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to be.”
    I
rolled my eyes.
    He
pointed to the holes above his nose. “As you can see, I have no eyes. I can see
your blood, of course. It’s red and shaped in what I assume to be your body’s
form, but I can’t see what you actually look like. So it was to my surprise
when they told me your hair was red.”
    “Because?”
    “Because
I know another whose hair was red and her blood could turn humans into other
things, with just one sip. She was killed for her blood.”
    My
body stiffened. He had my attention. “Who was she?” I sat up. “What was she?”
    “Let
me taste your blood to see if I’m correct.”
    I
cringed. “No.”
    “Then
it seems we’ll both never know.” He jumped up from the bed, but kept his head
facing me. “Thank you for earlier today; for turning my body in the right
direction. It would have taken me weeks to find it.”
    “Ian.
Who was this woman?”
    He
blurred to my side of the bed and kneeled. “Why deny me your blood when I could
have taken it a minute ago? In fact, I could take it right now.”
    He
touched my neck with his finger. I battled with the urge to scream or run.
Every cell hollered to get away. But vampires fed off fear and with it, he
would come after me with more strength and determination. There was no need to
entice him.
    “Tell
me who she was?” My voice wavered a little.
    Ian
slipped his fingertip down to my chest. The hard surface of his fingernail
scraped my skin. I shuddered as pleasure came with the pain of the mark.
    He
sniffed. “My nephew has chosen well.”
    “Remove
your hand.”
    “Just
one taste. Please.” He took the finger away. Bits of dust clung to my cleavage.
“I won’t take it from you, even though every instinct within me says I should,
that I must.”
    “And
why do you think you should?” I inched back on the bed.
    “Because
Samuel won’t be enough when my brother returns. Samuel is still young and
ripening. It will be years before he’s at my brother’s level.”
    “Samuel’s
maturing fast,” I countered.
    “From
your blood, of course.” Ian’s lips curled into a dusty smile. “But my brother
has fed off of a special queen too. Nai has had a hundred years to ripen with
that blood.”
    “Nai?”
    “I’m
sorry. I forgot Nai has you all calling him the Quiet King.” Ian chuckled a
little to himself and then his face shifted into a frown. “Nai will kill Samuel
with a swift determination. The only good part about this is that he’ll do it
quick, with as little pain as possible, because it’s his son. It’s only a
matter of time.”
    “Samuel
has hidden for so long right under the Quiet King’s nose—”
    “Of
course. He hid as a regular vampire, but now Samuel is growing. So many new
things will come and he won’t be able to hide himself anymore. As if that isn’t
enough, Nai will smell him as soon as he steps into the city. It’s a defense
mechanism that lives in all of us kings, to kill another one in our area.”
    “You’re
a king?”
    “Yes.
Nai and I are twins.”
    I
swallowed. “So, will you help Samuel?”
    “If
we make an exchange.”
    “What
type of exchange?”
    “You
give me blood from anywhere—your neck or finger, I don’t care,” he whispered,
“and I’ll protect my nephew and yourself for every day of my life. I’ll do the
things that must be done and the things that Samuel cannot.”
    “Such
as?”
    “I
listened to you both when you were in the bathtub earlier. You were right about
Charki being the best place for you to hide.” He nodded his head and it wobbled
as if it would fall off his neck. “The mages will protect you and keep you from
the Quiet King. It might be your best bet to stay alive…but Samuel won’t
release you—”
    “He
will.”
    A
low cackle escaped his withering lips. “His mind and soul will want to release
you because he loves you and he’s a good vampire, but the power coursing
through his veins won’t allow it. If you leave, I have no doubt that