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Mother?”
    “Where there is dark, there is also light. Ruadan will never age. He will heal from even the most grievous of wounds. He will know the thoughts of those he loves. And he will be a warrior none can defeat. He is of the Fomhoire and of the Tuatha de Danann, and those skills and magic will always be his to wield.”
    So blinded by grief was Brigid, so badly did she want her son to live again, that she agreed to her mother’s terms. But still, Morrigu was not satisfied.
    “Should Ruadan drain a man and replenish him with Tainted blood, he shall Turn. Your son will create others and he will rule a master race long after all whom you know and love turn to dust and ash. Even knowing this, will you still give him my blood to drink?”
    And again, Brigid agreed without hesitation. Morrigu cut her wrist and bled into a silver goblet. Brigid lifted her son’s head, opened his mouth, and poured every drop of her mother’s blood into him.
    When Ruadan awoke, he was deamhan fola.
    Bres, devastated by the loss of his sons, went himself to the Isle of Eire to wreak vengeance on his enemy, but he, too, was killed. Finally, the Tuatha de Danann triumphed over the Fomhoire, and there came to pass an uneasy peace between their peoples.
    But Aine was frightened of the creature her husband had become and refuted him, calling him demon and eater of flesh. He wished only happiness for his family and so, he bartered with Aine. If she returned with his mother to the Isle of Eire and raised their sons as Tuatha de Danann, he would leave them alone.
    For twenty-five years, Ruadan wandered the world. He made six others of his kind. And then, because he longed to see his sons, Ruadan broke his promise. He visited his twin boys—and both were killed. He turned them into deamhan fola, and together, they left the Isle of Eire.
    Ruadan summoned his first six deamhan fola to a meeting, and they created the Council. They labored to create laws for their people and bound all deamhan fola with magic and by oath to uphold these laws. Those who broke faith with their Families faced banishment … or death.
    And so it was that Brigid’s son fulfilled her mother’s prophecy.
    He was the creator of the deamhan fola.
    He was ruler over all.
    He was Ruadan the First.

Chapter 4
    I made breakfast every evening around seven p.m. Wilson almost always hung around long enough to scarf food down. Then we would get into the usual where-are-you-going argument and he’d stomp out of the trailer, and I’d go to work.
    We sat at the foldout table in the kitchen. Wil shoveled eggs into his mouth while I mentally lamented my inability to suck down a pot of coffee like I used to when I was human.
    “Who’s Gabriel?” he asked.
    Startled, I looked at him and felt myself blush—which wasn’t easy for a vampire to do. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
    He smirked at me. “I heard you last night, all the way from the kitchen. ‘Oh, Gabriel,’ “ he said in a high-pitched, girly voice. “ ‘Oh! Oh!’”
    “Stop it!”
    “I know about sex, Mom.” He shoved a deviled egg into his mouth and glared at me while he chewed it. “When are you going to introduce me to your boyfriend?”
    “He’s not my boyfriend. He’s just—” A hot shape-shifting, bad-ass, yummilicious man. I’d be damned if I admitted that I’d dreamed about a man I’d met for all of two seconds.
    “Jessica wants me to go to the parent-teacher meeting tonight,” I said, switching to a subject neither one of us much liked. “Why don’t you go with me? Maybe you can talk to Eva about getting caught up on your studies—”
    “Not this again!” He slammed his fork against the table. Egg bits went flying. “I don’t want to go to school, okay? It’s lame and I’m no good at it.”
    “You’re smart. You could do well if you wanted.”
    “Yeah, if I wanted.” He scooted out from the table. “I’m old enough to make my own decisions. Why don’t you just