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I watched their easy interaction for a few ame needed a full assessment, and wandered off in the direction that Mark had taken

I was going to be a father And a husband too, eventually It was more, far more than I could ever have hoped for I stood alone in that kitchen and slowly absorbed the reality of it all

In three days I would be leaving for the UK again, for frantic activity and bloody destruction It was so that had to be done, for us, the iron metabolisers, for the women incarcerated by Jack and his malevolent intentions, for the blood feeders i bodies and their addiction to blood and the iron within

It would be done because doing nothing was not an option

But when it was over, the dust settled, the evidence of our existence obscured, I would return to her, and to the opportunity she offeredother than just the bad guy

There was no doubt that blood would continue to sing to ain dance to its beguiling and hypnotic rhythm, and people would die They would be corrupt and evil people, because that was part of the bargain I'd made with my blood lust, but they would die nonetheless

But the blood song would no longer be everything It would be only a fraction of who I was

And that was so I could definitely live with