Page 250 of The Cruelest Undead

“I live in the lair.”

He thought about it.

“Can I live with you? Or do we date first?”

She was honest.

“Any time apart is going to be difficult. We’re kind of stuck together now. Had you not tasted my blood, you’d have a better chance, but we’re fully mated, and that means you’ll feel empty if I’m not with you.”

He didn’t want that.

“Can I still work? I love my job, but if it’s that or you, I’ll pick you.”

She touched his face with her palm, and he kissed the inside of her hand.

“You can still work, Logan. We’ll figure out a way to make it work.”

He believed her.

“I don’t understand any of this, but I know in my heart that we’re meant to be together,” he admitted. “I’ve never felt like this. It’s overwhelming.”

“I feel the same. Our shared gifts will get stronger.”

He was curious.

“What are they? You mentioned them before, but I’m a little cloudy on what you said. I was too focused on you and sex.”

Cerise began telling him about them.

“You’ll hear better than you ever have before. We’re talking like a pin dropping in the next room. At night, you’ll have better vision. I can see in the dark, and you’ll be able to use that to your advantage.”

He was curious.

“What else?”

“You’re immortal like me. I won’t die unless killed, and I carry Rinnon’s mark, so that’s almost impossible to do. We’ll have to get you marked by him since we don’t want any surprises.”

She pulled her shirt aside, and the mark glowed when she touched it.

He’d seen it when they were making love.

“So I won’t ever die?”

She shook her head, and then paused.

“Well, that’s not entirely true. You’ll live as long as I do, but this mark makes me really hard to kill or reap. If I diein four hundred years, you’ll die because you’ll also be four hundred years older.”

“That’s crazy,” he admitted.

“You’re also stronger.”

He lifted a brow.

“I am?”

“You can fight harder to survive. Our gifts evolved over the years. Look at Jolie. She’s over eight hundred years old. She’s one of the last oldest vamps—or was before she became a demon.”

He laughed.

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