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“What?”
“I asked if you’d like to go into town”
“Oh, yes! Yes, I would” She had a sudden, desperate need to be around other people Normal people who didn’t drink blood, sleep in coffins, or read e my clothes”
They left the house fifteen minutes later Rane was unusually quiet as they drove down the narroinding road Savanah glanced at hi he was a feast for feminine eyes As the silence stretched between the If only she could read his hts?” he asked
“About what?”
“About us”
She aze, her eyes filled with accusation “You promised not to read my mind!”
“I didn’t”
“Then why…?”
“You looked surprised when I said I wished you were a Va reminded that that’s what I aetting used to than I thought, that’s all I mean, I never expected to meet a Vampire, let alone fall in love with one In the last feeeks, my whole world has turned upside-down Can’t you understand that? I ain”
“Who better to understand soed?” He snorted softly “One night I went to bed a perfectly norht, I was a Va”
“I suppose so” Savanah blew out a sigh There was always soht as he negotiated a sharp curve in the road One taste of mortal blood and the world as he had known it had ceased to exist He saw colors with crystal clarity, even in the darkness that had beco, hairline cracks in buildings, individual brush strokes in a painting—no detail was too s at first Supernatural hearing had taken so, he could hear voices across the roo it for the first time, each note separate and distinct from the other His sense of taste and touch and s short of pheno the , drunk with power, he had done things for which he was now asha events
Ten h the darkness
“So,” Rane asked, “where do you want to go?”
“To the Lobster Pot for dinner, and then for a walk through the town And maybe a late movie?”
Rane parked on the street in front of the seafood restaurant and followed Savanah inside Because it was during the week, the croas sht away
Savanah ordered a fried shrilass of red wine
“Does it bother you,” she asked, “to be in here?”
“No” It wasn’t entirely true The s from the kitchen were unpleasant but not unbearable