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"Are you injured?" he asked His voice, soft and deep, carried a British accent
Unable to find her own, she shook her head
"You knohat I a to the deceased vampires with a tilt of his head
"Yes," she squeezed past her tight throat "Are you … are you all right?"
He nodded and glanced in the direction of the fleeing vampire "I’ve one more to take care of"
"Do you want me to call in reinforce backward in the direction of his prey "And spoilabout that smile, the dark anticipation that filled his handsos in her belly
"A you’re a Second?"
She opened her ative
Seconds were hu the daylight hours when they had to scorn the sun All were very carefully screened to ensure their loyalty and underwent extensiveThey were also a lot like Secret Service agents and wouldn’t hesitate to give their lives to save that of their Immortal Guardian … which hy Seconds were almost always male Apparently most immortals tended to be old-fashioned and found the idea of a wo her life for the of her cell phone made Ami jump and snap her mouth shut
She fumbled for the phone
The iin the chase evident
When she gliroan "Go ahead," she urged the immortal and waved to the bodies of the va up as the parasitic virus that infected them devoured them from the inside out in a desperate bid to live "I’ll take care of this"
He hesitated
Aht the phone to her ear and answered in as nor few minutes "Hi, Seth"
"Hello, sweetheart"
The immortal’s eyebrows flew up No doubt his preternaturally enhanced hearing had allowed hi of the leader of the Immortal Guardians … as well as the affection that laced it
"You’re late Where are you?" Seth continued
"I, ah …" A, considered how assiduously Seth guarded her safety, and thought it best not to worry him "I … just stopped to return the rin split the i transformation that Ami could only stare, speechless
Apparently reassured by her acquaintance with Seth and Darnell (the Second of one of the most powerful immortals) and titillated by her evasion of Seth’s question, he winked, offered her a cocky salute with the sword in his uninjured arm, then seemed to vanish into thin air as he took off after the vaotten away
The tension that she hadn’t realized had tightened nearly everyher with an alht, A’s fine," she said and er--a strangein to the panic that usually consu in terror or dissolving into a pathetic, quivering luroup of vampires who had attacked him
Jubilation laced with treetting better Those monsters hadn’t broken her
"I’m fine," she repeated, so happy now she could’ve danced "Sorry I’ht Be careful"
"I will," she chirped and returned the phone to her pocket with a grin Unscrewing the silencer, she dropped it in her pocket and slipped the Glock into its holster
As she left the trees and approached the decorimace Blech She had never before witnessed what happened to vampires when they were destroyed The scent rese city Dumpster on a hot surated co and weapons The others were rapidly decaying, shriveling up likethe air sucked out of theht shudder shook her
Did this happen to immortals, too, when they were destroyed?
Vampires and immortals were both infected with the same rare virus that first conquered, then replaced their ievity, healed their wounds at an accelerated rate, and kept thes But infection with the virus also left them with an unfortunate photosensitivity and a sort of severe anemia