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“Why are you being so difficult?”

“Marcus is helping me find Jacob, so I’m letting him stay here.”

She turned around and looked up at me.

“Look, this is my first night not scouring the streets like a madman.” I shook my head in frustration. “I need just one night to take a breath.”

“What about what I need?”

“I know what you need. Tomorrow night, I’m going to give it to you.”

“What is it?”

“And ruin the surprise?”

“I want you to make them leave.”

“If you don’t shut up, it will be you that leaves.”

She frowned.

“You’ve had countless decades to come to terms with what you are,” I said. “They’ve had only weeks.”

“The old ways dictate that those of us who survive their first steps alone, may just prove that they have what it takes to face eternity.”

“And where’s the sense in that?”

“You were always more reasonable in the past.”

“I kind of like the new me.” I smiled. “Always being right has its privileges.”

She refused to return my smile.

I leaned in and kissed her. “Take Rachel out and teach her.”

“Where are you going?”

“Marcus and I are going out.”

“Perhaps it’s Marcus I should be jealous of.”

I spun Sunaria around and gave her a devilish grin.

And in that moment, Sunaria melted against me, like moonlight surrendering to the dawn, her guard undone by the gravity of my love.

Chapter Fifty

I entered Marcus’ bedroom, and he turned to face me.

I climbed onto his four-poster bed and lay beside him. “I’m considering purchasing several more properties,” I said. “Safe houses around the city.”

Marcus nodded, half-distracted.

I lay on my side. “Perhaps you could help me find appropriate residences?”

“I’m ready.”

“Are you?”