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Teddy woke up to find Katricia curled up against him, her head nestled on his chest and eyes open as she drew invisible little figures on his stoer He didn&039;t kno she kneake, but a heartbeat after he opened his eyes she stopped skin-sketching and tilted her head to peer up at hi
"Hello," Teddy murmured and slid his arms around to catch her shoulders and pull her up for a kiss, but paused as he beca breathor afternoon or evening breath He wasn&039;t sure which, since he had no idea what time it was Whatever kind of breath it was it was bad, he decided with a grimace, and rather than use his hold on her to pull her up for a kiss, he used it to set her aside and quickly sat up and slid out of bed
"Did you bring my stuff over?" he asked, but spotted his suitcase on the floor beside the dresser even as he asked the question, and lanced over to see her sitting up, watching hih it, answering, "Looking for my toothbrush and toothpaste so I can clean my teeth and then kiss you"
Katricia chuckled and he heard the rustle of her standing up, and then her legs appeared beside hiht of thely
"You have legs like a young colt," heto slide up the sh Katricia shifted toward hi a little, and Teddy leaned forward to press a kiss to the soft, fair hair between her legs When she sighed, her fingers sliding into his hair, he started to urge her legs farther apart and angled his head to dip between theht hi away to continue his search Sheher there, but eventually he&039;d want to kiss her lips and she&039;dhad crawled into hisand died there
"I put it in the side pocket when I fetched it froe," Katricia said helpfully, bending to retrieve it for hiht in front of his face and Teddy couldn&039;t resist leaning forward to catch the nipple in his liding into his hair again, and Teddy turned, catching her ared her to squat before him so that she didn&039;t have to stay bent over The position left her on her toes with her bent knees on either side of his legs and Teddy couldn&039;t resist reaching to caress what she&039;d unavoidably opened to hiroan from Katricia When she teetered on her toes, he slid his other hand around to hold her by the behind and help her keep her balance as he caressed her, then let the first breast slip fro, "I can see I&039;etis your vacation before you have to return to Port Henry?" Katricia asked breathlessly as he claian to lave the other nipple The questionnow, he pulled back and uess"
Katricia blinked in confusion "What?"
A bit distressed at the realization that had just struck him, Teddy shook his head, took the toothbrush and toothpaste she&039;d retrieved and still clutched in hand, then got to his feet, urging her up with him
"I need to brush my teeth," he said distractedly and moved around her, only to pause uncertainly He had no idea where the bathrooaze slid around the room There were three doors in the room, one was a set of double doors, obviously the closet, but there were two other doors along one wall, one on either end One, no doubt, led to the rest of the house, but the other ht, relieved when it opened up into an en suite bathrooht switch, flipped it on, and then aze landed on the shower as he moved in front of the sink and he decided a shoas probably a good idea, too
Teddy opened the toothpaste, squirted so his teeth when Katricia followed him into the rooue and rinsed But when he turned off the tap and moved to the shower to turn on the taps, she asked, "Teddy? What do you o back as I a the taps until he had the te into the shower then, Teddy caught her hand and tugged her under the spray with hi, "It would be a little hard to explain my suddenly youthful appearance"
The realization was a rather distressing one to him He&039;d expected he&039;d have another year as police chief of Port Henry and then he&039;d retire to live out the rest of his days in the small tohere he&039;d been born, raised, and lived most of his life
"But why?" Katricia asked with true bewilderan to rub it between his hands to create lather "I ht the people in Port Henry knew about our kind?"
Her words ended on a gasp as he began to run his soapy hands over her body Teddy smiled faintly at how her nipples i became rapid and shallow at the simple touch This life-mate business was some pretty powerful mojo The worst lover in the world would be a star with this backing hiht Fortunately, he was nowhere near a bad lover At least he didn&039;t think he was He could be wrong, of course, Teddy acknowledged, finishing with her chest and letting his hands move down over her stomach before one slid around to her behind while the other slipped between her legs He didn&039;t dally there long Touching her was exciting both of them and he had no desire to pass out in the shower
"Teddy," she said, frarab the soap again "Don&039;t the people in Port Henry know? I thought they did"
Sighing, he quickly built up an to wash himself as he admitted, "Some people in Port Henry do know Soht, but as police chief I serve all of them I couldn&039;t keep this a secret"
They both fell silent then He was busy soaping himself up now and Katricia had picked up the sha, but he was thinking he didn&039;t have a damned clue what he was supposed to do now He&039;d been a cop most of his life and police chief of Port Henry for almost half his life It had been a nice steady paycheck and he&039;d socked h to carry theh several centuries or even aa reason to get up in the hts died abruptly as he realized he&039;d have to avoid getting up in thefrom now on Immortals avoided the sun, as a rulewell, except in the winter, when they were all bundled up against it, he thought as he poured some shampoo into his own hand to wash his hair and watched Katricia rinse hers
"But you love that job," Katricia said suddenly as she finished rinsing off andelse I love," Teddy said quietly as he switched places with her to rinse the soap from his own hair and body Then he closed his eyes and let the water rinse the soap away He wished it could as easily rinse away the sudden depression settling over hirateful as hell to be a life mate, to have a chance at all the joy and happiness Katricia and he could have together, but suddenly finding hi
Teddy heard the shower door open and close and knew Katricia had left the glass enclosure Sohts, without her in there Sighing, he turned and shut off the taps
"Youelse," Katricia said quietly, handing him a towel as he stepped out
Teddy took the towel, but then simply held it and watched her dry herself with her own "How&039;s that?"
"There&039;s a way you can still be police chief of Port Henry," she said, running the terry cloth briskly over her body, and then she bit her lip briefly before saying, "But to keep it, Teddy Brunswick ht have to have a heart attack and die on his Christmas vacation up north"
Teddy was so startled he dropped the towel he was holding Eyes wide, he asked, "What?"
"Teddy Brunsould have to die and you&039;d have to return with a different na to peer at hiestion, but then shook his head "I couldn&039;t just walk in and take over the job under a new na processes and paperwork and I don&039;t have any ID except my ohich says I&039;m sixty-four, and-"
"Lucian would see to it," she interrupted quietly, beginning to dry hi, Teddy You could be supplied with new ID and the appropriate background Then a littlethere and voila, you could be Teddy Argeneau, the new, young police chief of Port Henry"
"Teddy Argeneau, huh?" he asked with a it on the floor as he pulled her against him
"Or Teddy Sainst hi her arms around his shoulders "Whatever you want I just like Teddy because it&039;s how I think of you now, and I picked Argeneau because it&039;s eneau and Brunswick over the decades, or choose another naether I don&039;t care But you could keep the job you love"
"But won&039;t people recognize it&039;s me?" he asked quietly
"The ones who know about immortals will, and can be told the truth But the ones who don&039;t knoon&039;t recognize you People see what they expect to see, Teddy," she said solemnly "And they won&039;t expect to see Teddy Brunswick, forty years younger"
"H, and then bent to nuzzle the side of her neck "I could have you and the job I love, too, in the town I love Nice"
Katricia sht his hand and led hio of hilanced over her shoulder with a yelp of surprise at a sharp nip on her behind Her eyes widened incredulously when she saw Teddy straightening fro her butt cheek
"I&039;ve wanted to do that ever since first seeing you in those darin, one hand at her waist to hold her in place as he used his other hand to rub the spot soothingly
"Yoga pants," Katricia corrected with an arched eyebrow, but his biting her reminded her that he would still need a lot of blood, and she shifted and turned at the sa his hold to sit on her behind and slide to the edge of the bed "You probably need ris to prevent her froht now," he assured her, and pressed the proof of those hungers against her
Katricia wiggled against his hardness, but avoided histo catch him by surprise, she pushed hiot to brushto the cooler to retrieve a bag of blood Tossing it to him, Katricia then turned and skipped quickly into the bathroom
Her toothbrush was there beside the sink where she&039;d placed it the day she&039;d arrived, and she&039;d squirted toothpaste on it and begun to brush her teeth when Teddy suddenly appeared behind her in the bathroo of blood still in his hand
"I don&039;t kno toerwell, s?" he finished with a frown
A strand of dark hair had flopped onto his forehead and he looked so bewildered and heartbreakingly young that Katricia smiled around her toothbrush, butand then rinsed She then turned to face hi thes," she announced
"How&039;s that?" Teddy asked warily
"I could bite or cuttheestion