She might have been attracted to him without the ardeur, but since she didn't like, love, or even respect him, without that supernatural ability he didn't have a real chance of getting someone who claimed to be waiting for marriage into bed without it.

I can see you've never been in lust. You don't have to like somebody to want to get horizontal with them. Sometimes it's just as simple as hormones.


It's really jumping to conclusions to say that a character who would blackmail a woman into dating him, and was desperate to possess her power would use his supernatural abilities to make her lust after him.

I'm glad we agree on that, considering there's no proof he even has any power to "addict" anyone to him.

Your entire argument amounts to: He's an incubus, therefore he can make her want him, therefore he did make her want him.

It's been stated repeatedly that what happened (Anita getting his ardeur) has never happened before. So how exactly was he supposed to warn her about something he didn't even think was possible?


Let's just drop it, shall we? It's obvious nobody is going to change your mind, and your convoluted arguments certainly aren't going to change mine.