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This could be a trap. My voice sounded uncertain, but I said it out loud. His eyes were both harsh and pleased when he looked at me. Though we hadn't made the vampire a horror, we just killed him.

As you need me, Anita, he said. I thought my heart stopped, I said. We could have forced our way in there with weapons, but Nicky wouldn't talk at the end of a gun. I hugged him back, knife in one hand.