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"Pretty confident, aren’t you?"

Daegan shook his head "These vampires are not old They are depraved, vicious and likely unstable

That fledgling I killed was young and his Master’s residual blood tasted weak I can kill them as easily as you could decapitate three toddlers"

"Thanks The day hasn’t had enough disturbing ian said iunexpected happens, I’ the quickest way"

"Yes" Daegan held his gaze "I also know, despite your feelings about my kind, you will make it as painless as possible When you touch her, your hands are gentle, vampire hunter" Gideon cleared his throat, looked down at the carpet "Okay," he said at last

"‘Okay’? You will no longer argue withup bullshit to keep me out of harht vampires’ crap"

"Believe me, I would not hesitate to put you in hared tense shoulders "And though I couldn’t care less about seeing you again, for her sake, come back I don’t want tointo a nest of vaan looked toward the closed door "She’ll agree to it to protect those she cares about, but few things are as sacred to her as her control When we have to restrain her, the stress will certainly trigger another episode A very bad one We need to prepare"

When the door to the bathroom closed after them, some distant part of Anare of it In that area of her mind, she felt steadier, calan had reasonably respected her wishes No matter what had happened in that alley, she was still Anwyn

Mistress Naie of the vanityNo She wasn’t seeing anything

There weren’t dark creatures slithering around her, hovering at the corners of her eyes, snickering at her

We saw you You were nothing A piece of meat to them, and they cut you up and ate you in little bites

She stared into the e As far as symbolism went, it was an in-your-face, direct upper cut A fist across the cheekbone

Was Barnabus so diabolically intelligent to know that by turning her, he’d denied her the protective fog that severe physical injuries could provide? Somehoorse to have the memories of what happened in the alley in her head, and yet look at the half-healed scars and not feel their pain When her fingers slid over the puncture at her neck, she forced herself to think of it as Daegan’s bite The pain had been unusually sharp, like biting into an infected area, but she’d reveled in it, because he was driving Barnabus’s an said she needed the sire’s blood to be okay, but she didn’t think so The wounds weren’t fully closing, but they weren’t gaping or running blood, either Her hair was softer to the touch, as if she’d conditioned it, and her unda, as if she’d dropped ten years and returned to the unlined freshness of her teens

She’d often kidded Daegan about his beauty, about the beauty of vas in hair and beauty products aloneGoddess, the crazy thoughts she was having, when madness hovered so close she felt its heat on her nape That heat boiled in her blood, a poisonher feel faintly nauseous When it had seized control, such that she’d als into Gideon’s neck, it had scared her to the ht In that moment, all that had an I can’t I can’t" She pressed her forehead against the , I’odda; I can be anything" A sob caught in her throat "I won’t let this beattoward another eruption, she didn’t sense any trace of what Daegan was It was as if the creature she was beco far more monstrous and out of control Not a vaer She couldn’t survive being out of control like that<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>