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outside.” 
    “That was not my intent.  I intended for him to see to your safety himself.”
    “He had something personal he had to do.  He’s entitled to a personal life after all.”
    “Rob has no personal life,” Jakob snorted, lifting the phone to his ear.
    “I think he’d disagree with you there.  He had to go take care of something important, something that might leave him out of touch for a while.” 
    “Rob serves at my pleasure, he does not disagree with me.  He won’t ignore my call.”  The utter confidence in his voice was betrayed by the fact that his call went straight to voicemail, and I heard Rob’s gravelly voice on the outgoing message.  The furrow on Jakob’s brow deepened, and he sent a text, his fingers moving too fast for me to track the words.  “I’ll get to the bottom of this.”
    “Jakob…” I pulled the phone out of his hands when he was through.  He seemed entirely too agitated over the prospect of Rob going walkabout.  Was there something he wasn’t telling me?  “Jakob, what difference does it make?  It’s not like I’m in any real danger here, everybody knows me.  I’m the Jarl, remember?” 
    “With such a position comes added risk.”
    “And I can take it.  I’ve got the guys to be my visual deterrent, and I’m not on the weak side myself.  Besides, you’re sticking around for a while, right?”
    “True.”
    “So don’t go getting all grumpycakes with Rob.  If it was urgent enough for him to leave like that, it must be important, right?”
    “We shall see.”  Jakob rose to his feet abruptly, pocketing his phone.  “Tomorrow night, I will come for you at dusk.”
    I did a swift mental calculation and figured I’d have to take care of some things first.  Namely taking Ellie out to eat, and I should probably feed myself.  The hotter my blood got, the less I’d be able to resist his charms.  “Let’s make it eight o’clock.  Unless you want to have my friends tag along.”
    “Isn’t it enough that I share you with them when I ’m not here?” He gave me a pained look.  “Let me at least have you to myself, the better to discuss things away from prying ears.”
    That caught my interest.  He wanted to talk about private stuff?  I still remembered the fascinating insight he’d given me to the origin of our species, and I couldn’t wait to return to the subject.  “Okay then, tomorrow at eight, I’m all yours.”
    “I’ll hold you to that.”  With a final heated look, he swept out of the apartment without a backwards glance to my entourage waiting patiently in the hallway. 
    “Blimey, who was that?”  Ellie stumbled into the room, her mouth hanging half open. 
    “Um…”  I couldn’t come out and call him my Sire, not when Jakob wanted to keep out of vampire society.  “An old friend.”
    She gave a knowing smile.  “An old boyfriend, more like.” 
    “Something like that.” 
    “Now we’ve got something to have a chinwag about ,” Ellie grinned, flopping down on the couch to stare up at me expectantly.  Maggie joined her, remaining silent but no less interested.  Isak and Gunnar filed in a minute later after checking to see if Jakob really left the premises or not. 
    “So, have out with it,” Ellie demanded.  “I think I’ve a right to know who my new Da will be.  Who is he?”
    I let out a long breath.  Who indeed.

Chapter Four
     
    I refused to get into any details of my relationship with Jakob, only saying that I’d met Jake before my involvement with Bishop, and he was interested in seeing me again.  After that it was back to our get to know you session, and I avoided any questions that had to do with my blonde Sire.  Soon enough they stopped pressing for answers, and I even roped the guys into playing a round of Monopoly. 
    The subject of my past with Jakob returned with a vengeance though as soon as I started to get ready for my date the next night. 
    “Your ex is mad sexy,” Ellie