QUOTE : Dante watched Tess eat the thick, caramel-laced brownie, feeling her pleasure radiate across the small space that separated them on the river-walk bench. She’d offered him a bite, and although his kind could not consume crude human food in anything more than a mouthful, he accepted a small taste of the sticky chocolate confection if only to share in Tess’s unabashed enjoyment. He swallowed the heavy, pretty much revolting bit of pasty sweetness with a tight smile.<br /><br />“Good, huh?” Tess licked her chocolate-coated fingers, slipping one after the other into her mouth and sucking them clean.<br /><br />“Delicious,” Dante said, watching her with his own brand of hunger.<br /><br />“You can have some more if you want it.”<br /><br />“No.” He drew back, shaking his head. “No, it’s all yours. Please. Enjoy it.