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change,” He smiled and winked before running off into the woods.
    I sighed and shook my head. “You are one dangerous immortal. You will bring death to us both.

Chapter Seven
     
    The elevator slid open and I stepped out into the lab. My smile faded as I took in the sight of my friend Kyle. He was sitting on the floor next to the hospital wing, leaning against the wall. His clothes was stained with blood. He raked his hands through his messy walnut brown hair as his red, puffy light blue eyes glanced up at me.      I looked into the hospital wing where Dr. Johnson shook his head and sighed as he pulled the white bed sheet over Kyle’s fiancé, Julie’s dead body.
    I didn’t know what to say to him. He had just lost his love, the woman he was going to spend the rest of his life with and there was nothing I could say to help relieve the agony he felt.
    I kneeled in front of his, resting my hand on his knee giving it a comforting squeeze.
    “I was too late in saving her. I was supposed to stay right there with her, but I ran after one of those prick’s and left her to fend for herself. What do I see when I come back, I see my fiancé laying on the ground in a dirty alley, unconscious. To top it all off, her throat was sliced open and her skull was bashed in.”
    “I’m so sorry.”
    He exhaled and wiped the tears from his face. “There wasn’t enough blood in her body when I finally got to the manor. The doctors thought it was pointless to work on her and try to save her, they said she was already gone because she had bled out when her throat was cut.”
    Wait, he thinks a vampire did this. That can’t be.
    “Was she bitten?”
    “No, why?”
    “Vampires bite when they kill. They don’t have to bash your skull in or slice your neck open.”
    “So you are saying a vampire didn’t kill her even though they were the only predators around?”
    I shook my head in confusion; it just doesn’t make any sense. “It’s not their usual killing style. They all leave the same pattern, they bite you and rip a chunk of skin from the neck. All I’m saying is it’s unusual.”
    “There are three other hunters laying in that room in coma’s suffering from the same injuries Eli had suffered and there were two death’s tonight, including Julie’s, that died of the same injuries. So maybe it’s not unusual.”
    “And her parents, what are you going to tell them?”
    He shook his head. “I don’t know yet, I haven’t gotten that far.” He stood on his feet. “I have to go.”
    “Kyle, if you need anything or just want to talk, I am here.”
    He gave a half- smile. “Thanks, Athena. I’ll see you around.”
    I’m not convinced that the vampires were responsible for the deaths or injuries of Eli and the other hunters.  I have a feeling it is someone else, another enemy maybe. After all of these years of hunting, their kills have always stayed the same way and to change this habit now is unlikely. Well whatever or whoever it is that is targeting us reapers just met their match in me. I want them to attack me so I can kill them the same way they are killing my hunters.
    I walked into the hospital wing, glancing in the other room where five hunters occupied the other beds. I shook my head as I came to stand by Eli. I wanted more than anything to have Eli healthy and fighting again. At twenty three years old, you would think his body is young and strong enough to fight to get better…but sometimes no matter how strong your body is, it just can’t recover from certain injuries.
    I ran my hand over the bandage that wrapped around his head. My brows pulled together as I noticed a gauze taped to the right side of his neck. As I leaned down to get a closer look; I gently peeled the tape off and removed the gauze, exposing the stitches. I didn’t notice the night we brought him in here that he had a cut on his neck, his bleeding head had all of my attention.
    I shook my head. “Who did this to you?”
    The person