When Melody wakes to the rattling sound of the air conditioner, blasting at full speed, she finds herself alone and dressed in a man's clothing. Who's brilliant idea was this? As she blinks in the shade-darkened room, hazy memories from the night before begin to surface. She remembers that they have found her, here on earth and it is no longer safe. She recalls how they had almost ripped her head out if not for the intervention of Mael. The most disturbing is Mael's gaze down at her in the bathtub with his brows drawn, his face pale from blood loss. How dedicated he was to keeping watch over her. But after that, nothing. Once the poison has begun setting its way from her system, she’d blanked. So . . . vulnerable? She is certain that he’d put her in the tub with her panties on. Now he has
