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narrowed on him. Both Cat and Cassandra peeked out from behind their respective Mates with wide, shocked eyes.
     
    “Are you okay?” they asked simultaneously.
     
    “Saved your life from who?” Em demanded.
     
    Drei’s gaze crawled up Kall’s petite form. “How?”
     
    “Only a bit of slack?” Kall asked, an edge of laughter in her voice.
     
    Grig answered her first. He threw a wink over his shoulder. “With them. With me, it earns the whole rope. I’m fine, by the way.” He directed this last to the group huddled by the door with a grin. “And as for who and how? Well, ironically, the answer to both those questions is the same. Vampires.”
     
    “Well, technically, the answer to how is just ‘vampire’.” Kall nudged him with her knee. Grig shrugged. Somehow, in the moment Drei and Em had begun acting antagonistic toward Kall, his own ambivalence toward the idea of her being a vampire disappeared.
     
    “You brought a fucking bloodsucker in here?” Drei snarled.
     
    Em wasn’t nearly as loud. His voice was cold and deadly. “What the fuck is going on, Grig?”
     
    “Seren is hunting your Mate,” Kall said to Em, ignoring Drei’s palpable anger. “Do you know why?”
     
    “Because –” Cat began, but Em slid his hand over her mouth.
     
    “You tell us.”
     
    Kall ran her fingers through the black satin of her hair, flicking the short bob back from her face. “Originally, he just wanted to shut her up. She was asking too many questions about things and he was worried his little pet project would be discovered. Then, he tasted her blood.” She rubbed her right wrist idly, staring at the thin, pale skin there. “Some humans have a little something extra. He doesn’t know why, or what it is... yet. What he does know is that when those humans turn, if they turn, they always possess extraordinary Gifts. Especially the women.” There was a tone in her voice that made Grig’s spine stiffen. He turned toward her.
     
    “Women like you?”
     
    She ignored him, peering straight over his head at Drei and Em. Em frowned. “What do you mean ‘if’ they turn? Humans get bit, swap a little blood, die, turn into vampires. There’s no ‘if’ about it. That’s just how it works.”
     
    “And Shifters never Mate with humans, right? That’s just how it works .” Kall quirked a thin brow. Grig’s lips twitched at her mimicry of Em’s tone. “You’re talking about normal humans... I’m talking about something... else.”
     
    “Other,” Cassandra replied softly, stepping out from behind Drei and returning to her seat at her desk. Drei scowled at her, but didn’t try to stop her. “Cat is... we are... something Other. Not quite human.”
     
    Surprise flickered across Kall’s face so quickly Grig wondered if anyone but him caught it. Then her expression smoothed, her red lips straightening into a straight line. “You too?”
     
    Cassandra nodded. “So this Seren... he doesn’t know about me?”
     
    “No. Though that doesn’t mean you’re safe. He’s got a major hate on for your boys here.”
     
    “And why are we trusting this vampire again? We don’t even know if she has any way of knowing any of this, or if she’s just guessing.” The lines of Drei’s furrowed brow were deep.
     
    Grig swept a hand down his shirtfront, drawing his brother’s attention to the torn, dirty, bloodied garment. “We’re trusting her because she killed the vampires that were about to kidnap me.” Heat stung his cheeks as he met Drei’s gaze. “I was stupid, and way too drunk to fight. Five of them jumped me a few blocks from here.”
    Cat gasped, her hands flying to her mouth. Cassandra sucked in her breath and Grig knew she was reading more than he was saying in his thoughts. For once, he didn’t care. “I managed to kill one, but at a high cost. They had me. And I think they were going to use me to force you guys to hand over Cat. If Kall hadn’t come along...” He didn’t have