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“‘Infected’ is as good a word as any,” said Sa, they don’t deserve this For another, they’ll lay waste to the wildlife if they’re in a perrip of bloodlust”

“We need to put The Hollow on lockdown until we can be sure,” Jared declared “The only people who should be allowed to leave are those we send out to hunt for more of these poor bastards”

Maya folded her ar is … if so it now? Why, if they’d rather not bring attention to their gift, would they use it like this all of a sudden?”

Sahed “I truly have no idea That’s e need to find out”

CHAPTER THREE

(Maya)

Standing at my side not far from the ballroom dance floor, Cassie leaned into me “I knoe shouldn’t really talk about this at a party, but I still can’t quite wrap my head around the fact that someone can infect animals with vampiric rabies”

I blew out a breath “It’s totally fucked up And will leave us no choice but to put the poor animals dohich sucks I really hate that part” I loathed that I’d been forced to kill the leopard

“But it would be cruel to them to leave them in a permanent state of bloodlust,” said Cassie “I re my conversion”

“Saet why it’s best to put the ani like hell that there aren’t” Our squad had gone hunting for evidence of more earlier, but we’d so far hadn’t discovered any “The Hollow’s researchers claim there are a few vaer or looked at fro like this Ryder will be scanning their minds to find out”

“Speaking of Ryder, he looks daain, he always does”

She wasn’t wrong I’d purposely kept my back to him as much as possible so that there was no way my eyes could wander to him I wasn’t too proud to adle the shit out of him

“That was one hot kiss you guys had the other night”

“We were responding to a dare,” I reminded her

“Uh-huh,” said Cassie, all sarcasm

“He’s with Krista anyway” The female vampire was all over hiht of theether made my stomach roll

“I don’t know about that Iher best to wrap herself around hi, but he doesn’t seem to want her attention And I heard froht before he left for his trip, nor did he ask her to ‘wait’ for him She just said that shit to put other wouy hers I don’t see that happening”

“It’s their business” I truly sounded like I didn’t care either way, but Cassie knew ant snort was not unexpected

“Did word of the not-really-fake-kiss get back to Coop?”