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  “Nothing like coming full circle,” he mused as he poured the wine. Jena was still demi-vampir and mortal. They had decided that barring some unforeseen circumstance, Jena would stay mortal until the babies were a bit older. They weren’t quite sure how becoming immortal would affect Jena’s unique body chemistry, so they didn’t want to take the chance of her not being able to be there during the day while the babies still needed her.

  Ian was able to spend some time in the very early morning sun, but did even better in the late afternoon and twilight. With Jena’s magic demi-vampir blood and multiple orgasms sustaining him, he fed only from her and was stronger than he had ever been before.

  “I liked it when you were watching over me, Ian. Though at first I found it a bit annoying.” She toasted him with her wine. “You grew on me.”

  “Like a fungus, huh?”

  She chuckled and tucked into the light meal she had ordered while he just stared across at his good fortune. He still sometimes found it hard to believe this miracle had come to him. She was his salvation, his raison d’être. He didn’t know how he had existed for so long without her and couldn’t envision a time when he could live without her. She was necessary to him now, in so many ways. Without her, he would cease to exist.

  “Actually, I came to enjoy you glowering at me from the shrubbery and I missed you when you weren’t there. Last Valentine’s night, for example, when I went out to my car to meet Dick Schmidt,” he growled at the mention of the other man’s name, “you weren’t there. I never told you, I nearly panicked, thinking something happened to you. It worried me when you suddenly weren’t there.”

  Ian reached across the small table, much as Dick had done the year before, but with much more successful results. She turned her palm into his, smiling warmly up at him.

  “I’ll be with you always now, my love. For eternity.”

  *

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Bianca D’Arc has run a laboratory, climbed the corporate ladder in the shark-infested streets of lower Manhattan, studied and taught martial arts, and earned the right to put a whole bunch of letters after her name, but she’s always enjoyed writing more than any of her other pursuits. She grew up and still lives on Long Island, where she keeps busy with an extensive garden, several aquariums full of very demanding fish, and writing her favorite genres of paranormal, fantasy and sci-fi romance.

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  *** CAPA Award Winner