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If you will not stay with o with you

When she lifted her head she was standing on the beach, her body draped in an old, softin her eyes When she lifted a hand to push it back, she realized there was so much , glea dark curls

It dis she’d read once about death When you die, your hair keeps growing

The island was just as quiet as she re it were just as empty The shy half-moon slipped behind a streamer of dark cloud, and on the horizon, the first ribbon of dark a dawn

Jamys came up behind her, and encircled her waist with his arht, love Coainst hiht you He turned her to face hiht and drawn she lifted her fingers to stroke his cheek I thought I had lost you

IShe reached up to touch her er I love Paradise I never want to leave it again

Nor do I He tugged her close, and tucked her head under his chin But we cannot stay here forever It is tio

She pulled back Go where?

Sa and surveyed the deserted beach She’d never once seen it so empty Always determined to enjoy their tropical vacation no matter what, the snowbirds and out-of-towners would brave anything froht no one occupied the golden sands or paddled in the blue-green ocean, and the only light ca ts of bronze braziers e

Between each ivory pole stood a jardin warrior dressed in a dark suit Each ap between the braziers to for ajaset rid of the tourists?"

"Only with gentle persuasion" Night-blooloved hand touched the small of her back "You need not do this, love I can see to it"

"No" She hated funerals almost as much as she despised death, and she was so tired But Chris had been the sister that iven her, and she had died with Jamys to save them all Sam looked down at the wreath of red and white roses that Burke had given her "I have to let her go"

Lucan turned his head as a group of dark-cloaked figures approached theray eyes turned to chroranted you and your sisters freedoest you use it to leave my territory"

The tallest stepped forward and politely pushed back her hood "Forgive our intrusion, Suzerain, but we are not yours to coaze shifted to Sam’s face "My lady May we be allowed to pay our respects to your friends?"

She didn’t want to do this now, either "Yeah, sure" She gestured toward the braziers "We’ll join you in a minute"

Once the women had moved away, Lucan turned to her "Yours to coave you their oath Their blood oath"

"Things on the ship got a little crazy," she reminded him "I didn’t ask for it, but Werren insisted, because if they didn’t, they couldn’t help us, and with all the brainwashing Dutch did to thelanced down at the wo to do with fifty-three immortal sex slaves?"

"I don’t know," she admitted "Buy them some decent clothes Find the else

His lips twitched "Surprise h that escaped her, nor could she end it She laughed and laughed until the sound shriveled in her throat and wretchedness overtook her She saw her fists hit her lover’s jacket before they opened to clutch at it, and as Lucan’s ar fall inside her