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photos. A hard drive with things that Kate and Amber wrote for various
classes. A quilt Kate made from clothes we all loved so much we wore them until
they nearly fell apart. And Amber’s stuffed lion from when she was little. The
rest I really don’t care about. Some clothes too of course. You are thinking
they’ll eventually get tired of waiting and go in and trash the place, right?”
    “Yes, I am. If it looks as if you’re there but they never
see you coming and going it will make him wonder. I can even slip in past them
to turn lights on and off, move some things around. That would really confuse
him.”
    “Anything that preoccupies him is a good thing.”
    “Any other plans on the horizon? Of how to get to him, I
mean.”
    “Well…”
    “What?”
    “I considered hanging a banner with ‘murderer’ on it from
the building across the street so he’d see it first thing in the morning but I
doubt I could manage it, even at night.”
    “Just to annoy him or for the world to see?”
    “Mainly to annoy him.”
    Kellen grinned. “How about you go one better? Spray-paint it
on the inside of the wall surrounding his place.”
    Frankie laughed without humor. “I’d love to but how? It’s
not very likely they’d let me just stroll in there.”
    “You could if I kept his men on the gate busy.”
    The longer Frankie thought about it the bigger her grin
became. “You really think it would work?”
    “I’m certain it could. I’ll even poke around in their minds
and plant the thought that it was an uneventful night with nothing out of the
ordinary happening.”
    “You can do that?”
    He nodded.
    “Oh that would be so good!”
     
    As they were leaving Frankie’s apartment with her few
treasured possessions Kellen wondered, “What is it that you said you needed
daylight to accomplish?”
    Frankie waited until they were safely in his SUV to respond.
“I applied to the agency that does his cleaning. I thought I could write on his
bathroom mirror or something.”
    Kellen whistled. “Wow do you have balls.”
    “No. Not really. Before you I just didn’t care what happened
anymore.”
    He looked at her expression in the dim light. “And you do
now?”
    “Yes. I’m not numb now that I’ve met you. You’ve made me
feel things other than pain and emptiness.”
    “That’s great, Frankie. It goes both ways, you know?”
    “I do. I heard what you said before. All of it. I want this
behind me so we can get on with the things you talked about. I understand there
are risks but I just know it’ll be okay.” She paused. “I’m sorry but I can’t
just let this go. I have to do this first. I have to.”
    He squeezed her hands clenched in her lap. “It’s okay. I get
it. You’ll never forget how you lost them. But we’ll talk often and through you
they’ll become my family too. For eternity.”
    Kellen was glad they had just pulled into his garage. His
words affected Frankie and she was sitting there with tears rolling down her
cheeks. He slid his seat back and pulled her across the console onto his lap,
comforting her until she calmed.
    “I’m not really crying,” she stated.
    “Of course you’re not.”
    “It’s just that’s about the nicest thing anyone ever said to
me.”
    “I do understand, Frankie. So you know, I meant every word
of it. I want to know all about them, everything you remember about your
parents too.”
    “You’ll tell me about your family as well?”
    “Absolutely. I’ll tell you everything about my life. After
all, we will have unlimited time for it.”
    His comment drew the chuckle he hoped for.
    “Now come on. Let’s get you settled in and then we can come
up with a disguise for you when you go inside since I can’t be with you that
day. I need to make sure you’ll be safe until you get back to me.”
    She hugged him tightly. “Thank you, Kellen. If I get hired I
promise I’ll be okay. And then, once that’s done, you can make me into a
vampire so I can confront