His reply made her blink and she flushed again, though she did chuckle softly at him.  He was right..  she did sound like a cell with bad connections, it was just..  a pretty seriously WEIGHTY subject to discuss, and she wasn't used to those kinds of conversations.<br/><br/>As he gave his rules to her she tipped her head, eying him patiently as she listened.  Guy friends?  She didn't know too many really.  She didn't have a lot of 'close" friends, a few maybe but ..  not many.  His rules weren't that bad..  actually his rules were those required of a normal relationship...  though she supposed "normal" to a several centuries and then some year old vampire came at a different cost...<br/><br/>"Rest assured..  If you ever smell another male on me in any but the ways you just mentioned..  which even then is..  pretty fucking unlikely, I wasn't a willing participant.  I just..  consented to stay and be with you, I don't cheat." She shrugged as if -that- should have been obvious, then gracefully began to cut up her food.