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Balthazar’s hand brushed against the side of her face, his thu the line of her cheekbone "Are you sure, Skye? I think you’re right, but--it’s not about what I think If you aren’t absolutely positive, you’ll coret this"

Skye nodded "I’m positive I mean, I’ll let them know that I’ tooto be one of their problems"

"I’m sorry," Balthazar said, and she could hear in his voice how deeply he meant it

"Me too," she confessed, but then she turned her thoughts to the matter at hand "So For et out of Darby Glen as soon as possible ThatWe can ride over to the Findleys’ place, pick up whatever you need there And I bet we can rounds there A lodge It’ll work in the short term"

Balthazar looked at her in surprise "You want the two of us to ride out of here?"

"Well, I’ Eb behind" That was all there was to it The vaht have taken her hoet her horse, too "There’s plenty of places we can go with two horses--you’ll have to be on Peppermint, of course We’ll be able to rent a trailer to take us where we need to go, eventually Out west, maybe Someplace with a lot of open sky, and nobody to be too nosy about us--and end up revealing where we are to people who shouldn’t know"

"It’s good thinking, but--" His voice trailed off, and she kneeighed on his hout all of this, he’d expected their relationship to have an expiration date; he’d wanted to get her someplace safe, but in Balthazar’s mind, "safe" h time she said so

"Listen to es of his coat, drawing theether Balthazar’s face was only inches from her own "Don’t start with et to be nor to have these powers I’ to have vaed into one of the of that now "If you walk away fro Do you understand? If you walk away from me, it’s because you want to If you stay with htly as she said the last: "I hope you need to"

Balthazar’s only ansas to pull her against hiest, deepest kiss they’d ever shared As she opened her et lost in the feel and the taste of hi in the world could ever touch theether

When their lips parted, Balthazar roughly whispered, "I need you I love you The only way I could ever have walked away froood--because of how much I loved you, not how little Do you understand that?"

Skye nodded She’d always known that, deep down "But you want this?" The path she was asking him to walk doasn’t any easier for him than it was for her: always on the run, always at risk, with predators from his past forever on their trail "It’s not much of a life"

"Don’t you see? It’s the first life I’ve had in four hundred years" Balthazar cupped her cheek in his hand "With you--in the only way that ain"