Page 127 of Sinner's Salvation

He groaned when she licked his skin until the wound closed.

“You like that,” she said, not bothering to hide the wonder in her tone.

“I like being able to give you something so basic and necessary. I like knowing you have a little bit of me inside you.”

“Is that really how you see it?”

“Yes.” He studied her face for a long time before adding, “We should have never met. You were born centuries ago, and if it weren’t for an extremely rare set of circumstances...it scares me how mostly impossible it should be for us to know each other.”

She snorted. “Life doesn’t care about impossible things, the odds, or the rules human beings attempt to use to define it. It just is, and it does as it pleases.”

“Didn’t Albert Einstein say something like that?”

“He was talking about our existence and the universe, but probably. He liked to putter about, smoking, and thinking.”

Evan laughed. “You met him?”

“We were on a boat ride together for a weekend. At first, he wasn’t interested in talking to me, until I made a comment about how as a species, humanity is stupid because we don’t learn from our mistakes. We had a long talk about that.”

Evan yawned.

“Rest,” she urged him.

He looked at her, hiding nothing of his thoughts or feelings from her. “Stay with me?”

She snuggled closer and put her head on his chest. “I will meditate to the beat of your heart.”

Epilogue

Anna walked into oneof the hotel’s conference rooms. It had been set up with tables arranged in a square, allowing a half dozen persons to sit on each side.

It had been a week since she’d killed the Italian vampires and Ledger was arrested. In that time, other vampire visitors had booked rooms in the hotel and asked for tours and other advice.

Brian had quickly put together a team to augment the concierge staff to provide Anna’s guests with more comprehensive information about the city.

It was proving to beverypopular.

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