.
"It's possible and even normal for us to feed without killing people, so even if I was sitting here craving your blood, that wouldn't mean that I'd murder you to get it."
He was trying to figure out a way to explain just how inexplicably tied sex and blood were now, but he needed to work his way into that a little more slowly.