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"So around here without Darien’s per Carol or Lelandi, or both That’s who everyone should be ave Carol a worried look

Trying to appear unconcerned, Carol shrugged "The bachelors are all going to be uards, and Lelandi will also be well protected Nothing to worry about"

"Ryan will be your bodyguard, too?" Silva asked, hopeful

Carol attempted a nonchalant tone for her response, but it ca hoave hiuard her Be nice while you question her If you’re not… well, Sam will take care of you Believe me, you don’t want that" She whipped around and headed to the bar to get their drinks

Carol loved having Silva as a friend "Ask your questions so you can return ho their drinks "Don’t you want to wait for your drink first, Carol?"

"Why? Think it’ll make me tell the truth?"

Ryan cast an elusive smile at her

"It won’t"

His set me drunk so that I’ll tell the truth" She paused "I mean…" she said, totally exasperated with herself, "I’ but the truth, no matter what How do you suspect I learned about Larissa’syou consciously have tried to hide anything Just that--"

"Well, hell, that’s nice to know" She didn’t try to hide her annoyance Heher as if she had so to hide "The truth is that you don’t believe in parapsychology Right?" She lifted her chin a hair

Ryan had to keep a stern face on that one He didn’t think he’d get anywhere with Carol if he sht she didn’t have any abilities He just didn’t believe in anything that couldn’t be proven 100 percent What she claimed to be able to do wouldn’t hold up under any kind of scrutiny and couldn’t be used in a court of law

"Just the facts, ht" She sat up straighter, and he loved her backbone "Did you know that I was a prisoner of Darien’s household before the battle between the reds and grays occurred?"

Not having known, Ryan frowned and pondered that "Before you were turned?" He druers on the table, then quit "Of course They feared for your safety because you’d discovered so about the murderer They were afraid whoever it ould be sure to silence you also"

Looking like she was fighting to keep fro her irritation, Carol clenched her teeth Then she leaned forward and speared him with a hard look But nohow attractive she was, her blue eyes heated and narrowed, her face lightly flushed

"You’re right, of course The reason also was that if Lelandi was injured, I’d be her personal nurse But the biggest reason?" she asked

"Enlighten me"

Silva joined them with a tray of beers and one strawberry daiquiri She leaned over the table and then deposited Carol’s red frothy drink and his beer

"Before she was changed, but way before she actually saw our kind frolicking in the woods, she had a premonition of it"

Ryan hadn’t expected Silva to offer the explanation, and he really wished she’d butt out, but he nodded The so-called premonition was certainly easy to explain away "She could have seen it happen, but not as a premonition"

Silva smiled "Tell hih she didn’t think he would believe her, and he wasn’t sure she was going to bother explaining She took a strawberry frolossy lips around it, and then sucked for ahe’d seen in a long daain

Then she took a bite, chewed, and sed "I sawin the woods near Darien’s place They stripped out of their clothes, and in a blink of an eye, they olves"

His gaze shifted to her dipping the strawberry back in her drink, and then he watched as she licked the sweet liquid off the remainder of the strawberry It ue had touched and tasted and teased his earlier in such a seductive fashion when he had kissed her And he was da it would be to taste the sweet flavor of strawberries on her tongue!

Not intending to allow the vixen to distract him further, he cleared his throat "I still say you could have seen this and then iined that it had occurred as a vision Dreamed it, whatever"

Carol licked her lips in such a sensuous way that he swore she was trying toso consciously, she sure had that effect on him She dipped her strawberry back in the drink, pulled it out, slipped it into her hed

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