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with his wife, Julie, who was pregnant with
their first child. Gabe had ended up crashing his Chevrolet into a
tree when his mind had flashed to an image of his brother falling
off a roof and cracking his head open. He hadn’t believed that it
could be true at first, but the phone call had come the next day
that Josh was gone.
    Most people wished that they could see into
the future, but Gabe always wondered why he had been blessed with
this curse. Not all vampires could have visions. In fact, most
couldn’t, which was why Gabe was the only one who might be able to
figure out where Ben was right now. Vampires were sometimes gifted
with special powers. It usually took vampires hundreds of years to
hone their craft or become attuned to their abilities. For some
reason, Gabe had realized his very early on. Even though he should
be grateful for it – especially now that he had to keep Lexi safe –
it was still a pain in the ass most of the time.
    As Gabe crossed the street to go back to the
hotel, he noticed a flash of long, auburn hair. He froze in his
steps.
    Could it be who he thought it was? Gabe shook
the thought away. There was no way Veronica could have followed him
to Long Island . . . was there?
    Probably not. Veronica was a teacher at
Huntington High. It’s not like she could just leave her class to
take off and stalk whenever she felt like it. She’d get fired if
anyone found out. Gabe was probably just being paranoid.
    As he ascended the stairs at the Starlight
Inn, Gabe had a really weird feeling in the pit of his stomach. He
didn’t know what it was . . . but something definitely wasn’t
right. Gabe decided that he better lay down when he got to the
hotel room because there was a good chance that he might have a
vision soon – which was good but also worrisome because he usually
never had his visions this close together.
    When Gabe slid his key through the slot, he
heard laughing coming from inside his hotel room. Well, from inside
the hotel room that he was sharing with Craig.
    Once he was inside the room, Gabe found Craig
lying on the same bed as Rhonda. Craig was close to her. In fact,
he was so close to her that it looked like he was about to drink
from her.
    “What are you doing?” Gabe screamed from
across the room.
    Craig looked up at him, a confused expression
on his face. “I – um,” Craig began. From the expression on Craig’s
face, Gabe knew that he was right; Craig was about to sink his
teeth into Rhonda.
    “She’s a vampire, too, you idiot! Do you want
to get Wilkins’ Syndrome?”
    Craig’s jaw dropped. “She is? No. How? I can
smell human blood. Her scent’s pretty strong, actually.”
    Gabe sat down on the bed across from them. “I
just turned her a few days ago.”
    Craig stared at Gabe. “I didn’t know that we
came here to start changing people,” he said, his face twisted into
a hardened expression.
    “It was an accident. Why are you trying to
drink from her? I thought you were involved with Lexi,” Gabe shot
back at him. Immediately, he knew that he was wrong for making the
accusation. Even though he knew that Lexi was attracted to Craig
and she had practically admitted to him once that she had a crush
on the guy, he hadn’t known for sure if they were involved with
each other. Maybe Gabe needed to know now, though. If they had been
involved with each other, it would be better to have it all out in
the open so that he would have some time to make peace with it
before he and Lexi were reunited.
    To Gabe’s dismay, Craig’s blank expression
didn’t reveal anything either way. “I haven’t fed in a while,”
Craig replied, shrugging his shoulders. “You, of all people, should
know what that’s like.”
    “Wait, so let me get this straight,” Rhonda
said from her place next to Craig on the bed. “ Both of you
are vampires?”
    Gabe watched, bewildered, as Rhonda ran the
blade of her pocket knife across the creamy white flesh of her
thigh, slicing the skin open.