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"So long" Caitlyn couldn’t resist one last jab "Carlos"

He stopped and looked back at her A flash of heat flared in his amber eyes, and her skin prickled with excitement

"Catalina," he whispered Then he turned and walked away

Catalina The na her nauese, but she could have sworn he’d made it sound like an endearment

With shaky knees she sat on the bench She fu for a tissue, then wiped her dairls had touched her heart And Carlos - as he doing to her? If he came back and asked for a pint, she’d actually be tempted to bare her neck Did all vampires exude that sexy seductive charm?

But she’d seen other vampires on the basketball court It was only Carlos as affecting her like this She looked in his direction, but he and the girls had e rhododendron bush

"Carlos!" a female voice yelled "We need to talk"

Caitlyn eased to the other side of the oak tree There in the shadow she had a good view A young irls

In a low voice Carlos urged the girls to go on to the cafeteria "I’ll be there soon" He walked a few steps with theazebo

"Is it true?" the young wo on another trip?"

Carlos turned to face the young us approved it"

"Howardwoman continued iht away?"

"That’s true" Carlos’s gaze shifted toward the oak tree and his eyes narrowed

Could he see her? Caitlyn moved farther back into the shadows and slipped her white tissue back into her handbag Maybe va do you intend to be gone?" the young wo it takes A month, maybe more"

"You can’t leave for a month," the woman insisted "Your children need you You’re their hero, Carlos They know they would be dead if you hadn’t rescued theritted out between clenched teeth "They’ll be at school with you"

"Aye, and ’tis at school where they’re having proble hts with Phil’s boys"

"I’ll talk to hiirls?" Toni asked "They need you, Carlos"

"They need a asped He was looking for a aze shifted toward her, and his eyes glittered with a hard, angry look

"You - what?" Toni stepped back, apparently stunned

"You heard et married?" the Scotsman asked

"Don’t look so shocked, Ian Didn’t you want to get et ay"

Caitlyn snorted Were they crazy?

Carlos glared at her in the shadows, then shifted his gaze to Toni "I never said I was gay"

"Of course you’re gay," she insisted "I saw you dance the saed "So? You said I was very sexy You were practically drooling"

Ian stiffened "When was this?"

"Before I met you," Toni muttered, then turned back to Carlos "And what about Fernando? Whenever he ca and kiss"

"We kiss on the cheeks" Carlos waved a hand in dise in our culture If you choose to ay," Toni interrupted "He said he was"

"Yes, he is," Carlos said impatiently "But I am not"

"Bloody hell" Ian walked away a few steps "I knew it"

Toni gestured wildly with her hands "You let rumbled

"To purposely mislead et dressed How could you?"

Carlos shrugged "You never told ay!" Toni shouted "You - You pervert!"

Carlos frowned "There’s nothing perverse in enjoying the sight of a woman’s body"

"Oh really? Well, enjoy this!" Toni slapped hiarden

Carlos stumbled back Caitlyn winced

He rubbed his cheek "Menina - "

"Don’t menina ain

"Stop!" Ian pulled his wife back "That’s no’ the way to handle this"

"Thank you for understanding," Carlos murled my wife under false pretenses, ye bloody bastard" He punched Carlos in the face, knocking him flat "Now, that’s the way to handle it"

Caitlyn’shis cohty, but really, how could those people ever think he was gay? He could rabbed his wife’s hand and led her back to the cafeteria

Carlos sat up with a groan