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glanced over his shoulder.
    “Okay.”
    I gave him a nod of satisfaction and glanced at the clock. We still had a good hour before the sun set and his silence gave me time to mull over all he said.
    “ So we are different from the rest of the species?” I asked and his eyebrow cocked along with his head.
    “Vampire, humans, whatever?”
    “I guess so.”
    “Is that why my transition was so quick?”
    Damian reached over, grabbed my bag and hauled it off the bed along with his. “I don’t know. I made a couple of attempts at companions over the years, and none of them changed like you did. They all ended up like those beasts in the pit. Mindless and driven for blood and I had no choice but to let them into the daylight. The only explanation I have is it probably had to do with Michael’s bloodline, but that’s just an educated guess.”
    “The other vampires you ran into, did they look like Lilith did?”
    Damian’s brow knit into confusion.
    “You still look human unless you’re in your shadow form. Lilith looked like a porcelain doll.”
    Damian blinked several times and shifted, hiking the bags up on his shoulders. “I guess. They were all products of Lilith and Eve.” He crossed to the doorway.
    “But shape shifting is unique only to you and I.”
    He stopped and turned back to me. “What are you getting at?”
    “ Maybe my blood won’t kill you.”
    “Naomi…” he started , but his gaze dropped to my throat and then bounced back to my eyes. “Even if it doesn’t, you don’t have the ability to heal and last time I checked, a severed carotid is fatal.”
    “Who says it has to be my throat?” I said and turned my wrist in his direction.
    He took a step forward, the hunger flaring in his features. “What if you’re wrong?” he asked and stopped.
    “Then we die here,” I said with a shrug.
    The hardness that captured his features, made me step backwards. “I will not sentence you to death.”
    Damian stormed out of the room and I sank onto the bed and my heart followed, sinking into the depths of my belly. I wasn’t trying to doom us to annihilation; I just wanted to figure out a way for both of us to survive.
    Together.

Chapter Eight
     
    Damian stood in the doorway with his back to me, scanning the landscape. “I’ll be back in a little while,” he said.
    “Where are you going?” I asked, pulling the snow pants over my jeans and long underwear.
    He glanced back at me. “I need to rent a car,” he said and smiled back at me. “Any preferences?”
    “Something fast with a big trunk.”
    Dimples appeared and he turned, taking a few steps onto the snow and then he morphed into that beautiful hawk, cutting through the sky carrying the duffel bags with our clothing. All that was left behind was me and the computer backpack. I sighed and closed the door, deciding to do one last walk through of our home. I wandered around the cavern and stopped in front of the mural, shaking my head at my idiocy. There was no way I was leaving this behind and I slid it off the hooks. After neatly folding it, I slid it into the bag with Damian’s computer equipment. There wasn’t much left and I opened and closed drawers, wandered into the kitchen and opened the cabinet, finding only soup, which I already had for breakfast and lunch.
    My stomach growled and I debated, but closed the cabinet on the soup when I heard the shuffle in the cabin. I stepped into the living room as Damian opened the door. Flakes of snow peppered his dark hair and the bloom on his cheeks told me it was colder than usual. He smiled and dangled a key attached to a U-haul key ring.
    “It isn’t fast and it isn’t a luxury sports car, but it will provide a dark space where I can hang during the day.”
    I rolled my eyes. “You’ve got to be kidding me?”
    “Nope and we’ll need to drop it off in New Haven when we get there. Of course we’ll have to wait until just after sunset.”
    “But a U-haul?”
    Now he was laughing at