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times. Once had been Blair, and she heard him
cursing at her. Then her sister. She wasn’t sure which one, but she’d bet it
was Ruby. Diamond would just leave her alone, so she knew it wasn’t her. When
she stood up to dive into the water to leave, she noticed that it had gotten
dark, and as she swam to the shoreline, she could see that the nocturnal animals
had come out and were feeding. Shifting to wolf, she quietly made her way back
to the house, but reached for Diamond before coming into view of the house.
    Is he gone? She laughed,
and Sapphire wanted to go back out to the falls and live there the rest of her
life, but Diamond finally answered.
    Oh, he’s gone all right, but has left
strict orders for us to call him the moment we see you. I’d very much
appreciate it if you didn’t make me have to call him and stay out of sight.
I’ll go down and leave you clothes in the kitchen and the door unlocked for
you.
    Sapphire waited for her to turn the
light on and move out of the kitchen before she made her way to the decking. She’d
never do anything to get her sisters into trouble. She was just pulling her
shirt over her head when Sapphire spoke to her again.
    I don’t think he’ll be back, do you? She didn’t wait
for an answer but continued. I really made him mad, but he pissed me off
too. He….
    She wasn’t going to say anything else,
but Diamond asked, He what, Sapphire? What did he do to you to make you so
hurt?
    He didn’t want me. I mean at all.
Instead of having sex with me, he…he did it himself, then told me to get
dressed like I was some prostitute he’d just had and was finished with. She felt her
anger rising again . He said me being naked around him was hard on him. Like
I was undressed because I’d taken my towel off. And I didn’t invite him to my
room. He came up there.
    Diamond was quiet as Sapphire made it up
the stairs without being seen. It wasn’t until she locked the door behind her
and looked at the clock that she realized how late it was. Midnight. She’d been
outside for nearly three hours.
    So the two of you aren’t mated? The question
startled her. She knew that they’d not had sex, no intercourse at least. But
what he’d done to her, did that mean he was marked? Probably not. Men of her
kind did the marking, not the females.
    No, we’re not. She lay down on
the bed as she continued to talk to her sister. I have to go back to the
other house tomorrow. I have to sign off on it for the new owners. I should be
there and back in no time. But…. But I might stay for a couple of days. I was
going to see if the job offer from Bruce is still open. He said I could work
from here and only come into town once or twice a month.
    I guess you won’t be able to work for
Blair now either. That’s too bad. I thought you could do wonders for his firm. She heard her
sister sigh . I’m going in for an interview in the morning. I have one at the
hospital as an emergency room nurse. I think I’ll enjoy it more than an office.
    They talked for a few more minutes, and
Sapphire rolled to her back, just realizing that someone had made her bed.
Picking up the pillow, she put it to her nose and could smell her grandmother. Smiling,
she put it back and got up to look at the gifts her sisters had given her on
the first day.
    The one from Emerald was a framed
picture of the two of them. She remembered the day it was taken and smiled.
They’d been at the park running, just the two of them. The next gift was from
Opal. It was a journal. She touched the pretty cover and knew that her sister
had made it, stitching it from things she’d made something larger from. Opal
made a good living from crafting things out of scraps of this and that. Diamond
had given her a Kindle Fire. And with it was a gift card from Jade for her to
download books. She picked up the gift from Ruby.
    She’d framed one of her art pieces. It
was of her; Sapphire knew this and could see her sister while Sapphire had sat
for the