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Hope lit his face.
When was the last time she’d felt hope? Right now. “I think I love you, vampire.” Loving what she’d feared most.
Had Catalina seen this one coming?
No, she’d just seen death.
Dee shoved that thought from her mind. The sun would rise in less than an hour’s time. The witch had been wrong.
Life. Love—that was what waited for her. Not death.
Not again.
It was time for her to be happy. With her vampire.
Dee let the sheet fall. “You want forever?”
His gaze slipped over her body. Blazed with desire.
“Let’s start with right here, this moment, and we’ll let forever come later.” Right now, she wanted him.
Love.
Scary. But she could handle scary. She’d proven that, and she could handle him. Dee lifted her hand and offered her palm to him. “Stay with me?” Love me?
His fingers curled around hers, warm and strong. “Always.”
She had to blink because her eyes were tearing. Silly. “Kiss me.”
His lips brushed hers. A tender caress. She knew he could be tender, with her.
When the knock came at the door, she didn’t turn from him. Dee pulled him closer.
But Simon tensed against her. His mouth pulled from hers and his head lifted. “Is that…”
She stared up at him. Dawn hadn’t come.
She knew the instant he caught the scent. The same scent that already filled her nose.
Catalina is wrong. Wrong.
But Simon was already spinning away from her. Grabbing her jeans and a shirt and tossing them to her before he turned to the door with fangs bared.
“Since when does evil knock?” Dee asked him, only half-kidding because a knot was tightening in her belly. This close. She’d come so close to being happy.
She should have known fate would screw her over again.
Dee pulled the shirt over her head and shimmied into the jeans. “Why aren’t they kicking the door down?” And it was them. She could smell them. At least five vampires. Six?
You were surrounded. Catalina’s stupid words wouldn’t stop playing in her mind.
Simon shook his head. “I don’t know.”
Not like vampires were into playing nice.
He grabbed their weapons, tossed her a stake, then reached for the door knob.
“Simon!”
