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argue with her, which is probably why he chose to demand answers instead.
“Then tell me how it is that you came across this information, yet I did not.”
“Can we please take this inside?” she asked again, making every effort to keep her voice low and calm.
Bo glared at Annika and Cade for several long, tense seconds before he acquiesced. With a frustrated growl, he stepped aside, allowing Annika and Cade to enter. As Cade passed, Bo eyed him suspiciously, the tension between them nearly palpable.
Once they were inside, Bo closed the door, grabbed my hand and led the way into the den. After Annika and Cade had deposited their bags on the floor and taken a seat on one of the couches, Bo urged me to sit on the one facing them. He remained at my side, though standing, his arms folded over his chest in an intimidating posture that was rife with antagonism.
“Alright, we’re inside. I think you need to explain yourself.”
Annika snorted.
“I see that the fun-loving Bo that I remember has grown up quite a bit,” she began, her voice teasing. When Bo said nothing, Annika cleared her throat uncomfortably.
“Let me start with how I found you. I—”
“We can get to that later,” Bo interrupted sharply. “Right now I want to know why you think I have a brother.”
I glanced at Cade. He was watching Bo closely, as if puzzling over his reaction.
“You are just going to have to be patient, because it all starts with the night you disappeared from Lindersberg,” she said. “You and I were supposed to go hunting together. You were still showing me the ropes, showing me techniques and how to avoid infecting people once my fangs matured. Showing me the best places to find willing humans, all that. Anyway—”
“I was hunting humans?” Bo interrupted, dismayed and a little disbelieving.
“Yes. Why would you not hunt humans?”
“I don’t drink from humans. The person you’re describing doesn’t even sound like me.”
“Well, maybe not the current you, but it certainly describes the you from back then,” she declared. When Bo said nothing, she continued. “Anyway, you didn’t show, so I went to a place that we had been to before, thinking you might be there. And you were. You weren’t there alone, though. You were with a man, one I didn’t recognize. I waited for you to finish and then, when the two of you left, I gave you a few minutes and followed. By the time I got outside, however, you were already gone. Vanished. Without a trace. I looked everywhere for you, but it was as if you just disappeared.
“When you didn’t show up for three days, I knew something was wrong. I asked all around about the man you were with, but no one seemed to know who he was. It took me almost a week to finally find someone, a new vampire, who remembered someone named Sebastian, someone who fit the description of the man I’d seen you with.
“After that, the trail went completely cold. I wasn’t able to pick up on any scent or find anyone who’d seen you for months, so I eventually gave up. It wasn’t until I moved to the states about five years ago that I stumbled across Sebastian again.
“I was in a small town in Texas visiting a bar I’d heard was a good place to feed. That’s where I saw him. He didn’t know that I had seen him that night in Lindersberg. I struck up a conversation about the local hunting grounds and he was more than happy to chat when I flashed him a smile and showed him a little cleavage.”
Annika paused to show us exactly the smile she’d used, one I could see being persuasive to nearly any male creature and probably even some females. Bo wasn’t impressed, however, only wanting more details about his father at that point.
“What did he say?” Bo asked stiffly.
“Er, not much really. He was very careful, which just made me that much more suspicious. That is why I followed him. Tracked him to a
“Then tell me how it is that you came across this information, yet I did not.”
“Can we please take this inside?” she asked again, making every effort to keep her voice low and calm.
Bo glared at Annika and Cade for several long, tense seconds before he acquiesced. With a frustrated growl, he stepped aside, allowing Annika and Cade to enter. As Cade passed, Bo eyed him suspiciously, the tension between them nearly palpable.
Once they were inside, Bo closed the door, grabbed my hand and led the way into the den. After Annika and Cade had deposited their bags on the floor and taken a seat on one of the couches, Bo urged me to sit on the one facing them. He remained at my side, though standing, his arms folded over his chest in an intimidating posture that was rife with antagonism.
“Alright, we’re inside. I think you need to explain yourself.”
Annika snorted.
“I see that the fun-loving Bo that I remember has grown up quite a bit,” she began, her voice teasing. When Bo said nothing, Annika cleared her throat uncomfortably.
“Let me start with how I found you. I—”
“We can get to that later,” Bo interrupted sharply. “Right now I want to know why you think I have a brother.”
I glanced at Cade. He was watching Bo closely, as if puzzling over his reaction.
“You are just going to have to be patient, because it all starts with the night you disappeared from Lindersberg,” she said. “You and I were supposed to go hunting together. You were still showing me the ropes, showing me techniques and how to avoid infecting people once my fangs matured. Showing me the best places to find willing humans, all that. Anyway—”
“I was hunting humans?” Bo interrupted, dismayed and a little disbelieving.
“Yes. Why would you not hunt humans?”
“I don’t drink from humans. The person you’re describing doesn’t even sound like me.”
“Well, maybe not the current you, but it certainly describes the you from back then,” she declared. When Bo said nothing, she continued. “Anyway, you didn’t show, so I went to a place that we had been to before, thinking you might be there. And you were. You weren’t there alone, though. You were with a man, one I didn’t recognize. I waited for you to finish and then, when the two of you left, I gave you a few minutes and followed. By the time I got outside, however, you were already gone. Vanished. Without a trace. I looked everywhere for you, but it was as if you just disappeared.
“When you didn’t show up for three days, I knew something was wrong. I asked all around about the man you were with, but no one seemed to know who he was. It took me almost a week to finally find someone, a new vampire, who remembered someone named Sebastian, someone who fit the description of the man I’d seen you with.
“After that, the trail went completely cold. I wasn’t able to pick up on any scent or find anyone who’d seen you for months, so I eventually gave up. It wasn’t until I moved to the states about five years ago that I stumbled across Sebastian again.
“I was in a small town in Texas visiting a bar I’d heard was a good place to feed. That’s where I saw him. He didn’t know that I had seen him that night in Lindersberg. I struck up a conversation about the local hunting grounds and he was more than happy to chat when I flashed him a smile and showed him a little cleavage.”
Annika paused to show us exactly the smile she’d used, one I could see being persuasive to nearly any male creature and probably even some females. Bo wasn’t impressed, however, only wanting more details about his father at that point.
“What did he say?” Bo asked stiffly.
“Er, not much really. He was very careful, which just made me that much more suspicious. That is why I followed him. Tracked him to a
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