CHAPTER 1 “You going to stand out here all night?” Devon lifted an eyebrow, sliding silently out from around the tree. Chris turned to him, shaking his head slightly. Though Chris hadn’t known exactly where Devon was, he had known that he was there. “If that’s what it takes.” Chris rolled his eyes as he shoved his hands in his pockets and came across his front yard toward Devon. “Cassie will be pissed if she knows you’re watching over her.” “She already knows.” Chris’s dark blond eyebrows shot up questioningly, he turned slightly back to Cassie’s house. “She may not want it to be true, but we are still connected. Though it was only a few drops her blood is still inside me. There has always been a bond between us, there always will be. How is she?” Chris glanced at Cassie’s house, his face darkened. They had buried her grandmother today, the only family Cassie had left in this world, and the only woman that had given Chris even an ounce of love and caring. “The same,” he muttered. “Unfortunately.” Devon knew exactly how Chris felt. Since her grandmother’s murder Cassie had been withdrawn, furious, and lost. She had turned against the one’s she loved, especially him, wanting nothing more to do with him, or his love for her. It was a fact that broke his non beating heart,