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His jaw spaslass of the car"Peyton isn’t feeding on the disposables I o after the hoets Food"

"Yes"

"But that’s not it He’s changing theet paler, but the new ashy pallor on Holden’s face proved irls va theht mind would turn a prostitute We won’t turn anyone we consider unworthy"

"Don’t you get it?"

He looked atan arue carriers, Typhoid Marys He will use them to create more or to destroy others"

"Oh Jesus" The depravity of Peyton’s plan was setting in

"He’s going to make Manhattan a vampire city He wants to come out of the dark"

"He wants to kill everyone"

"And he’s starting with the lowest levels The prostitutes will infect their johns They’ll infect their wives or girlfriends It will spread If we can’t find him soon, on’t be able to stop it"

"But Peyton is a known rogue One va with soht too, but I don’t re a daytime servant Only the really powerfulhas Ingrid"

"But Sig is also well over a thousand years old"

"Two," Holden corrected

I didn’t have the energy to absorb the nitude of that information "And Peyton isn’t even three hundred"

"He wouldn’t be able to manipulate a hue a Renfield"

I hated the phrase Renfield After Braht the name was too hilarious not to use Much like Dracula used the poor, weak-ue va whatever they wanted over an extended period of time They called them Renfields

Daytime servants, on the other hand, maintained an illusion of free will, but always knew the needs and desires of their master Furthermore, because of the bond it created with their master, the daytime servant could live for th and power of a va’s daytiirl he’d met sometime in the early thirteen hundreds She was quiet and dutiful, but I was certain tiine, especially at Sig’s side I suspected, at over seven hundred years old herself, Ingrid was not a huth I didn’t like to be alone with her There was too much in her eyes I didn’t want to know

Holden pulled the BMW up to the curb in front of un to shiver as the shock of the evening’s events really sank in If Peyton was going to try taking over the city, outing va an all-out war on hu hi, mean and deterht now, Sig was at the top of my list But how could I have a casual chat with the head of the va want to knohat a half-breed vahts, because he put a hand on o to the council I’ll request an audience with Sig and see if he has any thoughts about what you’ve discovered"

I nodded solemnly It would be better if Holden went Perhaps it would help him curry favor and find advanceht thee hi his own kind I knew I never would

I openedan unfaer parked near ray color I rarely saw on cars, let alone vintage muscle cars

I was about to ask Holden if he re rooht not rehts before leaving

Someone was in my home and it wasn’t someone I’d invited

Chapter Twenty-Six