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“Rane, come and drink”

She ju death, Miss Gentry?” he asked, his voice harsh “Isn’t one close call a day enough for you?”

Squaring her shoulders, she aze His T-shirt was in tatters, there was blood smeared across his mouth and splattered across his chest and arms and down the front of his jeans His skin was blistered wherever the sun’s light had touched him He looked scary as hell

She took a deep breath, and then lifted the silver chain over her head and stuffed it into the pocket of her jeans

Rane stared at her through narrowed eyes as she tucked the cross out of sight What the hell was she doing? Not long ago, he had told her to put it on and keep it on She ht be dead now if she hadn’t followed his advice

“Savanah, no”

“You need blood” Brushing her hair away from her neck, she turned her head to the side “Take what you need”

He clenched his hands into tight fists “Da?” He closed his eyes, trying to control his hunger, to breathe through the pain that burned through hi It’sIf I’d listened to you…”

He stroked her cheek, his gaze ,” she said again

“All right” Taking her hand in his, he turned it over, then stroked the vein in her left wrist with his fingertips “Don’t let me drink for more than a few minutes”

Savanah frowned at hiht…”

He shook his head He could take more, faster, from the vein in her neck, but he didn’t trust hier and be less satisfying, but it was safer for her

He could hear the fierce pounding of her heart, ser heart,” he murmured, and lifted her wrist to his lips

Chapter Thirty

Deep in the fertile earth of the Nile Valley, Mara stirred, then woke, all her senses alert Werewolf blood had been spilled at her lair in theher eyes, she reached out into the universe, her preternatural senses narrowing, sharpening, focusing on her mountain retreat Rane was there A mortal woman was there And death was there

She knew a rarely experienced moment of fear Had Rane been destroyed? But no, she would have felt an emptiness deep inside if he had ceased to exist

She concentrated on the blood link that bound the He ounded, in agony froht on preternatural flesh Stubborn, foolish ift she had once offered, the sun would have no effect on hi the day, wondered if she should go to him