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looking deliriously smug from her spot on the front row. Mandy checking my head for a fever. Nina crying hysterically thanks to her raging hormones. Remy carrying me into the elevator. My top coming off. My pants sliding down.
    And?
    And that was it. No shouting his name or clawing his back or bursting into a thousand tiny pieces. The next thing I knew I’d opened my eyes to find a naked Remy in my bathroom and the worst hangover of my life.
    I’d cheated and I couldn’t even remember it.
    If I’d cheated.
    Hope blossomed. Crazy I knew considering the odds were soooo stacked against me. But hey, I loved Ty. And while I’m not the nicest person at times (think a half-off sale at Nordstrom’s and me wielding a Louis Vuitton), I wasn’t a two-timing cheat.
    Was I?
    Panic bolted through me and I sat up. My head pounded and the bed seemed to shake. My watery gaze scrambled around the room. “I need to talk to Remy.”
    “Of course you do.” Nina gave me a wink. “We’ll get out of here so you guys can have a few minutes to talkti>.”
    “No, really. I just want to talk to him.”
    “You talk away.” My mother set her glass aside and gave Remy a nudge. “My daughter wants to talk to her new eternity mate and finally end the lonely, grandchild-less hell that has been my existence for the past several hundred years.” She swept a glance around the room. “Everybody out. Now .”
    A split second later blessed silence settled in and I found myself alone with Remy.
    He sank down on the edge of the bed beside me and started unbuttoning his shirt.
    I scrambled backward. “What are you doing?”
    “I thought you wanted to talk?”
    “I do. That means I say something. You say something. I say something else. You tell me this was all a mistake. Talk .”
    “Oh.” He started re-buttoning. “I just figured you wanted a repeat of last night.”
    My stomach dropped a good two feet. “So we really did it?”
    “Of course we did it.” He seemed to think. “I mean, I’m pretty sure we did it. You were naked. I was naked. We got naked together.” His gaze met mine. “We had to have done it, right?”
    “Not necessarily.” I gave him a hopeful smile. “Maybe all we did was get naked.”
    “We’re vampires, Lil. Do you honestly think we got naked and didn’t do anything?”
    He had a point. BVs lived to do the nasty.
    At the same time, I was sinking fast. I needed a lifeline. “It is possible. Maybe you passed out and I passed out before we really got to the good stuff. Maybe that’s why we can’t remember doing it. Maybe there’s nothing to remember.” My gaze collided with his. “You have to have sex to seal the deal. If we didn’t consummate, then the whole thing is null and void. No sex. No deal.”
    “Is the thought of spending eternity with me really that bad?” Before I could shout an enthusiastic hell, yeah ! he rushed on, “Come on, we’re perfect for each other. You know it. I know it. Our families know it. It’s always been just a matter of time before we stopped fighting the inevitable. Let’s end all the controversy and just accept the fact that we belong together. It’s our destiny.”
    I eyeballed him. “You’re scared shitless of your mother, aren’t you?” I finally asked.
    He nodded. “And yours. But even if I wasn’t afraid to throw a wrench into their party plans, I’d still want to go through with this. I’m through with the endless stream of women. It’s time for me to settle down. To do my duty and carry on the Tremaine name. Why not with you?”
    Because you don’t love me and I don’t love you . It was there on the tip of my tongue, but I held it back because a)Remy wasn’t exactly his usual brotherly self at the moment(I could tell by the hard gleam in his eyes and the crazed way he was looking at me—as if I were the last Krispy Kreme and he was running a quart low on insulin) and b) my throat was suddenly too tight to talk.
    I was committed to Remy.
    Worse, Remy