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She said, "May I call you Jonathan?"
"No Call me Johnny No Call me John-John No Not that"
"What shall I call you?"
"You will know my name when my name is known to e?"
"Yes"
"Was the change you underwent uncontrolled or intentional?"
The troll sht it was happening to him I who am realize he made it happen"
"Unconsciously, you desperately wanted to become someone other than Jonathan Harker"
"The Jonathan as … he wanted to be like himself but become other than an Alpha"
"He wanted to remain a man but be free of his maker’s control," Erika interpreted
"Yes"
"Instead," she said, "you shed the Alpha body and becaed "Shit happens"
CHAPTER 16
FROM BEHIND A POTTED RAFUS PALM on the veranda of the Arceneaux house, Bucky Guitreau watched as his nude wife rapped lightly on a faht ceaselessly from one foot to the other, so excited that he could not keep still
Apparently, Janet had not been heard She rapped harder on the
ACharles Arceneaux, the would-be Internet entrepreneur, loomed in the rooht of a nude neighbor was as extreme as that of a cartoon character
A ht Charles looked cohed out loud Bucky was of the New Race, however, and he didn’t find anything comical Arceneaux’s startled look only made Bucky want even more ardently to see hirowing--intensity of Bucky’s hatred that any expression crossing Charles Arceneaux’s face would inflame his passion for violence
From between the fronds of the rafus palm, Bucky saw Charles speak He couldn’t hear the words, but he could read the lips: Mrs Guitreau? Is that you?
From this side of the , Janet said, "Oh, Charlie, oh, so terrible has happened"
Charles stared but did not reply Judging by the angle of the youngat Janet’s face
"So terrible has happened," she repeated, to break his hypnotic fascination with her ample yet perky breasts "Only you can help me, Charlie"
The moment Charles moved away from the , Bucky left the cover of the potted palainst the house, beside the door between the family room and the veranda
As Janet stepped to the French door, she looked as voracious as sooddess of death, teeth bared in a hurin, nostrils flared, eyes fierce with blood lust, wrathful andthis fearsome incarnation, would suddenly suspect her true intention, refuse to admit her, and raise an alaraze in at Arceneaux, her expression was convincingly that of a frightened and helpless wo man to lean on with her ample but perky breasts
Charles did not wrench the door open at once only because, in his eagerness, he fuot it open, Janet whispered, "Oh, Charlie, I didn’t knohere to go, and then … I re behind hiht, over his shoulder, but saw no one
"What’s wrong, what’s happened?" Charles asked as Janet crossed the threshold into his ar Charles backith her body, leaving the door open behind the, but hesitant to reveal himself and enter the house before Janet had complete control of Charles, Bucky leaned to his left and peeked through the open door
Just then Janet bit Charles so, and si hietting about the open door behind hinificantly less than a minute, there was much for Bucky to see, an education in ferocity and cruelty that the torture specialists of the Third Reich could not have provided to anyone who devoted a year of study to the the mess in the family room when Janet was done, Bucky was ah to wake anyone whoelsewhere in the house
On the plas and the clown irl chained to the statue of George S Patton, soht was so unspeakable that audiences would shriek with horror and delight in order to repress the urge to vomit But by coinative than any child sociopath tearing the wings off flies
"I was so right," Janet said "Killing in the nude is the best thing ever"
"You think it’s definitely one of your personal core values?"
"Oh, yes It’s totally PCV"
Although they did not know the Arceneauxs as well as they had known the Bennets, Janet and Bucky knew that in addition to Charles, four other people lived in this house: sixteen-year-old Preston, as the neighborhood bully, Antoine and Evangeline, and Evangeline’s randmother had a downstairs bedroom, and the others were on the second floor
"I’m ready to do one just as complete as you did Charlie," Bucky said
"Do Marcella"