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me that I’m being hunted; for no
particular reason. That’s just great.”
    “I’m sorry, Emily, I truly am,” said Xander,
leaving the window and walking towards her. “I promise you that
I’ll not leave until you’re safe.”
    “Why are you being so nice to me?” inquired
Emily, as she sat up on the couch. “I appreciate the warning, but I
barely know you.”
    “I—I just don’t want to see anyone get hurt,”
Xander stuttered.
    It was the first time he hadn’t been sure of
himself, Emily noted. Could he have been hiding something? Emily
decided to put it out of her mind; she owed Xander her life, and he
deserved more respect than being accused of unfounded
accusations.
    Grabbing Emily’s hand, Xander looked in her
eyes and said, “Do you live in this big house, all alone?”
    “No, I live here with my brother,” replied
Emily, looking down to the floor. “My parents died when I was a
young girl. My grandma raised the two of us, but she passed a few
years back.”
    “I’m sorry. I didn’t know,” said Xander, with
a blank look on his face. It wasn’t entirely true, but she was too
important to risk losing now. There were more important factors in
play tonight, and he needed to make sure she would be ready for the
coming darkness.
    “That’s all right,” said Emily, slowly
looking up and into his piercing eyes. “It happened when I was a
young girl.”
    “What happened, if you don’t mind me asking?”
Xander asked.
    “I don’t mind,” Emily continued. “My parents
left one night in a hurry, leaving both me and my brother home
alone. They were found the next night in their car, five miles
away… they had been murdered.”
    “Emily…I am so sorry,” said Xander, grabbing
tightly hold of Emily.
    Emily rarely cried, but as he held her, the
tears just seemed to come easily. The tears streamed down her face,
as the two of them embraced.
    “To this day, I still can’t figure out what
they were doing out there, in the middle of the forest,” said
Emily, still clutching tightly on to him.
    Xander must have thought he heard something,
as the embrace ended abruptly and he quickly returned to the
window.
    Emily had almost forgotten what had attracted
her to Xander in the first place. His dark hair and mysterious good
looks had won her over the moment she first saw him, and thought of
all the possibilities of what making love to a vampire would feel
like.
    Perhaps she had a way to thank him, after
all.
    “Xander?” asked Emily, biting her lip in
anticipation.
    Xander looked at her, but didn’t need to ask
anything to know what she wanted. He walked towards her, and they
once again embraced.
    Their lips were inches apart when the sound
of a window smashing drove the two of them away.
    “What was that?” asked Emily, alarmed and
frantically searching the room for any signs of attack. “What’s
going on?”
    Xander grabbed Emily by the shoulders, looked
her in the eyes, and said, “Whatever you do, don’t move…
I’ll be right back.”
    Xander dashed out of the living room and to
the front door. Emily couldn’t hear from the living room, but she
could swear Xander was arguing with someone at the front door, and
it didn’t sound like one of her friends.
    Deciding that she best find out who had been
harassing her, she began walking towards the door. She was afraid,
but pushed past the pain and forced herself to hold her head up
high as she walked towards her destiny.
    “My dear old friend, Xander,” exclaimed
Simeon, standing outside the house on the porch. “What an
unexpected surprise. Don’t you remember what happened the last time
you tried to interfere?”
    “Who the hell is this?” questioned Emily, now
standing behind Xander. “And how do you two know each other?”
    “Know each other?” Simeon returned. “My dear,
I made him the man he is today.”

Chapter Six

    The year was 1478, and Alexander Franson was
lying in a pool of his own blood. He was in East Stoke,