bite me if you can by lynsay sands

Author:lynsay sands
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: vampyre
ISBN: 9780061739125
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2007-01-30T06:00:00+00:00

“But she doesn’t have to be,” Rachel said.

“Okay, you can stop,” Lucian said dryly. “You had me convinced already without bringing on the guilt of leaving Leigh without a life mate.”

The couple beamed at him, and Lucian rolled his eyes, then narrowed them when he noticed that Rachel’s smile was fading, concern taking its place.

“What?” he asked, wary again.

“I just—I’m worried that Leigh might prove a bit resistant.”

“What?” he asked with amazement. He had been so wrapped up in his own reluctance to acknowledge Leigh as his life mate, he hadn’t considered that she might be less than enthusiastic herself. “Why?”

“When her grandfather died and Leigh was suddenly alone in the world, she married a man who turned out to be an abusive jerk. Leigh blames herself for that. She feels she was weak in needing someone and is determined to prove that she can be strong, that she doesn’t need anyone. She’s afraid of making another mistake.”

Rachel had obviously done a lot of digging in Leigh’s head…and—since he couldn’t do it himself—he was grateful for it, Lucian acknowledged, then frowned. “How do you suggest I convince her otherwise?”

Rachel bit her lip. “I think you’ll have to prove to her that you’re trustworthy, that you aren’t someone who is going to hurt her, and aren’t a mistake.”

“How?”

Etienne raised his eyebrows at his wife expectantly even as Lucian asked the question, but she remained silent for so long that Lucian felt sure she didn’t have a clue until she said, “I think your best bet with Leigh is to sneak up on her.”

Etienne peered at her with disbelief. “You just finished saying that Uncle Lucian had to prove himself trustworthy. Now you’re saying the best way for him to do that is to sneak up on her? What kind of logic is that?”

“Women’s logic,” Lucian said wryly, and received a glare from Rachel for his trouble.

“I don’t mean—” Rachel began, then shook her head. “I—”

“I think the easiest thing to do,” Etienne interrupted when she floundered again, “would be for us to explain to her about life mates and then tell her that Uncle Lucian can’t read her, or control her, and so”—he shrugged—“he is her life mate.”

“I think that would be a mistake,” Rachel said at once, her voice firm. “I think a straight on approach would be a mistake with Leigh. I think she’d run from that, raise her defenses and back off emotionally.”

“Then what do you suggest?” Lucian asked dryly.

Rachel pursed her lips as she thought, then said, “I think you have to approach her in a nonthreatening manner, as a friend, or a teacher.”

“Hmmm,” Etienne murmured. “The teacher idea’s good. She has to be taught to control her teeth and so on. That would be a good approach.”

“Okay.” Lucian nodded. He could do that, he could train her in her new abilities and skills, and teach her to differentiate between food hunger and hunger for blood. Teaching her how to control and read minds and how to feed on a living human was also necessary.

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