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“Savanah?”

“I don’t knohat I want” Her gaze slid away frorab a stake and a bottle of holy water and conquer the world, and other times I just want to crawl into a hole and hide I don’t knohat I’m supposed to do! How could my parents keep such a secret fro And ree She worked at a newspaper, she had covered stories of rape and ely untouched by the ugliness in the world around her Or she had been, until he ca

Beside him, Savanah squared her shoulders, lifted her head, and s out between us”

“You’re sure?”

“Yes”

He cocked his head to the side “What changed youralike, and yet they were happy together If they could get along, why can’t we?”

“Your father wasn’t a Vampire”

“Well, everyone has a quirk of some kind…”

“A quirk?” He almost choked on the word A quirk was a funny habit, an odd trait There was nothing re a Vampire

“We’ll just have to work around it,” Savanah said “There’s just one thing You have to stop reading my mind It isn’t fair, since I can’t read yours And you can’t take s,” he ue out at hirunted thoughtfully She hadn’t said he couldn’t take her blood, just that he had to tell her Before or after, he wondered “We have a deal Shall we seal it with a kiss?”

“Yes,” she said, a slow s over her face “I think we should”

Rane drew Savanah into his arms and kissed her She eet, so sweet There was no doubt that they ell-suited in at least one area of their lives; still, as much as he wanted her in his life, he couldn’t shake off his doubts How long would Savanah be content to stay with him now that she knehat he was? He was certain that the only reason Rafe’s , as well as those of his parents and grandparents, was due to the fact that the woulf between ree to accept the Dark Gift? If not, he doubted their relationship would last And if she wanted children…He felt a sharp stab of regret that he could not give her a child He wondered if Rafe’s wife ever regrettedfor children her husband could not give her?

He grunted softly as Savanah poked him in the ribs

“You’re awfully quiet all of a sudden,” she said “Is soaze moved over her What would he do if she decided to leave hiht was fully for without her He had known many women in his lifetime He had cared deeply for one or two but had loved none of theaze moved over her, hot and slow “Anxious to try on that new bathing suit, are you?”

“Maybe” She had been thinking of hi from the sofa, Rane took both of her hands in his and pulled her to her feet “Show it to me some other time,” he said

“You don’t want to swim?”

“I don’t want you to feel overdressed,” he said with a roguish grin, “since I’ll be swi sans trunks”

She felt a blush wared off his shirt