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She thought it over for a ed “It doesn’tas you don’t tell anyone where you’ll be”

“I can’t hide forever,” she said, and sighed “I’ll call Mr Van Black and ask him if I can have ht, if you want Or Saturday” Thetown, the better it sounded It ht,” Rane decided “We’ll leave at sundown”

Savanah nodded

“All you have to do now is decide where you want to go”

“I’ll think about it”

“In theto eat”

“I’uing and she didn’t feel like cooking With a huff of annoyance, she went in search of her cell phone, thinking that pizza didn’t sound too bad

Life was never what you expected, she thought as she waited for the pizza place to answer Here she was, planning to go aith a man for the first time in her life, but not for any of the reasons she would have thought

No, she was going off with a man asn’t really a man at all, and not for some romantic rendezvous in an exotic locale No, not Savanah Gentry She was running away from a murderer, and not just any old murderer, but one that was a Vaain Life was strange, indeed

Chapter Seventeen

“Why isn’t she dead?”

“He’s always there with her”

Clive slammed his fist on the table, muttered an oath as the wood cracked beneath his hand Dahts of old An ad at the moment

“I don’t know, Clive,” Tasha said “Maybe you’ll have to do this one yourself”

He grunted softly “Perhaps” But there was no hurry He knehere the wo home anyti h her father’s belongings and decide what to keep and what to part with

Or perhaps he would wait and see if Cordova’s ardor for Savanah Gentry cooled

In the meantime, there were other hunters out there, hunters with years of experience to their credit, which erous than Williahteen

Savanah hadn’t planned to go to work the day after the funeral, intending to use the time to clean the house and pack for her trip with Rane, but when she got up thatthe day at ho into the office would give her a chance to clear up a few , matters that couldn’t be handled over the phone

Yesterday, at the graveside, Mr Van Black had told her to take as much time off as she needed She had thanked him and said a ould be fine But that was before Rane had convinced her that her life was in danger When she got to work, she would tell Mr Van Black that she had decided to take an extended leave of absence

In the shower, she found herself wondering where Rane had gone He had stayed the night with her last night After she had eaten dinner, they had spent as left of the evening watching a late one to bed He had stretched out on the bed beside her, on top of the covers The fact that they weren’t going to ret On one hand, it would have been nice to lose herself in his eet, if only for a short time, the horrors of the last few days On the other hand, she wasn’t quite ready to ain now that she knehat he was To be honest, she wasn’t sure if she would ever be ready

Savanah dressed quickly, then went downstairs, her heart skipping a beat when she saw Rane sitting on the sofa watching an early-lanced out theYes, the sun was up And so was he Hoas that possible? Everything she had ever read about Vampires said they were compelled to seek their coffins at sunrise, and the sun had been up for hours

Maybe he wasn’t really a Vaht lanced at her over his shoulder “Good ”