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"Are you kidding? I used to love my tea that hen I was alive" I frowned "But keep it Your inventions tend to givemy blood Any luck with that?" I’d had a horrible reaction to one of Ian’s better efforts, a drug that allowed vareat on Penny Me? I’d had horrible pain after the htly swollen tuotten rid of it but for soered Too bad the food hadn’t even been that great

I’d let Ian take a blood sample after that to see as up with iven er to explore the reasons why I was the only vampire to react the way I did

"Your blood sa is secondary" Ian settled into a chair while I sat on the large table I used when I worked on ht blue blouse that matched my eyes I hadn’t tucked in the blouse of course I never tuck, especially not after the tuood job with the figure I had Ian seeh heels and the fact that the blouse had a deep vee neckline His eyes gleamed as he looked uy

"So tellin s are always so weird?" I unscrewed the top of my bottle of synthetic and took a s

"Yes, there was You were never huht in his handsohed and choked and set the bottle down beside me I have to admit, Ian took it well He jumped up and found a roll of paper towels in the bathroo e to myself

I blotted my face where tears rolled down my cheeks Swell, mascara leaks I jumped off the table and walked into the bathrooht Or this was Ian’s idea of a sick joke He and Jerry were ancient ene even with a Ca my makeup then stormed out to face the doctor

"Okay, Dr Death, now tell ive that bull about not being hu jerked around" I put ood foot taller thanway up to give hi, Glory I wish I was I ran every test I knew of Compared your sample to literally hundreds of others from different vampires and humans I’ve had your blood for months now, you know" Ian put his hands on ued than anything else I didn’t like that Itthe truth

"Yes, it’s been ured I was low on your priority list Penny toldAnd then there was your move from California in the middle of that I didn’t expect…" I stepped back fro my mind so I threw up a block Of course any probe of his mind hit a blank wall, solid as steel

"This isn’t about a MacDonald versus Caive a damn about the Campbells I told Blade that We’ve avoided each other since I estured to the chair and I sank into it

"If I’m not, uh, never was human, what the hell does that mean?" Of course I’d been born to huet away froious household and, in just a few years, been ed Jerry had taken my mortality ahen he’d turned me vampire Before then, I’d been an ordinary fe Run more tests"

"I’ve run dozens A hundred or ainst the table "Like I said, I coot saes, sexes, even nationalities When that didn’t give me a match, I went to other vain fee There was an anomaly You simply don’t fit So I started on other paranormals--the fae, shape-shifters, weres--to see if that’s what you could have been before you were turned So far, no luck"

"I don’t believe you I have fangs I drink blood I fall asleep at dawn I’ht?" I heardup all over Ian’s expensive Italian loafers

"Are you? There’s that turipe about it endlessly Yes, don’t bother trying to hide it That was just the latest in your weird reactions todown

"I don’t believe you Jerry would say you’re poisoning ah" I shot out of the chair, unable to just sit still when he was trying toI knew into a lie