19/02/2026 05:25

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I feel it, I said. The vampire didn't move, except to cower behind his jacket. I turned back to look at Hudson, and I was beginning to get a little angry, at last. I put my hand on the vampire's chest, near the blade, in the cooling blood in his clothes, and I concentrated.

Richard, all three of the guards that are looking at you wondered about killing you the moment they hit the door. How do I know this is love? I mean the love, like till-death-do-you-part love? Finally something I could answer. I was closest, and I moved faster than I planned. The groom raised the dead and slew vampires for a living.