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Two hundred years

Twice her lifeti So, how old was he? And how old was theyou'll never have children?"

A shadow passed over his face "I didn't say I'd never been a father"

Raphael's return saved her fro on the foot in her mouth Sos backlit to glowing life by the sun "Beautiful" A whisper

"So, he has enthralled you"

She forced herself to look away and toward Ds"

She narrowed her eyes, but he wasn't done

"You can hardly sit in judgment on those who prefer vampire lovers now" A curl of scent snaked around her, insidious in its seduction "Not when you wear Raphael's colors in your skin"

She'd forgotten about the daers ca those fingers to her lips and lick was so strong, she had to force her hands down to clutch at her thighs The dust left streaks against the black ht-she'd well and truly fallen

But that didn'tto offer herself up to this vampire, no matter the sex and sin taste of him "Stop, or I'll extract your canines while you sleep," she said under her breath "I mean it, D her very veins "So sensitive, Elena, so exquisitely sensitive You er in his tone then, as if the idea repulsed him "Who?" He vanished the tendril of scent

Drip

Drip

Drip

Come here, little hunter Taste

Her stootten his scent, buried the s, the incomprehension in her child's mind "He's dead," she whispered, eyes on Raphael as he landed on the edge and began walking toward her

"Did you kill him?"

"Would you hurt me if I had?"

"No I entle, "but I'm not a monster who preys on children"

They both went silent as Raphael approached Terror kicked in her chest as she truly saw hiy that promised death She pushed back her chair, stood

But she left the knife in her boot No need to antagonize hie wasn't directed at her "Raphael," she said as he came to stand on the other side of the table

His eyes were blue flame when he looked at her, but it was Dmitri he focused on "Where are the bodies?"

"Brooklyn There were-"