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"Of course you are--"

"Then let me be one" He switched off the phone before Thierry could reply, and set it down beside the laptop, and stared at it "Forgive me I did not mean to wake you"

"I was a little cold" Chris picked up theit, he’ll find a way to track down the signal" She removed the back to extract the battery and the SIM card "We keep a supply of set one for you to use while you’re here"

She said nothing about the conversation she’d obviously overheard "You are not going to tell Lucan?"

She iven phones out to lately, I’ll have to say you’ve got one"

"About my father," he persisted

"I think you should tell Lucan about it" She sat down beside him "From what I overheard it sounds like you could use so and sarcastic and kind of scary so superiority and cold-blooded heartless killer thing he does, he’s just a guy trying to get by He’ll understand"

Ja suspected the saet so "Are you planning to go down to Mia?"

"Yes" He opened Gifford’s Web site and tapped the screen where the lecture information was listed "This"

Chris read it, and then eyed his notes again "You ran away from home to attend a lecture on piracy? Couldn’t you have just taken a class at the local coe?"

He pulled up the account from Father Bartley’s journals "I want to know e, and then sat back "Well, no one knohat happened to Hollander and the Golden Horde, not even Mel Fisher" Her lips forers "Oh,after the Emeralds of Eternity No Really?"

"Yes" He was surprised that she knew about the lost jewels "You have read the high lord’s summons"

"I, ah, heard about it" She juan to close "I thought the curtains closing by themselves would be cool, but they’re actually a little creepy" She regarded hih lord will give you rule of Ireland, right?" When he nodded, she smiled "I could help you with that"

Jaion far better than he Accepting her offer would also allow theether, and he wanted that more than the jewels But while he wanted to have her with him, he had to consider first her position in the household "I cannot take you froations here"

"You heard Lucan He said for me to look after you while you’re here," she reminded him "That makes youmore than a task to be attended to, and yet he detected a subtle alteration of her scent that indicated secrecy She was not lying, but she was not telling hi back, not when he was doing the same He suspected that, like him, she did not trust easily

It did not matter to him He would take her however he could have her "Then ill search for the eether"

Lucan slipped away from his blissfully exhausted Sa rooht of herself as his equal, his beloved was still in her infancy as an iht hours abed Lucan himself seldom required more than three or four hours of rest, and had discovered he could make do with as little as an hour

He dressed in silence as he thought on the night’s events While he loved her ratherin existence, Lucan never took for granted Samantha’s own devotion He could not; she was the only soul in all the world who had ever loved hiht alone for more than seven hundred years Indeed, she had coly tedious, and brought to hiined hi