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"But then ouldn’t Jane be drained too?" I asked "If it’s a vampire, why not drink her blood? And then why kill her at all?"

"I don’t know," he shrugged "Maybe they meant to kill her and drain her, but they couldn’t"

"Why wouldn’t they be able to? It’s not like we get full easy or so"

"After you bit me, Milo wouldn’t bite me," Bobby said "My blood was tainted, and it made him sick when he could even smell you on him So maybe if Jane was bitten by someone else, they wouldn’t bite her But she was all part of their murder scheot out of rehab, though And I talked to her She’d been doing good I don’t think she got out and just went straight back into it," I shook round floor "You can never be sure And you don’t knoho the last vampire was that bit her"

"Actually," I said as the doors slid open, "as far as I knoas the last to bite her"

9

Milo had taken to napping when he got hoetting hoht was the debate teairl in calculus He’d also started talking a lot in French, but since I’d barely passed the class the two years I’d taken it, he only ended up confusing one ork, and the Gossip GirlI sprawled out on the couch, still in my pajamas, but I’d only been awake for an hour or two, so it didn’t see two thick books in his hands He looked better than he had lately,his hair had been brushed and his shirt looked pressed He’d never gone through a sweat-pants-and-no-shaving-or-bathing phase, thank god, and he always lanced back at the TV and raised an eyebrow

"What is this?" Ezra asked

"That’s Chuck Bass" I pointed at the screen to Ed Westwick

"He’s wearing a bowtie Is that a ed "He’s Chuck Bass He does what he wants"

"Well, that’s enough of that" Ezra grabbed the remote from off the couch next to me and clicked off the TV

"What’d you do that for?" I asked, with feigned anger "I was just about to find out if his wo ould catch up with hi to do" With that, Ezra dropped the books on my stomach, and I s