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a shadowed
corner.
His presence spooked me but his face, aside
from the red in his eyes and the fangs, made me want to run to
him.
The bars were made of the same kind of metal
as my blade. Dimitri would be going nowhere.
He eyed me wearily and then the room.
Clearly he was bewildered by my choice of action, and waited for me
to explain myself.
    “ I take it you know you
were turned?”
Dimitri whipped his head my way when I
spoke.
    “ Of course, the intense
thirst for your blood was the first sign. The blade was the
other.”
His voice was nearly the same, aside from
the deadly tone and deeper pitch, making my skin crawl and heart
bleed. His fangs made his S’s longer, much like a hiss.
I nodded.
    “ Why didn’t you kill me as
you had promised?” he whispered, eyeing the door. I could have
sworn anger and hurt flashed across his face. I trembled slightly
when I saw the pain. I panicked, leaving me breathless and
desperate for something, anything to get me breathing
again.
I forced the pain aside and focused on
saving him, saving us, and steeled myself for what was to
come.
I shrugged. Any answer would be the wrong
one so why should I reply to that. As a vamp he wanted to live
now.
We gave each other the silent treatment
then, which was probably best.
    “ What the hell is going
on?” Shouted Ian as he, and three other officers barged into the
jail with us, making me cringe at the anger in his
voice.
He had a sling on his left arm, a bandage on
his neck, and a black eye. Apparently the vamp that had turned my
boyfriend, had company. I hoped it suffered before they took it
down… if they had. I thought for a moment about sneaking out and
going back and finishing it off or finding others. Fighting until I
fell in battle.
I looked casually at them, knowing they were
clueless of my former thoughts, and possible plans. I knew my
snarky replies would not save me this time.
    “ A prisoner? Seriously?
Have you lost that feeble mind of yours?”
    “ It’s Dimitri,” I said, as
if that explained it all. In my heart, as well as mind, it did that
and so much more. Saying his name made several emotions flow over
me simultaneously.
    “ Of course, I’m not an
idiot, Angelissa. Why’s he here?” Ian’s last sentence was said
slowly so that he pronounced each word separately, emphasizing the
word he.
I considered that myself and came up with no
logical answer that mattered, or none that would matter to them. I
refrained from shrugging this time. It was just as difficult as not
speaking with my usual attitude.
Ash spoke then, which startled me, because
I’d not only forgotten him but he was the last person in the world
who’d defend me.
    “ She loves him, of course.”
Ash said this as if it had just now occurred to him. It had
probably run through his mind a few times but until now, until
this, he’d never been totally sure. He had probably held some hope
that I’d come back to him, I’d have some kind of epiphany. Not
happening, it was Dimitri or death. Unfortunately the latter would
be the only road to me, it was the journey that was undecided, how
I would leave this world.
    “ What?” Ian asked, as he
spun towards him and asked.
    “ They’re together, I
assume, and she loves him.”
    “ Shut up!” I screamed,
giving him the stink eye. My behavior was weak and they knew it.
Ash was quickly becoming my enemy.
    “ I want some answers Shade!
The whole base is on lockdown. I trusted you, trusted that you had
a good reason for this! You’ve put everyone at risk because you
love him? Why not let them all in? Every damn vamp out there
probably has someone, somewhere, that loves them,” Ian spat. The
fury was justified, but it hurt as he spoke the truth.
He was thinking of Lane, I sure of it.
He was beyond manic right now, and he feared
my irrational behavior might have doomed us all.
This whole time Dimitri sat watching us
silently. I knew he was taking it all in thoughtfully, animalistic
and brutal or not, he