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Maggie definitely had a reflection Vampires slept by day

Ha! She walked the streets by day

Vah; he knew daot down on his hands and knees, and looked under the bed

He couldn’t help it

Yet Maggie chose just then to e him redhanded He sensed her presence as she stood behind hihtened, letting the bed skirt fall, rising and taking a seat on the bed He stared back at her

Hard Then he shrugged Soet it in the open Ti for dirt," he said flatly

She stood very still, apparently realizing exactly what he was about She arched a brow regally, ly "Why not a coffin?"

"Do you have a coffin?" he asked, rising, folding his arms over his chest as he faced her

"No Do you?" He didn’t answer, he kept staring at her She exhaled slowly "We’ve slept together

You know damned well I don’t sleep in a coffin"

He nodded after alittle bits of intriguing historical trivia at me Here’s one for you There’s a curious reason our ancestors started using headstones in graveyards Do you knohat it is?"

"I’ to tell ht, wearing a soft white silk gown that emphasized the beauty and perfection of her body and the deep fire-red of her hair

"Well, in countries throughout Europe--and beyond, I’ the dead A heavy stone on the head could keep a corpse fro"

"I don’t have a headstone, Lieutenant," she assured him The tone of her voiceback down to the bed God, he was losing hiswoman And he was a cop! For the love of God, he was a cop He didn’t believe in the supernatural, in ghosts, zoobblins

Or vaown fluttered about the perfect forauze, coh, round and fire, and the dark shadow of the triangle between her thighs was hauntingly inviting She stroked his cheek, lifting his chin, and he met her eyes

"Do you think I’m a vampire?" she asked him

"No, don’t be absurd," he told her On the one hand, it was the truth On the other

Was it an awful lie?

With a soft whisper of silk, she moved away from him He was torn between the sway of her fir to hear her talk, to e at all was different about her

She took a seat in a high-back chair across the roohtly locked, but a blast fro her hair and the gauzy material around her She curled her feet beneath her and sat hugging her legs to her chest She see around her bed when they were in thea tenuous relationship

She exhaled "Sean, I warned you not to get involved with me" He couldn’t be ato her "You could warn me from here to eternity It wouldn’t ie"

"The truth is," she whispered, "that you barely knowI feel I’ve known you forever As if you’re a part of

You’re in my blood"

"Really?" she whispered

He reached down for her hand, drawing her up against hihtly to him Her flesh seemed on fire beneath the silk He rubbed his hands down her back, over her buttocks, pressing her tightly against his arousal, growing hard against the restriction of his pants She s the urgency of desire she awakened spiraling within hith of her throat She stood pliant in his arms He kissed her earlobe, the hollow of her collarbone He buried his face between her breasts, then took a nipple into hisuntil the rouge peak pebbled to a hard point and he heard the sharp intake of her breath Her body arched to his He dropped slowly to his knees, ue He slid a hand beneath the hes He pressed his thu her intih the silk while he rotated his thuers knotted into his shoulders She stiffened, arched, nearly raked the flesh fro breath, slu her up into his ar a damn, he carried her to the stairway He didn’t bother to shed his own clothing, but caony of desire, and made love to her there When it was over, he lifted her, and carried her back to her bed, stripped at last, and lay down beside her

S, she turned to hiht you were really angry withso recklessly foolish again, I swear I’ll take a paddle to you like a child"

She didn’t reply He rolled over then, straddling her

"Proht was sheer accident Things just happened"

"Like this Lucian fellow arriving"