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.The bag slung over one shoulder, her travel mug collected, she was off.A couple of her students waved at her as she exited Digby Hall and headed down the path that led to one of the smaller parking lots tucked behind the lecture halls.She breathed in the crisp autumn air, surprised at how dark it was getting this early in the day.The sun was gone, and what light was left had turned the sky a deep bloodred that was rapidly fading in the west.Her steps were quick, the sound of her low boot heels clicking against the pavement in the quiet being punctuated only occasionally by the sounds of distant chatter.Lily watched a student hop into her car and drive off, the only other person in sight.Unease unfurled, quickly and unexpectedly, in her stomach.What was she trying to do, become a poster girl for how to get bad things to happen to you?“I’m not the stupid girl who always dies first in horror movies,” she told herself.“My boobs aren’t big enough.”The thought made her smile a little, but Lily still sped up as she caught sight of her car, now surrounded by empty parking spaces.She was just pulling her keys from her pocket when she felt the hair on the back of her neck begin to rise.Her steps quickened.Instinctively, she knew she was no longer alone—and she was being very carefully watched.Every movement.Every rapid beat of her heart.Lily swallowed hard, drew in a shallow breath.Without even looking, she knew who it was.Her encounter with Tynan MacGillivray might have sent her into a tailspin, might have left her in a fog that hadn’t completely lifted, but she would never forget how his very presence had made her feel, as though she were nothing but a tiny, insignificant planet being pulled inexorably into the orbit of a powerful, and potentially deadly, star.Over the last couple of days, she’d almost managed to convince herself that she was making too much of the strangeness of their meeting.But now, confronted again with the way every cell in her body tingled at his nearness, her normally iron will already softening and threatening to desert her, she knew her initial instincts had been right.There was something very wrong about him.Something dangerous.And yet she found herself turning to where she knew he was, wanting desperately to see his face again.He stood at the edge of the deserted parking lot, just outside the bright glow of the lights that illuminated the few cars, looking as though he’d been conjured out of her darkest longings and made flesh.There was little shadow to be had anywhere near the lights’ fluorescent glow, and yet it seemed he’d managed to find some to stand in.Or, Lily thought as she drank him in, maybe men like Tynan simply created their own shadow.That was crazy—but no crazier than the rest of this.“Lily.You and I need to talk.”His voice was just as she remembered, deep and slightly ragged.And at its sound, it took every ounce of her willpower to stay still.Every word he said seemed to translate to the same thing when it hit her ears: come to me.But this time, there was a difference.She’d had time to think about what he might be, what he might do to her before vanishing again into thin air.Things that would be worse than any nightmare.Mentally, she dug in her heels, envisioning her feet encased in cement right where she stood.Whatever he was trying to get her to do, it wasn’t going to happen, no matter how good he looked just standing there in his own little pool of darkness like some modern-day version of Dracula.She felt light-headed, almost a little drunk, and Lily dug in harder, pushed back.A quick flash of emotion crossed Tynan’s face as she concentrated, forcing the fog in her mind to lift a little.She saw both anger and bewilderment clear as day in the split second he let them show before schooling his expression into inscrutability.Her blood turned to ice, but her fear, unwelcome though it was, anchored her that much more firmly in reality.“Look,” he said slowly, holding her gaze with his own.“I’m sorry for the other night
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