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Her question received another shrug Truthfully, Jaeden didn’t knohat her telekinetic abilities were Her greatest fear in fact were those abilities and whether it meant, as she suspected it did, that so her captivity and torture

"Look" The vaet about this? I’ll go hoain, OK?"

No Not OK

"See that guy" Jae pointed to the dead teenager that lay slurave stone His neck had been ripped open so badly it was a wonder his head was still attached to his body She concealed a shudder, turning away froest the sa to you when he first felt the bite of your teeth? Did you listen? Apparently not"

Blondie spluttered, "He’s just a human!"

Jaeden snorted in response "Yeah, well, weren’t we all once"

"I have an to back up as Jaeden drew closer with the axe "Whatever you want"

Jeez, ere these chicks ever going to learn?

"This isn’t a negotiation You kill hu through the air on its side before she’d even finished her sentence It sliced through wind and then straight into the vaular Blondie’s eyes popped wide, and she ave out beneath her and the choking greorse as blood poured out of her mouth

Jae didn’t even flinch

She strode towards the vamp, knelt down beside her and put pressure on either ends of the axe until it cut right through, crunching and squishing until it hit the round beneath her, her head completely detached from her undead body

Silence

Jae pulled at her axe and then wiped the axe blade clean on the girl’s cash her own scarf to wipe the blood splatter off her face

A quick glance at her watch 520a the body to nothing No one would ever know she had been there It was funny that, sheaway fro, a vampyre could walk around in the day no problem But once their undead bodies were really well dead the sun did a clean-up job Legend had it this began after Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, had a child, Asclepius, who pissed off Hades by bringing the dead back to life with his healing powers Since the dead were Hades charge, he went to his brother, Zeus, who had Apollo’s kid killed In revenge, Apollo killed the Cyclops, enraging Zeus, who caught up with him and threatened to send hi from Leto, Apollo’s mama, Zeus lessened his punishment, with the proviso that Apollo help him keep the deadly creatures a secret fro up their bodies when they died Apollo gave the job to the sun, and the rest is ancient history

Jaeden sighed, her eyes settling back on the boy She hated to leave him like that but she couldn’t be involved in any way He would just have to be found by a hue, central ce Not that, thataway

Before she had begun this new life with Reuben she hadn’t known thatso small, was protective of their kids, and only a few of them really knewthat for the past few centuries vaoddess Deun to die by the time they reached three, four hundred years old,the world, and thus ues even harder But there were still the few out there whose bodies hadn’t been affected by evolution, and if the legends were true, a rare nueneration vampyres: the first to be born after Hades stole Persephone (Dehter) and h to curse Hades’ varadually changed their natures over tieneral Jaeden shuddered at the thought If there was still a vamp out there from that time, it was probably a feral killer with the survival skills of a god She pushed the folklore meant to scare small vamps at a campfire out of her mind, and she wandered back to the base into sorew to the apartment, however, the quieter the city streets became The sun had risen, and soon those quiet streets would be buzzing with city slickers who had no idea they shared their world, their jobs, and sometimes even their homes, with supernatural beasties such as her More i, and that if a certain young woht spill over into their lives