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“No I slept in Mara’s lair”

“What were you doing in the attic, then?”

“Watching you” He ran his fingertips over her cheek “It would be a sha suit”

Knowing he had been watching her swim and that he found her beautiful unleashed a flurry of butterflies in her stoether soame if you are”

Heat pooled low in her belly as she visualized the two of theht What would it be like, to feel the length of his body pressed against her oet skin sliding inti along the same lines “Perhaps in an hour or so,” he said, “after we’ve both had time to dine”

His words were like a splash of cold water in her face, reht alike, they orlds apart

He kissed the tip of her nose “Keep the doors and s closed and locked I won’t be gone long”

She nodded, herover so the tender flesh of her throat, stealing her life’s essence, and perhaps her life, as well What was she doing, spending ti the them? It was a question she had asked herself before, a question with only one answer, foolish as it was: she was in love with hi for love” And yet, even if she didn’t have deep feelings for Rane, she knew she would never be able to destroy him He had comforted her when she needed coht her here to protect her She laughed softly Maybe love really was blind

For Savanah, dinner was a chicken Caesar salad, a thick slice of cantaloupe, and a glass of iced tea For so the teafor prey What was it like, to exist on a warm liquid diet? Did he everhis teeth into a tart apple or a juicy orange instead of living flesh?

Repulsed by her thoughts, she put the glass aside, washed up her few dishes, and went downstairs to watch a et about Vaht to watch the tube It see films about the Undead, from the old black-and-white Spanish version of Dracula to the latest reh the stations when Rane materialized on the sofa beside her

“Sheesh!” she exclaiirl a little warning, will ya?”

“Sorry”

She looked at hi who he had fed on and if he had left his prey alive

He cocked his head to one side under her perusal “Want to tell runted softly “Never uess”

“I’ll bet you can, too, since you read my mind so well, so often”

“I don’t have to read your mind, Savanah It’s written all over your face You’re wondering who I fed on, and how I picked her, or him, and if they’re dead or alive”

“You can see all that in ?”

“No,” she aded woman with sad blue eyes and pretty brown hair and I left her where I found her, none the worse for wear Happy?”

“I’ed with frost “It’s none of e what I am I wouldn’t if I could I love you I think you love h our differences? If not, I’ll protect you as best I can, but you won’t seein a dozen directions at once What did she want? How could she be a hunter and have a Vampire lover? Did she want to face the future without hierous, but her life had definitely beensince they met Could she live with the differences between theether, or eventually drive them apart? He would never look any older than he did noould she feel when she rinkled and gray and he still looked the sa? Would it be better to end it now?