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She had only taken a few steps toward the back door when she realized she wasn’t alone
Stake in hand, she whirled around, and ca up within her and with it, the urge to run into his arms and tell him how much she had missed him And then, as a drop of sweat trickled down her neck, her initial exciteht
“What are you doing out here?” She looked up at the clear blue sky and then back at Rane, expecting hio up in flames at any ht, Savanah”
“But…” She glanced at the sky again The last tiht fire “How? I don’t understand”
“I owe it to Mara Her ancient blood…” He shrugged “I can endure the sun’s light for short periods of time now Within a year or so, it won’t botherCome on in I’d feel better if ere inside”
“As you wish”
He followed her into the kitchen, waited while she dropped the stake on the table and then went to the sink to wash the dirt fro room, shall we?” Savanah asked, pleased that her voice sounded so cal but calm on the inside
She sat down on the sofa Rane settled into the chair across fro froazeand slow, as if to oodbye forever? It wouldn’t surprise her, not after the way they had parted the last ti with dread
“How have you been, Savanah?” he asked quietly
“I’ from the way he looked, and the fact that he could now ht, he was better than okay It had been three weeks since she had seen hi back her tears, yet it see suddenly cold, she ran her hands up and down her arms “Just say it and be done with it”
“Will you marry me?”
“What?”
“Will you marry me?”
She stared at him, speechless She loved hiions of her heart and soul But…e? She had considered it, of course, wondered what it would be like to be the only mortal in a family of Vampires, but she had never drea line of Vampire hunters He was a Vaht you caood-bye”
He slid from the chair to kneel before her “I knoon’t be easy for you,” he said, taking her hand in his “I’uy in the world to live with I have a lot of baggage, but I don’t think I can go on without you” His thumb stroked the back of her hand “I haven’t taken a life in a long tiave me your blood I don’t knohat happened I can’t explain it, but for the first time since I became a Vampire, I feel like I’m really in control You did that”