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sweat.
                  Neither of them moved for a while. Kim sighed contentedly, her body buzzing with happiness. I could stay like this forever, she thought dreamily.
                  At once, Luke pulled out of her and stood. He laughed at the disappointed look on Kim’s face.
                  “We can’t stay like that forever, even if we really want to,” he said, echoing her thoughts. “We might get stuck.”
                  Holy crap, maybe he can read my mind. Kim wrinkled her nose at him and sat up, reaching for her robe. “Fine. Make yourself at home, okay? I should shower anyway.”
                  Luke made an expression of mock outrage. “So I made you dirty?”
                  Kim smiled and looked him squarely in his eye. “Not dirty enough.”
                  When she got out of the shower ten minutes later, she almost ran straight into Luke, who had been waiting at the door.
                  “Hey!” She yelped. “What are you doing?”
                  “Your arm,” he said tersely. “Let me see it.”
                  A moment passed before Kim remembered what he was talking about. She shook the sleeve of her robe away from her forearm to show him her cut--
                  --but it wasn’t there.
                  “It’s gone,” she said wonderingly. “It’s just gone.”
                  “You’re healing almost like a vampire,” Luke said. “I don’t know how this is happening.”
                  “Is it the bond?” Kim asked numbly. “Or maybe being near you?”
                  “Maybe,” Luke said. Doubt was clear in his voice. “But like I said, I can’t be sure, because the kind of bonds that give humans power like this are the ones that need bites to be sealed. And the other ones are normally a sign that the human is...different. A natural magnifier, kind of. But those are almost unheard of, and they almost always mean some kind of trouble.”
                  Kim laughed nervously. “So, what? Am I some kind of freak?”
                  “You’re not a freak,” Luke said sternly. “You’re different. Keep in mind that we don’t know everything about human and vampire bonds.”
                  Kim nodded, trying to force her heart out of her mouth and back down into her chest.
                  Luke put one hand on her waist and cupped her chin with the other. “Hey, I mean it. It’s fine.” He glanced at the clock on the wall. “Shit. I gotta go meet up with the Vampire Fight Club, but look – it’s going to be fine. This is probably nothing to worry about.” He pulled her close to him, and she pressed her ear to his chest, oddly comforted by his incredibly slow heartbeat.
                  But as he left, she couldn’t help but wonder if the strange vibration emanating from him was what a liar’s aura felt like.    
     

Chapter Five
    “So...you guys are really ‘together together’?”
                  Kim made a face, then remembered Suzanna couldn’t see her expression over the phone. “You don’t need to be so high school about it! Yes, we’re together. It’s not just casual sex. He’s going to be here for the baby. He’s here for me.”
                  Her voice was harsher than she meant it, and she realized she was still upset about Suzanna’s remark the week before. Get it together, Kimberly. You’re better than this.
                  Suzanna had already caught on. “I’m sorry again,” she said fretfully. “I really don’t mean to be poking holes in this. It’s just, there’s a baby involved, and you guys are moving really fast --”
                  “I know,” Kim said, softening. “I’m jumpy, too. I’m scared out of my fucking mind, Suz. But we