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Gray gave her a flat look "My mother’s been dead over a hundred years What’s your excuse?"

"I’m very busy Which your vampire spies should be well aware of"

"We are And we also know that you haven’t called your"So we have at least a one"

Evelyn clamped her mouth shut Gray’s blatant atte him and snapped a few photos When she pulled them up on screen, the make-up appeared as tan blobs

"Give up?" Gray asked, peering over her shoulder

"No I’ve s to try"

He swept her hair to the side and brushed his lips over her neck A strange tingle shot through her, igniting fear and she’d like to say revulsion, but to be honest it was more akin to desire

"It’s two hours until dawn And unless you have a bottle of A positive in your fridge, I’d better go before I rip into this lovely throat Until toroped for the chair and collapsed into it, suddenly exhausted Nothing she tried tonight had worked At least she could rule out capturing a digital iical step would be to try her old film caer owned

Wednesday

The studio door dinged, waking Evelyn She had fallen asleep at her desk Buzzing Olivia in, Evelyn handed her a list of supplies along with her company’s--E Mitchell Studios--credit card She had been so proud when her colass doors to her studio It was sienderless and hers

Renewed deterh her body After Olivia left to go shopping, Evelyn sucked down an extra large cup of coffee and dug through old boxes until she found her thirty-five millimeter cameras

When Olivia returned with the supplies, her assistant helped Evelyn clean out one of her walk-in closets

"What are you using this for?" Olivia asked as she dragged out a dusty container of old photos

"I’irl paused and wiped her hands on her tattered jeans "Darkroom? What’s that?"

Noas her turn to pause "Didn’t they teach you how to develop filital raphy Not ancient history"

Evelyn suppressed a sigh Despite her own troubles, she wouldn’t be remiss in her mentor duties "Tomorrow I’ll show you how to make pictures the old fashioned way"

Olivia wasn’t quick enough to hide her frown, but she continued to lug boxes and even asked a few token questions about the process After they had set up the darkroo her Nikon with black and white, thirty-five millimeter film, Evelyn lamented the demise of Kodachrome film She could have hoarded a few rolls, if she had knownwell, if she had known, then she would have kept her big ht

She hardly reacted to Gray’s silent arrival Funny how you could get used to anything Evelyn glanced at her war photos Well, al

He noticed the boxes littered around the studio "Are you finally accepting your fate and packing?"

"No I’ht"

Gray exah the piles of camera equipment "Some of these are antiques I remember when the Nikon L35 was first released It caused quite a sensation"

When she connected that coht have been around during the early years of photography She asked hi the evolution of the caenuine smile, Gray said, "I don’t knohy you’re so resistant to working for our queen You’ll be a people with similar interests"

It was as if he had thrown ice cold water on her, snapping her to her senses Once again, he had distracted her

"If you please" She swept a hand toward the backdrop

With a sigh, he posed with his arms crossed "I don’t knohether to admire your deternoring him, she took a few test shots to fah ten rolls of film

After Gray left, she was too exhausted to do more than crawl up the stairs to her apartment and fall into bed

Thursday

"Uh, Evelyn? I think I did soative "I’ht"

She peered at the ie Shirt, pants and boots on an invisiblefilm all day in the darkroom, and the results were the salad to be alone The girl had coht, and how labor intensive it all was Evelyn would have enjoyed returning to her photographic roots in the darkrooh