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way up her stomach, kissing, tasting as much of her flesh as he could, until his mouth was locked with hers. They joined in union like they never had before, and made passionate love until the pull of dawn beckoned for his daily death.
    “Wull ye be here when Ah wake?” he asked as his eyes began to close. She lie facing him, their bodies entwined.
    “Of course I will. I love you.” He didn’t reply.
    She stayed next to his body until it started to turn cold, then she had to move. It was just too unnerving for her to take. Everything else was more than okay with her. “Sharing my blood, sleeping with someone who kills to survive, I can live with. My husband being the only one on the block that can only come out at night, no prob. But hugging up to a cold stiff corpse just is not going to happen ,” she thought as she got up and went to the fireplace.
    They had four nights of pure joy, doing nothing but holding one another, getting caught up on what each other had been doing for the past three and a half years, and making the best catch-up love that was human and inhumanly possible. Danny fulfilled his hunger from D`nae when the necessity rose, and D`nae ate and drank from the supplies in her pack and what Danny had brought back that first night. D`nae brought something to Danny’s attention that she hadn’t thought about until that fourth night.
    “Danny, you know I have to go back. Everyone at that hostel, including Detective O’Grady knows that I was coming hiking up this way. If I don’t show back up…” she was saying before he interrupted her.
    “Nae, yer nae be fur leavin me. I cannae be withoot ye,” he demanded.
    “And if they come, then what, Danny?”
    “Ah’ll dae fitAh dae best.”
    “You can’t kill everyone, besides more will just come. I’ll find another way to come back, a way that no one knows I’m here.”
    “Aw we hae tae dae is toss yer belongin over the cliffs on the other side o the Skye.” He stood up from the chair and started pacing the floor. “They’ll be findin ‘em an thin ye went over.”
    “They’ll think someone around here killed me and tossed my body over, Danny. I heard them talking about your family having a curse on it, so the first thing they’ll do is go find your father, and he’ll tell them about this place.”
    “Me faither’s mind be gone, and Ah saw me brither an his family takin’ aff years ago. There be nae one tae ask.”
    “Then they’ll search this land until they find you,” she retorted. “Stop being so damn stubborn, Danny Gilmore, and let me do what I need to do.”
    “If ye luv me, ye won’t be leavin me. Ah been sae aw alone D`nae, Ah missed ye somethin awfu,” he said, dropping to his knees in front of her chair.
    “How can I make you understand how important it is that no one finds you?” she asked, wrapping her upper body around his. “It’s because I love you that I have to do this, Danny.”
    “Fit if Ah nae be fur lettin ye?” he whispered, nuzzling his head next to hers.
    Danny stood and picked D`nae up out of the chair like she was a child and carried her over to the Iron Gate. He was acting as if he had become angry at her attempt in persuading him that it would be best if she left him, and he wasn’t going to listen anymore. She didn’t struggle; she simply wrapped her arms around his neck, and asked, “Would you really lock me in the dark just to keep me here?”
    “Wull ye promise ye won’t leave me?” he replied lying his forehead against the side of her face.
    “I promise I’ll come back, Danny. You’re the only reason that I breathe. I love you more than life and I could never go on without you.”
    He raised his head and his cheeks were covered in crimson tears. She took his face in her hands and pulled it close enough to kiss the tears away as he held her, knowing she was right.
    “T’wull be mighty hard wi’ oot ye. Ah nae be likin it fur one minute ye ken.”
    “I know.”
    The two lay holding