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"Yes, Jen?"

"Didn’t you say so fast?" She asked hi her eyes off of Decebel It was then that Sally noticef Jen had placed her hand around Decebel’s wrist of the hand that he was propping hiesture unless you were seeing it from Sally’s view and could see that Jen’s other hand rapped around the butter knife next to her plate

Fane cleared his voice, unsure of where Jen was going with this "Yes, that is correct, we do heal a lot faster than-" Before Fane could finish what he was saying, Jen interrupted

"Okay thanks, that’s all I needed"

Jen moved faster than Sally had ever seen herin slow rip around Decebel’s hand tightened At the same time, Sally and Jacque yelled, "Decebel, run!" Decebel realized as happening andJen’s wrist before the knife could make contact with his flesh

To Decebel’s credit, he didn’t give any indication that a knife had just nearly been stabbed into his hand His golden eyes were glowing and Sally thought she could see flao sit by Jacque, or ru-ru-run I’aze never wavered fro for his reaction Decebel slowly pulled the knife fro Jen that his canines had lengthened "You’re running out of checks, Jennifer"

"Depends on whose checkbook you’re looking at, now doesn’t it, Decebel?" Jen matched his cold sarcasm

Before they could continue their sparring, Dr Steele walked up to Vasile and asked to speak with hiot up and followed the area Jacque was beginning to think that no other families ca this room

"Vasile, when I said privately, I meant just you," Dr Steele told him

"I understand, Dr Steele, but everyone in this room will knohat you have told me in a matter of hours"

"More liketo bu that she was supposed to be mad at her Sally just rolled her eyes

"Fine," Dr Steele said, giving up on trying to persuade hiot Jennifer’s blood results back"

The whole room seeetting about the IV attached to her, and had Sally not caught it, would have fallen on Jen’s head Jen never even noticed

"What were my results?" Jen asked apprehensively

Sally and Jacque both stepped up on either side of Jen in a show of silent support

"Jennifer, do you know anything about your genealogy?" Dr Steele asked her