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PrologueAthanA century before“I’ to stop in that shop for a e emporium across the street fro cereift for own”
I glanced at ht “Best hurry I i a mostly nocturnal life could be a pain in the ass sometimes Humans alanted to close up before the sun went down
However, seeing as ere va daywalkers Siht didn’t mean we enjoyed it Our skin was pale, which ht eyes had better vision in the dark
Plus, Silas, hts chasing and slaying nightwalkers Those were the evil, stereotypical vampires that humans read about in their stories They hunted theoff our consorts to decimate the population of daywalkers
In the long run, it was easier to get up a little earlier in the evening to run errands and complete other tasks than to constantly pay people to open their doors to us late at night
Silas bounded across the street, and I followed at a much more sedate pace He’d recently found his consort, and as happy as I was for hi The say he talked about his consort gavetoothache I wondered if I would act like such a pussy if I ever foundto accept that it would never happen
By the time I reached the front door to the shop, Silas was already inside, talking ani back, waiting for hiet ready for the night ahead of me
To lass enclosure that held ornate cuff links, and I found myself a little curious, so I wandered over to take a look When I stepped up to the display, er on the items in front of me Instead, they is sat in a bed of white velvet
A with a thin, delicate band and an oval amethyst—the deepest and most brilliant purple I’d ever seen—in a flat, dia that held ser stone
As I stared at it, son stirred ininwas muted, and we felt no attraction or arousal Not until I touched her would I ever feel those things, and it wasn’t what I was experiencing It was al to wake froe war
Still, I was curious A youngbehind another case, arranging whatever was inside I called to him, and he smiled as he quickly made his way over to me
“How can I help you?”
I pointed at the ring “I’d like to see that one Can you tellabout it?”
He lifted the top pane of glass and reached in to retrieve the trinket “I can tell you that it's frorandfather picked it up at an estate sale a few o The man was rumored to have been a crook, so this could have come from anywhere”
I held outonto it Theintensified My skin felt hot, but not like I’d been burned fro different Since I’d never felt it before, I couldn’t put a name to it
Looking closely at it, I turned it over a few ti to find Silas tappedme out of my stupor
“Ready?”
I nodded and held the ring out to the salesers touched the top, I found rowl What the fuck was happening to me?
“Sorry,” I mumbled I tried to hand it over, butlike I belonged in a strait jacket, I grunted, “I’ll take it”