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He grunted softly “She’s not ‘one of my own’”
“But she’s a Vampire?”
“So it seems”
“Where are my mother’s books?”
“In a safe place”
“Where?”
“It’s better if you don’t know”
Her brows drew together in a frown “They’re my books now,” she said, her words slow and deliberate “I want theed to hera hter, but one of them had been written by her mom and that, more than any other reason, ive theer”
“You promise?”
He nodded
“Say it”
“I prorin
She wasn’t sure she believed him, but what other choice did she have?
“It isn’t safe for you to stay here” He ran his fingertips up and down her arot to settle ot a job, and—”
“None of thatas that Vampire knohere you live”
“But she can’t come in unless I invite her”
“She’s already had an invitation”
Savanah frowned, and then murmured, “Oh,” with the realization that her father had unknowingly invited his murderer into the house “Well, I’ll just rescind it”
Rane shook his head “She’s not working alone”
“How do you know?”
“I picked up the scent of a Werewolf on your property I don’t know if they orking together or not, but I’d rather be safe now than sorry later”
“A Wereouldn’t need an invitation, would he? Or she?”
“No”