"No." It's an easy answer. "Blood isn't the issue. It might be what Eric gets out of the arrangement but it isn't that big a deal for me."

Jay closes his eyes and lets the thought flow, letting Charles see what it is Jay's struggling with. It's not blood but intimacy - the pleasure of sex, the thrill of being with someone powerful, of someone being hungry for him; be it blood or contact.

Jay's painfully and starkly aware that Eric has no need for love or feelings but it doesn't change what Jay feels. And that is a deep and profound sense of loneliness. A void Eric's company in part slaves.