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Present Day L yssa opened her eyes, not surprised to find theht Though she had held Thoard, she wasn&039;t sure she could allow herself to believe as the monk did, that the man as her current human servant, Jacob, had been part of her over-one- thousand-year-old life span al But the way Jacob ht, certainly ht had carried Jacob&039;s soul or not, her subconscious welcomed the memories as a way to spendneed for his com- pany If she&039;d been a different type of woman, she would have seized on theive Jacob the third mark, essentially a death sentence--was pre- destined Jacob hi her he&039;d insisted she do it But Lady Elyssa Amaterasu Yamato Went- worth, the last vampire queen of the Far East Clan, did not capitu- late to the will of a human The responsibility was all hers Besides which, reassurance and tender coht as she moved restlessly in the solitude of her wide bed in the dwindling hours before dusk

She lifted her hand Though it was very faint, she still had aout of the tent to hold her knight Just as the impression of Jacob&039;s bite on her throat froe of the third mark still remained, when the punctures should have disappeared within less than a day The iht, after she&039;d marked him, Jacob had bathed her in the Jacuzzi tub She&039;d used her fingertips to collect the water from his eyes so he could open theht&039;s eyes so he could raise his pale, auburn-tipped lashes Like Jacob&039;s lashes Jacob had asked her several ti him the third mark She hadn&039;t told him about Thomas&039;s posthumous letter I know the prejudices of your world, certainly You know I do But hear me as I tell you that Jacob is the other part of your soulHe will not survive being parted froain Let him make his own choice, before you try to ht, Jacob had followed her through tiht to become her full servant, despite what that ave her, de- spite how harshly she often treated hie who she was, but he didn&039;t seem to want her to do so His alpha nature resisted her do of thathis thirtieth birthday Several weeks ago, she&039;d proceeded to ift She hadn&039;t really exa to the trouble for a servant she&039;d had for such a short tis so enerous Now, the sig- nificance of what she&039;d chosen, so she&039;d initially considered a jest based on the nicknaabond-- nearly made her want to call it off But she wouldn&039;t For one thing, she had et him out of jail