Chapter 70

How do you know about that?"

She shrugged. "I've spent time in the human world. I've studied their history."

"So have I." The shadows were back in his eyes again, the dangerous set to his mouth that made him seem so formidable. But he regarded her curiously. "Won't someone be missing you? Your family? Your great-grandsire?"

"I don't stay in one place for long. They're used to my absences."

"So no one looks after you."

"I look after myself," she said with a trace of irritation. "I got you here."

"Despite my command to leave me."

"It wasn't a command," she protested.

Isaac snorted. "It most certainly was, and you ignored it."

She rose, went to the water. For a moment he thought she was going to dive, metamorphose into her other self and leave him there. Rising, he came up behind her, not yet touching her but standing just at her back. Feeling her hair brush his chest, his abdomen, he gazed down over the top of her head at the swell of her breasts, the pink tips so recently suckled. One