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His jaent tight "What if I did?"

"What if you did?" I repeated playfully

"Would you hatemy head back "No Silly"

"Really?"

"Why would I? I knohat you are--I always have"

He scratched his head and looked down at his shoes, taking a sharp breath through his teeth "Then, I uh--I better tell you"

"Thisisn’t a dream, is it?"

"No" He shrunk into hiiant slap at the ready "You’re outside your body right now"

"I aain

"Yes You’reyou’re a wandering soul You don’t even have a face"

I touched ht"

"Really? ‘Cause I look pretty norhost?"

"Yeah" I looked back up at Jason, but his eyes kept flicking over aze like they normally did "But I feel normal"

"I know" He smiled at me "But I really wish you hadn’t ended up down here"

We both glanced slowly at the dead girl

"I’m really not that sensitive any, switching again to the light, carefree Jase I loved so much "Why do you always end up with me when you escape your body?"

"Didn’t know I did"

"Well" He looked down at his shoes, stuffing both hands in his pockets "You do"

I shrugged, but he wouldn’t have seen it as a shrug "Guess I just " He reached out and brushed his hand affectionately through ht next to the air vent on a heater "But you better get back, your colour’s fading, and I have a body to dispose of"

"Okay then" I nodded, peeling my eyes away from the thumb he aimed at his kill "I’ll come see you later I wanna talk more about this"

"You won’t re away

"I won’t?"

"Nope" He bent down and looped the dead girl’s arm over his neck "You never do"

What David and I had done in this bed with each other over the past feeeks had surely ruined Arthur’s turkey baster plan I’d held off as long as I could, but couldn’t exactly tell my husband I didn’t want to have sex with hinant and ruined his uncle’s and my plan to save hiht, all ofarms, that we hadn’t conceived I wished it didn’t h s to existence within ine the colour of her hair, or if she’d have his eyes or mine What kind of smile she’d have, whose teed to normal people--to people ere hu child was foretold to be powerful enough that one of the oldest immortals in the world wanted her dead before she could even say her first word

"Morning," David said sleepily, and allaway frohtly to look up at hi hih that it looked like a ditch in the ground covered by grown-in grass And under his thick, dark brows, pulled together slightly as he studiedin theeach inch of ertips just into the rihtyyou in led, pressing ht side of bed today, huh?"

"When I ith you snuggled into me like this" He squeezed me "I can’t possibly wake in a bad mood"

"Well, you’ve woken up late today" I patted his chest and pushed off it gently to sit, tucking s to one side "Breakfast is in tenas he grabbed his watch off the nightstand and checked it "Lucky I’ showered and dressed"

I copied his lively s and can just decide breakfast isn’t all that important today"