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Really, I was fine. What you saw looked bad, but it s not.
That s called Stockholm Syndrome, honey. Identifying with
your kidnapper.
Lacey fished her phone out of her jean jacket and started
punching numbers with her thumb.
Don t! Helena grabbed the phone. Lacey fought to keep a
grip on it, swerving all over the road as she did.
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Shit! Lacey let go in order to avoid a truck. The screen read
911. Helena hit the disconnect button.
Lacey shot her an angry sideways glance. Why are you
protecting him? He s getting away while we fight.
Blowing a piece of hair out of her eyes, Helena said. Take me
to your house and I ll explain. Otherwise I m jumping out of this
car.
A vampire. Lacey folded her arms and leaned back in her
chair, very unimpressed. They were sitting in her kitchen with two
mugs of tea and a bottle of Jack.
Helena spiked her tea with a generous splash of whiskey. It
was going to be a long night. They re real.
You mean he s a guy with a blood kink.
Um& He had a blood kink, that was for sure. And now she
did. Um, no. He s not a wannabe. He s a genuine, honest to God
vampire.
Like, he turns into a bat and stuff?
No, I don t think he can do that. Helena frowned. Maybe he
could. She didn t know enough about him. She brightened. But he
can kill an elk with his bare hands.
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Niiiice. Lacey popped a cookie in her mouth. But if he was
drinking your blood when I walked in. Shouldn t you have holes in
your neck?
Helena reached up under her jaw where he d latched on. You
don t see any marks?
There s a red blotch.
Helena examined her fingers and her wrist, her ankle. All were
unmarred. It left her a little lightheaded, the idea that such an intense
experience should leave no trace. Yet he had bit her. It wasn t
imaginary.
Lower, more concerned, Lacey said, Where are you hurt, hon?
Where s the blood from?
Helena peeked down the neck of her dress. Dried blood glued
the dress to eight tiny wounds. Proof positive. Whatever he d done
to make the other bites vanish, he hadn t done it to these when
Lacey walked in. Anyone seeing her breasts would think him a
sadist. They wouldn t know how each bite made her back arch with
the purest, sharpest pleasure. She could still feel his tongue
wrapping her nipples, the pressure of his teeth, the hot demand of
his mouth. Her body would turn itself inside out to answer him.
Hello?
Helena blinked. I m okay.
No, you re not. But you don t seem to be bleeding to death, so
we ll come back to what he did to you. Look, you re the most
rational person I know, and you re telling me that vampires exist.
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Let s leave off whether I believe you or not. The Helena I know
would have a stack of research and a hypothesis as to why this is
perfectly explainable.
I m working on that. There is a good explanation for it, I just
don t know all the facts yet. But I kind of like being surprised along
the way.
You hate surprises.
Helena laughed. I do. It s true.
And, my dear, you know I love you, but you are a bit of a
maniac about keeping a nice house. So how am I going to believe
that you consented to get up on your folk s antique dining-room
table for a kinky little blood interlude, permanently staining what
was if I ID d it correctly while peeing my pants your grandma s
best tablecloth?
Helena started to laugh and couldn t stop. She almost slid off
her chair. It was! I did that! Oh, poor tablecloth.
Are you high?
Yes. I m free! She blurted it before she even knew what she
was saying, and then thought about it. Lacey, I don t have to
control things anymore. Sometimes things stain. Sometimes things
break. Some things we never understand. It s okay.
Of course.
And sometimes you have to do things that frighten you.
Because they frighten you. If you don t take risks, you don t know
what you re missing.
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Lacey tapped her long fingernails on the table. Haven t I been
telling you that for years, girlfriend? But you don t listen to me. Oh
no. You listen to the vampire.
He didn t tell me, he showed me. I trust him. He could have
done anything he wanted to me from the beginning, and he didn t.
He makes me feel safe, even when he s asking a lot from me. And
just before you walked in, the most amazing thing
happened
What happened, solntsa moyo?
Alex appeared just behind Lacey s chair, blood stained and
tense enough to snap in two.
Helena heard him. Inside. Her head lifted and her pupils dilated
wide when she saw him. And then she smiled. He let go of the
breath he d been holding since she d run out into the snow, since
they d fought in the car, since he d first tasted her, first seen her,
first heard her name.
I think I saw love in his eyes, Lace. I think somehow he really
loves me even though I m a wreck.
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