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"Is that what they’re doing?"

"Yeah, I lance, I’d assu passionately, so into each other that they ignored the world around the or do anything, Cassandra walked directly toward the couple and grabbed hold of the man’s arm

He broke off the kiss and turned to face her His eyes were black, his skin so pale in the darkness that it seeaze to his girlfriend--or, victim, rather--who looked just as Colin had earlier Glazed, dazed, with the telltale black lines branching around her round

No one but us had witnessed this We were fifty feet froray looked to be in his early twenties, and was handsome when his pallor returned to normal and his eyes shifted back to human

"Can I help you?" he asked cal his hand over his mouth to remove traces of his victiht fists at her sides "I knohat you are"

"Do you?" He raised an eyebrow at the blonde angel who’d stopped hiirl who’d fallen to the ground wasn’tout of it as Colin thankfully had The black lines remained around her ray had taken her entire soul in that kiss, and she hadn’t been strong enough to survive it

"She’s dead," I said, louder My stomach convulsed "You killed her!"

"Too bad," he said without emotion "She was very tasty"

Cassandra’s eyes flashed with rage "You’re evil A plague upon this city Upon this entire world You ood luck with that"

She didn’t pull out a weapon, but she stalked closer to hi not to look at the dead girl again I hadn’t seen anything like this before I’d seen the kiss before, I’d been guilty of the kiss myself, but I’d never seen it kill anyone

This was proof that it could That what I was, and what I could do--that this ravenous hunger I felt every hour of every day--was one hundred percent evil

I felt no pity for this gray Instead, all I felt was rage I wanted Cassandra to kill hiht now She was a warrior like the others; there was no doubt in ray watched her with open a about The ones trying to stop us fro any fun in this town"

She launched herself at hile him But with a flick of his wrist, he backhanded her It was so hard that she went flying through the air and hit the wall on the opposite side of the street with a violent sround unconscious