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“But I sensed those wo to adjust to their neay of life Sort of like you,” he said with a grin

No doubt Savanah and the two fledglings would get stronger in tih

Chapter Twenty-Four

“You mentioned my mother,” Savanah remarked as Rane pulled away from the curb “Did you really save her life?”

“Yeah”

“And she saved yours? How?”

“I was out hunting late one night and I came across yourto make her first kill”

“How do you know that?”

“She told er to hear more about the mother she scarcely remembered “Go on”

“Well, it was kind of like that old story about the hunter who tracked a cougar until he caught hio The Vas into your ”

“Why did you help her and not hied “I’ve always been a sucker for the underdog, and she was outmatched in every way I stepped in and pulled the Vampire off her, and he turned on me He was one of the old ones” Rane shook his head at the s in ht have bled out, but your mother came up behind him and drove a stake into his back It pierced his heart and he turned to dust right there in front of us”

Savanah shuddered at the grisly i, with your ht the farm for sure Instead, she told ain, she’d take h broad, that one”

Savanah ss really did happen for a reason, she thought Rane had saved herhers, because her mother had let him live

“Do you knoho killed her?”

He shook his head “No, but we can ask Mara when she gets back fro when thatme about my mom,” Savanah said as Rane pulled into the driveway “And for taking et out of the house for a while”

He nodded “Anytiine, he exited the car and opened her door for her Savanah grabbed her package from the back seat, then took Rane’s outstretched hand They had only taken a few steps when he ca his head, he sniffed the wind

“What is it, a skunk?” Savanah asked, although she couldn’t s other than the scent of pine trees and the honeysuckles that grew near the front porch

“A little lanced around Anyone, anything, could be hiding in the shadows The night that had once seeer Fear of the unknown sent a shiver down her spine

“Stay close,” Rane warned as he continued up the path

“Like glue,” shebeyond the barrier There was no one inside The house was e me”

“Someone’s been here” He removed the Supernatural barriers he had placed around the door, then opened it and stepped inside

“Are you sure?” Savanah looked behind her, her gaze probing the shadows Was the prowler still there, lurking in the darkness even now?