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take your word on that since I haven’t been alive that long. I’ve only seen twenty-seven, which probably seems like nothing to you.”
    “Maybe not, but the main thing is I finally found you.”
    “So you’re still sure I’m your mate?”
    “Yes. That hasn’t changed. If anything, making love to you has reaffirmed that. My werewolf side wants to keep you in this bed and have sex with you until you’ve fully accepted me as yours and the mate bond forms between us. My vampire side wants to do the blood exchange that will also tie you to me.”
    “You might be ready for all that, but I’m not sure I am.”
    He kissed her forehead. “I know. You live in a world where werewolves and vampires aren’t supposed to exist. Even before I went to sleep it was getting to be that way. Humans have always had a hard time accepting what they don’t understand.”
    Waverly had to agree with that. If everyone knew supernatural beings actually existed, there would be riots in the streets. Plus, there was a good chance they’d try to wipe those two races off the face of the Earth.
    “I might still find it a bit of a shock to know what you are, but I think I’m well on my way to understanding,” she said with a smile.
    Brolach grinned. “I’m glad.”
    She grew serious. “Can I ask you a couple questions?”
    “Of course. Anything. You’re my mate.”
    “All right. First question. Why were you buried for two thousand years? Couldn’t you’ve found a better place to sleep? Like a cave or something?”
    Brolach rolled to his back and took Waverly with him so she lay sprawled across his chest. “I didn’t put myself in the ground. I was buried with the hopes I’d eventually die.”
    Waverly slide off him and sat up at his side. “What? Someone tried to murder you?”
    “Not a single someone. It was more than one person.”
    “Why?”
    “Because of what I am. A hybrid. My mother’s people, the vampires, believe it’s an abomination for one of their kind to mate or breed with a werewolf, which they consider to be animals.”
    “Obviously, your mother didn’t think that way.”
    He smiled. “No, she didn’t. She loved my father with all her heart. Since they knew their mating would cause problems with her kind, my parents decided to leave their homeland and cross the ocean on a trip that hadn’t ever been done before. My mother was already pregnant with me at the time. After they arrived here, they met the native people, who’d never seen a vampire or a werewolf before, let alone someone with white skin. They took my parents in and treated them as if they were from the gods.”
    “Where did they come from?”
    “A land very far to the north where winter came earlier and lasted longer. During the warm months, the sun never set. And in the colder ones it never rose. My parents called the land Suomi.”
    Waverly shook her head. “I’ve heard of that name. I dated a foreign exchange student in high school. He was from Finland. Suomi is Finnish for Finland. When did your parents come to South Dakota?” At Brolach’s blank stare, she added, “When did they come to these lands? They’re called South Dakota now.”
    “Three thousand years ago. I was born here.”
    “Holy crap. Your parents pre-dated the Vikings coming to North America by two thousand years. That means they were the first white people to find the continent.”
    “You speak of things I don’t understand.”
    “Your parents coming to these lands, being the first non-natives, it’s a big deal. And if it became common knowledge, it’d change history.”
    “That wasn’t their intent. No one knew for sure if there was actual land to be found across the ocean. They were willing to take the risk to live in peace. It was particularly hard on my mother. They made the trip in the summer. Vampires can’t survive in the sun. My father built a coffin for her to sleep in when it was light. Many of her kind had traveled that way.”
    “I guess