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bedroom, I reached up and flipped up the light switch. The lights glowed, but didn’t further illuminate the bedroom.
    “Dominic!” I screamed, anger filling every cell of my body.
    Instantly, he appeared at my doorway. A look of puzzlement stretched across his face. He seemed totally unaware of what had happened to me.
    “What’s wrong, Marissa? I feared the worst—that Lynetta had somehow gained entrance—”
    I folded my arms. “How come I can see everything in the dark?”
    His face fell. “I tried to tell you.”
    My mouth dropped open before I could stop it. “Tell me what? That you lied?” My mind tried to go over every detail of what had just occurred. I didn’t remember drinking his blood. Had he wiped the experience from my thoughts?
    “I bit my tongue, by accident.”
    “What?”
    He stuck his tongue out at me. I raised my brows. He pulled his tongue back in. “My cell phone vibrated just as I was kissing you, and I bit my tongue in surprise. When I kissed you deeply, I had no idea I had cut my tongue and drawn blood.”
    “You shared your blood with me? You said—”
    “I meant what I said. I made a mistake. But—”
    Betrayed by a deceiving vampire! I grabbed one of my heart-shaped velvet pillows and threw it at him, unable to curb my fury. “Get out!”
    “If I go outside, Lynetta will be waiting for me.”
    My heart instantly stopped, and I swallowed convulsively. “I meant, out of my bedroom.” Jeez, no way had I wanted him to be at the mercy of the sick vamp. The thought of throwing him outside and her bloody fangs ripping at his throat…I shuddered.
    He looked so miserable that I reconsidered my actions and harsh words. But he had shared his blood with me, and now I could see in the dark like a vampire could. What else had he done to me with that one kiss?
    “I don’t think I could have changed you much more than that, Marissa, if it eases your mind any. You couldn’t have had much of my blood.”
    My temperature was still elevated with irritation. He was supposed to give me a choice.
    “I didn’t do it on purpose. I swear it. I would never have done that to you without asking you to go along with it. If you want me to leave, I will.” Though he was sincere, I sensed he hoped with all his heart I would not send him out to face the vamp.
    The idea he’d leave the house and be at Lynetta’s mercy terrified me and bile rose in my throat. I shook my head. “Not the house. I don’t want you to leave the safety of the house.”
    “I’m so sorry, Marissa. Truly, I am.”
    “All right.” I tried to rein my anger in, realizing on some other level that he hadn’t planned what had happened. “Somehow, we’ll beat her,” I tried to reassure him and myself.
    He nodded, though he still looked terribly disconcerted.
    “Goodnight.”
    He hesitated, seemingly wanting to comfort me, but I wasn’t in the mood to tolerate his touch. He seemed to sense how I felt and left the room, shutting the door behind him.
    I sat on my bed, wrapped my arms tightly around me, trying to comfort myself. Knowing I had been changed now, too, I wondered if he knew what he was talking about. Had he transferred other strange abilities to me that I was still unaware of?
    One thing I couldn’t do was read his mind. Maybe he was right, then. Perhaps the only thing that had changed about me was my ability to see in the dark. That certainly wasn’t a bad thing. Could save on electricity. Would help when I drove at night.
    I crawled under my covers and hugged them underneath my chin. Still the notion nagged at me…what had we truly done?
    “Know this, sweet Marissa. I truly love you with all my heart.”
    I stared at the wall that hid him from my view. He hadn’t spoken a word…not out loud. I could read his mind?
    “Dominic!”

Chapter 6
    THE DREAMS
    Furious with Dominic, but unable to stay awake any longer to hold the grudge, my eyes closed and my world collided, shifted and collapsed. In its place, I