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She wrinkled her nose "Could be Then again, maybe it was Pete" Could he actually be serious about this?

He grimaced "Maybe it was nobody at all"

"Well, let's just say he illing to tell me what lay in store for me," she answered flippantly

He pushed the hat back on his head and gazed up at her with troubled eyes "Eternal love isn't enough?"

His words were sobering Love? She stared down at him, unable to believe her ears and eyes

"Are you serious?" she finally aze was steady "Dead serious"

She chewed her lower lip and studied hi a little fast

"I don't know" She absently drew a circle in the sand A ht never marry, and yet it had crossed her mind a number of times since she met Bordeaux Not that she had consciously considered him as a mate, but he had awakened a domestic side of her that she barely knew existed It was fun cooking for hiood-looking man - and that spelled trouble Out here in the desert she had no co woman tempted him? Would he ditch her and run off with the other woers clutched at her heart

"I'm afraid," she blurted out

He sat up and frowned down at her "Afraid of what?"

She shrugged How could she tell hiood would it do, anyway? He could promise to love her forever, but hadn't her father said the saazed up into his solemn features

"Cassie, if I were the type of ht now?"

For the first tiht about the fact that he had no commitment to them at all, yet he had risked his life for them It would have been easier to run off and leave them He knew the desert Even now he could walk away

"We've taken you for granted, haven't we?"

He gazed at her, ignoring her question "Well," he finally spoke "Yes or no?"

She dug her fingers into the soft sand, avoiding his eyes What could she say? She didn't want to jue with ahim, either

"I didn't expectI need ti decision, you know"