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A vampire has my bloody talisht bow All day he’d stor any Lorean to question about Josephine Most took one look at his expression and fled Even the nymphs had retreated into the trees or the river

No one stole froh It simply didn’t happen

Yet the va her necklace, his bait--he’d interrogated the nyht have missed, then he’d used those clues to try to unearth her lair He’d been te abilities, but Rune didn’t want to explain his new target Besides, ti there and back would take several Earth days

Damn that leech!

He found hiain A day later, he remained astounded that she’d not only bitten him, but fed

A vampire consumed my befouled blood

He pierced the re to recreate a fraction of the pleasure--only to fail

He’d reacted like a ht he’d spoken to her in De

Part of hilad of his response Hardly that of a deadened uished! Rune had felt with Josephine Soered deep within hi

His reaction to her--and hers to him--made him ponder the most asinine and far-fetched possibility

What if she was his mate?

What were the odds he would meet a female whose scent put him to his knees--and who also happened to be iht

No, no, there’d be no o, he’d concluded his kind didn’t get a fated one, were cursed to be alone

He’d never eneration of his species His own solitary years had ceot a mate, Josephine the vampire wouldn’t be his He’d reacted so violently to her and her bite because she’d mesmerized him

Her scent enticed him more than anyone else’s si scent Other men on the street had responded with just as much heat