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Brenden shrugged. “He’s good people. He has far more political punch than Ryan. He could actually help us in the Assembly.”

“He’ll destroy his own career if he does,” Mariana said. “But he knows that. This emergency session will be one of the last where he’ll be able to serve as an Assemblyman, so he plans to go for broke—vampire rights and nothing else. His people will lynch him.”

“Greece never has liked vampires much,” Billy said with a shrug. “This is what Cáel wanted to tell you?”

“He can’t do both jobs at once. Not control the agency
and
attend the Assembly. He wants me to help him. Nayara is fine with it.”

Billy turned her chin enough so that she could see his face. His green eyes were grave. “You would be perfect for that job.”

“He wants me to go to Macapá with him for the session. I get to liaise between Cáel and Nayara back at the agency.”

“Even better,” Billy said. “He’s got contacts galore there. Even just hanging around in the corridors, you’ll meet all the right people.”

“But I won’t be
here
!” Mariana pressed her hand against Brenden’s chest. The softness of his flesh always astonished her and now she could hear his heart stir. “I won’t be with you.”

Billy shrugged. She could feel the movement of his chest against her back. “So?”

Brenden took her shoulders and moved her away from him, until he could see her face. Billy stepped out and around, so that he could, too. He looked puzzled.

“You’re falling into a human way of thinking,” Brenden told her gently. “You keep thinking of time as finite. It’s not your fault. Until last week, time
was
finite for you. But it isn’t anymore.”

Mariana bit her lip. “You’re right.”

Brenden rested his hand on Billy’s shoulder. “I love you. Both of you. I fought it harder than I have fought anything in my life, but now I’m not. I’m here to stay, for as long as you want me, for as long as I can convince you that I’m worth keeping around. But that could be a very long time. I hope it is for another few millennia at least. It’ll take me that long to get used to it.”

“Get
used
to it?” Billy snorted. “He’s been like a cat that got the cream all week. Anyone would think he invented exclusivity.”

Brenden grinned. “It’s the honeymoon period. I’ll get back to being grumpy soon enough. But that’s the thing, Mariana. We’ve got as long as we want to do whatever we want, whenever we want to. But right now, there are a few things we
have
to do and one of those is fighting a war.”

She drew in a breath and let it out, calming herself and stilling her heart. Talk of war made her tremble, but the more she thought about what might happen in the future, the more certain it seemed to her that war was inevitable.

Billy picked up her hand. “We’re soldiers. Always have been, always will be. We’re going to have to go and fight this thing, because this time, we’re going to be fighting for vampires, not just the humans we’re passing among.”

“I’ve seen a lot of wars,” Brenden added. “And I’ve learned something from all of them. No war was ever won on the battlefield. It’s the politicians that do all the peacemaking. That’s you, Mariana.”

She had to take another calming breath. And a third. “That photo…” she whispered.

“That photo could be a hundred years away,” Brenden reminded her. “But you and Cáel are probably the best shot vampires have of coming out of this with any sort of a future. You have to go with him to Macapá and you have to do everything you can to help.”

Billy drew her into his arms. “After the war is over,” he said, “we can sort out what we want to do with the rest of our lives. Frankly, I don’t care what that is, as long as you and Brenden are part of it.”

“Playboy to upstanding citizen in four weeks. Damn, I’m good,” Brenden said and she could hear the laughter in his voice.

But Billy didn’t laugh. “He’s right. I blame both of you for saving my life and giving it meaning again. Go to Macapá. Be brilliant. We’ll be waiting when you get back.”

“Always,” Brenden added.

As Billy kissed her, Brenden held her.

Right here, between them
, she promised herself.
This is where I’ll come back to.
Now all she had to do was win the right to do that.

Finally, she had something to fight for.

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