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No, she wouldn’t kill hi the butchering and disposal of huh the rules allowed her one kill per month, she hadn’t killed in several

Perhaps her reluctance to take lives had so to do with the fact that she’d been a nurse since before she turned vah her kind experienced at the moment of death

She si as chocolate didn’t count

Even when she had killed, the victis and child h

Unfortunately, she rarely dined on scus, and ingesting either left her dizzy for days Save her raines

Her intended victim tucked his hands in his coat pockets and watched the traffic light two blocks away, probably expecting a ride He looked as if he outs where the electric-blue drinks cost more than she’d made in an entire month as a human nurse

Nancy sht hunting dress, the classy red one that showed lots of skin and attracted both ed out of her scrubs before she left the hospital, as per policy, though she didn’t usually dress to kill

She giggled at her oit, suddenly glad she’d decided to catch her own snack tonight instead of raiding the hospital’s blood bank Doc E didn’tevery once in a while, but she’d already sucked doo units of A-neg this week because she’d been too lazy to hunt

"Are you waiting for a cab?" she asked, and her snack-to-be turned, startled "I called for one an hour ago, and it never showed up I have a very ih narrowed eyes Maybe he wasn’t as stupid as she’d thought He was goodlooking, thoughchin-length brown hair, full lips, five-o’clock shadow Maybe she’d do him while she fed from him Shade wasn’t always available for a rendezvous in the hospital’s supply closet, and Wraith acted as if she had a disease

Now, Doc Eshe’d pay to wrap her legs around that brother Too bad he was a freak of nature, probably the only Se he touched As far as she knew, he took his pleasures outside the hospital, because no one on staff ad anyone else

The aze over her body, and she sensed hiy buzzed in the air around hiht be a Dark Soul, a killer of his own kind A serial ; he hadn’t killed another human yet, but someday he would

Perhaps she would dispatch the man, after all Do humanity a favor

"You can share my ride if you let me buy you a drink" He stepped closer, touched her elbow

"I’d like that"

Glancing over his shoulder behind hi vehicles, the people down the street None paid any attention Mouth watering, she shoved hirunted and tried to wrench his hand free of his coat pocket

Her fangs ached, throbbed in tiular She went up on her toes, sank her canines deep into his neck, and waited for hiainst her superior power

The sharp sting of a needle in the back of her neck caroin

The dark-souled one yanked her head away from his throat and hurled her to the pave her at thein his eyes

"Filthy bloodsucker" He reached up, put pressure to the bite wounds in his throat, and if her heart hadn’t already been shriveled, the sight of his ring, turned so she could see an Aegis shield etched into the band, would have done the job "Do you knohat people will pay for vampire parts? Bitch, it’s time to reap what you have sown"

He s a vampire, Nancy knew terror

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On the surface, Eidolon wasn’t opposed to torture Most demons weren’t Besides, his forh it had been his duty toend actually deserved the pain

And really, he could respect torture as an art form--a skilled master could keep his subject alive indefinitely Someone trained in medical sciences kne to inflict the maximum amount of pain with the maximum amount of effectiveness

So yeah, on a superficial level, he could appreciate his colleagues’ discussion Deep down, though, the part of hi lava bath would rather see a body heal than be slowly taken apart

"I have the perfect place to torture the Aegi scu up his feet onto the break room couch "My baseree more He’d seen the basement in Yuri’s three-story Suffern home, and while he hadn’t been shocked to learn of the shapeshifting hyena’s fondness for BDSM, he had been surprised at the size and contents of the dungeon

"You wouldn’t want to get blood all over that shiny rubber floor"

"It hoses off"

Blaspheel who truly enjoyed her ability to fool hu, shoved Yuri’s feet aside so she could sit, and then took a sip of the iced tea in her hand "So, Yuri, how often do you have to wash your floors?"

"Two or three times a week It’s not always blood Petroleum jelly, honey, urine"

Eidolon folded his arms over his chest and braced a hip on the snack counter "Nice"

Yuri shrugged "The fe"

"The slayer won’t be"

"That’s the point I canfrouts" He grinned, revealing slightly elongated canines "Which will also hose off the floor"

A lol brought Eidolon’s gaze around to the doorhere Wraith stood, his eyes burning gold

"No one told lance "Because you aren’t staff, phleg, Wraith," Eidolon told hiery

Dressed in low-slung jeans and a Jis and stalked into the break roo left out of a staff rabbed a Styrofoam cup and reached for the coffee pot