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I looked up into Micah's chartreuse eyes. «It's not just the little vampires that the energy is supposed to save, is it?»
Jason's hand tightened on mine. Micah hugged me, and I put my free hand over that smooth, warm, permanently ta
He drew back enough to see my face. «When Jean-Claude dies at dawn he could take you and Richard with him.» I searched his solemn face and found only truth there. Truth, and fear, behind his eyes, hiding better, but it was there.
I called out, «Lillian!»
She was there. «Yes, Anita.»
«How likely is it that Jean-Claude will drag us with him?»
«Truthfully, we don't know, but it's a possibility, and we'd rather not find out.» She touched my forehead the way a mother takes a temperature. «Feed on Donovan, Anita. Take the energy he offers so we don't have to worry about it.»
«You're not sure this will work, are you?»
«Of course we are.»
«I don't need to be a vamp or a shapeshifter to know that was a lie,» I said.
She stepped back, suddenly brisk and all professional. «Fine, we aren't certain, but it will be enough energy to save some of you. Whether all of you will be saved, we just don't know. This is new science here, Anita. New metaphysical science, which is always an uncertain thing.»
I nodded. «Thanks for telling me the truth.»
«You asked,» she said.
Edward came up through the crowd. «They told me it would work.»
«We said it was the best idea we had,» Lillian said. «That is not the same thing.»
Edward nodded. «All right, I heard what I wanted to hear.» He gave me a very serious look. «Don't die on me. The other bodyguards would never let me live it down.»
I smiled. «I'll do my best to protect your reputation.» I had a thought. «Now you get to wait outside.»
«What?» he said.
«I don't think I can have sex in the room while you watch. Sorry.»
He gri
Apparently, the secret was out, and we were just calling a spade a scary shovel. I nodded. «You didn't have to say it, I knew you would.»
He smiled, squeezed my hand, and left. I almost called him back. Surrounded by men I loved, and had sex with, but strangely I felt safer with Edward in the room. But the danger I was about to face wasn't his kind of danger. In the room or out of it, Edward couldn't help me now.