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taciturn man, but she would do her best.
    Not knowing how else to pass the time, she snuck a few more looks his way, pretending to peer at the passing scenery. It didn’t matter. His good side, the side that made him rival a god, was closest to her. What she wanted to see, her itchy curiosity raging, was the droop of his eye, chin and lip.
    An imperfect vampire.
    Unheard of.
    What was the story behind this guy?

    Lucy.
    In the sky. With diamonds. Nineteen sixty-seven. Good year .
    He liked that name. It suited her. The classic name suggested simplicity and a kind of purity. Not the sultry vixen with a heart and determination of a warrior as he’d seen so far.
    Victor felt the heat of her stare, as nonchalant as she tried to be about it. Still, he couldn’t help but notice that she didn’t seem disturbed by him. Her assessment was more clinical, not that he wanted to be a rat beneath a microscope. But he supposed there were worse things.
    Still, it wouldn’t do for her to start asking questions and like all nosy people, that was exactly what she’d do next. “So tell me about you and Sage,” he said. “Why do you have such a hard-on for him?”
    Lucy stiffened as if a distinct chill in the air passed over her. He took his eyes off the road long enough to glance at her, wondering if she knew how expressive her body language could be. They’d have to work on that. “That’s my business. Nothing you need to concern yourself with.”
    “Sorry sweetheart, I have to know what I’m working with. Are you a scorned lover, does he owe you money or is it something worse than that?”
    Her hands were in her lap, one resting on top of the other. At his question, she squeezed her thumb so tightly he thought she would snap it off. “That’s not something you have to know. It’s not something I’m going to discuss with you.”
    Victor slammed on the brakes. The modified seatbelt snapped into place, keeping her from being catapulted into the dashboard. He turned to face her. “That’s not how this works. I’m the teacher, you’re the student. I give the orders, you follow them.”
    Lucy whipped her head around, glaring at him. He met her gaze directly. Only one of them could be in charge, and he was damn sure going to make certain she understood it was him. She bit out, “What happened to your face?”
    Victor stared back. For a long moment, the only sounds inside the car were a low murmur of the radio and the persistent bump of her heartbeat. That she was a human rushed him all at once and when he saw where the seatbelt dug into her shoulder and neck, he was sorry about the force he’d used. “I need to know your relationship to Sage because it will help us determine the best plan of attack.”
    Lucy seemed to soften at his use of the word “us.” It had been deliberate.
    He continued, “If you’re someone he’s expecting to come at him, he’s going to take certain precautions. But I guess based on the way you were able to get close to him tonight, that actually doesn’t make sense. In fact, I take it he’s not much aware of you at all.”
    “He’ll know exactly who I am by the time I’m done with him.” Lucy reached up and adjusted the seatbelt. Victor slowly eased off the brake, allowing the car to roll forward.
    “Did he hurt you?” He already knew the answer, but he wanted to hear it from her. To test the bounds of their new partnership.
    “Yes,” she whispered. “Me and someone I once knew.”
    Something twisted deep inside him, a rush of protectiveness that made no sense. He knew to trust his instincts though, so Victor understood with absolute certainty that he’d return Lucy’s hurt to Sage. He’d make the vampire wish he’d never seen the delicate human. It was one thing for Sage to go after one of their kind, an equal, but another altogether to target humans who possessed none of his vampire speed, strength or his resources. Bristling, he barely kept his voice level when he said, “Go