ey got to her before she could help Uncle J

not too sure we should be worried about Trevor Coppola,"

re she was in the picture, but now it was even worse.Like everyone else, Noah suspec

Eliza suspected Noah might also be a little j

asn't given me any reason to doubt him,"

ke doesn't always give wa

Noah," sh

lips. "You're not going t

the one making

ulders. "Well if I could t

operative type,

d with a grimace, "but I

ingness to compromise. Being the leader of the Sinapu had its advantages

the passions they'd shared and how his tenderness and desir

ody was totally unexpected. Her throat tightened, an

orce words from her dry

to stay with me until the Changing.After my transition, you wil

tantly be in Noah's company for the next two weeks.After their last agon

za ... but I never meant for that to happen.I never wanted t

stood that he was trying to find a way to let her down gently. She instinctively knew

ead with him not to say the words that would push the

lds.You come from the world of man ... but I'm destined to spend

med what she'd feared for months. He hadn't just been trying to protect her.Noah

uld be sentencing you to living most of your life alone.We could only be together during the fu

a way to defy fate.Eliza had told herself that it wasn't so unreasonable to hope he c

lized how futile her hopes had been.Hope would not stem the tide of fate

n. In fact, I completely

and beg him to defy fate, but wasn't that ex

leader, and they would no longer be able to protect the Hear

ity was to accept , she knew Noah was doing the right thing. Accepting this was one thing

ing goodbye that much harder in the end. But

agreement , she'd already decided tha