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"Vampires?" He hoped she didn’t notice the way he’d choked
Her hand fluttered to her throat, dropped again "I asked hiainst demons, too, and he said that spells to repel va But with deainst specific species of deeneral anti-evil spell, and those don’t last long"
She nodded "Exactly"
She stepped inside, but he hung back, unsure how the anti-vampire spell would affect him He wasn’t a true vaht work only on the undead--which would be s in the middle of ainst any blood-drinking creature
"You co in?"
He cocked an eyebrow "That an invite?"
"You a vampire?"
"Yep"
"Good" Her sultry tone hit hi to get you bitten so, because he really, really wanted to be the one biting her
"I can only hope" She opened the door wider
"You’re hopeless" He didn’t need invites to get into houses, but if the place arded… an invite couldn’t hurt "I’ to do a perimeter check first," he said "Can’t be too careful" That, and he wanted to see what other security tricks had been built into this house
"I’ll see what kinds of supplies we have here We’re probably going to need to go shopping" She stood in the doorway, her hair blowing in the breeze and glinting in the sun, and he wanted her Right then, right there
He shot to her like he’d come out of a cannon Her soft sound of surprise was h as she ainst hi he wanted to do, but he e clear
He would take her ten ways from Sunday when she was cured, because he refused to believe it wouldn’t happen
And then he’d find a way to make her his Humans couldn’t bond with Seminus demons, but there had to be a way Soave hi a de in fantasyland All he needed noeresilently, he broke away fro was out of place, but he discovered ns that told him this house was more than what it seemed The entire property line had been carved out with a very narrow, shallow ditch al for it This would be where soht put out a protective circle of salt, ash, holy water--any substance ainst evil
His inspection turned up severala nuround, set out in the shape of a giant pentagram that spanned the entire property
He headed for the front door, pausing at the threshold He heard Serena coughing somewhere in the house, but she was nowhere she’d see if the orked on hih the doorway
Nothing happened Cool He wondered if the ward should have affected hi a glass of water in the kitchen, so he poked around the other rooms In one of the back rooms he found a wooden chest When he opened it, his blood ran cold
It was full of weapons--swords, stakes, bottles of holy water, ropes, blades, and stangs The double-ended blades of the stangs were each coated in a different is weapons
Suspicion confiris stronghold
He slammed the lid shut and stalked into the kitchen, where Serena had set two colas out on the soods Some pasta--"
He slapped his hands down on the counter on either side of her hard enough toup?"
Caged in, she looked up at hi about"
"I think you do"
She ducked beneath his arms and jammed her hands on her hips "I don’t like your tone"
"I don’t like being lied to"
"And I still don’t knohat you’re talking about," she shot back
He believed her, but by now his nerves were frayed and he was juiced He was a freaking deht only Val was co to be a difficult situation as it was He’d have to get into the guy’s head again and do some creative meee I’ot to mention we’d be joined by people who can help us Why does it matter?" She put her pale"
Oh, hell He wasoff the handle like this "I’m fine"
"You owe me more than that, Josh We’ve shared toohis words froht, and it only pissed hi on hi out of him Maybe he should tell her the truth If she knehat he hat? She’d only hate him sooner
Gods, this was fked up
He didn’t answer her because his tongue felt glued to the roof of his mouth, and eventually she rubbed her te?"
"Headache," she muttered "I need to lie down Do you mind?"