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Sofia didn’t stop urging me either

So here I stood

So this is the day Aiden, one of the most feared hunters the world has ever known, beco my throat, I knocked on the door

Footsteps sounded and the short blonde vampire appeared in the doorway

"Oh, Yuri," she called "Look who’s here for your, ahem, services"

She winked at me and opened the door fully forhis eyes at her, walked up to ripped my hand in a fir Claudia with mock disdain "As ed to rescue her utter"

Claudia reached up and grabbed Yuri’s ear between her fingers, yanking him down to her level to kiss him full on the mouth

"Baby," she whispered as their lips parted "Stop pretending you’d want me any other way"

Yuri’s cheeks flushed He pulled away fro his throat

"I’ll leave you two to it," she said, winking and floating out of the roo sheepishly "Follow h here"

I followed him into their spare bedroom, which he had stripped of all furniture, curtains and carpets Anything that could be stained with blood or ruined in case I was overcome by a violent fit, as was often the case with newly turned vampires

"You sure you wantme dubiously

Yuri had come to be my best friend on that island--the level of friendship I’d struck up with the young vampire had surprised evenhter I didn’t knohat state I would wake up in, and exposing ot control of myself made me very uncomfortable I trusted Yuri and developed a level of cos with hi with others He just see to ht about who should turn me

I nodded and lay down on the wooden table in the center of the roo