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going to happen.
    “ I have to go.” Drew pulled
himself back, putting some space between us. “Christina’s
waiting.”
    I nodded. “Yeah, you should
go.”
     
    ~~***~~
     
    I woke the next morning feeling the
aches and pains I felt every single day. Hunting vampires was
really tough on the body. Even though we trained all the freaking
time, when I fought with vampires I always ended up with a ton of
bumps and bruises. Even with my superior healing I was always sore
the next morning.
    By the time I managed to drag myself
out of bed, shower, and throw some clothes on, Drew and Luke had
already arrived and were sitting in the living room chatting.
Actually, the entire group was in there lounging on the couches and
eating some kind of yummy looking pastries that Alice had
made.
    Luke, Drew, Alice, Zander, Christina,
Oscar, and Gavin all looked up when I hurried into the room. “Why
didn’t anyone wake me?” I demanded. “You shouldn’t have let me
sleep so long.”
    Luke stood as I hurried into the room
and opened his arms for a hug. I rushed over and wrapped my arms
around my grandfather. I missed him so much. There were a lot of
downsides to living in his little house, especially when Alice and
Oscar were crowded into the small space with us, but I often wished
I was able to get back onto the community and go home.
    “ Ah, Chloe! I’ve missed you
so much.”
    “ I’ve missed you, too,” I
told him honestly. “I wish we could come back home.”
    He nodded. “As do I.” He looked to
Alice. “Has there been any progress with finding a way to break the
shield?”
    Alice had had a smile on her face, but
it fell as soon as Luke brought up Arcadia Falls and the shield.
“No,” she shook her head and her blonde ponytail bobbed all over
the place, “I’ve been searching all of the spell books trying to
find the right one. Nothing has worked so far. I’m trying,
though.”
    He smiled with understanding. However,
the reality of it was that she wasn’t trying all that hard. The
group had had numerous discussions about the subject and we all
decided that it was actually better if we left the barrier up.
Leaving it up would protect the Hunters within from being attacked,
and that was one less thing we had to worry about. Zander and I
being unable to get through was a small worry at this
point.
    Luke released me and rubbed his hands
together. “So, I hear that you have some news. Let’s hear
it.”
    He returned to the recliner he had
been sitting in and I found a spot between Drew and Alice on the
couch. As I squeezed myself into the tiny space, I caught Gavin
staring at me. Our eyes locked and he gave me a small smile, but I
saw hurt swimming in the depths of his pretty green
irises.
    He still insisted that he would fight
for me, but since the vampires had taken over everyone sort of had
bigger priorities than our love lives. Gavin and Drew still had a
lot of issues to sort out and it wasn’t going to be something that
happened overnight. Drew harbored so much jealously and anger
toward Gavin because of their mother. She had abandoned Drew and
his father so that she could be with Gavin and his father. She was
not a nice lady, and I would never say it to his face, but I knew
without a doubt that Drew was a lot better off without her in his
life. Gavin turned out all right, but she loved him, and from what
I could see, she didn’t really care that much about Drew at
all.
    Everyone was waiting for one of us to
tell them what was going on, so Drew took the initiative and
recapped Anthony’s story about how the first vampires were made and
the remaining bloodlines, leaving out the last part about Zander
and I being part of Anthony’s own line. His gaze flicked over to
Luke, since Luke was his mentor and one of the elder
Hunters.
    It wasn’t often that I saw Luke
surprised, but his jaw was slack and his eyes wide. “An end to the
vampires. It … could it really be possible?”
    I nodded. “If what Anthony says