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His eyes seared me and seemed to see intothe truth, his truth And I couldn’t iine how on earth I’d deserved such devotion It stole my breath and stoppedto hurt him, had hurt him too many times

"Jereainst his chest I could hear the slow puest speech I’d ever gotten fro out all the stops Because he wanted a co I couldn’t do it No as I telling hiht Valdez would just have to deal with the delay

I felt Jerry’s hand onme time to think Another unprecedented act Theto someone on how to proceed with our relationship Flo? Richard? The foret my friend to the altar and she’d sworn never to et tricks I had no doubt everything Jerry said came from his heart My oas full I was about to tell him how much this meant to me when there was a noise from the door into the restaurant

"What the hell?" Jerry jerked away from me and ran toward the sound He pulled open the door Valdez was there, snarling as he faced off with two paparazzi, armed with ca anotherI could do I ju the effects of Trina’s juice, because I ed to shift into bat form in midair Nice I swooped over the roof and landed in the shadows to watch Jerry handle the two ently In plain language he let the for someone and he didn’t knoho in the hell this St Clair woman was, but she wasn’t his wo a hole in the seat of one of the h they were sure that was Glory’s dog trying to eat theuys, after a quick look to ht, decided to head out Jerry’s shoe up their backsides sped the

"Glory?" Jerry turned around and spotted me as I left the shadows to soar above his head "Well, would you look at you? Shifting like an old pro That runner’s donation must have really pumped you up"

"Sure did, boss She tell you--" Valdez yelped when I landed on his head and dug in ain Back to uard post You knohere to find me"

I released him and settled on the concrete next to the table, concentrated for a ht Trina’s donation had givenhad been easier than I could have ih, and I could feel the co dawn in ain Silly, but I was terrified that I felt the weight creeping back on

I ran a hand through er in the waistband of my jeans Yay! They still felt just the teeniest bit loose But Jerry stood beside , but couldn’t take it with eo on until after the Grammy awards show That was the deal I’d ive me some time to think As Jerry had said, I’d avoided the co to him by omission

Well, I would tell him about MacDonald But not now Not when my heart was full and I wanted to hold him close and tell hiuy You really took care of those photographers" I looked up at him

"I hate those creeps They hound you Then they use pictures that I swear they’ve altered on a cos they say" Jerry pulled me into his arms "I should have killed both of the to the tabloids I’ bastards" He pushed his hand into my hair and held my head until my lips were mere inches from his own "But the worst for rowled, his fangs glinting in theto have a child froain I never had a child, and after I was turned, never could have one Jerry’s only child had been sired by a true bitch He loves his daughter, but he couldn’t have said anything that would have meant more to me I closed the distance between our s scrape across ue It didn’t hurt, just added a sweet taste of as to co was slow at first as Jerry pulled me down to a stack of cushions he’d obviously pulled frohed as he settled beside me and lifted ht air was cool but not cold and the stars were bright in the sky above us I reached for his sweater and slid it off of hier to see that chest I loved so much He was perfect in his iht about me At least that hat I hoped as he opened the clasp of my bra and tossed it aside, then went to work on my jeans

We tasted and touched each other until ere naked and he was inside ain