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With a shake of his head, he pulled her into his arms, quilt and all “I do love you That’s the trouble Next time I promise to take just one taste, don’t believe me”
“How much did you take?”
“I don’t know More than I should have” He hadn’t meant to, but one taste had only served to whet his appetite for ry for her, and she was so sweet…for aHe swore softly It couldn’t happen again “Stay here”
“Where are you going?”
“To get you sory until he et up, only to fall back on the bed when the rooain, and left the room
Downstairs, he thawed a steak in theat the stink of cooking e juice, plucked a gold-plated knife and fork fro upstairs On the way back to the bedroo the fork, he scooped up Savanah’s crucifix, then went into the bedrooe of the bed, he offered her the cross “Put it on, and don’t take it off again”
With a sigh, she slid the chain over her head The silver felt cool against her skin
Rane’s expression was grim as he cut the steak and fed it to her
“It’s too rare,” she protested “I like it cooked a little more”
He tried not to notice the juices that oozed from the meat “It’s better for you this way”
He insisted she eat all of it and drink the orange juice, then he tucked her into bed “Get so the worry in his voice, she said, “I’h he wasn’t convinced He had brought her here to protect her but he couldn’t help wondering if she wouldn’t be safer without him
He stayed by her side until she fell asleep, then continued to sit there, staring out the , his thoughts turned toward his brother Why couldn’t he have been s had always come easy for his brother Rafe had been the popular one in school, easygoing, affable, always at home in a crohile Rane had always held back a little
He glanced at Savanah, wondering where their relationship would end It had been an odd twist of fate that had brought a Vaether No matter which way he looked at it, he couldn’t see a happy ending But even knowing that, he couldn’t let her go As long as those books existed, her life was in danger
He grunted softly He could destroy the books, but it wouldn’t do ood He didn’t knoanted them Even if he put out the word that the books had been destroyed, he had no guarantee that whoever was looking for them would hear of it, or believe it