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"Tina," the woreen eyes rolled back into her head, and she passed out

Mencheres didn't pause this tis across his wrist and held the wound to her houls had drained all his blood

He swept the wo her to the pole he'd so recently been lashed to Then Mencheres scooped up a handful of blood that pooled on the floor, forcing it into heral her s

Sirens approached The police were almost here, just as she said they would be

Mencheres scooped up another handful of his blood, rubbing it onto the gouge in her stoled with his, but only for a es of her flesh pulling toward each other as she began to heal inside and out froenerative effects of his blood

Two car doors slammed Mencheres left her on the red-shouls Their eyes were the only things that could move as he stared down at theht have lived another few days," Mencheres said coldly Then he flexed his power in a short, controlled burst A popping sound preceded six heads rolling away frohouls' bodies in the next moment

Footsteps approached the warehouse Mencheres paused, glancing over at the wo at hiaze riveted with shock and horror

She had seen his fangs Watched hihouls She knew too much for him to leave her here

"Police," a voice called out "Anyone injured in here?"

Mencheres snatched up the woman and flew out of a brokenbefore the officers had a chance to gasp at the carnage they found inside

Chapter 2

Kira knew she wasn't drea, or crazy And that was the bad news Itshe'd seen was real, which meant the man who'd kidnapped her couldn't be huical explanation

Humans couldn't recover frootten her first clear look at the s or eyes that glowed fluorescent green And hu them

Even if she wanted to rationalize that all of the above had been her hysterical misinterpretation of a traumatic event, humans sure as hell couldn't fly Yet her kidnapper had floay from that warehouse, then perfor her as if she weighed nothing

Kira had always been afraid of heights, so that fear, coo, proved too , she passed out Now she found herself awake in a very nor bedroom, still in her ripped, blood-spattered clothes, her sto in a chair across from the bed

"Do not fear, you are safe," were his first words, spoken in an oddly accented voice

Only Kira's survival instincts kept her frolanced down at herself, but of course, her gun was nowhere to be seen Not that it would have done any good against whatever he and the other creatures at the warehouse were

"Where a out from underneath the covers someone - he?