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She didn’t want to believe it was true, couldn’t abide the thought that he was one of them, a blood drinker, like the hideous creature that had killed her mother and very likely murdered her father, as well Nor did she want to believe that Rane drank blood She didn’t want to believe that he had lied to her about what he was A shape-shifter, indeed! Not that she could blaodforsaken, blood-sucking, creature of the night? She didn’t want to reo At least she didn’t have to worry about getting pregnant, she thought with relief
She picked up the book that had slipped froh it, she frohen she looked at the list of Cordova naain How could Rane’s parents be Valanced at his in indicated that Cara Aideen DeLongpre Cordova had been adopted by Roshan DeLongpre and Brenna Flanagan There was no such notation alongside the naht on her mother’s part? Or had Rane’s parents found a way to reproduce?
Savanah shook her head Such a thing was unthinkable There were enough Va able toAnd since h menopause, they could probably reproduce indefinitely Lordy, that was a scary thought, a world overrun by Vampires Not to mention Werewolves and who knehat else
She wrapped her ar birth to a Vampire child Would it sleep all day and need blood to survive? She was letting her iination run wild Rane and his brother had to have been adopted Vae If they had been born Vampires, they would have re off her disconcerting thoughts, she closed the book and set it aside, then glanced at her watch again Rane had said he would see her tonight What would she do when he showed up? Alarm skittered down her spine Va Was it Rane? Gaining her feet, she ran into the kitchen Opening the rabbed one of the wooden stakes and slid it into the waistband of her slacks It felt reassuring against the s it was better to be safe than sorry, she dropped a bottle of holy water into her pants’ pocket
She took a deep breath when the doorbell rang again; then, shoulders back, she went into the living rooh the peephole Rane stood on the porch She didn’t have to let hier needed an invitation If she didn’t let him in, would he huff and puff and break down the door?
“Calm down,” she muttered “He’s never hurt you before He doesn’t know that you knohat he is Just open the door and revoke your invitation He can’t come in without it And don’t look in his eyes!”
She waited a moment more, and then opened the door just a crack
Rane sensed the change in Savanah the minute he saw her, knew that, soe was in her eyes, though she avoided aze directly, and in the way she held herself, as if poised for fight or flight He could hear it in the rapid beat of her heart, sreed cross that nestled in the hollow of her throat
“You can’t couessed that”
She blinked at him, surprised that he could find humor in the situation
“Who told you?” he asked, curious in spite of himself
“My mother”
“Indeed?”
“Well, not directly, of course I found your name in a book”
He didn’t like the sound of that “What book?” he asked sharply