Nocturne 077 - Holiday with a Vampire III - Linda Winstead Jones, Lisa Childs and Bonnie Vanak by Silhouette Nocturne

Author:Silhouette Nocturne [Nocturne, Silhouette]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-01-16T21:00:36+00:00

“I don’t believe your grandmother ever told him, but he inherited her gift. He knew things...he would have been better off never knowing. Then he investigated until he discovered other things—things you would have been better off that he never learned.”

Grief pressed heavy on her heart. “I guess it’s good that I didn’t inherit that family gift—that I took after my grandfather instead.”

“He was a simple man,” Julian said.

“A good man,” Sienna defended him as she twisted on her finger the engagement ring that her grandfather had put on her grandmother’s.

“You’re wearing that ring,” Julian observed.

She nodded. “Nana gave it to me, wanted the man I marry to put it on my left hand.”

“Marry me,” he urged her again.

She shook her head, tears burning her eyes. “I can’t...”

“Because you can’t forgive my part in the accident?”

“What was your part?” she had to know, her stomach churning with revulsion. Had she made love with—not once but twice—the man responsible for her parents’

deaths?

“I didn’t stop it,” He dragged in a ragged breath. “I tried...but I was too late. Too late to save them. And too much of a coward to save you.”

“But you did,” she reminded him. “You saved my life.”

She wished he could have saved her parents, too, but she believed he’d tried.

“I got lucky—that you weren’t more seriously hurt,” he said, “because I couldn’t get to you right away.”

“I know—the crash was horrible. The car was so far down in the ravine that it was a wonder you found me at al .”

“I saw the car go over,” he admitted. “But the sun was coming up. I couldn’t get to you...not without risking my own life.”

Sienna tensed, shocked.

“So much for being your hero, huh?” he said, and he lifted his arm and let her slide away from him. “I’m sorry. But I can’t be out in the sun...and live...”

“So much for being undead,” she murmured.

“Is that why you won’t marry me?” he asked. “Because of what I am?”

She wasn’t certain if he was referring to his being a vampire or his not being the hero she’d believed him to be for the past twenty years. “No. I made my grandmother a promise on her deathbed.”

“To wear this ring?” He ran a fingertip over the diamond then over the scar on his chin.

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