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faster.  At the point where your heart slows almost to a stop, I’ll feed you my blood, which will send you into the turning sleep.  You’ll be out for two days while your body changes from human to vampire.”
    “You have to time it just right?  What if you get distracted?”
    “As if I’d allow that to happen,” he said with a growl.
    “You growl a lot for a guy who doesn’t have a beast lurking in his subconscious,” she pointed out.
    “You’re the most important person in the world to me, Lia.  I need you to be immortal so I don’t have to spend eternity without you.  Your safety, your security, are of utmost importance to me.”
    She liked how earnest he was.  She didn’t doubt he could turn her safely.  Even though they’d just met, she trusted him to the very center of her being.
    “Then I wake up and…” she prompted.
    “You’ll feed from live donors twice a day for a week, and then you’ll be able to feed once a day as I do.  For the first year, you need real blood, not synthetic, but it’s not a problem.  There are human donation facilities all over the world, and even one in Belle Terra owned by the kiss.  I also own a synthetic blood facility.  Or, I should say, we do.”
    “We?”
    “All I have is yours.”
    “I won’t be able to shift anymore, will I?”
    “No, I’m sorry.”
    She would hate to lose her cat.  She was the last female saber-tooth tiger in existence, but she had Caleb, and she wasn’t about to grow old gracefully while he stayed young and sexy forever.
    “I heard that vampire guys can have kids for the first ten years after their turning.”
    His eyes darkened.  “I’ve only been turned for seven years.”
    “Then you better knock me up fast.”
    His brows rose.  “Oh yeah?”
    She rolled to her knees and faced him.  “I never considered being immortal.  I’m a shifter, so I expected my mate would be mortal, either another shifter or a human.  I feel like its fast, but it also feels very right.  I want to be like you so we can be together forever.  But I’m the last female of my kind.  If you change me now, I won’t be able to have kids because my insides will freeze.  If we wait a little while, then we can have a child together first, and then you can change me.  But you have to swear to change our child, too, because there’s no way I’m going to stand by while our son or daughter ages and dies.  When he or she is old enough to choose, promise.”
    “I swear.  You’ll be able to change them, too, sweetness,” he pointed out.  His gaze latched onto her throat, and her pussy contracted at the thought of his fangs in her again.  “Just one child?”
    He moved sinuously, pushing her to her back.  She wrapped her legs around his waist and curled her hands over his strong shoulders.
    “Maybe a few,” she smiled.
    He lowered his head and brushed her lips.  “My sexy, sweet, tempting mate.  Nothing would make me happier than having children with you.”
    She ran her thumbs along his strong jaw.  “I’m not on birth control.  Whenever this happens between us, I know it will be the right time.  I have a request, though.”
    “Anything,” he said huskily.
    “Promise to bring me ice cream and pickles and whatever other crazy things I crave when I’m knocked up.”
    He smiled so broadly that she was surprised his cheeks didn’t crack.  “I will be the best mate to you, Lia.  Anything you need, you just have to ask and it’s yours, even if I have to pull the moon from the sky to get it.”
    Was there anything sexier than a man vowing to make his mate happy?
    “I’m one lucky female,” she whispered against his lips.
    “I’m the lucky one, Lia.”
     
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    Lia rolled over when her mate woke up.  She’d been up for a little while, thinking about the future and how quickly her life had changed just by going to a club.  She had a mate now, a male to love and care for, who would love and care for her in