have told her. You don’t know how she’s going to react when she finds out the truth.”
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Ethan shrugged even as a knot tightened in his gut. He’d thought about Jane’s
reaction for a long time, even before he’d proposed. Yes, she’d be angry but she had to
already know the truth, at least on some level. A woman didn’t spend three years
working as a vampire slayer to not notice one when he came up beside her. Or slid
inside her. She might not be willing to face it but she knew. The truth had been staring
her in the face for months.
“I know what I’m doing,” he bluffed. He really didn’t have a clue. Jane had started
talking about marriage one night and he’d found himself agreeing. And proposing. Not
that he didn’t want to marry her. He did. Had for a long time. He was just still getting
used to the fact that she’d taken him back.
He shook his head. He didn’t deserve her. If he were smart, he’d call this whole
thing off before it went too far.
Cameron was right. He really was stupid.
“I’ll tell her,” he promised his friend.
“When?”
“Right after she says ‘I do’.”
* * * * *
This couldn’t be happening.
Jane slumped down in the chair, ignoring the revelry of the guests all around her.
So much for the DJ sticking to her play list. Right now the bridesmaids and ushers,
complete in their dresses and tuxes, were in the middle of the dance floor doing “The
Chicken Dance”. She picked at a red rose petal in her bouquet and glanced around the
room, searching for Ethan. Everything looked perfect. Exactly how she’d wanted it,
with off-white tablecloths and gold napkins. The three-tiered wedding cake sat on a
table across the ballroom, waiting to be cut and looking absolutely delicious. The white
cake and apricot cream filling would probably taste like sawdust in her mouth now.
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A few of her friends and family had come up to offer their congratulations and
she’d had to force a smile. Didn’t they have any clue how big a mistake she’d just
made? She’d married a vampire.
Her stomach twisted at the thought. He’d been right when he’d told her he was a
changed man. She hadn’t realized how much until he’d leaned in to whisper in her ear
after their first kiss as husband and wife. His words still rang in her head. I’ve been
trying to find an easy way to tell you this but I can’t so I’m just going to come right out and say
it. I’m a vampire.
Why had she not seen this coming?
Some vampires were more adept at hiding their true selves than others. Ethan had
proved to be a natural. Jane, a trained vampire slayer for the past three years, hadn’t
thought he was anything but human. His confession still grated, and it had been hours
ago. She was still fuming. And hurting. The man she loved more than life itself had
dropped a bombshell she might never recover from. Ethan, wise man that he’d
suddenly become, knew when to leave her alone. She hadn’t seen much of him since
they’d arrived at the hotel and he’d led her, stunned and speechless, into the ballroom.
In the midst of the festivities of her reception, Jane sat at a table in the corner, pen in
hand, scribbling on a clean side of a lipstick-smeared cocktail napkin embossed with
hers and Ethan’s names and today’s date. It was a date she would never forget but not
for the right reasons. Her husband was a vampire. It was her job to kill vampires.
Granted, not all vampires, just the rogue ones who were into serial killing or
entertaining thoughts of taking over the world, but still. They weren’t compatible. And
by marrying her, Ethan had just made sure Jane would never be able to kill him, no
matter what happened.
“Making another list? Why am I not surprised?”
Her gaze shot up at the sound of his voice, a voice she’d be more than happy to
never have to hear again. Ethan. Her husband. Her apparent enemy. Just the sight of
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him made her stomach flutter. Ethan was the only man she’d ever loved but he’d lied to
her.
She really should be a lot angrier with him than she was. At the moment, heartache
reigned supreme. Why couldn’t he have told her the truth before the ceremony? She
would have tried to understand.
Yeah, right. Like she would have been able to marry him if she’d known.
She pasted on her best bored face, trying to disguise the hurt, and tapped a
fingernail against the table. “I don’t see how what I’m doing is any of your business.”
Ethan’s chuckle held a nervous edge. “I’m your husband. Doesn’t that count for