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And then I saw Vlad

Slowly, his eyes ca at the edge of my lips "She’ll talk to you"

"What?" Pike asked

I stopped, excite, he’s charlanced at Pike "He’s not you She’ll open up to him"

Pike looked over at Vlad and then back at irl who just lost her sister to o all boy crazy for him?" He jerked a thuood ue before I said the word glalamour is almost like a vampire pheromone; it attracts humans to us like bees to honey and once they find uswell, humans tend to become utterly entranced and allow us to eat theuidelines

Gla to the UDA-V charter but I a a ho a homicide And either way, I’d rather be beheaded by the UDA than spend eternity in a prison cell and an orange juot charm" I turned toward him and threw on my best version of adorably irresistible Disney eyes "Please, Vlad For me?"

Vlad looked up, eyed me warily "No"

I crossed the rooain "Pweeze?"

He shook his head

I tossed a quick glance over my shoulder, then laid my palm flat on the table, a quarter-inch fro with heat "I ard h his spine as I regarded him by his real, pre-vamp, pre-Count-Chocula-obsession name "And I will be the first one to take you out"

"Can’t UDA bylaw" There was an edge of teenage sness in his words that made me want to kill hi my arms in front of my chest "I won’t kill you" I snatched my cell phone from where it rested on the counter "But Kale will"

Vlad stood up so quickly his chair thunked to the ground behind hih his eyes "Just please," he continued, holding up both hands as if the phone were about to spit bullets "Whatever you do, don’t call Kale Please"

Noas s

Pike looped an arm over the back of the couch as he turned to stare at us "Who’s this--"

"Never mind," Vlad and I said in unison

I pushed Vlad toward the door "Coo over there Ask her for coffee"

"I don’t feel good about this," Vlad said, pulling on his collar

"You’re doing a good thing," I said, patting hihtly on the shoulder "You saw the way Nicolette lit up when you introduced yourself"

Vlad glared down at rin ide and genuine and Ithe fact that he could very well be a horip and the doorknob in rabbed my shoulder, his hand warm and heavy "Wait," he said, "do we have sooes out with Nicolette, asks soains some intel about whether or not Emerson has some horrid, murderous people in her immediate past--"

Vlad opened his aze

"And then he relays it back to us We find said murderous people and voila! Off the hook"