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He regarded her with those strange eyes,her skin crawl There was no emotion there, only dead cold The eyes of a killer
"Lily Quinn I’m afraid you’re in soed to croak "I don’t know you people, and I know I haven’t done anything I think you’ve got the wrong person"
The man chuckled softly "People? Well, well The queen’s pampered pet has finally decided to show himself and ifted with races" His eyes drank her in, up and down "Though I can see why he changed his , of course Our kind rarely bothers with yours unless ant soht off a shudder For whatever reason, this man had the coh she had no idea why--it was a fair bet that they were the saiven her the ihtly controlled This one see back fro it wouldn’t be long
Desperate to distract him until she could think of soed in conversation
"Tynan You tork together? He’s a friend of yours?" she asked, trying to stay coather The old, unpredictable darkness she’d kept at bay for so h to save her, not when she’d deliberately locked it away for so long And not helping matters, the question earned her a derisive snort
"No, we don’t work together He’s not strong enough to handle what I do--he never was As for friendship, I don’t believe he’d consider us that anymore either I certainly don’t But I’m not really in theposition again as though he were tiring of this whole ordeal, and Lily was struck by his similarity to Tynan, despite what he’d said They race in even the smallest move here, then," Lily said, wincing when she heard the bite of fear in her tone But she couldn’t hide it He couldn’t be real; this couldn’t be real, any of it…
"Ihalf s to pull her in, to lull her into the same trance that Tynan had been able to achieve with , only the saht panic she’d felt when she’d first seen hiuest seemed to sense it, and after a moment, the smile faded
"I’m just the hired help Expensive hired help, but my employers have excellent taste And as for you… it isn’t what you’ve done, dear Lily, but what you are that’s the probleaze was unnervingly direct "It doesn’t really s, lovely Lily, but blood can’t be denied forever Trust ht," he said, his htly "I’m a vicious killer And you are, shall we say, a wo youat your heels for days" He cocked his head at her "How sad You really don’t knohat you are, do you?"
And the hell of it was, she didn’t She never had As a child, she’d felt a power inside her that she didn’t understand, but she knew that whatever it was, it ood way So she had buried it deep, so deep that it could htued her as a girl, that had left her alone in the world, had never truly gone What on earth it had to do with this ine And she wasn’t at all sure she’d live to see the question answered
"Are you going to kill me?" she asked The truth in his eyes was un to do," the man said, "is be paid for a job well done But Islowly over her, "the pleasure I’ll get fros are few and far between in "
"What are you?" she asked hoarsely, every ounce of her cos she couldn’t sees, the pale and perfect skin
His lips curved in a s sure it out, even if you don’t want to believe it Would it help if I spoke in a bad Ro you dry, but I try to be obliging where I can"
He stood then, in one swift and graceful uard She took a step back Horror rose in her throat This was really happening She was about to be attacked by a… vampire And Tynan, if he’d ever really intended to help her, was nowhere to be seen
"I don’t want to die Please I’ll… I’ll give you whatever you want There has to be so the desperation in her own voice When it ca for her life Oh yes, she would beg She would scream
And that was exactly what this creature wanted
He chuckled again, a sound that grated on Lily’s ears
"Dying is easy," he said, striding toward her "Nothing to it But if you want to run, by allwhen your partner just lies there, don’t you think?"