“Why didn’t you follow him? Attack him?” I winced at my words. They sounded so harsh, so unfeeling.

But Paul didn’t seem to take them that way. He just nodded. “You’re right. I should have done just that. But…” His voice broke, and I glanced over to watch him take a deep breath before continuing. “She was still alive.”

I gasped, glancing again at the body in his lap. With a wound that huge in her throat, Malachai must have done it just moments before Paul arrived. She would have bled out almost immediately.

“Just barely, but there was still life there. Enough to…” He trailed off again, and I suddenly got it.

“Enough to still turn her into a vampire.” I was surprised a...

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