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“Yeah, and Levka picked up a mate.”
“You’re kidding. Levka? No way.”
“He did. Just leave, Gareth.”
“You’re not going to take the assassin out for me, for us?”Gareth asked.
“No. She’s not after us.”
“What’s her name?”
Stasio didn’t want to tell him, but he went ahead and did for his cousin’s safety.“Jasmine.”
“Jasmine. So I’ll take her out.”
“No, go, Gareth. Leave, before she can eliminate you.”
“Alright. I’m on my way out of here. I can’t believe you’re hung up on a vampire assassin!”
Then Stasio escorted Jasmine to another section of the gardens, glad she didn’t want to follow Gareth. He hoped Gareth would just leave. Knowing his cousin, Stasio could imagine him wanting to destroy the assassin, then leave.
Stasio took her all over the gardens, saving the rose gardens for last. When he walked into them with her, Gareth was gone.
Stasio sighed with relief.
4
Jasmine had a job to do. She shouldn’t trust this group of vampires. She knew it was foolhardy to do so. If they were from Wales, they could very well be assassins after her target. She never knew when her league would put out a call to the place where they thought the target was headed and then the local league would send their own vampires, even though she had permission to take down the rogue. They would do that sometimes, to ensure the target was eliminated. She would be so pissed if that was the case. She wouldn’t earn a dollar for the job, and she would have spent all that money flying out here for nothing.
“There’s a beach down this way. Would you like to check it out?” Stasio asked.
“Sure. That would be fun.” She knew she couldn’t take Gareth out anytime now. She had to sneak into his room and eliminate him sometime tonight. “So what’s the deal with your sick friend? Caitlin? As long as we live, we don’t usually get sick.”
Jasmine hadn’t seen how badly wounded Levka had been when the human teen had knifed him.
“She’s new…” Stasio paused. He hadn’t meant to mention Caitlin was newly turned. Ever. That was a no-no with the league. No turning humans. And if Jasmine knew Levka had turned Caitlin, she would know he was a rogue. Because Stasio and the others remained by his side and didn’t turn him in, they were also considered rogues.
They were walking down the stairs to the beach and Jasmine stopped to look up at Stasio quizzically. “New…?”
* * *
Stasio shrugged.“Something new. Virus? Bad blood? We don’t know exactly.”
Jasmine studied him for the longest time. She hadn’t been born yesterday. She had to know something more was wrong. Like that Caitlin was newly turned. But maybe she couldn’t imagine anyone being so bold to turn a human and try to get away with it. He should have said Caitlin was experiencing jet lag!
“Hmm, that’s a shame. I’ve had some emergency medical training if you want me to see what ails her.”
If Stasio said no way, Jasmine might believe he was hiding what the problem was. Which he would be. If he told Jasmine she should do that, then the problem would be if Caitlin made a slip up. She was so new at this, it was easy for her to do so.
“Sure. That would be great. I’m sure she would appreciate it.”
“Okay. Do you still want to see the beach?” Jasmine asked.
“Yeah, let’s do that and then we can run up to see her.” Stasio hoped she would have had some blood by then and be feeling better. He telepathically communicated to Caitlin,“Jasmine wants to see you and learn what’s wrong with you. Don’t respond to my message.”
Caitlin really couldn’t do so safely, when a vampire could hear her side of the telepathic communication. Then Jasmine would wonder why Caitlin had responded to Stasio’s comment, but hadn’t spoken back in private.
Then Stasio told Levka what was going on. Stasio was sure his friend of old would be angry with him and want to terminate Jasmine himself. The woman was poking her very pretty nose into places it shouldn’t be.
