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He hesitated, his face back to that expressionless mask.
“You’re different,” he finally said. “Now that they know what you are, they’ll hunt you down, and if they find you, it won’t be pretty.”
“Who’sthey?”
“The vampires.”
Right. I still wasn’t sure how I felt about that one.
“You still haven’t told me what I am.”
Colter quirked a corner of his mouth. “It’s clear you’re a researcher because, fuck me, you ask a shit ton of questions.”
I raised my eyebrows at him. “Not used to it when women speak their minds and actually want to know more than your dick size, huh?”
Colter gasped, surprise crossing his features for just a second.
Shit.
He tested me, so I said the first thing that came to mind. What the hell was wrong with me? I’d just seen him kill a man, and now I was being snarky about it.
You must have a death wish,I told myself.
“I have five bedrooms. You can choose whichever one suits you that isn’t the master bedroom. Get settled, sleep if you have to, raid the fridge… do whatever women do when you’re dealing with shit.”
“Are you leaving?” I demanded. “Do you realize what I’ve just been through? What the hell is going on?”
A part of me wanted him to go away. He was a monster. A terrifying thought occurred to me now that I was calm enough to think straight. He’d moved just as fast as that vampire. He’d ripped his throat out like it was nothing.
Colter wasn’t human, either.
The thought chilled me to the bone, but I swallowed hard and kept a straight face.
Colter frowned, as if he knew what I was thinking, or feeling, or something.
“You don’t have to be afraid of me,” he said.
“I’ll be the judge of that,” I snapped.
Yeah, that was exactly what self-preservation sounded like—a bitchy attitude. Ugh. I needed to remember to take time to process what my brain was thinking before blurting it out.
“I’ll be back,” Colter huffed. He lifted his hands, and in a moment, he was gone.
“Wait!” I screeched, jumping up, but I was alone.
I stood in the middle of the living room, alone, lost, surrounded by memories of something that shouldn’t have been real, and I was trapped here.
Jerry had warned me against Colter, and I hated to admit it, but he’d been right.
I was the prisoner of a monster. Just when I’d thought my life couldn’t possibly be any worse than what I’d dealt with growing up.
I guess no one outgrew pain and torture.
10
LIV
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