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was muffled.
    Kristen studied her clipboard. “We got the test
results from the lab,” she said.
    “Oh?” Sydney said. She glanced his
way then quickly away from him and back to the lab tech.
    “You’ve stopped aging. We
double-checked to make sure your aging hadn’t just slowed, but no,
you’ve stopped completely. Around six or seven years ago. Do you
understand what this means?”
    It meant they could keep her alive and keep her for
centuries if they decided to. Though, the lack of tattoo had
pointed to not letting her live long, maybe they’d change their
mind on that score now that they knew she was conditionally
immortal.
    “It doesn’t mean anything,” Sydney
said. “I’m not a real vampire. I’m too weak to survive for hundreds or
thousands of years. It doesn’t matter how my cells are aging or not
aging.”
    “That sounds like denial to me,”
Kristen said. “Do you want to talk about it?”
    Don’t do it, Sydney. Don’t
trust her. This particular woman might
not herself be the queen of evil, but she reported to someone who
likely was. Noah held his breath, hoping Sydney wouldn’t let them
inside her thoughts.
    As if he’d somehow managed to communicate that
warning to her—or she was just smart—Sydney shook her head.
    “ No, that’s
okay. I’m just not as optimistic about it as you seem to
be.”
    Kristen looked like she would argue, but two more
lab techs were moving down the hallway toward Sydney’s cell. The
door whooshed open again, and they tossed a badly beaten and
bleeding human into the room.
    Kristen seemed startled when the blood splattered
her white shoes. “We observed you last night and noted that perhaps
you might need to drink from a living source given your history. We
know vampires can’t stay as strong with bagged blood. Ordinarily we
prefer that for our own safety, but you’ve been determined to be an
exception to that rule.”
    Keep it together, Noah. Stay
calm. Don’t react. If he’d had any
doubts that they now planned to keep her alive as long as possible,
in the name of “science”, those doubts had vanished. With her test
results, they found her even more intriguing, which could only mean
bad things.
    The man groaned from the middle of the cell.
    “ Well,” Kristen
said, “I-I’ll just leave you alone with your meal. We’ll talk again
in a few days, I’m sure.” She patted Sydney awkwardly on the arm
and then strode briskly out of the cell, sparing a glance at Noah
while he tried to stay blank of discernible
emotion.
    “Don’t worry, we weakened him so
he can’t harm you,” one of the technicians said. Then both of them
followed Kristen out of the cell, leaving Sydney alone with her
beaten bloody dinner.
    The man groaned again from the ground. “Syd?”
    The bastard knew her? How could he know her?
    “Jacob! Oh my God!” Sydney said.
She approached him tentatively.
    “Syd, I’m sorry. I’m so so
sorry.”
    At first her face held sympathy and worry, perhaps
curiosity over how this man she knew had come to be this way, but
that initial instinct was replaced quickly with revulsion and a
side of Sydney Noah hadn’t yet seen.
    “Oh, I bet you’re sorry, now . Now that
your own plots and schemes have come back to bite you. You betrayed
me! You sold me to them for a piece of paper with an address on it.
What was the problem? Parents not home?”
    “T-there was nothing there. It was
a factory. They just wanted you, and they thought they’d take me as
unpaid labor. They never knew anything about my family. Or if they
did, they never planned to tell me.”
    Noah watched as she paced in her cell and circled
Jacob a few times, looking for the first time like the predator she
was supposed to be if she hadn’t been born with only human
strength.
    “So I’m right. If you’d found them
and had a happy reunion you wouldn’t have thought about me ever
again.”
    “Syd, that’s not true. You know
it’s not. I like you. I told you I’ve always