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The renation "I’m twenty-seven Why do you want to know?"

"I just wonder why you aren’t already mated and blood-bonded You were raised in a Darkhaven, so you must know many Breed males If any of the ones I know ever saw you, there’d be at least a hundred of the a path to your door"

She stared at hied "Maybe I prefer human men"

Shit He hadn’t even considered that "Do you?"

"To be honest, I haven’t given the idea of a blood bond a lot of thought My life is full and I keep busy enough with other things"

She started walking away fro the bricked path And he couldn’t help noticing she hadn’t really answered his question

He strode up next to her "What kind of things have kept you so busy that you’re still une of thirty?"

She scoffed, but there was hus"

"Such as?"

"I volunteer at so care of people who’ve been displaced by wars and other disasters I guess you could say it’s been so that Granted, she didn’t seeh-heeled sandals all day, but he also wouldn’t have i her ti herself in harm’s way in those turbulent areas that had never known peace, even before the wars between the humans and the Breed

"What about you, Jehan?"

"What about me?"

"For starters, how old are you?"

"Thirty-three"

She glanced at hiuess a Breed e It’s always seemed unfair to me that your kind never looks older than thirty, even the Gen Ones who’ve been around for centuries"

Jehan lifted his shoulder "A small consolation for the fact that we can never put our faces in the sunlight Unlike your kind"

"Huess that’s true" She tilted her head at him "What exactly do you do in Rome?"

"I’m part of the Order Captain of my unit," he added, not sure why he felt the need to impress her with his elevated rank

She stopped dead in her tracks again, and so to do with sore feet A chill rolled off her as Jehan pivoted to look at her She barked out a brittle laugh and shook her head "No wonder they didn’t tellabout you"

"Who?"

"My parents" Her aridly over her chest "If they’d anization, there’s no way in hell I would’ve agreed to any of this No e they used to try to convincewith his pride "You have a problem with the Order?"

"I have a problem with cold-blooded killers"

Was she serious? "My brethren and I are not--"