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I couldna, wouldna give her an invitation that would allow her to coo at MacLeod whenever the whim took her Ye see ‘tis true, vampires need an invitation to enter yer home

I asked her for tireed

Over the next weeks, as I learned to control the thirst and while I quenched it with animal blood, I also learned how to take only what I needed and not kill the poor creatures I had to use to survive

Allora returned and repeated her demands This time she didn’t mince words and advised me that she would kill everyone I had ever cared about if I dinnae submit to her demands to remain with her

I loathed her, but I couldna allow her to hurt people ere dear to me I had friends and tenant farmers, servants, and people I cared about I couldna stand by and let her destroy the world I loved

In the end, I did go to her, but with the e…near the people ere dear to me

Allora is te when she would strike out and hurt a huer was

However, the hu I dinnae think I even craved huht Allora turned me

At any rate, she accepted ain because it suited her Allora, I discovered, loved Europe far more than Scotland

We traveled together and the longer I ith her, the moodier and more miserable I beca her was just that—fucking She tried to call itlove and that made me furious I would throw her off me when she spoke of love

She would go off on her own for days on end I had nae idea where she went or hom and I cared even less

During that tiic Bits of information about her and the Ancient Vah to ainst her one day

Whenever she returned from one of her jaunts, she would ask me if I missed her and I told her the truth she didn’t want to accept I told her I reveled in every minute I had without her in it

It was the turn of the century, one by since she first turned reat deal about what itcloser to the end of ain see the people I loved—nae while she was alive But I had a plan

I began to pick fights for nae a reason…out of nothing I started to annoy her at every turn I had a goal