It was a much better yes on all levels, in part because she owned it in a way she had not the last one. Eric's lips ticked up into another slight, there and gone as he leaned in to kiss her, hand still on her jaw, thumb still on her throat, resting over her trachea without putting any pressure there. He kissed like he wantedto devour her, though, and he did, in every way possible.

He leaned back after a while, enough to look her in the eye again, his hand still in the same place. "Does that answer your question?"