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"Tell roup Led by a aame of all" Blade’s voice was hard "He takes trophies, Gloriana He wears a necklace s"

I thought I was going to be sick "And they call us evil?" I sed hard

"There’s ot MacTavish"

"Mac! No!" I leanedwheel Mac had been Blade’s best friend and I’d loved him like a brother I felt tears slip down my cheeks Yeah, vamps can cry and Mac was definitely worth a little dehydration Mac had been light where Blade was dark, in temperament as well as looks Funny and loyal to the core I pressed a hand against ain

"Mara?" Mac’s wife Beautiful More like Blade than Mac had been, a bit on the broody side

"She’s a survivor Sad, hurt, filled with lust for revenge She’s staying with ood look at both of us I’m sure we’re on the top of his list now"

I breathed through a nausea that I hadn’t felt in decades Blade’s teeth dangling around a , too powerful But then Mac had been just as strong

"So you were there You couldn’t erase Westwood’s memory?" Stupid question We have to touch a ?" No one could do a mind-meld like Blade

"I tried He wears soet Mac? An a himself for Mac’s death He had a sense of responsibility a mile wide Now he’d taken on Mac’s

"You could call it that He kneell before we sensed the danger And, God daet close to Westwood He’s developed new technology The glasses and some kind of scanner, a vampire detector" I hadn’t heard Blade this upset since he’d broken things off with his fao into that now, it’s a long story

I was shaking and feeling sick again A vamp detector This was really, really bad news I pride myself onun?"

"Mara and I saw his device It looks like a cell phone, Gloriana There’s no way to know if he’s scanning or not until he coht, build Check him out on the Internet and print out his picture Show it to every vampire you know" Blade spoke to soet to Freddy’s"

"Good But, like I said, you stillaround in calasses, but they’re ordinary too" He was silent for a moment while my mind whirled

"Damn it, Gloriana, I need you here, where I can protect you"

I let that deet Mac?" Garlic and crosses didn’t take us out like in so was all too true "I can’t see Mac standing still for anyone"

"He didn’t I told you Westwood is a hunter He’s got a bow and arrows made of some exotic wood Obviously he’s a crack shot An inch or two off and we’d have dragged Mac out of there with us" More conversation with someone else

"Mara said those arrows smelled funny She thinks they’re olive wood Use that s as sport What next? Vamps stuffed and mounted? Oh, God

"When it was obvious Mac was lost to us, Mara and I got the hell out of there"

"I’m sorry I loved Mac too Poor Mara" I wiped at ain Be careful, Gloriana" Blade sounded tired Was he feeding? Centuries of caring for soh I’d certainly tried

"You weren’t wounded, were you?"

"Slightly I healed"