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don’t want to marry me anymore.” I take off my beautiful,
precious to my heart ring and hold it out to him.
    Surprised, he looks from my eyes to the ring and back again.
“Is that what you want?” he asks sadly.
    “No!” I shake my head vehemently. “I want to be your wife. I
want to be yours in every possible way.”
    He looks at me unconvinced and undecided. I start to feel a
mild panic. He takes the ring from me and my heart sinks. He stares at it for a
long time and just as I am about to give up and walk away he speaks, “I gave
this to you because I wanted us to be together forever. I still want that.” He
pauses and my heart leaps. “You say that I will want to leave you one day, but
I can’t imagine that. I don’t want that. Bond aside, I meant it when I gave
this to you. Are you only accepting it because you think one day I will leave
you and you will be free again?”
    My mouth drops open, “Cole, baby no. God no. I don’t want
you to leave me. It’s just… inevitable. I want you by my side forever.” I try
to reassure him.
    He nods. “And what of Devon?” he asks slowly.
    I hesitate and he nods again, saying, “So you can agree to
be my wife, but still be happy to have sex with someone else.” It’s not a
question, so I don’t answer. He snorts then, “Some one’s , really isn’t
it?” That is a question and I can’t avoid it.
    “Yes.” And he stands abruptly.
    “Of course you are,” he says almost to himself. “How could
you not be with him?” Sighing he turns to me, “Is this how it is with all of
you? All of us?” he corrects himself. “Just fucking about all over the place?
If so, can I do it too?” he challenges me.
    I stand then to face him, sire to sired. “In some cases, yes, we just fuck about all over the place. In my case now, I share
myself with my sire and my charge that have been by my side for centuries. Yes
I have had others, many others in fact in the past, but not since I met you and
fell in love with you. I want to be your wife and will forsake all others, with
the exception of Constantine and Devon. If that is something you can accept
then give me back my ring. If not, keep it, but I will still be your sire and I
will still love you as you will still love me. The decision is yours.”
    Cole looks slightly dumbfounded by my speech.
    “Furthermore,” I continue, “in answer to your question, if
you so choose, I would not stop you. In time you will anyway. Vampires are not
faithful creatures by nature, but we are fiercely loyal to those we are bound
to, to those we love.”
    He looks even more shocked at my addition. I stare him down
until he looks away. Only the sounds of the cars driving past cut the silence
in the room. He eventually walks over to stand in front of me and looks into my
eyes, his face unreadable. “Liv, I am so in love with you. I am trying to
understand how you can be with all of us and say that you love only me. Some
part of me gets it. I get the bond and the love that you share with them, but
there is the other part of me that doesn’t want to share you. That doesn’t know
how to even begin to share you. I will work on that part,” he says softly. “I
will accept this. I will accept this, because without question I want to be
with you in every way possible.” He holds out my ring to me and I hold up my
left hand. He slides it onto my finger and pulls me to him. I hug him fiercely
then, as he does me. He pulls back only enough to kiss me and I kiss him back,
filled with love for this man, this man who has been through so much the last
couple of days. That I have put him through so much hurts me and I hope to God
I never have to hurt him again.
    “I have some conditions though,” he says with that glorious
half smile of his.
    I raise my eyebrow, oh?
    “Okay…” I say warily.
    “One, I don’t want to see it. No overtly sexual behavior in
front of me. Two, not in our bed at home. Three, no suggestions of 3-ways… or
4-ways