. I knew that you would come back ... that you would come back to me. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.”She was crying and kissing me all over my fac.... She had her arms wrapped around me in a death grip. I dropped the backpack and held her as tight as I could. Finally she stopped screaming and just stood there holding me and sobbing and shaking.By this time a crowd came to the door to see what the commotion was about. Sharon stood there with her mouth open, Barbra just said, “Oh Lord ... Oh my. I somehow watched her from afar, time to time when she laid those clothes and picked them back up in the evening. I managed to cheekily direct my CCTV facing her rooftop.A part of me said I must approach her and tell her how I felt. But this isn’t London or New York, people were religious. They were far more conservative and culturally bound to certain rules. I knew the chances I had with her were slimmer than my patience.The desire grew within me. The love I had for her turned into some kind. ”She blinked at him. “What? Fair to you? I don’t—”“Fair to you.”“I’m ... not sure what you mean.”Sighing, he gestured to himself as he turned on the bed, one leg pulled up onto the blankets so he could face her. “Mom, you’re a fledgling. Your job right now is to learn how to manage being a vampire. The only things on your mind should be”—he counted off on his fingers—”learning how to hunt, how to avoid the sun, how to keep your head low, and how to maintain the Masquerade.”“Well they’re not.. I looked at her blankly, like you would look at a small child who asked why a mountain was where it was instead of someplace else or some other equally inane question.Nobody else knew what we were talking about but they were beginning to show an interest because of Tiffs persistence in this line of questioning."Well, can you make me one?" Tiff asked with more than a little irritation in her voice. She had been reduced to asking outright for something from her brother.Victory was within reach. I.