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tightening my grip on him. “You have no right to look at her. No right! No right…” My vision blurred, and I blinked away the tears. “You killed her.”
    Tyler’s gaze jumped from me to Kassy. “What the hell are you talking about? I haven’t killed any—”
    “Don’t lie to me! I can smell them all over you.” I gestured to the one still writhing on the floor behind us. “What the hell do you call that?”
    Tyler’s expression was blank. It was almost as if he really had no idea what I was talking about. But he had killed. In our territory. Regardless of who he’d killed, there were laws for what he’d done.
    And that’s exactly where my thoughts drifted before I was brought back to life by something buzzing in my back pocket. I loosened my grip on Tyler.
    “What’s that?” Kassy asked, approaching us once she was sure we wouldn’t bite each other’s throats.
    “My…my phone.” Zee’s phone. I hadn’t even noticed she’d dumped it in my pocket until now. It isn’t possible. “Take it out and read it to me.”
    Kassy fished in my back pocket. “Since when do you have a cell?”
    “I don’t.” It’s Zee’s, I wanted to say. It was a phone she dropped into my pocket anytime she wanted to meet after one of our drinks together.
    It’s pre-recorded . It has to be. It isn’t her.
    Kassy held the cell in front of me before turning on the backlight so we could see. It had Zee’s number, her name and a time to meet.
    “That. Isn’t. Possible.” I let Tyler drop to the ground but cornered him so he couldn’t move.
    “Should…?” Kassy licked her lips. “Do you want me to call her back?”
    God, yes. “No.” I couldn’t face the possibility of her being dead and someone else answering that phone in her place. Thankful when Kassy stepped away with the phone, I focused on Tyler and ignored the fatigue in my arm. “Why’d you do it, Tyler, huh? What forsaken reason would you have to get turned and do something so…so stupid?”
    Tyler nodded in Kassy’s direction. “I saw the way she looked at you—the way she’s always looked at you.”
    “And what? Those looks were intended for you?”
    He shook his head. “No, but you didn’t deserve them. It was the vampire she liked. I just thought if I…”
    “Are you listening to yourself?” I let the drunk in me take over and laughed. Clearly I’d gone mad. “I’m a vampire because I had no choice.”
    “But I did. Corvis saw how much—”
    “Corvis? I should’ve known.”
    All this time he’d been after Kassy. No wonder the deaths hadn’t started until right after I’d turned her. He knew. He must’ve known I was going to turn her. It was the only thing that made sense—the only reason he’d come to me after Tyler’s first kill. He knew. This entire time, he’d been playing us.
    He’s still playing us. Hell, even him saying Zee was dead could’ve very well been a lie just to get me down here.
    Straightening my posture, I stepped away from Tyler. “We’re done here.”
    Tyler rubbed at his neck. “That’s it? All that show and…nothing?”
    I glared at him. “Do you want me to kill you? Get out of here. I’ll deal with you later.”
    I turned to Kassy and took the phone from her hands, studying the number on the screen as if I hadn’t seen it a hundred times before. I thought of calling Zee, of dialling the number just to see if she would pick up. It was then that the idea of getting played by Tyler entered my mind. He knew about Corvis. He knew how the coven worked. It wouldn’t have taken much for him to come up with this plan all on his own.
    But those thoughts were put to rest when a gust of wind blew in from the streets and with it, Corvis’ scent. I stood against the far wall with Kassy standing to my side.
    Corvis smiled as he walked through the doorway. “And to think, my money was on the possibility of you killing him. Such a shame to let all that anger go to waste.”
    Who says it’s going to go