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She shivered as his bold gazelurking in the shadows in the wee hours of the night?"

"I've coan"

His voice was soft yet coh her "How do you knoho I am?"

"I know all about you"

She lifted one delicate brow in disbelief "How can that be, sir, since we have never met?"

He smiled faintly

She noticed that his teeth were very white

"Perhaps it was your ick that summoned me"

His voice, as there about his voice that turned her thoughts down paths no unoman should even contemplate?

"Indeed?" She took a wary step toward hinition Exclai, "'Tis you!" She took a hasty step backward, one hand covering her heart

Roshan nodded Perhaps it had not been his oers that had brought him to this tiht in the light of a full moon

CHAPTER 3

She looked at him a moment more, then whirled around and ran, quick as a startled doe, into her house and slammed the heavy wooden door behind her

Roshan stared after her aback five centuries to get here, he wasn't ready to let Brenna Flanagan out of his sight quite so soon

Her cottage was set in a clearing not far frorove It was a small square structure built of weathered wood and stone Sle as covered by a white curtain There was a well to the left of the house

Reaching her door, he knocked softly and waited

There was no answer

He knocked again, quietly cursing the supernatural restraint that kept hi invited by one who lived there, and prevented hi if he was asked to leave

He knocked a third tian I'ht as well answer me"

"What do you want?" she asked, her voice muffled by the heavy wooden door between them

"I just want to talk to you"

"About what? Who sent you here?"

"No one senthere?"

"I cahed derisively "Then you are wasting your tier here"