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.  “And besides, you know if Rose finds blood on the sheets , she’s going to rat you out to Byron, so I’m sure you’ll do the clever thing.”
    “Don’t you need to get back to HQ?” she asked him acidly.
    Kyle flicked a look at his watch.   “Yep, you’re right, I’d better get going.”  He glugged the last half of his cup of coffee, grabbed another cookie, kissed Gabi on the cheek, deftly avoiding a swipe from Razor, and hurried out the door to his van , which he’d left in her driveway earlier.
    Gabi slowly finished her coffee and nibbled on a cookie as she wait ed for the adrenalin high to gradually fade away in the calm quiet of the house.  She got up and lit a few candles before heading for the bedroom.  Tomorrow was Tuesday , and Rose would be in to clean and tidy up.  She loved the other woman like a second mother , and Rose treated her like another daughter.  Kyle was right, Rose would be in a panic if she found bloodstains on the sheets.  Rose had seen the damaged house the day after the Demon h urricane had been through, and it had obviously shak en her.  She was a part of the Community , as she came from a Shape-shifter bloodline, though she wasn’t a Shifter herself, so she knew what Gabi’ s Hunter job entailed.  She ’ d always been a bit of a worrier when it came to Gabi’s injuries, but Gabi knew from Kyle that she’d taken the house invasion rather badly , and Gabi really didn’t want to alarm her any more than necessary.
    She gave a wry sigh as she pulled down the medical kit.  Why was it that everyone around her seemed more affected by the whole affair than she was?  She just wanted to get on with life as it had been before.  Only Kyle was making the effort to treat her the same way he always had, but she knew it was an effort.  Sometimes it sucked to be loved.  Of course , the most disappointing of the bunch was Julius.  She still had no idea what to make of his new attitude towards her. Or how long it was going to last.  She pulled a face as she positioned the transparent dressing over the stitched tooth mark; the bruising was worse than the bite.  She bit her lip as she applied pressure to settle the dressing and then peeled off the backing.  She moved her arm experimentally.  It was painful, but she had almost full flexibility in her elbow.  A plate of good food, a glass of good red wine and a hot bath and she’d be as right as the proverbial rain.
     
    Later, sated after a dish of Rose’s amazing beef stroganoff and several glasses of Aussie Merlot, Gabi lazed in a steaming hot bath.  She realised that she missed being able to take the time for small luxuries like this.  Between her animal behaviour work, her movie work and the Hunter shifts , she’d had very little time to spend on herself in the past two years.  Maybe it was time to start taking a few nights off each week.  The SMV had two new Hunters that they’d fast-tracked through the training programme with the Danté threat .  They were doing really well and had proved themselves more than capable in the final battle against Dant é ’s Clan and Demon army.  Thinking about what she could be doing if she took a couple of nights off brought her back to the enigma that was Julius.
    Even Alexander hadn’t been able to tell her what was going on with his Sire .  Alexander had been Julius’s friend for nearly two centuries and his second-in-command since Julius took on the role of Master of the City.  Gabi and Alexander hadn’t started out on the same page.  He was convinced there was no way she could actually live up to the legend of Angeli Morte, the Vampire equivalent of the boogie monster.  After fighting a couple of battles alongside her , his attitude towards her had changed to one of tolerated comrade-in-arms.  But once she revealed the truth of her heritage and he and Julius realised that she was, in fact, a living, bre athing Dhampir, his camaraderie had be come laced with an