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"He was right about everything else."
"What if you don't want me in a hundred years? What if you grow tired of me? Or you meet someone else?"
"Sera stop it. I will never leave you; never find anyone better. There is no one better. Look in me and feel it for yourself if you don't believe me." She searched his intent gaze. "Open yourself to me."
She allowed herself to open to his thoughts. She couldn't exactly read them, not like she could when she was feeding off him, or he off her, but she could sense them. She knew that he loved her, knew that he cherished her, but she suddenly sensed the full depth of his emotions toward her. It shook her to the core as she recognized in him the same emotions that lived within her.
She pulled out of him as she searched his intense gaze with awe. He would never leave her, never grow tired of her, she felt it; she knew it. She brushed a strand of black hair off his forehead. "Eternity is a long time."
He pulled her closer. "Not long enough."
"No, it's not," she agreed. "So what else can harm us?"
"Crucifixes and holy water are like the sunlight. The more you kill, the less you can tolerate them. Otherwise, a standard stake through the heart, beheading, and fire are the other ways."
"Oh. I've seen you eat regular food, does it do anything for us?"
"No. We can eat it, but it doesn't fill us, eventually you even lose a taste for it. Alcohol still affects us."
Sera frowned, there were so many foods that she enjoyed, she especially didn't want to lose a taste for cheesecake. She winced as Kathleen's shriek suddenly pierced through her ears and into her skull. "Ow!" she cried as her hands flew to her ears.
He grabbed her hands and pulled them away from her head. Her face scrunched with pain as Danielle and Kathleen both screamed. "Look at me Sera; listen to me, not them."
She focused herself upon him as he explained how to control all of her new senses, and her new world.
CHAPTER 20
It was late afternoon before they finally emerged from the bedroom. "It's about time you guys got up!" Kathleen cried. "I was beginning to think that we would never see you again!"
Sera blinked against the sunlight as she stepped into the snow. The giant snowman had been assembled. He was sporting a carrot, black button eyes, a gray ski hat, and a cigarette dangled from where his mouth was supposed to be. "Yours?" she asked Mike.
"But of course, and if we don't get out of here soon Frosty's going to be parting with his mouth."
Sera was suddenly hesitant to meet his gaze, to meet any of their gazes. "The electricity's back on," Danielle said. "And the phone lines are working. We called the town and they said that they should have the roads plowed out tomorrow."
"Thank God," Jack groaned.
"Being snowed in wasn't such a bad thing!" Kathleen protested. "I was thinking, since it's almost the weekend, we might as well stay and check out the ski resort."
Jack and Doug groaned. "I agree," David commented as he clapped snow from his hands.
"What?" Mike demanded.
Liam wrapped his arm around Sera's waist. She glanced up at him, but his face was impassive. "I think we should abandon ship before it starts snowing again," Doug said.
"I'm with him," Jack agreed.
"I trekked ten miles through the snow to get here. I think I deserve a little relaxation and fun," David argued.
"Why did you do that?" Danielle asked.
Jack rolled his eyes and walked away. "Damn idiots can't keep their mouths shut, we can't keep changing their memories," he muttered as he walked to stand beside Liam.
David shrugged as Mike and Doug scowled at him. "Felt like some skiing," he muttered.
"See!" Kathleen cried. "We should stay. It's not fair to expect David to come out here for nothing!"
"Why don't we talk about this later," Mike suggested.
