had to learn to read people, so I noticed. Doesn’t mean the whole world knows you’ve got it on for a vampire.” He paused. “He’s a good one. You could do worse, you know.”

“Think so?”

Anyone else think it was weird to be having this conversation?

“Yeah. I’m not big on my kind or his kind mixing it up with humans. It goes bad most of the time. But Paul? He’s more than okay.” He grinned at me. “And I’ve seen you in a fight. You’ve got big ones. You’d do okay, if you guys decided to make a go of it.”

I tended to agree with him, but I couldn’t get the image of Nicola and the slow drip, drip of her blood out of my head.

We arrived at the address, and Runner found a (relatively)...

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