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    “That's probably a good sign,” he said with a sigh, and before she could ask for what, Sophia yawned hugely and felt a deep sleepiness take her over. She struggled to keep her eyes open, but the stress of the attack and her rescue, followed by what she and Dominic had just done got the best of her.
    She drifted off to sleep. She was only faintly aware of Dominic getting up to dispose of the condom before returning to cradle her against his chest in the tiny bed.
    On the floor, inside Dominic's pocket, the quartz crystal suddenly lit up a bright red, but neither of the people on the bed noticed it.

CHAPTER SIX

    SOPHIA WAS A restless sleeper, but it hadn't always been that way. When she was younger, her mother had said that she slept like a rock, waiting for the end of the world and in no hurry at all. Then she turned twenty, and everything had changed.  
    In her dream, glass was shattering, there were two male voices raised in what she could only describe as battle roars, and she was running, running, running. The palms of her hands and her knees were shredded and leaking blood, but she knew she had to get away.   She would be safe if no one could see her. She knew that. As long as no one knew where she was, she would always be safe.
    Sophia opened her eyes, suddenly confused as to why she was awake at five in the morning. There was a little bit of light streaming through her closed blinds, but everything was still a muted pearly gray. It would have been lovely if she was a morning person, but in general, she was not.
    Then she realized that there was a man cradling her, one heavy arm flung over her hip, snoring softly in her ear. She froze, but then the events of the past day came rushing back to her. She remembered the man in the alley and her rescue. Sophia blushed when she remembered how they had looked at each other, how they had pleasured each other until they couldn't take it any more. She had never had a one-night stand before, and the idea that at any moment, Dominic would open his eyes, perhaps give her a good-natured kiss and be out of her life forever, made her ache. She wondered how a sophisticated woman would handle this, but instead, all she felt was a sense of panic. She slid out from under his arm silently, and she saw Zora sitting on the chair across the room, watching her with wise green eyes.  
    Stay calm, her cat seemed to say. Just stay calm, everything else will follow.
    Or you just want to be fed, Sophia thought wryly.
    Silently, she went to her closet to get dressed, and then she went to the kitchen to make sure that her cat's bowl was full. When she returned to the bedroom, her eyes were drawn to Dominic's large form, big enough to take over her bed and then some. She realized that he must have been fiendishly uncomfortable in the narrow bed, but that he had stayed anyway.
    Her mind was awash with conflicting thoughts, but her heart was already warming to the man. As for her body, well. There was a faint and pleasurable soreness to her body that made her smile, and there was no doubt that if Dominic woke up and wanted more, she would be happy to return to bed.
    Absentmindedly, she reached down to hang his shirt and jeans up over the chair, and to nudge his boots over to one side. Living in a small space made her want to keep everything out of the way, but as she did so, she realized that his boots were far heavier than they should have been. Without thinking about it, she looked closer and stared at what she saw.
    The boots were of a kind she knew very well, tall and suited for field work or construction. However, the daggers that were sheathed to either side of the boots were another thing, and eyes wide, she drew one out.
    It was half-again as long as her palm, delicate and beautiful as a ballerina. The hilt was leather, worn down with long use in Dominic's hands. When she touched the tip of the dagger timidly, she was shocked to see a bead of red blood well up almost immediately. She