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After talking with him, she had assumed he had just jumped down from the roof Had he instead teleported?

Was that even what it was called? Teleporting? It sounded so sci-fi Not va, she took out her cell phone and called Sean

A e Shadow halted before her and the passenger door sprang open

Her brother’s curious gaze pierced her as she sank into the bucket seat and slaht?" he asked

Kinda hard to miss the lack of blood splatter

She shook her head

He sent her an encouraging smile "Maybe you killed them all"

She laughed "I wish"

He began the journey ho without fighting one in a few years"

She uilt consumed her She should tell him about Etienne She actually opened her ine stuttered and struggled to get theeous vahtme Yes, the vaall of the vaaht--attracted As in I would love to see hi va heart pounds every time he coazed into the blackness beyond the passenger

There was just so

Her reflection’s brow furrowed

Was she losing it? Was the strain of six years of battling vaet to her? Or

A chill skittered through her

Was the vaious?

She had been bitten that one tio She had assuht, that there had been no long-ter? What if the madness that crippled va a hoh her veins like diamonds

Could it be true? Could that be it?

Even if one bite couldn’t do it, she had been exposed to their blood countless times over the years in battle How many times did it take?

"You okay?" her brother asked

"Just tired," she lied

"Are you sure?" He took his eyes off the road momentarily to study her "Are you worried about the valance "What do you ed "It’s just weird that he helped you You’ve never encountered a vampire who didn’t try to kill or turn you I’ve been worried that he htI don’t knowcome back and finish what he didn’t have a chance to start"

"If he had wanted to kill me, he had ample opportunity to do so"

A scowl creased his brow "How can you be so sure? Maybe he’s screith you? He didn’t get into your head, did he?"

Relief and anger overwhelht have just hit the proverbial nail on the head

A slew of silent epithets drowned out whatever Sean said next

That’s it! It has to be! Etienne has literally gotten intoteleport, a little mind control really isn’t that hard to believe

Other vampires could do it The reason no one knew vampires existed was because victi been bitten or give any description of their attacker They even laughed outright at the notion that Krysta had saved the their blood

Not one vampire victi attacked If that wasn’t er sirowled

Sean’s eyebrows rose "The purple and white vamp?"

She had told him about Etienne’s aura "Yes"

"What ain He leftto kick his ass until he tellsfor hi about this"

"I won’t," she was able to say with complete honesty

If he stayed true to his recent pattern, Etienne would cori with her head

Chapter 3

Etienne glanced at his twin as they arrived in David’s large living rootone?"