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And speaking of the prophecy, I leaned forward and pressed ot an hour before dawn What would you like to do?"

My seduction game was on point

"Fantasy football?"

Before I could even blink at the suggestion, which was bizarre co ht of him, of his sculpted and toned body, felt like a miracle

"I don’t actually plan to im a line acrossacquainted with the knot in my robe

"No," I said, while I could still forh the fantasy part--" he began, but before he could finish, histhe slow burn that sentacross my skin and seemed to electrify the air

"The fantasy part is ithin my wheelhouse," he finished, and set out to prove it

CHAPTER FIVE

TO THE VICTOR GO THE SPOILS

We’d developed a dusk routine Ethan would wake first and get ready for his day; I’d wake groggily to find hiolden and ready to take on the night We were both vampires and should have had the saed to wake before I did

Tonight, the bathroo Maybe he hadn’t co

I stretched and sat up, reached out to check randfather: DNA CHECK OF FRANKLIN WOUNDS--NO MATCH IN SYSTEM

So our bearded vampire wasn’t a known criical bar code in the CPD’s databases

There was also a raphs of the alche that she and Catcher had enjoyed a night of raucous ht have been Good for thee of the vampire who’d killed Caleb Franklin You couldn’t see his face, but his approxih, as was the beard that covered the lower half of his face Again, I had the sense of vague familiarity but still couldn’t place him I’d run into hundreds of vampires in the year I’d been one; it could have been anyone