The smile Matthias returned was still full of teeth and yet, monstrous though he appeared, there was something genuinely warm in his nearly black eyes and that too sharp smile. Under the heat of desire, under the animalistic need to claim and devour, under all the greed, there was something soft, barely visible.

“I’ll take it all.”

A warning? A threat? Even Matthias wasn’t sure.

“Everything you have, I want it.”