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Yes, she was Darkyn No, she had no choice but to live on human blood Yes, she could make a little more effort in the assi inside her skull, as really going to dig in and do a lot of dahts She could still feel the girl’s pleasure, still hear everything that had flashed through her head Whether it would fade like the physical afterglow of feeding or remain imprinted was yet to be seen, but whatever happened she’d have to live hat she’d done to that girl She’d taken her blood and in the process had brainwashed her

Maybe the same way Lucan had done to her the first ti in her pocket Lucan had a habit of reprograht it played the the the device down the sewer, but that would onlyfor her

She flipped open the phone "Leave me alone"

"I’d love to, sweetie," Alexandra Keller said, "but the pain currently drilling a hole in er works onabout it I’ed by my blood," Alex reminded her "That means whenever you’re in trouble, I feel it As for what that feels like, ever stick an ice pick in your ear?"

"Please don’t giveat the back of the Arodda is fine, Alex I’ is fine, why do you sound so pissed off?"

Sahts on the fourth floor "Lucan took me out to hunt My first tied blood since I changed You knohat it’s like when you use a human"

"Can’t say I do," Alex ads into anyone other than Michael Was it that bad?"

"Before, when I was hus because I loved hi platforht You feel the exact sa When you bite theo crazy for you, and you feel that, and then you want them just as much I can’t explain it better than that"

"I’ve done so similar" Her tone remained neutral "What’s your probleirl feel pain and horror, like in the movies?"

"Jesus, no, of course not" Sa and sat down on the bottom steps "It just makes me wonder, you know? I never fell in love until I met Lucan, and then it happened so fast … but I didn’t fall in love until after he used ot to spend a little tirabbed me in Fort Lauderdale, and he would never--"

"No, Alex" She didn’t want to hear about Lucan and what he’d never do "It was bad enough finding out I look just like the chick he had a crush on in the seventeen hundreds or whatever Maybe that’s the whole deal for him: that I look like her"

"I know you’re upset, Sam, but honest to God--"

"And what if I do that to someone else?" she demanded "What if I bite them and make them think they love me and then somehow infect theave me your blood, and you weren’t even in the roo sentence, please?" Alex waited until she heard silence, and then added, "Thank you Okay Let’s get a few things straight You can’t infect anyone unless they’re already carrying Darkyn DNA, they’re dying, and you give the them Got it?"

"Yeah," Sam muttered

"I don’t knohat the deal is between you and Lucan right now," Alex continued, "but you are not now nor have you ever been a stand-in for Frances He loves you, kiddo He told me, and I saw his face and his eyes when he said it He wasn’t lying"

"He told you that when I was hu on s You should have heard how he talked about humans He called us …" She trailed off as she tried to remember the exact phrase "He called us a movable feast"

"If all you were to Lucan was a Happy Meal, then why did he give you my blood after Dwyer shot you? Why was he so desperate to save your life?" When Sairl, and I’reat in the sack, but really, sweetie Look at the guy"

Samantha felt the hair on the back of her neck prickle, and turned around to see Lucan standing a few steps above her She didn’t kno long he had been listening, but his face had no expression and he didn’t , he’s blond, and he’s a badass," Alex was saying on the phone "He can have--correction, probably has had--any woman he wants"

She stood up slowly "They’re all like that Maybe that’s all there is"