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No fangs, not yet A vaot ready to feed Just like a vaed to black when they hunted

Or when they fked

One way to find out what she was dealing with here

Dee lunged forward, the stake gripped tight in her hand She struck out, grabbing Sunshine and tossing her ass to the ground Then she went in for the kill

The woman never even flinched

That saht the stake down over her heart “Dead,” she whispered again

No fangs No black eyes If the wo for her life She would have gone into hunting hter

Dee froze The tip of the stake pressed into the lace of Sunshine’s shirt “Who the hell are you?”

Laughter Low In-freaking-sane

Dee lifted the weapon Staking a huht She rose, never taking her eyes off the nutjob “You’re playing a dangerous game”

“No, you are” The woman climbed slowly to her feet “All alone Poor little hunter Will you beg at the end?”

What the—

“She’s not alone” Hard, deep

Not Jude

Chase

Sunshine’s lips parted

“Get out of here,” Dee told her, fighting back the impulse to ra around in shit that you don’t understand” The woer Most of the hunters at Night Watch had a standing policy of not hurting innocents Well, Zane wasn’t part of that “roup But she didn’t like to hurt hus to the hunters was to e in the dark was fun

When it was more like suicide

Yeah, she didn’t normally hurt innocents But this time, oh, talk about temptation

“You don’t even have a week,” the woht of the bruises on her neck

Bite ured “Neither do you,” she told her, sadly, still not glancing back at Chase Not yet “You need to run from them, as fast as you can and never look back”

A blink “Why? They can give“You can’t trust vamps”

Her smile dimmed “You can’t trust anyone” Her hand rose to her neck Covered the wounds “But when you can live forever, does it ertips brushed her shoulder Dee spun around, the weapon up

Chase stared back at her

“What? Christ, man, how the hell did you move so fast?” And so quietly

“Where’s your partner?”

Thudding footsteps Dee glanced back in tied forward—

He jerked her back “Your Partner”

“She’s getting away!” If she could trail her, they could find out where the va and—