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because he knew that there could be
something between him and Lexi, especially if he chose not to be on
Violet and Tommy’s side in all of this and allied himself with Lexi
instead.
    Gabe hoped that wherever Lexi and Dan were
right now, they weren’t together. Somehow, he doubted that was the
case, though.
    As Gabe continued walking along the beach, he
could smell someone coming towards him – someone who smelled
pleasantly good. He knew that he shouldn’t drink from someone
without their permission, but what other choice did he really have
right now? If he didn’t seize this opportunity, he was going to
have to meet someone and hope that they would agree to
letting him suck their blood – a request that was usually only
granted by the freaks and misfits because most sane women would
automatically assume that he was a psychopath.
    No, Gabe wasn’t going to go through all that
tonight. He was going to just have to take things into his own
hands and just hope for the best. With any luck, this would at
least go smoother than it had last time, and he wouldn’t kill
anyone or turn them into vampires.
    Crouching behind a garbage can, Gabe kept his
eyes on the dark silhouette of the female who loomed towards him,
her shoes slapping against the sand. He couldn’t seem to get a
sense of what her age was, but it didn’t really matter. Blood was
blood. Gabe tried to ignore the thought of Lexi, whose smiling face
flashed through his mind, as he darted out from behind the garbage
can and flung himself on top of the girl, who fell to the
ground.
    “Please let me live,” the girl whimpered in a
high-pitched voice. “I’ll give you all my money . . . you can have
everything. Just don’t kill me.”
    “I don’t want your money. Don’t scream,” Gabe
whispered, cupping a hand over the girl’s mouth. She bit his hand
at first, but after a few moments, she stopped struggling. “I’ll
make this as painless for you as possible.” Even in the moonlight,
he could see the terror in the girl’s dark eyes. She was clearly
terrified of him – probably expecting him to do the worst
imaginable things to her. It made him feel like shit.
    Trying to ignore the panic in the girl’s
breathing, which had turned deep, Gabe sunk his fangs into her
throat. The blood droplets dripped out of the wound slowly at
first, but quickly began rushing onto his tongue and sliding down
his throat. He knew that the girl was moaning, but it sounded like
she was miles away; the only thing that he cared about right now
was her sweet crimson juices. Gabe sucked up all of the blood that
he could, reminding himself that he had to stop after a few
moments.
    When he was finished, he released the girl
from his grip and whispered, “You may go now.” The girl stared at
him for a moment, as though she were trying to piece together what
had just happened, while trying to decide if he was really allowing
her to go, before getting up and darting across the sand, not
turning back.
    Gabe felt completely energized. The girl’s
blood was nothing compared to the Hunter blood that he was used to
drinking, but it was enough to hold him over until he had another
vision, at the very least.
    Even though he knew that his visions were
necessary, there were times – like right now – when they were so
draining that Gabe wished he could make them stop. He didn’t really
have control over his visions, though. His visions came when they
wanted to. Gabe sometimes tried to concentrate on having one and
while it worked sometimes, it didn’t always . . . which frustrated
him and, sometimes, made it even harder to have one.
    The first time Gabe had ever had a vision was
when Joshua died. Joshua was his brother and, even though their
mother was a vampire, they weren’t born vampires because their
father hadn’t been. Gabe was later changed into a vampire by
Veronica, but Joshua had always remained a human.
    When Joshua was in his early thirties, he was
living in Massachusetts