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I would have to ers

Jereh it all slowly, but I dinnae agree

This lass ainst and allow her to choose her oay Aye, we brought her here to help me, but at what cost?

Looking at her now, the thirst burns through me Why? I haven’t felt this intense need since I discovered the orchard, Wolf-Rose So she is ue, her lips, her skin…her blood

Luckily, I had the dried bulb and root cuttings in an old snuffbox I carry around with ency I planted the around the place I made m’own

Twenty-two years I have been here

Suddenly, I had to tell the lass and plastered er and transported herself to the Great HallI had to take a few steps on m’side of the wall to follow her from the Great Hall as she made her way to the library Bloody hell, I can’t seem to take m’eyes off her

Right then, I forcedelse and concentrated on the problem at hand and Jeremy’s insistence that we keep her in the dark until she has acclimated to the estate and to the fact that I am a vampire trapped in another realm

I dinnae agree with this plan

I kept poor Sarah in the dark She kneas a vampire, aye, but she dinnae know about Allora This bonnie lass needs to know and be prepared

Jereood reason to keep her ignorant of the dangers ahead She ry

I want to feel her near I want to reach out and touch her cheek…when I suddenly realized that I had picked up on her scent

I on the other side for all these years Was I i this? I took another whiff She was honey sith a touch of pine and so I couldna name She wore nae perfume This was her own scent

She looked up and across to me

Nae, nae, impossible Jeremy had spelled the shield so that she would nae be able to see ht up to me and stared