Rand and her troubling admission are abruptly forgotten for the moment - he has a wonderful ability to focus on the right now, drilled into him from years of training... though perhaps this wasn't exactly what his old medical school professors had been thinking of.

"I will endeavor," he murmurs against her skin as his teeth graze along her jaw, "Not to disappoint, then." He finds an earlobe and traps it between his teeth gently, sucking at the captured flesh.