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"You’ve co directly for your Grand High vaht help keep things calm"

"People don’t colinted in his eyes "True" Thorne shifted his gaze to Sa his hands in his pockets "Now that the preliminaries are over" – yeah, that was about as polite as it was going to get between the two species right now – "you can tell me why one of e seemed to thicken the air, but he appeared totally composed

"It wasn’t our brothel," denied Sam sharply, her distaste clear in her voice

"But it was run by one of your kind"

"And now it’s burned to the ground We’re no happier about this than you are We dealt with it as soon as we discovered its existence And on’t leave thehis head, Thorne narrowed his eyes at her "What are you? You’re not like any vampire I’ve seen before"

Sam’s smile was flat "I’ll tell you what I am if you’ll tell me what you are"

Apparently he wasn’t that curious, because he returned to the matter at hand "What do you know about the owner of the brothel? My demon met her, but for some reason we don’t understand, she has no real memory of this female vampire Why is that?"

"It seems that this vampire’s ability is to remain untraceable," revealed Jared "It protects her identity to the extent that a person is left with only a vague impression of her in their memory"

"What about the staff? What did they have to say?"

"The only one we allowed to live is the keeper Nothing she told us will help find this vampire"

Thorne’s eyes see me the entire truth are you, vampire?"

"Did you expect us to?"

"No In your position, I’d deal with the matter myself"

"So you understand"

"I understand It doesn’t ive her exactly what she deserves" Thorne’s eyes briefly bled to black: his inner demon was seriously pissed, and it wanted us to know that

"We’ll find her, and we’ll deal with it," Sam assured him

"No, vampire We’ll find her, and we’ll deal with it We have our ways of finding things out"

"Let us handle it" It wasn’t a plea frouarantee that she’ll pay for what she’s done"